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Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-10-01
COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT
10 es OF THE
IRIS VERSlCOLOR {:
BLUE FLAG

The most powerful, safe and reliable
remedial agent discovered for the heal
ing of man, the wonderful properties of
Iris Versicolor, hitherto unknown or un-
develOped, have been brought within
the control of science, and is now taking
Its stand as principal among the bles.
sings OF medicine.
AS AN ,ALTEHeATIVE,
facts directly upon the blood, cleansing
and purify ing the vital current of all the
humors and taints which disease or mall
aYiOus influences have planted there and
graduating and neutl alizing the effects
OF mercury or other poisons which may
have been taken into the system. For
this 1T is 1nfall1ble aS remely for
SCRoTULA, ERUPTIONs OF THE SKIN, In
CIPIENT CONSUMPTION, DRcPsY, DC, and
will cure the most virulent and obstinate
cases Of 53 5VaL .4.5fI
RHEUMATISM AND GoUT.
Tits an unfailing preventive and cure
for NEURALGIA, SICK HEADACHE anu
NERVOUS AFFECTIONS, and in
DISEASES OF WOMEN
1t has no equal. Its action upon the Liu-
or and Kidneys is prompt, salutary and
effective. and it is this property which
renders 1t one of the saftest and most re-
liable
DIURETIC REMEDIES
known in the practice OF medicine. Its
excellent and skiIiful combination with
other ingredients imparts to it
TONIC. QUALITIES
OF the highest-Order not temporarily
stimulating, out permanently invigorat-
ing the digestive organs, and rendering
Ii a most valuable curative agent in cas-
es of
Dyspepsia and General Debility
By taking 1RIsl N the blood-wa tch
permeates all the tissues and nutrition
thereoI-ls qualified ,ren derlng the whole
eyStem perfectly healthy.
shoot of quackery, but Gn 70 regular formu.
Ia OF a distinguished pr ctittoner now a
resident OF Baltimol city, and SO b 'gh
does it stand in the favor anu es, eem of
the intelligent and scientific that 1t has
been adopted by phy sicians IN their prac-
tlce. and is daily being prescribed and
recommended by the most eminent of
the profession throughout the country.
The better it becomes known the more
highly is it praised and the more exten.
siyeiy is it used.
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A good and faithful COOK, and q COM
petent DINING ROOM SERVANT 90,
can find employment by ap plying at isi
EAST MAIN ST. Good refer ences will he
required as to character and completeness
or the duties required, jeI7
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-10-01
FURNITURE AND CARPETlNG

we desire to call the attention of the
public to our Extensive Assortment of
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PERSONAL.

Mrs. Stowe persistently declines to be in.
terviewed by New York reporters
Dickens next story will be his longest
It will appear simultaneously in London and
Boston.
Albert d. Richardson owned i've shareI
of the Tribune, worth at present guotations
about So, 900 ~
The N. Y. Evening Mail, which could
have been purchased for $4,000, is now
held at $4,000. ... ..s
Gen. j. w. Schaffer, nominated for Gov
ernOr of Utah, was chief OF staff 10 Gen.
Butler during the war.
Horace Greeley, by special request wore
his "old white coat" at lecture he recently
delivered at Lewiston, Maine.
over the grave of President Lincoln's moth
er, in Spencer County, Indiana.
NJ E. Lesseps has been congratulated by
Napoleon and Lord Clarendon on the sue
cessful Inauguration of the Suez Canal
Secretary Cox estimates that, with re-
form of the civil service, such as he tavors
in his report, one-third of the clerks in the
Department could be dispensed with.
At Terre Haute, yesterday, the Rev. DR..
White was tried for delivering an obscene
lecture, and acquitted. 1t seems the Doctor
lectured to men only on the practices of the
Roman Catholic priesthood, especially in
the confessional.
Yesterday was the last day of the
Woman's Suffrage Convention in Worcester.
Mrs. Blackwell made speech, and resolu.
ton was adopted to use all reasonable means
to defeat the candidates at the next election
who oppose female suffrage.
One of the stockholders of the New York
Tribune, DR.. Aver, of pectoral fame, has
just closeu lease of a building in New
York city to the United States Government,
for $4,000 per annum. The cost of the
thus leased was $25s,0O0. ..5.
A Mrs. Blair, of Boston, is creating quite
a sensation at Stafford in painting pictures
in water colors while blindfolded. She chats
freely while engaged in her work, and readi-
ly detects any removal or exchange of the
dishes containing the prepared colors.
At the late army reunion, Gen. Sheridan
addressed his comrades thus: II can't
make speech, but if you want me to tear
up railroad or burn haystack when the
enemy is going to get it, and and-and."
And he 'and-ed himself back into his seat.
admiral Raphael Semmes failed as an
editor, and now dislikes the Southern press.
He speaks of its present demoralized con-
iition, when so many papers have either
struck their colors and gone over to the
Enemy, or pursue weak policy of compro-
mise, which is generally destructive of all
principle" I'd
The poet Gray was VIGOROUSLY fearful of
ire, and kept ladder OF ropes in his bed.
,oom. Some mischievous young men at
knowing this, reused him from
below in the middle of dark night, with
Inc cry of fire! The staircase they said was
n flames. Up went his window, and down
lie came on his rope ladder as fast as lie
could into tub of water which they had
placed there to receive him. He was put
,ut
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A fire in the Jersey collicry at Scranton,
Penn, Thursday night, caused the death of
sne man by suffscation.
A family of eight persons in Springfield,
Ohio, were poisoned on Sunday night by
Fatng OF chicken supposed to be dis
l:ased.
L The Governor of South Carolina informs
he Internal Revenue Bureau of formida.
I)le whiskey instruction in the Third Dis
frict of that State.
Two Texas boys were playing in a cotton
house, the game being to see who could 90
head first the greatest distance in the cotton.
The one who beat didn't come out again.
In the Supreme Court in Boston the other
day, Judge Morton on the bench, Edward
Healy, aged seventy years, was sentenced to
the State Prison for life for the murder of
his wife. .-.E "a
While laboring under fit of insanity, a
man In Henderson county, Tennessee, threw
two OF his children into we'll, and jumped
in after them. They were drowned, and he
is so injured that it is not probable he will
survive.
John Stewart, worthy colored man, en-
ployed in saddlery shop in st. Louis was
sssassinatcd recently BY either George Hoff.
man or George Anstead. white employees of
the shop. Stewart was shot through the
left breast.
A delegation of gentlemen from Florida
called on the President on Saturday, request
ing that troops be sent to that State for the
protection of the life and property of its
citizens. The trouble existing is represented
as most serious. ....
woman of the town attempted suicide
in Nashville on Wednesday night, by tax
ing strychnine. To avoid convulsive pains,
however, she first saturated herself with
chloroform, which proving an antidote, her
life was saved. s-4
An interesting young lady of seventeen
named Hays, residing near Independence,
No., drowned herself in the Missouri the
other night because her parents were al
ways quarreling and fighting She was
soon to have been married.
On the 9th inst, a deputy collector of in
ternal revenue in South Carolina seized two
Illicit stills and removed them to his own
house in Columbia. The next morning a
crowd of thirty men, armed with muskets,
attacked the collectors house and recovered
the stills, shooting daughter of the collec-
tors, through the shoulder during the melee.
The Governor of South Carolina asks for a
military force to enforce the revenue laws in
that State.
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INDUSTRIAL.


n Boston meditates another steamship line,
with 81 100000 capital.
Iowa has three hundred thousand dollars
in the Treasury and does not owe dol
lar. .,-
1t is estimated that the Virginia tobacco
crep will be about 1000 hogsheads short
this year. ee +ts 8 q
4 Vanderbilt proposes to have palatial rail
way depots on bis roads, such as they have
in Europe.
The Richmond Board of Trade has fixed
the standard weight of bushel of chesnuts
at SO pounds.
Thirteen commercial houses in New York
CITY are reported to have failed in business
within few days.
Twenty years ago Pennsylvania was the
largest wheat producing State in the Union;
now it is about the twelfth.
Reports from Oregon indicate that the
taxes are being collected much more easily
this year than usual, because money is album
dant
The expectation of silver coin from Que
bee has reached $9s0,OOO, and it expected
by the end of next week it will reach the
sum of 100000. F s9,
An invoice of one thousand bushels of
Bajos beans, highly esteemed for their supe,
rior nutritive qualities, has Just been receiv-
ed in Boston, being the first importation of
these beans into this country.
At meeting of the shareholders of the
Aerial Steam Navigation Company at San
Francisco, it was decided to construct fly
ing machine of sufficient capacity to test the
practicability Of the invention of Sir John
Silas.
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Marriages.

MARRIED, in this city, at Q o'clock, A. NJ, on
the sd inst, by Rev. j. Il. Daily, Mr.. JOHN
CoRDLE to Miss REBEccA p, youngest daugh.
ter Of Mark NJ. Williams.
MARRIED, in Northampton, N. c., at the resi-
dence of the brides father, BY the Rev. VIM.
Grant, E. L. SUMMERELL, ESQ.,, and Miss LII.
LIAM A. BOONE, of Northampton county.
MARRIED, on the 18th inst, by Virgil A.
Wilson, ANDREW GILMER, ESQ, to Miss ASror
NETTE PEDDIooRD.
Married, in Kernesville, on Tuesday evening,
18th inst, by the Rev. W. W. Albca, CYRUS B.
WATSON, Esq, to Miss AMELIA HENLEY.
Married, in Waughtown on the 25th ult., by
F. A. Tucker, ESQ.,, Mr.. JOHN f. TUCKER, to
Miss PHEBE J. GIBsoNs, all of Forsythe county.
Married. in Guiliord county, Dec. 18th, by
Rev. c. F. Harris, Mr.. j. HENRr CoBLE to Miss
E. Callie Fentress, all Of Guilford.
Married, in Charlotte, on Thursday the 18th
inst, at the residence Of Sheriff White, by Rev.
Dr. Miller, Mr.. 8. G. McLAUanLIN, OF Alabama.
to Miss RowENA CANNON, of Charlotte, North
Carolina.
Married, in Rowan county, Dec. I'd, 1869, BY
Rev. saml. Rothrock, Mr.. John Eagle and Mrs.
Amanda ]. Rifles. ...r.
Married, in Cabarrus county, on the 18th inst
by Rev. Mr.. Davies, NJ. CALEB PIrrs to Miss
LAURA BosT, all of Cabarrus.
Married, at the Christian Church, in Suffolk.
Va, on the afternoon of the 10th instant, by Rev
J. W. Waions, Mr. THOMAS H. HINES and Miss
FLoRINE AUGUSTA, daughter of Rev. W. B
Wellons.
At the Christian Church, in Sufiold Va, on
Thursday, the 10th inst, by Rev. J. W. Wellous
Mr.. Thos. H. HINES, Of Norfolk, Va, to Miss
FLORENCE AUGUSTA, daughter of Rev. J.W.
Welons.
In the Episcopal Church at Halifax, on the
morning Of the 10th, by Rev. DR.. Cheshire, Mr..
ALMARINE WHITEHEAD, to Miss MARGARET
HART, all of Halifax county.
In Halifax, on the 10th inst, by Rev. J. B.
Cheshire, Mr.. J. A. WHITEHEAD, and Miss MAG
GLE HART, late Of Tarboro'.
At Crowelrs, Halifax county, on the morning
Of the 18th inst, ]. F. TAYLOR, ESQ.,, to Miss
MARGARET HIeGs, of Halifax.
In Granville county. on Thursday, the 9th inst.
by Rev. J. W. Wellons, Mr.. MOSES L. WINSTON,
and Miss JENNIE g. eldest daughter of Robt. A.
Jones Esa - p r'ti
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the lOIIOWlnS Scale, VIZ:
Counties having 1 will send
accordance with the above.

accordance with the above
WEATHER PREDIcTIoNs-The weather is
always a subject o, interest, and we publish
the following proverbs, the old-folk lore of
other days. They are based upon phenome-
ma to be observed during the month of De-
cember, and may be easily tested n ~
II Defenders bright and clear,
1t portendeth good year,
Should December be cold with snow,
On every height fair crops will grow. -
In December. frosts alternating with thaws
Indicates moderateswinter. @'
December weather, changeabIe and mild,
Shows the whole winter tickle as child.
A dry December dry spring and sum-
mer br
December thunder oft brings for its train,
In the succeeding summer, wind and rain.
So much observation on the appearance
of the weather during the whole course of
the month. What follows relates to partic-
ular days: p
1. When it happens upon the first OF the
month, that wide around severe winter weather
sets in, It (the winter will last four months.
24th-Follow q highly blessed year,
Should this night be bright and clear. ti
Should it snow on the night of the Gath,
it betokens fine hop harvest
As many are interested in grape culture,
the following prediction, though somewhat
uncouth, POLITICALLY considered is given with
the hope it may prove suspicious:
When Christmas eve clear you find -a
Without rain and without wind,
And fair the mornings sun did shine, o..
The next year will produce much wine.
Christmas bare and green p .ffsI
Easter with snow is seen,
IT'S fair sign OF propitious year,
When the bright sun on Christmas day shines
clear.
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HORACE WATERS
Wareroonas, 461 B1'o0dlvay
NEW YORK CITY. -
TESTIMONIALS

The Waters Pianos are known as among the
very best-[N. Y. Evangelist
We can speak of the merits of the v aters'
Pianos from personal knowledge as being of the
very best quality. Christian Intelligencer.
The Waters Pianos arc built of the best and
most thoroughly seasoned Embellishments
and journal,
Our friends will find at Mr. Waters store the
very best assortment of pianos, lneodeons
and organs to be found in tue United States
TGraham's Magazine. rlf- ,-
Horace Waters, 4S1 Broadway, is famed for
the excellence Of his Pianos and Organs. Even
ing Post:
featured in America.-[1he Independent, n Y
publishing sheet music, he has devoted all his
capital and attention to the manufacture and sale
OF Pianos and Melodcons. He has just issued a
catalogue OF his new instruments, giving new
scale of prices, which shows marked reduction
from former rates, and his pianos have recently
been awarded the First premium at several Fairs.
Many people of the present day, who are attract
cd, il not confused, with the flaming advertise
mcnts of rival piano houses, probably overlook
Happen to know that his Instruments earne him
a good reputation long before Expeditions and
'honors" connected Herewith were ever thought
OF indeed We have one OF Mr.. Waters Piano
Fortes now in our residence (where it has stood
for years., of which any manufacturer in the
world might well be proud. We have always
been delighted with it as asweet-toned and pow
erful instrument, and there ID NO doubt Of its
durability; more than this, some of the best
| celebrated pianists, have performed on the said
piano, and all pronounce it a superior and first
class instrument. Stronger Endorsements we
could not give Home Journal. dec 20-tf
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TO OWNERS OF HORSES

thousands Of Horses die yearly from Collie.
This need not be. DR.. Tobias Venetian Horse
Liniment will positively cure every case if given
when first taken. The cost is only one dollar
Every owner Of horse should have bottle in
his stable ready for use. 1t is warranted superior
to anything else for the cure of Cuts, Wind Calls,
Swellings. Sore Throat, sprains, Bruises, Old
Sores, &c. This Liniment is no new remedy. 1t
has been used and approved of for % years by the
first horsemen in the country. Given to an over
driven horse, it acts like magic. Orders are con.
stantly received from the racing stables of Eng.
land for it. The celebrated Hiram Woodruff. of
trotting fame, used it for years. Col. PhiIo P.
Bush OF re Jerome Race Course, has given
certificate which can be seen at the Depot, sta
ting that after years of trial. it is the best in the
world. His address is Fordham, N. Y. No one
once using it will ever be without it. 1t is put
up In Pint Bottles. Sold by the Druggists and
Saddlers throughout the United States. Depot
III rark RACE, New York. dec 12-2m
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lofINIoNs OF THE PREss.l
No article ever attained TO such unbornded
popularity. salem Observer.
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FOREIGN.


viilemessant enumerates eleven political
parties in France.
Locomotives have been used with success
for drawing omnibusses in Paris.
Paris, it is estimated, constantly contains
an average of 100000 strangers.
The London Times says India cotton can
no longer displace American cotton.
The specie in the Bank of England has
increased 100000 since the last report
Three Cabinet meetings were held in Lon
don over Irish affairs during the week just
passed.
1t is asserted that absent landlords hold h
Ireland 100000 acres of land, from which
they draw an annual rent l of $12,5OO,0OO.
Sickness among the Spanish troops is id
creasing. A detachment Of marine infantry
just arrived, lost so men from vomito in one
day. M pc 5,1s asr .s,ff gus a,
Placards were posted in the streets of Lis
bon the other night, calling the people to
arms in the name of the republic, and con.
tanning other revolutionary appeals.
The wife of London coke merchant.
who had drowned himself, testified that ''he
had been much depressed of late on account
OF the great increase of his business.
N On the meeting of Parliament, fixed for
january 10, bill for the suspension of the
Nabeas corpus in Ireland will be at once in
toduced. 40 n. -. !.
phe Spaniards are not commonly suppos-
eafo be progressive people, and yet at
thA moment it is certain that Spain is the
mot rising country in Europe, not excepting
Ireltnd.
1t IS worthy of notice that while there are
at ths Ecumenical Council as prelates from
the United States, but 20 are present from
Germany, and 80 from Roman Catholic and
reactionary Austria. ~
In the Spanish Cortes few days since, a
resolution to investigate the robbery of the
crown OF jewels was adopted by a vote of
l2O to 8. Minister Figuerola persists in his
charge against ex-Qucens Christiana and Is
abella in connection with the abstraction of
these jewels.
A party of Russian peasants settled their
bill at tavern kept by Jew near Skud,
BY numbering the family of five, women ana
children, piling the bodies up inside and
tiriring the building. The father and son
coming up during the burning, they tossed
them into the flames
A toll-gate keeper in England was brought
before magistrate for cruelty to his daugh-
ter. The trouble arose from discovery
that the girl, who was frequently left in
charge, used to allo " her sweetheart, a young
butcher, to drive his wagon through free.
Alas "SEe never tolled her love-"
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HERIT sooN NoIsrn ,rpe,n-


1t is but six years since Aliens Lung Bal.
sam was first offered for sale. Its good quail.
ties were soon made known at home, and yery
soon Its fame was noised far and near; now it is
sold in nearly every Drug Store In the United
States-NoRrH, EAST, SOUTH and WEST. No
similar medicine stands higher with the people,
1t Is well known on the Pacific coast, and liberal
demands for 1t from San Francisco, Sacramento
In California, and Portland, Oregon; even from
Australia, large orders are received for It, And
throughout Canada, 1t is well and fayorably
known, and sold everywhere.
Read what Captain Foster writes
~ PORT BURwELL, March sd, 1859.
Messrs. PERRY DAVIS & Son,
Sirs:-l am pleased to notify you of the
benefit which I have received from ALIENS
LUNG BALsAM, having been troubled with a cough
ior several years past, the Balsam was recon.
mended to me. Immediately procured It. and
found it to relieve my cough more readily than
anything ever tried. My wife has also used it
with most satisfactory results.
Very respectfully,
Capt D. FOSTER.
Capt Foster is a ship owner and builder. resid.
ing at Port Burwell, Canada.
Sold by PERRY DAVIS & SON. Moptrea,
Agents for Canada, and all Druggists in Raleigh.
dec9 5qz-d&v1r,
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Deaths.

DIED, at the residence Of John Masten, ESQ.,,
in Forsytbe county, on the Sth instant, Mrs.
ELIzABETH FoGLER, aged 50 years.
The deceased had been member of the Mo-
rayian church tor IS years.
DIED, at the residence of the Rev. J. 7. Eure,
in Halifax county, N. G., on the 18th instant,
CHARLIE, son of Charles and Judith A. Elenor
In the 14th year of his age.
Died, in Winston, on Thursday night the 9th
inst, of pneumonia, Miss SARAH ANN sHoUsE,
aged % years.
Died, at River.dale, Rowan County, N. c.,
December 10th, Mrs. MARY C. NELSON, wife of
Phillip N. Nelson, and second daughter Of the
late VIM. N. Whiting, of Norfolk.
Died, at the residence of her son, Mr.. W. G.
Dawson, in Pasquotank county, on Saturday,
December 4, 1862 Mrs. KEzIAH DAWSON, aged
66 years, S months and ID days.
Near Kingsboro', in Edgecombe County, on
tue morning of the 10th inst, Of Typhoid Pnss-
monia, Mr.. THomis MANNING, in the 5srd year
of his age.
On Sd Dec, in Martin county, of pneumonia,
Mr.. DAVID PARKER.
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To the People of North Carolina,
Celebration of fermentation nov

THE CITIZENS OF NORTH CAROLINA.
i in every town and village of the State, are
invited to cooperate with us, on the approach
ing New Years Day, in celebrating the Seventh
Anniversary of the Emancipation of the colored
race, in the Southern States.
The citizens of Raleigh are invited to assemble
in Grand Mass Meeting on the First of jan
uary next, to commemorate this suspicious
event. The place OF meeting and names Of the
speakers will be hereafter designated.
James Il. Jones, Stewart Ellison, John r. Cas-.
well, John A.. Jones, Esq, Noriect Dunston,
Esq, Calvin Haywood, r. L. LaswelI, Bryan
Lunn, s. Walker. .+
609-td Il -r.t %. der o.
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SA>-
SPAIN.

HAVANA, Dec. A.-The occupation Of SANTANA
excites the insurgents to desperate efforts at
overthrow Baez before Congress can ratify the
lease. $3.50 H aa
Two Haytien insurgent generals have been
killed upon their capture.
salnave now holds on to Port au Prince which
he will burn II compelled to evacuate. A large
fire is raging on Psdro street, the incendiaries
are suspected. @
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VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.

ON Wednesday thu 9Th day of January next
~ we will offer for sale that valuable and high.
ly improved plantation in Northampton county.
late the property of j. Devereux, and known as
Montrose. A plot of the land can be seen by
applying to J. W. NewsoEe, ESQ.,, on the pre-
misses. Mr. Newsome or L. IL. Boyce will be at
al times on the premises, and show the dividing
lines to any parties desiring ~ purchase. The
plantation will be divided into five separate and
distinct farms which will be offered separately.
The sale will take place on the day above men
toned at u O'Clock, at the Montrose House
TERMS: One-fourth cash, the balance on lib
eral time which will be made known at the SALE
WATER " Il Hse cLAkk, Trustees.
dec 5Q9-t;onts