The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-09

| HrSt III SucH manner tnaC the Sl0dliest
twist or sudden movement would cause
unable to lay 1t down without fear, and
unable to dress 1t without the assistance
: Of another person.
. judging from the following paragraph
In the Republican: "Nothing 10 done
I about cleaning the streets of this filthy
!. town. Probably there is not another
!, city in the world, out of Turkey, that In
| so nasty. Garbage accumulates in our
, thorOughfares, dead animals and old
boots lie about our most frequented
!, streets. With all its metropolitan chsr-
: acter and enormous trade and influence.
Chicago has not yet walked up to the
, necessity and duty of making itself de-
Gently Clean"
A wedding was interrupted lately In
Colchester, England, by the levity Of
the groom. All went well until the
repeat after him the words "I--tske
TO be my welded wife ~ for
better, for worse,o &C., when he altered
the formula TO "I'll take her better, but
not for wOrse.n The minister imnle-
diately closed the book, and quilted the
church.
The New York Herald says the Rev.
Morgan l.. Dix preached a sermon on
Sunday, In Trinity Chapel, in which he
| stated that there was a perfect unity be-
tween the Southern and Northern
branches Of the Episcopal church at the
recent convention In Philadelphia. He
also furnished some interesting facts in
regard to the work of the convention.
| DR.. Chapman, of London, is claimed
to have used an application Of ice-bngn
to the spine, in cases Of cholera, with
remarkable success. A French physi-
clan, DR.. Boutogue, uses copious
draughts Of peppermint, half q cupful
every fifteen minutes, with the addition
of little rum and tincture of cinna-
mon.
A Rev. Mr.. Oswald of Lyons, lows.
was recently placed under arrest for q
brutal assault upon his own daughter.
The details as published in the local pa
per, are shocking, and show that The
proper place for the clerical brute IL the
penitentiary, where he can pound away
at granite instead Of Christian morals.
A justice Of the peace in Cleveland,
Ohio, recently summoned q colored man
as a juryman In an important case. The
white jurors refused to take their seats
with him. After q couple of hours
spent In .quibblings the justice dis
charged the negro and summoned q
white man in his place.
Mr. B. w. Greene, late Presi lent of
the Connecticut Fire Insurance Compa-
ny at Hartford, cut his wife's throat In
q paroxysm of insanity last Sunday
might, causing her death In a few mo-
ments. He then cut his own throat In
two places inflicting such gashes as to
render his recovery highly improbable.
l. u 49, ok~ - IT,
Nashville on Monday, between ex-May-
or John Hugh Smith anda police officer
named Brown. Two shots were fired
by Smith without hitting Brown. One
: of the shots barely missed lady who
was passing, and a man who was on the
other side of the street.
w. c. Barney, clerk in the Custom
I House, was on Monday arrested on q
charge of having attempted, with the
aid of an accOmplice, to defraud the
Government out Of SAC, 900 by means of
, spurious bonds, executed to Withdraw
from the Custom House 900 barrels of
alcohol.
} AtSaratoga Springs recently, young
} man, aged twenty-five, led to the altar
} blushing damsel of some sixty-flve
summers. The merry god plays some-
times curious antics-though it is whis-
pered that Croesus had more to do with
the match than Cupid.
The Mississippi Legislature proposes
to set apart % per cent of the Public
, Debt to pay the State Debt tax to be le-
We'd for the support of disabled Confed-
crate soldiers and the widows and chill
, dren of soldiers killed In the war.
: The iron bridge ON Washington street,
in Buffalo, broke through on Monday
. | os.,sAo -
with iron castings into the canal. Two
valuable horses were killed and the
; driver had his leg broken.
In the "Miwaukie harboru suit, tried
i'm the Racine Circuit Court, verdict
has been rendered against the defen-
dant, the city of Milwaukee, of $40, GOT, :
IL. The case will be carried to the Su-
preme Court of Wisconsin.
There was terrific gale on Lake On
tariO on Sunday night. Several vessels
were blown ashore near Oswego, and the
beach was strewn with lumber and
slaves from those that had lost their
deck loads.
Ruskin In his two lectures gives this
caution to women literateurs There
Is one dangerous science for women
one which let them, indeed, beware
how they profanely touch-that of the
ology."
At Caledonia, Racine county, Wis.
consin, on Wednesday last, a young
man named Stitesky, of unsonnd mind,
shot his father ard mother, intlicting
mortal wounds, and then killed himself
, The government has just discovered
that some of their own detectives have
been engaged for some time in showing
the new counterfeit fifties. They are
: safely lodged in the Old Capitol.
The population of Hong Kong, ac-
l cOrding to the last census, is 12l ,498
: 1853 Chinese live in 400 houses, or
e in the proportion of upwards of sixteen
E individuals to one house.
' The Philadelphia city councils have
Y appropriated SO, 900 to defray the ex-
, pense of inaugurating certain sanitary
measures, in view of the approach of the
|, cholera.
Mr.. Frederick w. Seward having suf:
ficiently recovered from his injuries, has
7 resumed his duties at the Department as
J Assistant Secretary of State.
Judge A. B. Weeks, of Alabama, q
poet-politician and noted chess player,
died recently at Columbus, Mississippi.
OF the 40 forts and earthworks con-
structed around Washington, but twelve