The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-19
THE NEWS.

fenced to three years confinement at
hard labor. "a
Four soldiers, tried for stealing horses
near Bowling Green, Caroline county
Va, were sentenced to three months' con-
| finement at hard labor.
| The number of National Banks i'm ex-
istence throughout the country is four
teen hundred and ten, with total capt.
tai of 1856, 230, 9s3.00.
A soldier, tried for stealing iewelry,
ETC., from Mrs. Cooper, in Orange coun-
ty, Va, was found guilty, and the value
of the articles taken was stopped from
his pay. 1"'t' - .9
Don Pedro Candamo, the richest CAPT.
talist in South America, recently died at
Lima, leaving fortune which, it is as
serted, exceeds the sum of G16,OO0, 900
sterling.
A soldier, tried for committing an as
sault on Mr.. Wexford and his son, of
Fredericksburg, Va, was sentencedto six
months confinement at hard.labor, with
loss of pay, &C., during the time.
Lord Brougham expresses great an
noyance at having it supposed that he
is not, and always has been, friend of
the North. All his own friends must
begin to wish by this time that he took
less interest in public affairs. He has
Outlived his usefulness.
Italy has promptly removed the re-
strictions upon American war vessels
in her ports, and calls to mind, in order
to renew them, her expressions of friend
Illness for this country during the strug-
gle from which we have emerged. The
Confederates, who are mentioned as
: ''separatists," are promised different
reception.
Among the incomes returned in the
9Th New York district are: Moses Tay-
, lor, $685., POS; HI. Clews, S104, $40; Peter
Cooper, $75,S37; James Harper, $3l ,003 /;
John Anderson, $26,44 C. G.. Colgate,
$37 ,30S; A. IT, Stewart, 1916, 127; J. G..
Phelps, $12S,052; George Law, sos ;
Robert Hoe, $74 ,349; Edwin Hoyt, $685.
544; P. Hayden, $3.50, al; F. Harper,
$24, 405; B. Nathan, $40, ISL; w. Patton,
$193, 432; E. G. Cowlin, 500, 444.
; Scarcely had the statue of Dante been
erected in Florence when his bones We're
discovered and set up at Rayenna. The
skeleton, which has remained concealed
for nearly two hundred years, lacks but
few bones of being complete. The
height of the poet as deduced from its
measurement is put at one metre seven
ty centimetres, or something under five
feet six. His monument would seem to
be his rightful sarcophagus.
: That was ruddy picture which Gen.
, Sherman painted of himself the other
day in Cincinnati-"a little red-headed
| boy, running about in Lancaster, steal
ing cherries.n In the same speech he
declared that in thevery hotel in which
he was then responding to an evening
serenade, Gen. Grant and he had met
more than year ago, and "laid down
the maps and studied out the campaigns
which ended this war;"
Specimens of Western oratory are
: rather stale, but here is bit, related by
q trustworthy authority as authentic,
which has not been in print before -
"Where> is Europe, compared with
America? Nowhar! Where is England!
Nowhar! They call England the mis-
, tress of the sea; but what makes the seat
!, The Mississippi river makes it; and all
: we've got to do is to turn the mississippi
into the Mammoth Cave, and the En-
glish navy will be laundering in the
mud"
: A paroled rebel, seven and a-half feet
e high, recently arrived at Cairo. Hestart-
ed out with the Missouri troops, at the
!. commencement of the war, and stuck tc
a them until the "dog was dead" and
!, and never received scratch. When the
= colonel first saw him on dress parade, he
. ordered him to "get off that stump."-
This created great merriment among the
men; "Get off that stump" became g
by-word with the Missouri rebels, and
it will, no doubt, live as long as the long
Missourian.
: A man, in hartford, Wisconsin, has 9
4 chicken with three pairs of wings. One
pair are where other chickens veal
theirs, on his sides. The second pair are
a attached to his legs at the joints, and are
t as large as the first. The third pair are
|. where Mercury wore his-attached to
: his feet. The chicken is about two
months old, strong and active, and as
large again as any other OF the same
brood, and makes decidedly funny ap-
pearance in running. 4-a
The rapid deterioration of thorough
bred horses in England, which of late
wears has excited so much comment and
iamentation, will probably, since a
E French horse won the Derby, lead to
. still greater complaint and apprehension
. in the sporting world. Everybody seems
agreed upon the cause, which is simply
the practice of racing two-year-olds and
exhausting their powers before maturi.
ty. It is singular that horse-racers should
, thus early have thrown away the only
good argument they have ever offered
in defence of their sports.
On the 4th of July, Mr.. William Post,
of McConnellsville Ohio, was robbed OF
Sl5. 900 in the Union depot in Cleveland.
Mr.. Post had recently bought the Par
melee property in gainesville, for which
he was to pay 100000. He was on his
!. way. accompanied by his wife, from
McConnellsville to Painesville, to take
possession of his purchase, and in going
from the Southern train to take his seat
in the train on the Lake Shore road, he
fell down in an apoplectic fit. He was
helped up by two or three strangers, and
during the excitement package of mo-
new. which he had in hisinside vest peck
ct was taken from him. The money con-
sisted of fifteen 81 900 greenbacks, and
was contained in an envelope Wheel
ina Htetiigencer.
Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, mas
issued an address to the people OF that
State. He urges them to support, not
only the Government of the U. States,
oI,,ipictratiOn of the present