The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-05-30


the graves of the gallant dead in Hollywood
Cemetery are to receive what the course If
events hitherto has prevented. The youth
of Richmond are about to perform the sad
but grateful Office of remounding and re-
pairing the graves where rest the remains
of their fallen comrades. The weeds are to
be cut down and renewed-the graves are to
be aligned and the head boards replaced and
the turf is to be removed-and the walks are
to be cleaned and gravelled. Points of rem
devious of the different company organiza-
tons in the city are given. The 2Sth of
May, was devoted to the sacred duty and
the sitizens generally, were invited to unite in
this tribute to the memory of the lamented
dead. t. UH4
In lakewood cemetery there sleep sixteen
thousand Confederate soldiers, including rep
resentatives from every Southern State. The
object of the Association is to rescue from
oblivion the names and graves of these gal
liant soldiers. The ladies appeal to the peo-
pie Of the whole South for pecuniary aid to
enable them to carry out the designs of the
society.
Efforts are on foot to start the Lynchburg
and Danville Railroad; 100000 have already
been subscribed by Lynchburg.
We learn from the Danvlle Register that
the Episcopal Methodist Church have held
meeting there to consider and determine GER
tain special interests 1t was unanimously
agreed to build suitable parsonage and to
alter, arrange and make comfortable the pre-
sent church building The scarcity of money
precludes the building of new church, but
the idea is not abandoned The building of
parsonage and the alteration of the old church
will be commenced at once.
Extensive arrangements have been made in
Washington for the accommodation of the
fair for the benefit of the Soldiers and Sail
or's Orphans Home t......
-Four thousand dollars were collected at the
McKendree chapel, for the benefit of the chill
dren of the Protestant Orphan Asylum, in
Washington. tH. 4.G.l 500 oG
All claims against the Merchants National
Bank, in Washington. are to be presented be-
fore the 26th of August to JOS c. Kennedy,
Esq, who is the receiver. .u. e5 .ls .lI
The members of the firm, and the clerk of
Boyen & Co., Alexandria, have been arrested
on suspicion of setting fire to their warehouse
which contained not more than 5000 worth
of stock, which was insured for $4,000.
John Moran, for shooting Mary Ellen
Reamey, has been convicted of murder in the
first degree and is to be hanged as soon as the
Executive shall determine. Jealousy was the
cause of the murder FEaalN
/, Ten buildings in Liberty street, Pittsburg,
were destroyed by fire on the 25th instant.
The entire loss is very heavy, the insurance
being $4,000. 1-..
Generals Steedman and Fullerton arrived
at Augusta, Ga, on the 9th, from Florida
nd will in ho
prepare their report in reference to the con-
duct of the Freedmon's Bureau in South Car
DINA, Florida, and the Sea Islands.
A large wholesale drug store in St. Louis
has been destroyed by fire, and the extensive
JOB printing and stationery establishment Of
r. P. Studley & Co. Loss estimated at
$15O,OOO al0 f0ae1S HU3
The Cosmopolitan Hotel in St. Paul, Mimi,
drug store, with eight other buildings have
been destroyed by fire. Loss $75,0OO--par-
TALLY insured.
The steamers City of New York, Bremen,
Bavaria and Virginia, left for Europe on the
26th, taking $6,O00,00O in specie .s
Captain Thomas Wingate, an old shipmas-
ter, of Baltimore, died on East Baltimore
street, on last Saturday morning The flags
of the shipping were at half-mast on the 9th,
III HOuOt Vi Ills IllelllOTy.
The execution of George w. Sage, the
child-murderer, tt OK place at Vernon Incl ma,
on last Friday. He confessed his guilt, and
expressed deep sorrow.
The Prince of Wales and Duke of Suther-
land run with the machine to all the fires in
London.
The Chicago Republican denies and denoun-
ces the statement that there is to be change
in its political opinions
The Rev DR.. Charles Constantine Pise.
died in Brooklyn on last Saturday. He was
one of the most learned and eloquent divines
in the Catholic Church in America. He was
born in Annapolis, Md, and was sixty -four
years of age, at the time of his death.
Stephen Phillips in the Barnstable Mass,
Patriot, forbids any person marrying Rosa
linda Pratt, she, the said Rosalinda, having
promised to marry Stephen.
The seventh annual Convention of the
American Israeltes commenced in n Y, on
last Saturday. Forty-eight, Jewish congre-
cations in the United States were represented.
The report shows that $4,000 had been
subscribed by the Israelites of America, for
their suffering brethren in Palestine. The
balance of So, 1913 was to be appropriated to
establish Jewish aims house 10 Jerusalem.
Attention was called to the proposition to
open Jewish free schools in the Orient. The
committee urged firmness in resisting any en-
croachments ON their civil and religious rights
and privileges. a. 1s5.mag
Ex-Secretary Jacob Thompson is in Paris,
and anxious to return to the United States
expresses himself in favor of the reaonstruc-
ton policy of President johnson, and Of the
Southern States accepting the situation and
acting with loyaly and in good faith
A mass meeting of the Fenians was held in
the Cooper Institute in New York, on last
Saturday. Mr.. james Stevens declared that
the Campo Bello expedition was as sensible as
an expedition to Japan, and denounced any
movement on Canada, as a gross betrayal Of