The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-22
scraps wise and otherwise.

by Mr. Dickens as the next novel writer to
appear in the columns of All the Year Round.
James Littleworth, of Tennes ;ee now seve@-
ty-eight years DID, is the father of thirty-or e
children, the oldest of whom is fifty years,
and the youngest four months. He is living
with fourth wife, whom he married at the
age of ffty-nine, she being then little In
dian squaw of fourteen.
The eleventh season of the Sunday bands
in the London parks has just opened. In
Victoria Park nearly fifty Thousand persons
were present on the first Sunday.
Two young girls in Memphis tried to
brighten companion by holding her on the
railroad track as a train was approaching.
The fright did not kill her, but the engine
did.
There is pond in Roxbury, Oxford county,
where pickerel were placed eight years ago,
and between seven and eight tons of this fish
were caught there during the past winter.
A member of the State Guard, at Rich
mond, was taken down with coup de soliel
Thursday, while on parade.
A poor, unemployed soldier in New York
hung himself to bis bed post. There was no
bureau for him
man named Brown, while being taken
to Jefferson City, (Mo,,) in charge of the
sheriff of Linn county, jumped into the Mis-
souri, river. The irons on him were enough
to sink him, and be was not seen again.
Mr. Cicero Brown, an aristocratic negro citi-
zen of Vicksburg, lately eloped with bis land
lady, who took with her, besides all the wear
ing apparel she could gather, about $500 in
money belonging to her bereaved husband.
The steamer Queen, with dates to the 9th,
has arrived at New ork.
There is to be an agricultural fair in Rock
bridge county on the 18th and 18th of October
next.
The Methodist Publishing House in Nash
vile, will soon be in full operation. The
new Discipline is all ready for the printers,
and will be issued forthwith, with many
other publications of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South.
AT THE beginning of the present term of
the Circuit Court there were seven hundred
cases of all kinds on the docket. Judge
Marshall, having gotten through with the i'm
portant criminal trials, is putting the rest
through with railroad speed, Some seventy
o Id cases were called yesterday, and various
ly disposed of Lynchburg Republican.
The Rockingham Register of yesterday,
says the wheat crops in that section have
improved greatly recently, and tolerably
half-crop will be made.
Duke W. Goodman, one of the oldest and
best known citizens of Mobile, died suddenly
in that city, on Wednesday, 9th instant.
He was pillar in the Methodist church.
Young peach trees should be shortened
early in the spring Of the first year, when they
should be trimmed down nearly to walk
ing cane. Each succeeding spring about two
thirds or one half of the previous years
growth should be taken off The fruitfulness
of the tree will in this way be greatly in
creased, and the life of the tree prolonged.
1t will not pay to head in after decay com
mences.
Prentice says of an editor who smelt rat,
that if he did, and the rat smelt him, the
poor rat had the worst of it,
The dog census in Alexandria is almost
completed.
store keeper advertises ten pounds of
sausages for a dollar Chats dog cheap"
Mons. Blot calls picked pigs feet 'gutter
snipe"
The difference between Carlyle's Works
and Beadle's dime novels, is that while the
one are sententious the other are ten-cent-
sious.
Why was the Deiuge like the French Re-
voluton? Because it was rain of terror.
"By Jupiterl Jawge- ah--did you notice
how intensely Clara was observing me? She
is great Judge of style-ah-a-a-w, whisper
ed Adol plus to his chum, as the aforesaid
Clara sEept past them, Il beg your par
don" retorted the crinolinity, sharply and
after pausing an instant, sit was that other
puppy at which | was gazing" "Jupi-aw-
come, Jawge-ha! ha! y-a-a-s; good joke--ha!'
A gentleman advertised for wife through
the papers, and received answers from eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-seve2 husbands say
ing that he could have theirs. This is a
practical illustration of the value of advertis-
ing
Why is the letter L like priceless gem?
Because it's in valuable
The friends of celebrated wit expressed
some surprise that, at his age, and with his
fondness for the bottle, he should have thought
it necessary to marry. "a wife was neces-
sary," ne said, ''my acquaintance began to
say that drank too much for a single man."
The Clarion and Standard, in noticing the
departure of swan of Yankee "school
marms from jackson, says;
| Zone of them is known to have bathed in
Pearl river, for she was trying to learn her
pupils, male and female-between the ages of
20 and 45-the accomplishment of swimming
on beautiful evening in May. And bad
luck to the urchin who stole their clothes
| from the bank OH rude to make such a
party wait under the bank of the river ex-
posed to the gaze of the fishermen in their
boats until a new supply of apparel was
brought"
squaw in central Michigan had pap
poosee on her arm, exceedingly white for a
member of his race, which fact induced a
gentleman to ask if it was not half breed,
whereupon she replied, "No not drop of
white blood about it-half Ingin and half
Missionary"
At Adrian. Mich, a lady saw an engine
house with a steeple, and inuocently asked a
gentleman attendant, ''What church is that"