Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-16
NEWS ITEMS.


terday, Navarro advocated the election
of Montpensier to the throne, and de-
clared his preference for immediate and
final action on the part of the Cortes to
that effect. Gen. Prim defended the
present government of Mexico, and an
nounced that diplomatic relations would
soon be renewed with President Juarez.
Montpensier has entered Spain and is
now in Andalusia.
The Protestant Churcbman thus de-
fines, from its peculiar standpoint, the
difference between high and low church
manship: "The main difference is one
of principle. The High Church holds
to exclusive views of the Church and
the ministry, denying the validity of
non-Episcopal orders, and teaching that
there can be mo Church without
Bishop. In brief, the High Church,
man regards those things essential to
the existence of the Church, which the
Low Churchman believes to he not es-
sential; though they may be desirable,
everyway preferable when they can be
had. The High Churchman looks for
the signs Of Church chiefly in its out
ward order; the Low Churchman in it's
inward lifo"
Captain John Frey has been appoint
ed special agent of the Post-Office De-
partment for the district embracing the
States of Virginia and North Carolina.
No less than twenty -four persons
have "mysteriously disappeared" from
New York during the past two weeks.
One of these is young lady of beauty
aud wealth.
In the United States Circuit Court
for North Carolina, at Raleigh, on Sat-
urday, momber of Congress came to
grief as follows
u S. VS.. John IT. Devices, use of
Franking privilege contrary to law;
District Attorney for Government;
Judge Merrimon for defendant. Ver-
dict "Guilty." Motion in arrest of
judgment.
Dispatches from Calcutta state that
severe cyclone had occurred there and
in the vicinity, doing great damage to
buildings in the city and shipping in the
river below. The damage to the ship
ping in the hafbor was very slight. At
the last accounts the cyclone was still
raging.
Reports have1een received of severe
engagement between the Government
troops and the insurrectionists at Puerto
Padre. Hundreds are reported to have
been killed, among them General Mar
more. Reliable information, however,
is wanting of this engagement.
The guano on the Chincha Islands is
nearly exhausted In a few months
these islands will be deserted, and then
all the ships now engaged in the trade
will make for the Guanape Islands, five
degrees south of the equator. There is
a supply of guano at Bakers Island, in
the Hawaiian group, estimated at from
$1,000 to 100000 tons.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue has
received authority from the War De-
partment to use the United States troops
in North Carolina when necessary to
carry out the internal revenue laws.
This grows out Of the fact that there is
large number of dstilleries in that
State the proprietors of which continue
to evade the law and put the revenue
officers at defiance.
The House of Lords must, according
to the London Times, defer to the coun-
try land pass the church disestabish-
ing bill, "otherwise the machinery of
the government cannot be carried on"
The "machinery" of the monarchical
governments all around seems to be in
a slightly cranky condition.
Authority will be conferred upon
General Schofield, in case the United
States troops upon the frontier are not
sufficient to promptly quell the Indian
distur Dances, to raise volunteers for that
purpose.
Ex-President Andrew johnson was
taken violently i'll with the collie through
eating too many oranges at Gallatin,
Tenn, one day last week, and was in
considerable danger through the night
He has since recovered and resumed his
canvass of the State.
A "lobby member" of the Connecticut
Legislature is reported as having made
$4,000 this session,