Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-28
NEWS ITEMS.

apparently on good authority, that
Secretary Fish will at no distant day
retire from the State Department. 1t
is said he has remained only in defer
ence of the personal request of the Pres
ident. Congress having adjourned, and
most of the foreign appointments hav-
ing been made, he now desires to return
to private life.
Dispatches from Madrid state that q
great popular demonstration was made
there Saturday in favor of republic.
1t is rumored that dispute has arisen
between Prime Minister Serrano and
General Prim.
A prize fight took place Monday NOR.
ming twelve miles from Richmond, on
the York river railroad, between Charlie
Doherty, Irishmap, and Tom Harmon,
Englishman, for $500 side. Eighty
six rounds were fought in two hours
and ten minutes. Both men We're badly
punished. Doherty won the fight.
The young men of Asheville, in the
mountains of North Carolina, have had
tournament. The only noticeable thing
/ about the affair was the absence of the
"Knight of the Lost Cause"
The Wilmington Star states that the
Wilmington and Weldon railroad COM
pany will sell after May first commuta-
ton tickets for 500 miles travel at the
rate of three cents per mile. The Wills
mington, Charlotte and Rutherford rail-
road will issue tickets of the same kind
at the rate of three and half cents for
500 miles, and three cents per mile for
a greater distance than 500 miles
The Grand Duke Of Oldenburg, Ger
many, has issued proclamation releas-
ing all of his former subjects who emil
+, grated to the United States, and who
owed him military service prior to No
vember, 1865, from the penalties incur
red by their neglect to render such SER
vice before their departure from their
native country.
The Herald's London special says, it
is rumored that the government will adj
opt bold Cuban policy; conceding bel
ligereut rights to the insurgents. and by
their assistance insuring the independ-
ence Of the island, thus preventing it's
absorption by the United States and
maintaining the consistency of its policy
regarding the Southern Confederacy.
Senators Sherman, Pool and Sumner
have succeeded in bringing about rec
onciiation between Senators Abbott and
Sprague. Mr.. Sprague writes to Abbott
that he wrote the paragraph that gave
Abbott offense before Abbott spoke :;
whereupon Mr.. Abbott writes to Mr..
Sprague as follows: "My allusion to you
in The Senate was founded upon mis-
conception; I ask you to consider it I'M
said"
| A very successful blast suae ,,-,,I- -
Thursday at the Richmond granite quar-
ry, now owned and worked by COM
pany in Philadelphia. One entire block
of fine granite, 95 feet long, SS feet
wide, and 81 feet thick, was separated
from the solid mass of the quarry. The
piece measures about 10000 cubic feet,
or about 10000 tons.
The Spanish frigate Corona sailed
from Havana very unexpectedly Sunday
morning. Her destination is unknown,
but it is believed that she has been sent
out to intercept filibustering expe-
dition.
We are Informed, from a most re-
liable source, that General Candy has
been summoned to Washington to con-
suit with General Grant upon the ques-
ton ofan election in Virginia he is to
leave at the earliest possible moment.
Virginia will be reconstructed" before
Mississippi and Texas, as the President
wants to try the success of his "policy,"
cautiously.
The next annual convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the
State of North Carolina, will meet in
Christ Church, Raleigh, on the 10th of
next month.
Minister Hale having rendered his re-
signation in accordance with the wishes
of the administration, it is understood
General Sick les will be appointed to the
Spanish mission.
The Secretary gives notice that there
will be meeting of the North Carolina
Central Agricultural Society at Hender-
son on the 9Th of May.
No dispatches have been received here
| by the British minister from his govern
ment since the rejection by the Senate of
the Alabama treaty. Consid erabie in
terest is manifested here in diplomatic
circles respecting this matter, and how
its rejection by an almost unanimous
vote will be regarded by the British
cabinet. 1t is said that the British min
stor, in a recent conversation on the
subject, indicated that any further ne
gotations in the matter would have to
be opened by the United States govern
ment
A report was circulated in Harris
burg, Pa, on Friday that white and
black children would be admitted to the
same public schools. The mere rumor
created SO much excitement that pub
Tic denial was made by the board of di-
rectors of the public schools.
Stroag-minded women and hen-peck-
ed husbands propose to hold national
dress reform and equal rights conven-
ton in Washington on Wednesday and
Thursday of this week. The principal
objects have reference to the adoption