The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-29
NEWSPAPER NEWS.

NEWSPAPER NEWS.
t The following story is going tn
rounds ofthe German press: After th
concert of the Prussian military i'm Pari
I before the Emperor, Napoleon III en-
Tered into conversation with Kapell
meister ParIOw. In the course of tn
conversation, the Emperor lifted one q
the brass Instruments, found it heavy
: and asked, do your band people wea
: their knapsacks In the field. as well n
> carry these things" Certainly. sire'
answered Parlow. "But how.H aske,
the Emperor, "dO you manage i'm re
treat| Don't know, your majesty
that's not practiced among our people. )
N. p. Hill, of Rutland county. Vor
mont, tracked a fox as he Suppressed tn ,
cave; and being soldier he imjtated
sold Put" by going in himself honoino
lantern on the end of his gun to iip
the way. Shortly he discovered a mi,
or big eyes. and put charge of buckshot
briween them. The animal then charged
upon Hill and light ensued. i'm wh1ci,
Hill, with the aid Of dog and hatchet
killed panther, which measured W,
feet eight inches In length, and weighed
one hundred and seventeen pounds.
Gossip is busy with Alfred Tennysop,s
affalrs,. and informs us that he has given
| TWO private readings at guinea ticket
only Invited guests admitted, and thev
10 come In null dress that the two road
| ihgs Melted him 1850; that he has lately
paid guinea a word for a poem IN the
Cornhill Magazine; and TINT he h,s
| also had an American Indicted WIN. in
reverence for the poet, clin,h-d into nh,
lysons garden ana bro u twip gor a !,
keepsake.
An afifay took place N the nayton |
and Western railroad ID Monday aifer- !
con betHoSn tho conductor ai.t soslie !.
workmen who had TAKEN passage a.
" dealheadst on the road, in which two
Of The wefkmen were killed and others
wounded The baggage master OF the
tiain was also wounded.
General Butler ia still able to Joke in n |
quiet way, and says that il there had |
been more bottles "tightly corked,n in
and about the officers quarters of our |
army during the war, it would have |
been good thing for the country.
A. A. Bradley, a muIatto, formerly
expelled from the bar at Boston. has
been sentenced at Savannah, to one |
years imprisonment, by a military
court, for using seditious language. He
is bad fellow.
The Signal Corps, which performed
such valuable services during the war,
has been entirely broken up. But il
will soon be reOrganzed on more per-
nanent footing, in connection with the
Regular Army.
1t is reported that the Appropriation
committee intends to report to the
House, bill providing for the assump-
lion OF the war debts of the loyal states
~ the general Government.
The schooner Israel II. Snow. from
tockland, recently caught fire in Tybee
Roads, Ca, and was beached to save the
ives OF the crew. Vessel and cargo Il
otal loss.
Lamartine has made some frjehtfnl
nachronisms in his "I.ife of Byron.u
lie refers to Petrarch, who lived i'm the
century, as weeping over the
rave OF TassO, who live in the six !
zenith.
James d. Gibson of Jefferson county,
.irginia, died suddenly of apoplexy on
'riday week. Mr.. Gibson was at one
me member of the House of Del.
gates of Virginia, and was gentleman
pleasing and popular manners.
Brigadier General Francis b. Shoup
the Confederate army, has been I'D
ected to the chair of physics, astron-
NY ana civil engineering of the Uni -
srsity of Mississippi.
General Grant is to have the deed of
lie house in which he lives in Wash +
gtOn for Christmas present to-day. I
is between the houses occupied by
Duglas and Breckenridge, in the same
ock,
A suit has been entered in the Su-
enc Court of the District of Columbia
restrain the city government of alv
aslIhgton from paying the expenses En
the recent election on the negro suf- per
lge question. con
Two trains on the Stonington railroad r
Ilided on Tuesday eight miles from
evidence, r. /. A colored man. pas Il
iger, had his leg crushed. There were l.
other serious casualties. Wa
The number of deaths in New York API
ring the past week was 4l9, being a de- u
ase OF 70 over the Same week of last
". OF the deceased, so were men, 95 Il
men, 40 boys and l24 girls. A
'aptain George p. Webster of New sure
{, Kentucky, has been brevetted a ~
Tenant colonel, and appointed to the X
ltion of quartermaster of the post of -
Louis.
eneral Howard asks the sum of ne
ZEN million and three quarters for
bureau! and three millions of il for
hers and school.houses for the o. Ii
cks. stree
Natl,
'lonel John O'Fallon of st. Louis, -
died in that city few days ago,
ng his life gave away about a mil - .
OF dollars to advance the cause of
'ation at the West.
10 evidence in the notorious Strong mi
rec suit having been closed, Mr.. orr,
lam is summing up the testimony IT. ~.