Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-17

lhe DallVe CuDans towards. The Gu
ban was seriously wounded, shot through
both legs, and was taken to the Inter.
national Hotel at Niagara Falls in
critical condition The affair has APP
parently been pending some time.
We learn from the Living Present
that some nuggets of gold, of consider
able size, and almost pure, have been
discovered on the public square in War
renton, N. c., by hands engaged in
working on the square.
The Lynchburg News says: 1t is
reported on good authority that pro-
position is now before the Directors of
the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas
railroad to sell that portion of the road
from Strasburg to Harrisonburg for the
sum Of two millions of dollars. We
are not advised who are the proposed
purchasers Of the road, nor as to the
prospect of the success of the pending
negotiations.
The State Department has become
seriously alarmed for the safety of Min
lister Mcmahon, Commander Kirkland
thinks he is a prisonc-. McMahon's
sisters are at Buenos Ayrcs, and are SO
alarmed that they have demanded the
Intervention of the State Department.
Lopez, it is said, refuses to receive flags
of truce. and has fired upon several.
The London Times on the prospect
Of the Irish church bill in the House of
Lords, says the work opens with all the
elements of a dramatic situation. The
action is great, the motive great, the
end certain. eve are convinced that
the bill will pass to its second reading.
Every day it becomes clearer. Eng
land, after an agitation Of eighty years,
will voluntarily undo an injustice so
long perpetuated. This scandal of the
Irish church establishment is at the root
of the alienation of Ireland Its de-
struction is an act of peace between the
Jealous disunited races"
Mrs. John L. Coyle, a cousin of Arch
bishop Spalding, of Baltimore, and
wife of one of the proprietors of the
National Intelligencer, lady greatly
loved and esteemed in Washington So
| ciety, dieG in that city quite suddenly
on Sunday evening.
S. IL. SHETLAND, special agent of The
Interior Department, has gone to North
Carolina to settle the financial difficult
ties of the East Cherokee Indians, who
have become involved in suits for the
non-payment of taxes on lands, &c. The
agent has instructions to pay the annui-
ties, and thus relieve the tribe.
A Spanish soldier, who has returned
from the scenes of active operations, in
Cuba, says that the patriots kill on an
average about 5000 monthly of the
Spanish forces, and that disease is also
making great havoc among them.
The Acting Secretary of the Treas
ury, w. A. Richardson, has accepted
the resignation of Thomas r. Laird,
supervisor of internal revenue for the
States of Virginia and West Virginia,
to take effect as soon as successor shall
be appointed and qualified.
Mexican advices state that gold fields
have been discovered in the Colima
District one hundred and twenty miles
in length, and richer than California
fields. People are rushing to the Dis
trict.
Judge Olcott, formerly Judge of the
Supreme Court of Louisiana, has been
appointed by Gen. Candy Judge of the
Hastings Court of Richmond.
The New York World says: The
gentleman fortunate enough to receive
free pass over the Pacific railway, is in
formed for his encouragement that it
only costs $40 day for sleeping and
eating accommodations on the route"
The Danville Times of Saturday says:
"The Wells party in this place are
routed. 1t is our candid opinion that
he will not get five white votes, and at
least half of the negroes will not sustain
him."
Staunton, June 14.-Jesse Edwards,
negro, who raped and afterwards MUIR
dered Miss Susan Pyle, respectable
young lady, was taken from the jail to-
day and hanged. He confessed the
crime.
Every one who was registered at the
last registration, should make it point
to see that he is still on the lists. Some
may think that they registered when
they did not. We cannot afford to lose
votes in consequence of bad memories
or mistakes.
In the Yerger case, at Jackson, Mis-
sissippi, the military co commission over
ruled the plea of the defence as to want
of Jurisdiction, and the trial progresses.
The prisoner pleads not guilty to the
charge of murder, and 10 all the specifi-
cations.
The Indians in Arizona lately cap
tured wagon train laden with 500 900
worth of Government stores and de-
stroyed it. Another party carried off
zoo head of cattle belonging to set
tier,