Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-27
NEWS SYNOPSIS.

carried the mails from Patten to Fish
river, Me-, "a woman one day requested
him to bring her back. a half pound of
tea. Peter was removed before he could
comply with the request lie was re-
Gently reappointed, and carried the wo-
man the tea on his first trip.
The Navy Department has received
information that the United States stea--
mer Seminole left Key West on the 18th
instant for Aspinwsll. The, Powhatan
was at Montivedio on the 14th Of July,
enroute to New York. The Kansas,
Wasp and Quinnebaug were at Rio de
Janerio Esd of July. go '4.
The grand jury Of Charles City lVa.l
county court have found an indictment
against. John Amber Smith, the Com.
monwealth's attorney for that court,and
radical Senator elect for the district, for
exhibiting obscene pictures.
An Austrian woman has been arrest
ed for the horrible offense Of bleeding
young girls and drinking their blood to
replenish her own supply. On being
! detected she attempted ito poison her.
self. riA9oio ria 3i-t b14 81 la.l
'''1 ;o2s ami3 g1o[ H6I sd his2 ;t.ty.a.-
I'D Eight hundred men are now at work
on the Charleston and Savannah rail-
road, and it is thought ~ the whole line
will be in running order on or before
/. the opening of the new year. u, t'....'.
Miss Salle Benner, a wellsknown
I Richmond (Va) danseuse and cantatrice,
\ made an attemptto terminate her eyis-
tence on Sunday last by swallowing
| laudanum. dining a. E5arg5f -,, 81
ua ,mid fagg5 Oh s5Gi in 7t, f., d.
1.-The landlord of, the Crawford House,
! at the White mountains, has changed
the name Of Mount Pleasant to Mount
Peabody, in honor Of the phil4nthro-
pts'' gaidsaW ,27oY veE 81 ..ss.
Mr.? Ernest Lagarde, late of Peters
burg Va, ahas been called to the chair
of modernlanguages in1 Mount st. Ma
rvs College, at. diminishing, Mary
land. Va at1og yd il N 4 AIS T.. 3. -,
1 sa Four men and three girls, in Des
Loines, Iowa, were fined few days ago
| for disturbing religious meeting The
| men disturbed to the amount OF $40
each and the girls SIS! st bi. -o.
4 91'H 5aHW aid b9&sG :1au l9d Ete.
4 'o Arlarge and earnest meeting of the
\ plate printers was held on Monday night
In New York. The, men, were. all de-
termined to hold out in their present
positions and spoke to that effect
d sa The President Of the Irish Republican
Association Of Pennsylvania has issued
a card declaring that the Irish Conven-
ton, lately in sessionin Chicago, elected
4 no President of the Irish Republican
1 Association of America nor did it
select any newspaper as a special organ,
9 and that all claimants of such positions
are imposters. b,now Sc safrodlrs l....
George Hill, a dissipated young man,
in East Hartford, was arrested in that
town on Monday and bound over to the
Superior Court, on the charge of burn
ing his mothers barn. He came home
about two o'clock Monday morning,
and it is supposed set fire to the barn
out of spite because his mother nd
sisters had locked him out of the house.
A reign of terror prevails in Nuecas,
San Patrico, Live. Oak, Refugio ard a
part of Washington counties, Texas. A
band of about 800 desperadoes, or SELF
styled regulator" under the lead OF
Joseph Tumleston and a. man named
Helm, are cleaning out things gener-
ally. 1t is stated that 103 men have
been shot and cut to pieces by this
band during the last two months. 9s,s1