The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-29


| ported by last steamer. The murderer,
after committing the deed in London,
proceeded to Ramsgate, and there killed
| his wife and daughter, from whom he
had been parted for several years.
The Pail NoU Gazette, in an article
entitled "The Bad Time Coming" ex-
pressesits belief that beside the DEAFNESS
and badness of food which may be
Iy expect to get through it without
cholera epidemic.
An arrival from Port Royal brings
news of the loss of the United States
steamer Commodore McDonough. She
sprupg leak and foundered during a
gale at sea, on the 23d instant, the crew
having hardly time to escape in boats
when she sunk.
The case of Antoine Van Weimer and
three others, charged with rape, was
tried on Wednesday last, before Judge
Russell of the Superior Court in Boston,
and resulted in a conviction and SEN
tence of the four criminals to the State
prison for life.
The town of Oldtown, in Maine, has
voted to pay off its entire indebtedness
1 tHlS year. Il TIC requisite Idtc VI CaAo
| ton to do this is one hundred and thirty
don't mean to "grin and bear it," but
grin and do it.
Matamoras papers of the 18th instant
saw that General Sheridan Is making
threatening demonstrations along the
Rio Grande, and that large numbers of
troops, principally colored, and trains OF
artillery, continue to arrive at Browns
vile, Texas.
Miss Marryatt, daughter of Captain
Marryatt, the well known nautical nov,
elist, has just published her second
novel. called Loves Conflict" Her
| first novel, at least the first that we have
heard of, was entitled "Too Good for
Him."
The Newburyport Herald says of
girls: "They can be lady-like, intelli-
gent and pleasing without schools; but
they never can be agreeable wives, good
mothers, and happy in their homes
without knowledge of household duties"
| A Geographic despatch from Erie re-
ports fatal railroad accident as having
occurred on the Oil Creek Railroad,
Pennsylvania, Thursday morning last,
in which nine persons were killed and
| from ten to fifteen wounded.
Harold's mother never visited him
during his imprisonment. She said she
had tried i'm vain to teach him better
counsels and now he must take the re-
suits of his wicked conduct, without ex-
pecting sympathy from her.
| Four thousand ladies of Mississippi
| l. q x.l t<>D IDl,
son, asking the pardon of Jefferson
moving for the release of Alexander H.
Stephens.
Dispatches from Salt Lake represent
that six thousand Indians had attacked
| the post at Platte river, but were repulsed
after a severe fight. They destroyed the
| telegraph for five miles and carried off
| the wire.
A gentleman who has travelled
through Iowa lately says that there are
at least 10000 returned soldiers at work
in that State helping to save the harvest.
He saw hardly an idle soldier in the
State.
| The town of Oldtown, in Maine, has
voted to pay off its entire Indebtedness
the coming year. The requisite rate of
taxation to do this is one hundred and
thirty dollars on thousand.
1t is stated that r. M. II. Hunter, of
| Virginia, now confined as a State pris-
oner in Fort Pulaski, askes for his re-
lease, with the privilege of leaving the
country forever.
A young lady in Philadelphia jumped
| out of a third story window to avoid a
| man whom she had known only to des-
pise, and fractured her skull.
The Boston Journal states that nearly
all of the ship yards in that city are
making arrangements to resume bust
for two or three years.
A grand military drama, "Maud of
the Mississippi, founded on events that
occurred during the memorable siege of
Vicksburg, is being played at st. Louis.
A lady at Stonington, Conn.,, took the
opportunity while her husband was Oft
fishing to elope with another man and
$500 in money.
New York drinks about $4,000, 900
gallons of water per day. The quantity
of whiskey it consumes is beyond COM
putation.
The recent heavy defalcations at New
York disturbed for time every kind OF
stock investment but Government Sc
curities.
The telegraph reports two more rail-
road accidents" happily, however, not
of a very serious character.
A woman running down stairs in
London caught her foot in her hoop, fell
and broke her neck.