Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-26
NEWS.

jackson, MISS Aug. 23.-General
Ames has issued the following order to
commanders of military posts in Missis-
sippi The commanding general di-
reefs that you do not obey in future any
writ Of habeas corpus issued by the
! United States District Court or Circuit
Courts, or any order made by such
courts for the release of prisoners in your
custody, Should such writ of order
be served upon you, report the fact by
telegraph
/ A man named Jacob Mach, employed
on farm near Freehold. n j., became
very abusive towards Mr.. j. w. Como.
yer, a neighbor. on Friday afternoon,
and attacked him savagely with clubs
aud stalker. Conover being closely
I pressed fired his gun at Mach, killing
him almost instantly He surrendered
himself, and coroner's jury rendered a
verdict of justffiable homicide. ...D--.
The supervising architect of the
Treasury is under no apprehension
about the locks on the vaults, and will
make no change beyond adding one
more lock to each money vault.
| 1t is stated that General Laroche, the
. Haytien Minister at Washington, who
has been trying to purchase some IRON
clads of the government, is negotiating
TO cede, as part payment, the harbor of
Cape Nicholas la Mole. ,
More cattle are shipped by Morgan
county (IIlinois) dealers to the New
/ York market than from any other
twenty counties in the Mississippi val
ley. Three cattle dealers have shipped
during the last twelve months over
sixty-fve thousand head of cattle,
which cost in the aggregate five millions
of dollars. san iitF assn ei7 FL
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A city telegraph company is forming
In New York, which engages to trans
nit messages of twenty words to any
part of the city for ten Cents, guaran-
teeing that the message will be delivered
to ths party addressed within fifteen
minutes. al. rut. ju l' fIl.ua.s KID.
Fifty thousand dollars month has
been saved to the government by the
reduction of the working force 10 the
Treasury Department. e9E Il 4 .a
The drought in Philadelphia still |
continues, not dropof rain having fall
len since the night of the greatswhi XIV
FIRE, August 4th, when SO, 900 barrels of
whisky were destroyed. The supply OF
water in Fairmont water works has be-
come alarmingly scarce The City
Councils Monday donated $4,000 TO
The Witbecks, who are charged with
killing Deputy Sheriff Griggs, during
the anti-rent troubles in Rensselaer,
county, have been admitted to bail by
Judge Romeyn, of Troy. in S 10000
each. A l.ale.f .asarfr s
Fred Douglas, the greatest "colored"
orator in the United States, in bis late
speech at Medina, New York, invaria-
bly, speaks o f the blacks as "negroes."
AS a result Of the strife between rival
freight lines, a pi.no was shipped
through from New York to Evansville,
Indiana, last week, for two dollars.
Father Fnnegatna,, Catholic priest
has raised four hundred dollars in
Greenville, Tenn, for the erection Of
Catholic chapel. the most Of 1t sub
scribed by Protestants. .-,-., E..s 3
It is said that there will likely be
heavy demand ia England for American
wheat, the crop of that cereal being
comparatively short and poor through
ont Great Britain of1lAd 90 .sIIfl F
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Oliver Watson, Of Williamsport, Pa
has purchased the "Little Falls farm
Virginia, owned BY DR.. Hugh Morson,
and containing s7o3 acres, for $4,000