The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-16
NEWSPAPER NEWS.

The Worcester Palladium, q Massa-
chusetts Republican organ, has boldly
| stepped upon the Conservative platform
| and says: President Johnson has We
toed the Freedmens Bureau bill. The
| many and grave objections which he
makes to the measure, presented with
plainness and force, disarm all insults
upou his sincerity and honesty, however
bitter may be the disappointment of the
friends of that measure. The sober
judgment of the American people is
quite likely to find in the veto a justifi-
cation of the Presidents action.
The Commissioner of Internal Reye-
nue. decides that farmers as well as 9TH
ers. who produce cheese to the value of
81 900, must take license as manufactu-
rers. This ruling will reach large class
OF farmers who have supposed them
selves exempt from license duty. 1t
follows that those who manufacture but
ter to the same value, ISL ,OOO) must
be subject to like license, as the reason-
ing support of the rule applies as well
to the product of the latter as that of
cheese.
AT cancellation, anti-veto meet
ing in Norfolk the other day, Mr., e. C.
Lindsey stated in his speech that che
kneW some pery fine Ydnkees." Mr..
Lindsey, who makes this graceful ac-
acknowledgement to the men who saved
the nation from its utter and total dis
ruption and destruction, is of that class
of our citizens so eloquently eulogized
by Lieut.. Coy. Cowper, and whom he
called "the most thoroughly loyal men
in the whole untry."-AleIandri
State Journal.
There is an old man, n years Of aoa
county pauper, in Indianapolis Ind.
VINO few years ago was the most nonuI
lar preacher in the Baptist church in
tnat iocaiity, and was loved and respec-
and drank it, and he is now preachincy
In his life, mole powerful sermon r.
drunkards than he could ever preach
verbally. A
The Austrian Government has dator-
mined to increase the garrison at Cracou,
oy nfteen thousand men and eiphtv
guns, in consequence of the accumuIa-
ton of Russian troops on the fir onfier.
! of Galicia. 1t is rumored that tho Rns-
slams are about to form camp of 40
ooo men III the immediate vicinity of the
frontier. " s"o
III mas transpired that the Emperor Of
the french and Prince Metternich both
nearly lost their lives by the fall of an
immense limb of an oak. while ont
shooting. They had just passed IL wbar
IL Tell with tremendous crash. What
confusion in the worlds affairs was
most happily escaped, and but bv .
second! "
On Thursday morning Thomas MIR
phy ana George Finch, aged eight and
WE'VE years, were drowned i'm a mill
race at indianapolis, Indiana. Than
were skating on the ice, when il broIe
through, They belonged to the Fourtts
ward school, and should have been IN
tnelr places instead of on the ice, "
1t is stated that Professor co,.
smith contemplates the resipnat;on~ "a
the CHAIR of Modern History in ths IIn "
versity of Oxford on account ofili hae ~
ana that he intends to concentrata r.,
studies on an elaborate History of the
Great Rebellion and Commonwealth oe
England under Charles I. y,
Hon. John Milton Earle has nresonta
10 the Worcester Natural History Scot
ety the splendid collection of Terrestrial
nuviatile. and marine shells, which he
mas been getting together for more than
iorty years. 1t consists of MANY thnn-
sand specimens, and is In fine conditior
Mr.. Parke Goodwin, of the New yo-.
evening Post, sails for Europe on the
ltn inst, on q brief summer tour.