The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-18
Tt has two n swspapers

shops are operating. 1t has two newspapers
and two hotels, and numbers from twelve t.
fifteen hundred inhabitants. With q good
back country, and being the terminus of two
railroads, and respectively Of another, Bris-
toll is destined to become place of consider
able trade. So says the correspondent of the
Lynchburg Nirginian.
The same correspondent says in relation
to the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad, the
proceedings of the Stockholders Of which we
publish in the DAY Book to-day:
The Charleston, S. c., people are working
hard to tap the Kentucky system of roads,
via Knoxville, Tenn, and AshyilIe,. S. c.,
and to that end are urging the people of
! Louisville and Cincinnati to aid them. This
route, however, possesses such apparent adj
vantages as to distance, superiority of Allan
tic harberage, &C., that it cannot fail to be
the favorite.s All of our Southern cities and
! lines of railway are peculiarly interested in
| its success and should do everything in their
power to promote the enterprise. 1t will
| yield rich harvest of reward when it opens
| to them another great highway from the
Father of Waters to the Atlantic Ocean.
| Brevet Major Paul r. Hambriek has been
appointed Post Commander of Alexandria and
vicinity, for the purpose of enforcing General
Order No. ID, relating to the arrest and con
fnement of persons charged with oi1enses
against officers, agents, citizens, and inhabi-
tants of the United States, irrespective Of
color &C. Dseia sa gAd
Clark, garroter, shot officer Powers in
Alexandria through the feshy part of the
thigh and disabled him. Both Clark and
! his accomplice had escaped Jail, and are al
large. rs g e, e.. +. ~ =. .. =. ~
The adjourned meeting Of the Breckenridge
Bell and Everett and Douglas Central Execu-
tive Committee in Richmond, adjourned tc
this day to consider the prepared business Of
the Chmmttee 20 @
The murderer Isaac CLANCY has been
hanged at Richmond.
by the civil police yesterday, and committed
to prison, for attempting the life of a little
child of Mrs. M. Toomey, by administering
an over dose of laudanum
There have been more country wagons 81
the streets for the past few days, than usual
The corn is being s'laid BY" and farmers are
beginning to come into Lynchburg to trade
The number of new buildings, and Of am
provements upon old ones, would surprise
any one not accustomed to go the round O
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Its reported that Mrs. johnson, the wife
Of the President, accom- panied by portion Of
her family and several friends, will pas.
through Lynchburg in day or two, enrout.
for her home in Greenville, Tennessee.
An exhibition of a colored school will BIZ
given at Dudley Hall, Lynchburg, on Mon
day evening. The school is composed of the
children of colored people who were free be-
fore the war, and is conducted on the same
principle as white schools, asking no aid
from the Government, and having no connec
ton whatever with the Freedmen's Bureau
or any other department. "a s. -. go
The people of Prince George and Surry
have recently been the victims of gang o
negro highway men. who rob, pillage and beat
with apparent mpunity. Men are stopped
in the most public roads, houses aarez broker
into day and night, stockgs carried off allnos
daily, and a terror prevails in some localite.
which it would be difficult to exaggerate.