The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-03-17
General News.

The citizens Of Maryland are raising TWEEN
ty-fvc Thousand dollars toward the endowment
fund for Washington College, Virginia, over
which General Lee presides. ~. ....
Jesse r. Sherman, highly respectable citi-
zen, was assassinated in his own house in Mo
bile, Alabama, on Friday night last The as
sassin is unknown.
Ex-Governor John Gill Shorter, of Alabama,
it is said. has succeeded in procuring the re-
| lease of some cotton belonging to himself and
| others who live in the neighborhood of Eufau-
Ia The cotton was seized several months
since on the ground that it had been subscrib-
ed to the Confederate produce loan.
In the United States Circuit Court, New
Orleans, John p Tweed received verdict of
sixty-eight thousand dollars against the Louis
lana Mutual Insurance Company for cotton
lost by the explosion and conflagratiou in Mo-
bile last June.
George Pete, charged with poisoning his
wife, and who escaped from the Jail in Au-
burn, New York, last month, was apprehend-
ed on Tuesday in Toronto, Canada.
Fort Leayenworth is to be abandoned as a
government post as soon as the cars on the
Pacific railroad are running to Fort Riley
And this is promised in the Lawrence papers
as early as the fourth of July next.
John P. Grocer, said to be the richest man
in Eastern Pennsylvania died at Chester on
Saturday
A negro disturb ,nce occurred at New Mar
ket, Mo-, the other day, which was finally
suppressed by the shooting and hanging of
several of the rioters. Several houses were
fired into by the negroes, and women and
children greatly imperiled.
Horse and mule stealing is carried on to q
large extent in Mississippi by negroes and
white outlaws. ei ssAar.a n' y4fca. .J t1"-
The St. Louis Republican says that within
a few days a single transportation company in
that city has Heterogeneous of freight to
the extent of three millions of pounds for
Montana Territory alone. eSi
George Peabody, the London banker, con-
| templates building church in Georgetown,
Massachusetts, where his mother was born.
A military commission in Richmond is try
ing P c.. Wescot of Richmond on charge of
horse stealing.
The marriage law of Pennsylvania is under
going change A simple agreement between
| the couple, i'll the presence of witnesses, has
been legal marriage heretofore, but that sort
of thing will be done away with, and the SER
vices of a clergyman or magistrate will now
be requred.'oo u.s. ''sd
Doctor Jayne, at the time of his death, had
nearly com pleted an elegant private residence
-77costing three hundred thousand dollars
in which he designed to pass the remainder of
his days. tAaf
A meeting in behalf of Universalst Mis-
4 sionary enterprises was held at DR.. Chapin's
Church, in New York, on Thursday night
/ The Hon. Horace Greedy and others delivered
| addresses in aid of the movement. Upward
of twelve hundred dollars was collected
Another meeting will be held on the second
Thursday.
il Young Lien III Lawrence, Kansas, have to
marry to get shelter from the weather. land
ladies there take none but married people,
The unfortunate youths say,it is conspiracy
between the young ladies and the boarding.
house keepers. '.r
There were twenty divorce cases in a
| single county in Vermont last week
| The sum Of $4,000 has been raised in Hi
nois for the purpose of establishing Soldier
| College. ..,,. ...
a friend in Albany describes the State Lee
| What can he mean
A fire broke out in Salisbury, N. c., recent
| ly, destroying two newspaper offices and six
| stores. Loss estimated at 100000.
Bituminous coal, Of which hogs will eat
from one to two pounds per day, is regarded
| by the Prairie Farmer sure preventive of
| hog cholera
| A cotton factory has been erected at Oak
land, near San Francisco, capable Of producing
one thousand two hundred and eighty yards Of
| cloth per day.
The Syracuse IN. " Courier mentions the
death of William Obey, a pensoner of 1912,
at the advanced age Of one hundred and six
Wears and seven DAYS
A dry, warm soil seems most favorable to
the production of honey. White clover, even,
When it grows on low, marshy land, has little
or 10 honey in it.,
! A correspondent Of the Albany Cultiyator,
in talking about tight barns, says farmers may
choose between late-cut hay, open she Is and
bone; or early, tight barns and fat stock.