The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-09
General News.

ing house for students next term, the object
being to furnish good and substantial food at
cost prices. 1t will not be revival of the old
/" commons system of board, at least for TIE
present, but, if successful, it will probably
come into general use and be accepted by the
students for the sake of lessening their eX-
penses.
Another little bit of bullion, weighing l55
pounds, and valued at $4,000 in gold, has
been received in New York from Colorado.
The first train of the season, consisting of
twenty-one wagons laden with groceries and
provisions, left st. Joseph's, Missouri, on the
29th ultimo for Virginia City.
The weather continues unseasonably cold
at the West and South. On the 30th ultimo
there was good skating on the Chicago parks
and ice formed at augusta, Georgia.
Mrs. Ellen judd, residing near lndianap-
oils, Indiana, walks two miles and cuts a cord
of wood every day, by which means she sup
ports large family of children.
Nearly all the cotton and woollen mills at
frankfort, near Philadelphia, have suspend
ed operation, awaiting the action of Congress
on the tariff and internal revenue bills.
| The Duchess dowager Of Sutherland is very
seriously ILL., Her Grace was formerly one Of
the Queens ladies in waiting, aud one Of the
| most beautiful women in England.
The editor Of paper published in the
mountains Of California, tells of gathering
wild flowers in the morning, and wading
, through snow in the evening.
The Pajara California; Times says thatthe
great lost silver mine of Monterey has been
discovered. 1t is belt Of rich ore IS miles
long.
TIE New York Evening Post says that a
business man in Williamsburg, whose safe has
been blown open three times by burglars,
now pursues the plan of leaving the key in
the lock. He is tired of paying for repairs.
| There are two hundred and fifty newsboys
in Chicago. They pay license Of seventy
| Ave cents q year, buy "warm lunch" for ten
cents, and sleep where they can. As to ma
tionality, they are all either American or
Irish.
The Providence musical people are pre-
! pairing for the great "Sangerbund" Of the New
| England States, the States Of New York and
New Jersey, and City of Philadelphia, which
is to take place in the Capitol of Rhote Is
land on the Goth, 9th and 2stf, of June next
Some 500 singers will take part in the iesti-
val. The Providence Lederkranz have en-
gagged an orchestra of about so of the best
performers in New York and Boston
One of the wickedest and most successful
hoaxes perpetrated on the first of April this
year was the work Of lady in Philadelphia.
She sent up to the pulpit, i'll Methodist
church, notice purportihg to announce a
meeting in aid of another church. A num-
Der of names OF prominent clergymen were
mentioned as to take part in the exercises
The preacher read the manuscript to his large
congregation without hesitation, until he came
| to passage announcing that certain laynan
would sing comic-song, when he became con-
fused suddenly, remembered the day, and alb
ruptly sat down.
Mr.. VIM. Wheatley has just renewed his
lease of Niblo's Garden for three years from
the first of May. The price paid is said to
be $4,000 year.
The Academy o. Sciences of France has
awarded its prize for statistics to NJ. Chenu,
an army surgeon, for his work ON the losses
sustained by the allied armies in the Crimea
war.
series of Sunday dinners, to which nobody
but wits will be invited, and the wit who
fails to shine will be struck off the dinner
list.
The farmers along the line of the Virginia
and Tennessee railroad, are preparing t.
plant very large crops of corn the present
year very little attention will be given to
{ bacco.
A murderer named Shields. who brutally
robbed and murdered citizen Of the PENN
$ula, is to be hung in Richmond on the 10th
If next month. Another, named Clark, is TO
b. confined in the Penitentiary Of Virginia for
life.