Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-28
NEWS ITEMS.

' aiuiuiiJ GounCiUltS VI tntlT own luCd'
pacity and feeblcness, Wells aud his
managers are invoking the assistance OF
speakers from the North, and they an.
nounce with flourish Of trnmpets the
names of several who will enter upon
the canvass this week, Well, we have
matches for the best of them. Let them
come.
The Washington National Intelligen.
Ger announces that temporary arrange
ments have been made to merge it with
the Daily Express, owing to strike
among the printers, which the proprie-
tors cannot arrange
Bubuy, a new species of the cotton
plant, it is reported, is now extensively
cultivated in the Philippine Islands by
the missionaries The plant is of very
large size and begins to yield in its 4th
year he cotton pods measure three
and four inches in length, and one hun
dred of them, it is asserted, will yield
three pounds of this fibre, which, when
cleaned, sells for So per hundred weight
Thomas S. largest, Esqr., has been
appointed. by General Candy judge Of
the twelfth judicial circuit, vice John T
Harris, removed from office
The Dispatch is Informed that a gen
tleman from the county on Friday Offer
ed to bet Mr.. Bowden, the radical can
didate for Attorney General, the small
sum of five dollars that Walker would
be elected by $4,000 majority. Mr.
Bowden at first seemed inclined to bet
but after thinking the matter over de-
clined.
A land suit has just been decided in
a Chicago court by which Ex-Governor
Seymour comes in for a share of mil
lion of dollars This is better than the
Presidency. Besides, while the money
is sure to make friends the Presidency
is sure to make enemies. Hence a bal
ance, socially and morally, in favor Of
Seymour for not being elected President
Colonel W. s. Ashby, who was leader
of Wade Hampton's scouts during the
late war, arrived at Nassau last Monday
on his way to Cuba.
Mr.. Davis is in Paris. His health is
extremely delicate, and fears are enter
tanned that he will not recover sufficient
ly to return to this country. Mr.. Davis
intends, should he recover sufficiently to
do SO, to revisit Canada this summer and
to spend next winter in Mississippi.
Mr.. Turner, the colored Postmaster at
Macon, Georgia, has received his COM
mission and left Washington for that
city to enter upon his duties.
1t is said President Grant will order
an election to take place in Mississippi
September Is, and also an election in
Texas, to be held about the 1st of Oct.
The last accounts from Havana state
that General Buceta, falsely reported to
have been killed by his troops, has gone
to New Orleans. The cholera has bro
ken out in Guantanamo aud vicinity.
There were several cases in Santiago,
and the disease was reported to be rag
ing with great severity in the interior.
The death Of Capt. t. B Mills, which
occurred on Monday last, is announced
in the Montgomery, Ala, Mail. Capt
Mills graduated at the Annapolis Naval
Academy, with the highest honors of
that institution, and was afterwards APP
pointed a lieutenant in the U. S. navy.
At the commencement of the war he
united his fortunes with the South, and
was appointed captain in the Confed-
crate navy
A gentleman writing from Appoma-
tox county, informs us that the whites
have registered majority in that coun :
ty. which has heretofore been in the
control of the negroes. Our friend did
not know the exact figures of the Regis
tration, but was confident the county
could be carried by the whites.
Paris,~ june 24.-Prince Henry of
Bourbon, prominent candidate for the
Spanish throne, was to-day married to
Miss Payne, an American heiress.
The Hon. James M, Mason, of Vir-
ginia, arrived in Baltimore on Monday
night. He is the guest of I. Nevett
Steele, Esq, with whom he will remain
q few days. r