Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-24
NEWS ITEMS.

Our new Minister to France is study
ing the art of politeness and elegance of
diction prior to his advent into Partisan
society. He calls our worthy Secretary
of State a " fossilized lunkhead." The
term "unkhead" is applied by sporting
men to very sorry style of horse, but
never we believe to horse mackere.
Great foods have occurred in the CEN
trail and western portions of New York,
and in Vermont, Massachusetts and the
States in the West. Dwellings, mills,
dams, bridges and locks have been swept
away in various localities, making up a
very heavy aggregate of loss. "A
An accident on the Nashville and
Northwestern railroad Wednesday, re-
suited in the death of the engineer and
fireman. Another accident occurred
about the same time on the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, in which the engineer and
two passengers were killed. The acct
dents were occasioned by washes.
News from Cuba states that Senior
Casanova has been released by order of
the Capt. General. The steamer carrying
political prisoners to Fernando Pc in
iured her machinery and WAS ounpellee
to put into Porto Rico for repairs.
Daniel Frederick Beakman, the last
surviving soldier of the Revolutionary
| War, died at Freedom, Cattaraugus
county, New York, on the morning of
April 9Th, at the advanced age of 100
years and months.
Baron Rothschild's fortune was scat
tered over the world, and the amount
! of it has just been ascertained. 1t
reaches the figures of one thousand
seven hundred millions francs, or three
hundred and forty millions dollars.
An important suit has been instituted
in New Orleans against the individual
Directors of this Bank of Louisiana, for
the recovery of deposits lost by remov-
ing them into the Confederate States.
| Portugal sympathizes with the efforts
which are being made across the bor-
der by the Spaniards III behalf of self
government. A military rising is look
ed for in Oporto, and the authorities are
seriously alarmed and on the qui vive.
General Webb has appointed Freder-
lex j. Belts Judge of the Hastings
Court of Lynchburg, Va. He is from
New York, and brother of United
States Judge Belts of that city.
General Candy has issued an order
requiring all persons holding office in
Virginia, and who were elected to the
same, and who have not taken the test
oath to take it now. This will vacatc
a number of offices.
1t is with great regret that we learn
of the death of Mrs. Robertson, the es-
Unable lady of Captain Harrison Rob-
ertson, formerly of Norfolk now prom
ineht member of the Danville bar.
A citizen of Nash county, N. G.. Mr..
John A. Harrison, of the firm of Green
u Harrison, of Petersburg, has recently
fallen heir to large fortune, in Eng
land. He is now on his way across the
ocean to look after his interests, and we
trust we may hear favorable news of
him.
Dispatches have been received from
Admiral Hof, commanding the Gulf
squadron, in which he states that, as far
as he has been able to ascertain, no
troops or munitions of war Of any ac-
count have been landed on the island of
Cuba. He also states that he has failed
to discover that any more have departed
from the United States.