The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-05-23

4He pOdt came up the nay !
But who then row. her Ger the sand
Oh saw ye yet, by human hand,
A bark rowed bottom-up to land
wist ye dare not say
Hark shrieks the sea-bird in his lair
What rights him from his prey
Oh! what was that the sea found there,
And uck'd her by her tangled hair,
To beat the sounding rocks mid air,
Oh was it Elfine Grey
Still in the storm on that wild coast,
When darkly sets the day,
The startled fisher flies his post;
And seamen vow they oft have crossed
The beaten corpse or bowling ghost, ..ses
Of apless Eltne Greyl
Mr.. John M. Way, who brought suit
against one of certain people who paid him
visit one day during the war and compelled
him to make loyal speech and hoist Union
colors, has received verdict of 800.
A brutal fight occurred at New-Orleans on
Sunday, May 10, between Tom King and
Bill Farrell. Eighty-three rounds were
fought in one hour and eight minutes, and
then the hackers of the person last named
acknowledged their man whipped. d
Archbishop McClosky is endeayoring to
push forward the work of building the new
Roman Catholic Cathedral Measures will
be devised which, it.is-believed, will afford
sufficient funds for carrying on the work
with vigor le- s.2
By the Tennessee Railroad bridge catas-
trophe one man was killed and eight were
wounded, and by the explosion of the steamer
Lion near Montreal on Thursday six were
killed and seven injured. XII .,e55s- t,i'
The Grant House at Franklin, Pa, was
burned on SATURDAY lass of S60 900.
One woman is known to have lost her ms
and 1t is feared two Others have beside. 5..a r.
A letter from Madrid states that ex-Presi-
dent Willard Fillmore and wife arrived there
on the 22d Of last month. az .y.srs =
The capture of Fort Goodwin by the Apache.
hoax. -
The man that thinks himself happiest, is
really SO; but be that thinks himself wisest, is
the greatest fool. 24ss@ II
One pleasant item in the new tax bill7-
collins exempt Tsf-. NJ,
Do not judge person from first impress
sions; it is not liberal; often your warmest
friends prove to be those that you are preju-
diced against IL e. 3 * saj /.
OBlTUARY.-A tender and touching epi-
taph is that of the Teutonic mourner who In
scrlbed on his ehilds tombstone: b o.. eiJaI
nHere lies my child SO dead as nitts, ~
vot God did kill NIT ague fits |! -7-N'aii@ .
de Y. sh too goot to SHAY NIT me, 4'i-f
so Got took him to sthay NIT Hell"
A leading article-a blind mans deg
Punch. 69'Ja
Mock turtle doves--eoquettes.-- IL Qailp.
The SHactto is the name Of paper in Iowa.
Austria has 100000 men in perfect fight
ing trim. l19a14 III
Punch says the piece of the German Diet
Bismarck did not calculate on is the piece de
resistance. @&.6
The last sensation in London is petrfied
Australian male aborigine. 21'4
The Chinese in Australia are busy manu-
featuring spurious gold. - fs
The late volcano in the Grecian Archipela-
60 brought up full-rigged ship with ali her
masts set.
Michael Griffin, blessed with Hyperian
eurls, has been sent to the St. Louis Jail for
having thirteen wives. 4.ots
A one-armed soldier in Iowa cuts two and
hall cords of wood per day. .54ss
An Episcopal prayer has been prepared to
avert the cholera. ~
Board for full grown monkey in New
York is stated to be-by one who knows
81 80 per week. $3.50 n .y 7! ',9
Louis Napoleon has taken to white waist
coats; his wife to rose-colored dresses ef FL
One hundred and fifty hand organs grind in
New York
Pbe country has lost $4,000 900 by fires
in three months. HaAeg
A man eating CLAIMS in Cincinnatirestau-
rant found pearl worth several hundred
dollars.
There is preacher in Georgia who has
charge of four churches, edits newspaper.
and runs pedlar wagon.
The moment female patient dies in Pa
ris hospital, her head of hair is cut off by a
nurse and sold to dealers in hair.
An Indiana farmer last summer raised $500
worth of tomatoes from less than one quarter
Of an acre of ground isff ii.l,t.
There is untold suffering in the flooded dis
tricts of Louisiana,a and more crevasses are con-
tinnally expected. f 81 s5 9sa@
A tornado in Clark county, Mississippi; last
week, up-rooted trees and destroyed build
ings and crops. ~ ~
johnson meetings occurred in Philadelphia
on Saturday. aaF r. ~ ~ 5te..s : =
There was murder at Port Even, N. Y.
on Saturday last, man kicking his wife to
death.