The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-01
THE DAY BOOK.
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE /. 1866.

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SHORT WHEAT CRoP.-Hon. Isaac New
ton, Commissioner of Agriculture, in his re-
port forsApril, just published, says: $50 far
the accounts Of the wheat crop are discourag-
ing, as they indicate short crop over large
part of the country. But the circulars to be
returned on the first day of June will fully
show the condition of this and other crops at
that time. So backward is the season, that
earlier accounts cannot be relied upon
The very valuable leases held by VIM. B.
Astor, of Trinity Church, in New York, will
terminate on the 31st of this month, and put
the church into full control of property worth
at least $e,0o0,000. Mr.. Aston held posses
sion of SS6 lots, which were let in 1867, at a
very low rate of interest, for the term of SO
years. His income out of the houses built on
them reached, in one year, the sum OF
$1,S00,000. ..
Welearn from the New Berne Times, that
on Friday night party of four negroes at
tackled the premises of Messrs. Bynum and
Madison, near that place. One of the rob-
bers was killed, after which his comrades
made three regular charges on the house, into
which thirty four musket balls were dis
charged by them. The Times calls for the
disarment of this class of rufians. A few
nights previously, Mr.. Gus. Carman, was
killed in the same neighborhood, in defending
his premises.
The New York Express says: A well in
formed gentleman just from Louisiana, and
now in our office, expresses to US his belief
and conviction, that of the negroes living in
1850, one-half are now, in 1866, dead and
buried, so frightful has been and is the NOR
tality among them. For particulars, be cites
that, of PIT negroes taken by Gen. Butler
from Gen Dick Taylor's plantation, and sub
sequently restored to the plantation to work
under Government direction, but SO are now
alive. The Government Bureau has q record
of their deaths u 81, @hh945 ee 'NI
During the two months ending May II,
there were in the city of New York twenty
two deaths from starvation, and 1877 deaths
from accidents.
A Paris architect, borrowing an idea from
the Romans, has invented a brick which
hardens with time and completely resists hui
midity.
The returns of imports of cotton iuto Eng
land from the West India Islands, give a to-
tai Of 2,06O,476 pounds for the year 1865,
against 464, 800 in the previous year.
A "day" census is about to be taken in the
city of London. At the last census taken in
1851, the population comprised only those
who "slept" within the city, and consequent
ly fell far short of the real population.
A Boston man, writing home from Rich
mond, says: Though do not believe fifty
Southern gentlemen would wish to see slavery
restored, am convinced that many of the
blacks would prefer slavery to the condition
to which they have been reduced by sudden
emancipation. ..
The people of Cherokee county, Texas, are
making every effort to get railroads, to enter
and cross that fertile and fourishing county,
and have held meetings and published ad-
dresses on the subject.
A bashful lover in St. Louis, about to be
married, took morphine to steady his nerves.
Result--he forgot to wake up at the wedding
hour; the bride was disguised, and the we'd
ding indefinitely postponed. te5
The wife Of Peter Stanley, the collector of
Jefferson parish, was shot and killed at
Greenville, Louisiana, on the 22d inst, by a
party of negro soldiers.
An oil company in Ohio shows pluck. After
boring down distance of six hundred and
ffty-6ve feet, without indications, the order
issued to bore away until the drill struck oil
or Chinal
Winona, Wis, must be nice place at the
present time. Among the inducements fol
gentlemen to settle there is mentioned that
"they can fish out of their garnet windows
swim in their parlors, build skifs on their
roofs, practice rowing over their door yards,
and keep ducks. 80 7.ai ia..-ss.g