The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-30
NEWSPAPER NEWS.
o. W. HOLMES.

A Philadelphia paper tells story of a
remarkable old manin Northumberland
county, Penn, who is one hundred and
eight years of age, and so strong and
active that he will walk five miles to
town and back again in half day, with
out apparent fatigue. He has in his
house twenty-four clocks, all going, one
little faster than the other, so that there
is almost continual clock striking. He
refuses to sell one of them, and says
they are his only company at night. He
was born in Germany, and when boy
came TO Pennsylvania, having sold HIM
self for his passage to servitude for seven
years. He is now a man of wealth.
The departure of General Grant for
the South is deemed an event of political
Significance. The AnteHigencer says
The departure of Lieutenant General
Grant for Richmond has Occasioned con-
siderable conjecture. The prevailing
impression is that he has been deputed
by the President for line of duty con-
nected with high political considera-
tions. 1t is publicly announced that his
tour will probably embrace Charleston
and other southern cities, while the sug-
gestiOn has been made that it may ex-
tend to New Orleans, and even further
beyond the Mississippi. a i.l
Gen. Geo. III. Gordon, while in COM
mand here, cut off the government sup.
ply of bread to the Catholic Orphan
Asylum of Norfolk, and stormed when
asked why he did it. His superiors res
cinded Gordon's order, and soon after
mustered the hero of no fight out of the
service. How does the Massachusetts
patriot reconcile giving government ra-
tons to strapping adult negroes and
Withholding them from orphan girls,
some of whose fathers fell in battle? 4
VIM. w. Morrison, formerly clerk
in the Navy Department in this city,
and latterly a major in the Confederate
service, died on the 13thinstant in North
Carolina. Stonewall Jackson and Gen.
A. p. Hill were his brothers-in-law.
Bureau of North Carolina,
General Lees chief reliance for the SUBJ
sistence of his army. @
The Military Commission composed
of Gems. Hitchcock, Mott and Seth Will
lams, met at Washington and organ
lied. This Commission is ordered to in
vestigate certain frauds alleged to have
been committed at Boston, Mass, by
agents, who, by fraud and misrepresen-
tation, induced and forced German en-
igrants to enter our army as substitutes.
The Commission will probably, in |
short time, move to Boston, where it !
will take the evidence of witnesses. tFlsI
The repeal of the paper duties has been
highly beneficial to the paper mal0ers of
Belgium. From four or five paper mills
he number has Increased to more than
orty, producing more than twenty thou
and tons of paper annually, chiefly ex-
,orted to England, France and America,
he exports having risen from l,675,527
rancs, in 1851, to $3.50. l34 francs in 1850,
md annually advanced since the last
'fficial statistics were taken.
The vessel once known as the "Chick-
sunk 10y the rebels In Cape
Fear river, below Wilmington, North
Carolina, on the capture of forts Fisher
md Caswcll, by the national troops, in
January last, has been raised and taken
o Wilmington for overhauling and re-
)airs. She is screw steamer, and her
is said to be still in excellent
condition, ..a En- |,