Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-28
NEWS SYNOPSIS.

cars at the Central depot, Rochester, N.
York, Monday morning, fell and broke
his leg. He had just returned from
Buffalo with the society, which had at
tended the Liedertafel summer-night
festival in that city Sunday night.
Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, South
Carolina, preached at St. Peters, Sara
toga, Sunday, and took up large COL
lection. The collection, which was for
the relief Of the diocese of Charleston,
was largely increased Monday by vol
unteer subscriptions from the hotel
guests.
Sunday three notorious desperadoes,
named Buck Holbrook, johnny Murphy
and Fitzgerald, broke Jail at Hennepin,
Illinois, and attempted to make their es-
cape. They were discovered by the
guard, and Helbrook and Murphy shot
dead. Fitzgerald succeeded in making
his escape.
On Saturday last there were received
10 Philadelphia by steamers, schooners,
sloops, barges and propellers total of
IS, 450 baskets of peaches. On Tues
day, through the same agencies, 1886
bushels, 1895 of which were from
Maryland.
Three of the horses attached to the
Leonardtown stage, and one of those at
tached to the Marlboro IND )stage, while
on the road between Washington and
those places, were killed by the excess
sive heat day OR two since.
About eight years ago prominent
merchant in New York accepted a deed
for plot of ground in the vicinity of
Chicago for an old debt. The plot was
then valued at about $500. He has re-
Gently sold one~half of it for 100000.
The Washington Chronicle prints
report that the President will recon-
mend to Congress spot on Meridian
Hill, nearly opposite Seventeenth street,
as suitable site for the proposed new
White House.
VIM. Peters, agent of the Nashville
and Chattanooga railroad, died Tuesday
at Chattanooga, Tenn, from the effects
of sunBtroke.
Professor Agassiz is to make the ad-
dress at the Boston Humboldt celebra-
ton on the 18th proximo.
The steamers Evening Star and War
Eagle were burned at the st. Louis,
Mo-, levee at four o'clock Tuesday
morning.
The first bale OF the new crop of
cotton, raised near Selma, Ala, was
sold at auction in Philadelphia, Pa.
Tuesday, at forty cents per pound.
Competition has reduced the fare
from Liverpool to Ireland to threepence.
Mr.. Joe Jefferson is to build himself
a 100000 house.
Three hundred German emigrants
arrived at New York day or two since.
Eugene is to have $1,000 900 in pin
money for her eastern tour.
One MIR. Savage, recently deceased in
London, left Louis Napoleon $4,000
Gen. Breckenridge contemplates be-
coming law professor in the Ken
lucky University.
The girls at West Point complain
that married ladies cut them out in the
affections Of the cadets.
Over four hundred colored persons are
about to emigrate from Manry county,
Tennessee, to Florida.
One hundred and eighty-fve whales
were recently captured in the Scotch
port of Hornorvay, which sold on the
spot for S., 1920.
Tuesday Mrs. John Ferry, while in
sane, threw herself into the river at
Charlotte, near Rochester, N. Y, and
was drowned.
Professor Boehm, one of the most cell
ebrated surgeons Of Berlin has just died
from blood poisoning, contracted while
dressing a corpse
Bare legs and red satin shoes are
part of the Paraguay court costume.
Over $4,000 people visited Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, N, Y, last week.
An INDECENT family from Virginia
have reached Indiana, after a walk of
over eight hundred miles Persons of
wealth complain Of the fatigue of such
a journey by rail-
Secretary Boutwell, has promised to
be present at the agricultural fair at
Macon, Ca, in November.
There were one thousand more peo-
pie at Saratoga on last Monday than at
the same time last year,