The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-25
General News.

Madame Julie DeMarguerltes, we'll known
Dramatic Artistic and Au:horess, has died in
Philadelphia. ---- -...
Two more cases of Cholera were reported
in N. Y. @@ IHF..
Joshua NJ Hall, the we'll known Naval
Naval agent at Baltimore, has died in that
city ss9s .lae. .r.
E. Daniels is the Billiard champion of Mas
sachusetts. He recently beat R. E. Wilmouth,
and took the purse Of $3.50. The game was
1900 points, and lasted five hours.
Large delegations are in Washington, rea-
tive to the rebuilding of the levees on the
lower Mississippi. 5.-
have been destroyed on account of the names
of the President and Cashier having been
printed, instead of having been written, as
the law directs tt
The steamer Dacotah, on her passage from
New York to Rio de Janeiro, had put into
Surinam with her machinery broken down.
Fifty unlicensed liquor dealers in New
York have been arrested, and held to bail.
Kate Smith, a courtezan, has been brutally
| butchered in New York by Jerry OBrien
who attempted to cut his own throat--cause,
jealousy. 'es5 laF ''"
Geo. Peabody is much annoyed by beg
gars-so much for being rich. .f
1t is said that the States do not respond to
the appeal which has been made to them, to
push through the ratification of the article
proposed as an amendment to the Constitu-
ton. ts
The Committee on foreign relations have
| not agreed on any report concerning Mexico
the neutrality laws, &c.
The Senate is engaged on the internal rev.
| enue bill ras- aH
The knights Templar of Washington, in
tend to make pilgrimage to Mount Vernon,
on the 25th, st. Johns day
The commissioner of agriculture has receiv-
ed 500 letters from correspondents in all
parts of the country relative to the crops.
The prospect on the LIST of June was for
seven-tenths of crop The average oat
crop will be larger than usual in nearly all
the States. In Delaware, West Virginia,
Maryland, the wheat crop will average six
tenths .ss. l',.......''T
The minority report was presented by Mr..
Hendricks in the Senate, and was laid over
till the return of Mr. johnson
The yellow fever is raging at Vera Cruz
The last steamer brought 800 troops.
The liberals have released % Confederates
captured near Cordova. The Imperalsts
have lost or abandoned most of their impor-
tant cities in the inteior. The empire will
not last long, as Max is in great financial dis
tress . Xxi .ft
Americans at the Cordova settlements had
become disheartened, and were preparing to
return home. Tampico was surrounded and
closely invested by strong force of Liberals
The Village National Bank of Bowdenham,
Me-, has been robbed The robbers followed
the Cashier home, gagged his family and
placed guard over them. They then took
the Cashier back to the Bank, and after rob-
bling the vaults of $67 900, locked him up in
the vault, and absquatulated with. the plum
der. They were supposed to be making their
way to Canada.
Gen. Lafayette McLaws has been prohibited
and Superior Court of Richmond County
Georgia, to which he had been recently cleo
ted. lid 5a. .s.1 ... ...i..
There has been large and destructive fire
at St. Josephs, Mo. H
Mr.. Burdis and John jackson, freedman
have been hanged in Augusta, Ca, for the
murder of Chas FL. Few. or ualH.
The frigate Susquehanna has arrived at
New York from Rio de Janeiro.
The first race on the Hobokea course was
steeple chase. Eight horses entered of which
five came to the starting post.
The National dress reform association Con-.
vention was held at Syracuse on Wednesday.
Mrs. DR.. Mary E. Walker, of Oswego, presi-
ded, Resolutions were adopted, and an ad-
dress was delivered by the President in favor
of the movement.