The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-25
NEWSPAPER NEWS.

tional currency, will probably nave tne
amounts of notes which they are author
lied to issue reduced, in order to effect a
fair proportionment in the southern
states.
Detective Shangle of the Eleventh
Precinct, on Saturday night, arrested
David Schiff and George Boyce, the
thieves who on Friday morning last
robbed Samuel b. Terry of $4,000 in
bills and checks at the corner of Beck
man and William streets, New York.
The editors and proprietors of the
New York Police Gazette were on Sat
urday arrested on a charge of libel pre-
ferred by Mr.. A. II. Stewart, the we'll
known importer. They were held to
bail in the sum of 81 900 each by Justice
Bowling.
The libel case of A. II. Stewart against
the proprietors of the newspaper known
as the National Police Gazette. came up
before Judge Bowling IN Monday. AT
ter the examination of a few witnesses,
the case was submitted to the Judge
without argument, and decision was re-
served.
The storage warehouse of Miller Il
| Conner, Nos. 24S and 249 South street,
and 4S3 and 4S5 Water street, New York,
was burned on Saturday night. The
loss is about $500, 600. The building
contained cotton, hemp; rags, sugar n
iron, owned by various parties.
A correspondent Of a Christian paper
appeals to the Christian public to pray
for the New York and New Haven hail
road, that its corporate heart may be
moved to compassion on the travelling
public, and its fares be no more raised.
1t is thought that the Government will
shortly relieve all the volunteer organi-
cations at present garrisoning the forts
and protecting the routes on the plains.
Regiments of the regular army will be
substituted.
Theodore Allen, of the late firm of
Allen, Hughes & Riley, bounty-brok-
ers. was arrested in Brooklyn, New
York, on Friday, and taken to New
Jersey for trial, on a charge of having
defrauded recruits enlisted at HobOken
last spring of$l26, 600.
The Revenue Commissioners will re-
commend the abolition of the tax on
watches, carriages, plate, and other arti-
cles in Schedule A. They disapprove of
the substitution of a tax on sales for the
present income tax.
A clerk in the Baltimore post Office,
named Alonzo Hutchins, has been ar
rested on a charge of robbing the mails.
This makes the second arrest in that Of
flee within two months.
A Judge i'm Indiana threatened to fine
a lawyer for contempt of court. III have
expressed no contempt for the COURT,
said the lawyer, con the contrary, I have
carefully concealed my feelings"
Benjamin Phinney, a wealthy farmer
at Rockport, ILL.,, was recently poisoned
to death with strychnine by his fifth
wife, a pretty girl, whom he married six
weeks ago.
The bark b. Sewall, from Bath. Me-,
for Galveston, with a cargo of hay and
potatoes, was wrecked below Galveston,
Dec. 20. The captain and crew were
saved.
During December over fifty postmiss-
fail to arrive now, we cannot lay it to
the mates altogether. Worcester (Mass. J
Evening Gazette.
Salvador, the alleged co-%conspirator OF
Gonzales in the murder of Otero, Is on
trial in the Court of Oyer and Terminer,
Brooklyn,
Gen. Banks hopes to report his resolu-
tion on the French Industrial EXPOSE
ton, with an appropriation of only
$4,000 for expenses.
The Galveston Bulletin of the 5tl
instant says that an engineer and pom
toon. train were e%mbarking there for the
Rio Grande.
Tufts stable, in CharlestOwn, Mass,
was burned on Saturday night, with its
contents, including eight valuable
horses.
Eleven m%arauders have recently been
captured, and given over to the civil
authorities at San Antonio, Texas.
Camille Joseph Ludman has been re-
cognized by the Government as vice
consul of Brazil at New York.
A man has beeu sentenced to three
months imprisonment, in England, fol-
attempting to hang himself.
Finney, one of the alleged Adams
Express Company robbers, has escaped
from the jail in Norwich.
st. Valentines Day will be also Ash
Wednesday and All FOOLS Day, Easter
Sunday, this year.
"An American is only an Englisman
rather more sharpened, " says Sir Nor
ton Peto.
Brigham Young, Jr., is in Bristol,
England, recruiting Mormons for Salt
Lake City.
A man has been sent to prison for
seven days for begging of the Prince of
| Wales.
Large fruit-preserving houses are in
course of erection in Rochester, N. Y.
and Buffalo.
Some of the Chicago capitalists are
about to erect a large cotton mill in their
city.
Gen. Butler, family and private secre-
tary, are again in Washington.
Ex-senator Toombs is in Havana and
has plenty of spondulics.
The smallpox is reported as very bad
in Mobile.
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