Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-05
NEWS ITEMS.

Sherman Thurston, St. Louis pu-
gilist, while interfering to have fair
play in free fight in st. Louis on
Saturday, was shot three times, and
his wounds are not considered fatal.
A new issue of greenbacks, ofentirely
different designs from those now in cir
culation, has been decided upon by
Secretary Boutwell, on account of the
number of spurious tens now afoat
All denominations from one to one
thousand dollar notes will be comprised
in the new issue.
The Moniteur has Information to the
effect that DOH Carlos has re-entered
France, and that General Prirn, is about
to leave Madrid on trip to Vichy tor
bis health. This statement of the
Moniteur is generally credited, AID is
regarded as proof that the Carlist move
ment is ended. ,.. ~.
An analysis of the August statement
of the public debt, issued yesterday,
exhibits in reality an increase of s.
415,O 43 since the July statement was
issued, but as Secretary Boutwell, adds
the accrued interest and ignores the
bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad, ar
apparent decrease of $7,436,544 is
shown. 'THj3 'A7 ia
Pittsburg, August 2.-Rev. s. P.
Lam, who has been on trial for the past
week before the Ohio Presbyte4y, OF
this city, charged with unministerial,
indiscreet and immoral conduct, was
upon every charge acquitted last night.
The charges included some twenty
specifications, and as many items under
each specification; but most thorough
Examination failed to substantiate a
single specification.
Marine Disasters in July-The num-
Der of vessels belonging to or bound to
or from ports in the United States re-
ported totally lost and missing during
the past month is 10, of which Is were
wrecked, 2 abandoned, / foundered and
are missing. They are classed as
follows 1 ship, s barks, brig, II
schooners and l sloop, and their esti-
mated value, exclusive Of cargoes, i.
$4,000 6a4 .e.I-s .Is n .ls
A Conservative Republican from
Mississippi, who had an interview with
President Grant,in relation to Mississip'
pi politics, reports the President al
saying that be wished for the success
of the party that would carry out ths
reconstruction acts, ratify the Fifteenth
Amendment, and protect life and pro.
perty in the State.
They have smallpox at Valparaiso
yellow fever at Rio, earthquakes nea
1quique and Areeuipa, gales on tn
coast of Chilli, and the Isluga volcano
is again in action. Happy country.
Two Government officers were sen
to Philadelphia last week to look aftel
the distiIleries there They made a full
inspection, the result of which vii
probably be the stoppage of all tn
distilleries in Philadelphia within ter
days. What an honest business this
manufacture of liquid damnation is !
August will be particularly fruitful
of political conventions. Massachusetts
Connecticut and Pennsylvania will
have political Temperance Conventions
and national convention of prohibi
tionists will be held in Chicago.
Al. The leading Senter. men, who ar
rived in Washington from Tennessee
say that the Democrats there have gon'
to work to secure straight Democratic
majority in the Legislature, with every
prospect of success. They say tina
Andrew johnson stands the bes
chance for the Senatorship.
We believe the True Republicans
are going to repeat in Tennessee wba'
has been done in Virginia. The cleo
ton takes to-day, the 9th instant, ant
all the signs indicate the election O.
Senter, the True Republican candj.
date, over Stokes, the Radical.