The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-29
N NEWSPAPER PARAGRAPHS.

The United States Consul at Port
Mahon, MinOrca Island, under date of
feDruary 2S, informs the Department of
State that the United States merchant
vessels are eagerly sought after about the
Mediterranean, and are preferred NV
freighters to the vessels of apy other
nation. He Says that within very
short time past American vessels could
nave been chartered to advantage. The
grain trade from the Black Sea offers
profitable employment to American shin
owners, and is now nearly monopolized
by the Greeks.
The Wilmington Dispatch learns that
at the tournament at Laurensbury. N.
e., on Wednesday last, Major d. G.
Monrae and Mr.. August Shaw became
involved in dispute, which resulted in
the former knocking the latter down,
whereupon Shaw quickly arose and shot
his adversary through the head, killing
him instantly. Major Monroe leaves a
family, his wife being the daughter of
the Rev. j. P. Mcpherson, an esteemed
Presbyterian minister of Robson
county.
Mr.. Hughes, Of Cincinnati, has sold
the patent of his telegraph to France for
2OO0Of, and is on the poine of conclud-
ing another profitable arrangement with
Russia. He Is reaping richer harvest
from his invention than Prof. Morse,
who received but 400,000f from all the
European govern ments together. In ad-
ditiCn to the elnoluments which Mr..
Hughes gained in Russia, the Car has
made him Knight of the Order of st.
Anne.
The Monroe (La.) InteUigencer says
that an immigration society ought at
once to be organized in that section. The
requisite quantity of laborers is not in
the country, even if every negro should
desire to go to work, and should labor as
well as before the war. There are not
more than half as many laborers in the
two parishes of Ouachita and More
house as are wanted now, and for an.
other year, the want will be still more
seriously felt.
Mrs. Mansfield, who stabbed and
killed her husband, Jacob Mansfield, in
Madison county, Missouri, last month,
has been tried and acquitted. The de-
ceased was 70 years of age, but was in
the habit of cruelty beating his wife
while he was under the influence of III
quor. tl &
A large and earnest meeting of work.
ing men was held in Akron. Ohio, on
Tuesday evening, a week, to take into
consideration the feasibility of establish
ing city market, with view to protect
themselves against the exorbitant prices
now asked for the necessaries of life.
At recent fancy dress ball given by
the ultra fashionables of Paris, Asia was
represented by Russian lady, whose
hair, arms and dress blazed with the
light of diamonds. Her entire outfit
cost $4,000.
Samuel Owen recently shot and killed
James TORY, his ha!f.brother. in Fay
cite, Miss. The affair was witnessed by
sister of the parties. Owen surrender
ed himself and was released on the
ground that he acted in self-defence.
A letter from Florence Nightingale,
dated at London, Feb. 2Sth, speaks of
her health as even more delicate than it
has been. She says, 81 am always and
entirely prisoner to my room, and lat
terly to one position"
The Rev. Blunt, at recent meeting
in London, said that not long ago a
woman had taken him in with piteous
story that her husband had not had a
DAVIS work for six months. 1t was true,
for he was night watchman.
The grain remaining in the New York
Central Railroad Company's elevator
and saved from the late fire, was sold al
auction on Wednesday afternoon fol
1874 900.
Some people wonder that under exist
ing circumstances the price OF mix IL
London has not risen. But the rinder
pest does not affect the cow with al
iron tail. saa.
Adah Isaacs Menken is coming bach
to this country, and the New VOTE
| Cgipper says she has refused guarantee
of $22, 500 for hundred performances IL
New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
Al st. Paul, Mimi, on the night Of thu
10th. the thermometer indicated clever
daorees below zero. This was twenty
four hours before the cold snap
reached Rochester.
A Montreal dispatch says the excite
nent has almost ceased there. III
10 600 troops appeared on parade 81
| "Wednesday. The expense to the Cana
! dian government for defence Is aoou
$40 900 per day.
The Paris Potrie says that the nev
prnssian frigate Hussar, lying at brest
had enlisted French sailors, hut tne.
were subsequently disembarked at u
request ofthe authorities.
| II ia stated that the plays OF Sophocies
Euripides and Eschylus ana QUE s
Classic authors, are shortly to De PEI
formed at one of the Paris theatres
One day last week a stranger ~ p
o W was swindleJ out of three thou
sand dollars by gamblers, AfteI ',n 80
thew generously presented MIN Win %
to enable him to return home.
Tn New Orleans, recently, two me
engaged in carrying down corpse
had each a leg broken by the s'a'i' ei'
ing way. ,.n
The value of the property ie d 200 .
Richard Thornton of London, Is @L,oo-
aa5 and the legacy duty PAID upon
amounts to E150, 260 It's
Honolulu dates of the 9Th ult. sla'
that the eruption of the great voiean
has ceased.
Thirteen Massachusetts sportsme
+ recently caught 9O,6s2 pounds oil nsh
eight hours. 40,