The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-04
NEWSPAPER NEWS.


Governor james L. Orr, of South
Carolina, issued OH Monday last his
proclamation announcing his assump-
ton of the duties of office, by permits
sion of the President, and instructing
the citizens In regard to the Common
wealth's present status. He informs
them that, though civil government is
restored, the ho6eds corpus still remains
suspended in the state, and the military
power is therefore paramount in all
matters of which it has special super
vision, among which is the adjudication
of all controversies in which the freed
men are interested. The Governor gives
the blacks and whites both some good
, advice, telling the former that on their
own sobriety, industry honesty, and
good behavior alone must they now de-
pend for happiness, and counselling to-
wards them OH the part of the latter
kindness, humanity and justice.
In New York, on Monday morning,
Bernard McElhone was dangerously
stabbed by Casper Hover. In Williams
burg, John Shurnott shot bar-keeper,
named John Weichner, who died in
stantly. In Boston, Lewis F. Simmons
attempted to murder his wife by cutting
her throat with a razor; and subsequent
| ly attempted to kill himself. Here are
more subiects-when the courts are done
with thein-for Horace Greeley, George
Opdyke, David Dudley Field and Will
liam +. Dodge, tile amiable party who
are said to be engaged in securing the
pardon of "yOung Ketchum," the gen.
tleman who stole five million dollars:
The Richmond Examiner complains,
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transplanted into our midst from Yam
none more hurtful to morals, or more
Free and Easy Concert Saloons" and
their "pretty waiter girls" These are
features of vice altogether new in the
South, and their liberation in our midst
is a matter of surprise" There are just
such SALOONS" in Norfolk and Ports
mouth, and while we try to keep them
out of tour midst" the Mayor deems
them harmless.
1t appears that the rumor of life
having been lost on board the steamer
Commonwealth, burned at Groton, CT,
Inst week, was correct. j. Dickinson
Ripley, of Norwich. was the man. II
seems that he had retired to his room
lust before the fire broke out. Captain
Williams made two attempts to arouse
him, and receiving no answer, conclud
ed that he had escaped. But he has MOI
reached his home, nor been heard o
elsewere. He was nephew of Govern
or Buckingham of Connecticut, and en-
gagged in the study of medicine in New
York.
The Farmers Bank Of Kentucky hat
$50, 900 stolen from it by the Morgan
raid. 1t recently sued u returned Ken
tuckian, who was one of Morgan's Off
GERS, attached his property and recover
ed judgment.
A young lady said to her beau, as sh'
held pot of hot water in her hand
, promise to marry me or I'll scald you
''Throw the water" he replied, 81 ha,
rather be scalded once than every da,
/ of my life.'
Major William Henry Wiegel, lat
United States volunteers, and Audrey
Thompson, chief clerk to the Proves
Marshal, had tisticuff on Baltimor
street, Baltimore, on Friday.
Mrs. Clement G. Clay is in Washing
ton, where she is said to be indefatigabl
, in her efforts to secure a parole for he
husband. These efforts, we are told
| have a reasonable prospect of success.
A young man named Richard Owens
landscape painter, said to be iron
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, committed suicide u
!, Boston, by shooting himself with pts
ktol, on Saturday night.
Praising what is lost makes the re
membrance dear. This is true, of til
discarded lover, and the language j
. Shakespearean
Macmillan is trying to resume friend
ly relations with the Pope.