Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-10-09
NEWSITEMS.

The steamship Westphalia, which
sailed from New York for Europe,
Tuesday, took 100000 In specie.
The colored church at Carsndolet,
Missouri, was burned Tuesday. Loss
$4,000 mo insurance. The fire was
undoubtedly incendiary.
There was grand celebration by the
Knights Templar at Elizabeth, New
Jersey, Tuesday. A new Comma ndary
was instituted on the occasion.
Governor Clafin, of Massachusetts,,
has commuted the death sentence of
Nahcy B. Madam, convicted Of the MUIR
der of Obediah Jones, her son in.law,
to life imprisonment in the Norfolk
County House of Correction.
Captain John Waterhouse, master of
the brig Merriwa, of Portland, Maine,
was brought before Commissioner Cliff
ford in that city on Tuesday. charged
Win throwing overheard and drowning
John Fitzgerald, off Cape Elizabeth, in
April last. He was bound over in
$4,000. The mate was also bound
over on the same charge.
Suit has been brought in the United
States District Court, at St. Louis,
against Ex-Governor Fletcher and Ba-
con Montgomery, by Mr.. Berry, pub
Usher of the Freeman, for personal vio-
lence and the destruction of his printing
Office, in December, 1866. At the time
Montgomery commanded the State mi
litia at Lafayette. Berry claims $780,
900 damages.
Great excitement was occasioned on
Tuesday afternoon, in the neighborhood
of Eighth avenue and Twenty-third
street New York, by the murder of Pc
ter Rooney by colored man named
Fry.
Real estate in Philadelphia, it is said
is worth nothing like what it was two
or three years ago, and is still declining
in value.
General Butler is strongly in favor Of
decided policy for the Cubans on the
part of Gen. Grants administration.
Hand organists are emigrating to the
South from the North, a sure sign oil
returning prosperity to that section.
The Homburg gambling establish
ments when broken up by the Prussian
Government, are to emigrate to Tunis.
The Prince of Wales has given a
prize of five pounds for bagpipe playing
to be competed for at the Highland
gathering.
A "quiet, inofensive person" in De-
catur, Ala, killed 10 out of party oil
16 desperadoes who attacked him the
other night.
The Oregon Indians paid reat item
tion to Mr.. Seward during his rscen
visit there.
London is infested by legion Of those
familiar insects known as daddy long
legs
j. Ross Browne now advertises him.
selfas land and immigration agent In
San Francisco.
Spiritualism, according to Carlyle, is
the Liturgy of Dead Sea Apes"
General Marmaduke, ex.C enfed crate,
is becoming an extensive real estate
owner in Cincinnati.
Insanity is increasing in France at
rate out of all proportion to the growt
OF the population.
A 1T. Louis husband recently paid
his wife $4,000 to desert him, so that
he could legally get dive rec. M
Experimental philosophy-Asking .
man to lend you money. Moral philo-
sophy-refusing to do it. AZ
Immigrants to Virginia complain that
land owners there ask too much their
farms.
Brattleboro', Vermont, has raised q
squash seven feet round, and weighing
146 pounds.
I lBourneo claims to have one of the
richest quicksilver mines In the world.
When DR.. Cumming asked to 60 to