The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-03-22
General News.

Inc ponce Oh fDllaueipula now arrest all
persons found lounging at the street corners
and i'll front of churches on Sunday. About
a hundred and fifty young men were taken
into custody for this offence on Sunday last.
The Statesville IN C) An,ericcn says, in
reference to the statements that have been
going the rounds, that Governor Vance had
been stricken by paralysis, that his affection
was more properly neuralgia We are gratified
to learn, from the same paper, that all the
symptoms have measurably disappeared, and
that his general health was never better.
The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Eagle says -
Sarah Pratt, the mother of ten children and
owner Of good farm seven miles from ST.
Joseph, was in town on Sunday last in search
of her gay deceiver, George w. Mcintyre,
aged three score years and ten, who won her
affections and then told fibs aud got drunk ON
bis wedding tour, and left her alone in the
wide wide world and her search so far, for
the brute Of a man has been unsuccessful
Such is life"
They have some sharp rogues in Chicago.
Recently speculatcr named Deverell pur-
chased in Milwaukee five thousand dollars
worth of flour and gave in payment check
on himself Returning to Chicago, be sold the
-four and ran away with the proceeds leaving
his check to be dishonored.
From recent scientific Investigations in Ell
rope it has been shown most conclusively that
in localities where impure water has been
drank by the inhabitants, the cholera has
principally ragged, proving impure water to be
one of the chief causes of cholera.
The bills of fare at Paris restaurants now
include american buckwheat cakes" and
american apple and mice pies" and pla-
cards hang over the bars announcing "Ameri-
can cocktails and smashes."
The New York Central proposes to run
three classes Of passenger trains, at two, two
and-one-half and three cents per mile If
this plan is adopted, it will be something new
in the land, and will afford the petroaristoc-
racy a nine days comfort.
II. B. Chaflin & Co. have paid tax on forty
two million dollars sales. This is the largest
business in the country.
The Erie Railroad has discharged 1900
men in consequence of the falling off in
Western freight and general traffic.
Governor Walker has appointed Major
John Beard, of Tallahassee, Comptroller of
Public Accounts for the State of Florida
A bully named Mcintosh was shot and
killed in Kingsport, Tennessee, by Martin
Roller, few days since.
One Of the strangest reports is that from
Chicago. Numbers of people are emgrating
to Utah, having heard that the Mormons are
going to leave for mid-ocean.
Vast beds of oysters, equal to those of
Chesapeake Bay, have been found in the Gulf
of California, between Mazatan and Quay
mas, from which California will in future be
supplied. They are planted in San Francisco
Bay AMI there tattened for the market.
Miss Torrance, an American young lady, at
one Of the masked balls in Paris, appeared as
South American Indian princess, in feather
dress, with a long feather hanging from the
top Of her hair, which was drawn up in gen.
uine Indian style, and great ring through
her nose
The journeymen painters in Brooklyn, N Y ;,
who have been receiving So day, have struck
for So so
Two police officers in New York have been
sentenced to the penitentary for stealing re-
volvers at fire.
In the Missouri Legislature the bill pro-
hibiting returned rebels from wearing arms
was defeated.
Apalachcola has received 100, 900 bales of
| cotton since May last, and exported 63,345
bales-49,00O to New York, 1000 to Liver
pool and the remainder to New Orleans
Value of the cotton exported $l3,OOo,0O0.