The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-09-20
MISCELLANEOUS.


VIGILANCE CoMluTrEEs.-In Berklev coun-
ty. Va, vigilance committees have been organ
lied for the pursuit and capture of horse
thieves, and the recovery of stolen horses. In
Opequon township few days ago the COM
pany turned out and pursued q party stealing
horses, and succeeded in recovering the ami
mails, though the thieves escaped.
DEATH BY DRowNING.-We are panied to
announce the death of our frow-citizen Will
liam Burkhardt, Of the firm of w. e. H. Burk-
hardt. He, i'll company with his two daugh-
ters and several ladies and gentleman of this
city, was on his way to Baltimore, and, in
crossing the river at Bellair, Mr. Burkhardt fell
overheard and was drowned.-LouiSoUe Dem
OcTW.
A good story is told of country gentleman
who, for the first time, heard an Episcopal
bishop preach. He had read much of the
aristocracy the church, and whcnhe return
ed home, he was asked if the people were
struck up. Pshaw! no" replied he; "why, the
minister preached in his shirt sleerest'
One of the bull frogs On exhibition in New
York is named jug O Rum" Another
"Alotherly Calf
The Lancaster papers announce the resig-
nation of Rev. A. C. WedelSind, pastor of St.
Johns Lutheran Church in that city
Cranberres are scarce in Maine, and sell
readily for four dollars bushel. Potatoes,
however, are only ninety cents a busheI
There is no truth in the statement that
Secretary McCulloch has decided to issue
$40 bonds in exchange for compound-inter-
est notes.
Leonard Shepard has been appointed Sd
lieutenant in the revenue cutter service by
President johnson.
After long controversy it has been decided
to admit colorcd children at Newport. r. T..
into the same schools as white children.
The New England Agricultural Fair at Con-
cord, n, H., was 50 well attended that the
receipts were &25,00O
The trial of Henry c. ALagruder, the noted
guerilla, was commenced by military COM
mission, in Louisville, Kentucky, on the 18th
instant.
Gen. Butler has united wit .he republican
party OF Massachusetts, and hade a speech in
favor of negro suffrage.
On the 4th inst, the snip Casilda sailed
from Boston for Liverpool with cargo of
cotton valued at $15l, 800.
Judge DAILY. formerly a Congressman from
Indiana, and lately deputy collector at New
Orleans. died III that city on the 18th.
The statement that all troops will soon be
withdrawn from the Southern States, byorder
OF the President, is pronounced untrue
Mr. Bancroft is at Newport, engaged on the
eighth volume of the :" History of the United
States"
Judge Bates. late c. S. Attorney General.
is still lying ill at St Louis, with poor pros
poets OF recovery
Mr.. Benjamin, the ex-rebel Secretary of
State, is said to be on his way to Australia
with view to practising there at the bar
In New York, since the 18th Of June last,
4,795 dogs have been sacrificed ON the altar of
public health
Twenty-one houses OF ill-1ame in Philadel-
phia were broken up by the police a few nights
since.
They get rid of panpers in Connecticut by
slipping them to New York.
On Saturday the steamer Chicopee was de-
stroyed by fire at her wharf, at Newark, N. j.
The Ohio State Fair closed on Friday The
receipts We're S16,0 900.
The aggregate OF the tax levy in New York
city this year is S18076,099.
Aldrdge the muatto actor, is married to
white woman.
Missouri furnished 1O4,158 soldiers to the
war, one-third being from st. Louis.
Mrs. Grundy," literary paper, recently
started in New York, is dead
Ex-senator Rice has been nominated by the
democrats for Governor Of Minnesota.
Rhinodine, q celebrated race-horse, valued
at $4,000 died in Cincinnati last week
The equinoctial is due this week.