Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-10

lu0 LdTlS correspondent Vi Lu6 M L.
Tribune says: / can't resist the temp
ratinn. These two following items are
trans ated from the Paris journals of the
day: Sir Eihu Washburne, Embassa-
dor of the United States, has arrived in
Paris. There is due talk of the i'm pen
ding marriage of Madame Lincoln, wild.
ow OF the late President of the United
States, with Count Schmidtville, Cham
berain of the Duke of Baden
In Ashby VS.. White, 2 Id. RAYMOND
r., 958, Chief Justice Holt said Let
all people come in and vote fairly; it is
to support one or the other party to de-
ny any mans vote. By my consent if
such action comes to be tried before me.
will direct The jury to make him pay
we'll for it.
Some .arrests have been made in Paris
within the last two days,n consequence,
1t is reported, of the discovery by the
police OF new political conspiracy. De-
tails of the affair are as yet unknown.
Saturday, for the first time in the
history of the Washington Navy Yard,
two colored men commenced work as
Jolners upon an equal footing with the
whites. Tney were formerly slaves and
were employed in the Union service
during the war. One of tia negroes is
named David r. Parker, from Norfolk.
Among the newly appointed West
Point cadets are John M. McGary, Os-
born T. Moore and w. T. Cook, of
North Carolina. .t--
Gov. Holden, of North Carolina, has
issued requisition upon the Governor
of Virginia for the return of Robert
Moderwell, for whose arrest 800 re-
ward had been offered. Moderwell was
indicted by the grad jury of Guilford
county for larceny, and escaped from the
Jail of that county.
A special despatch to the Herald saws
the probability is that the House of
Lords will be alarmed into the passage
OF the Irish Church bill. The mere an
nouncement OF their inclination and
power to defeat it, evidently excites dis
cusslon adverse to the continuation OF
their hereditary legislation.
Several pieces of solid gold have been
recently picked IN near fredericksburg,
being brought to the surface by the
heavy rains.
The Navy Department has ordered
\ the sale OF three government vessels
Algonquin, Snamokin and Hornet
These vessels have been appraised by
board in the Navy Department, and are
not to be sold under their appraised val
ue.
There was an earthquake at Maliki,
Sandwich Islands, April 4th, but no Sc
rlous damage was done. Leprosy pre-
walls to an alarming extent on the Island
of Sahuita, a favorte resort of whaling
| vessels; over one-half the population is
affected and the disease is spreading
rapidly.
The first invoice of -four, made from
this seasons wheat, was sold on Change
IN New York last Friday, at $1,000 per
barrel, and came from Savannah, Ga.
| Albany, June 8.-The National Tv.
biographical Union to-day tabled a reso-
tuition atfillating with negroes by vote
OF Sc to 70. Lady delegates were ad-
mitted.
The Spanish government is much
perplexed about the position of affairs
IN Cuba. Cnfavorable kilograms are
not made public. @
Rev. Mr.. Cramer, brother-iu law of
the President, has returned from Leipsic,
where he was consul under President
johnson. On his return from West
Point the President will stop in New
York at the residence of Mr.. Corbin
also brother-in-law.
According to the report of the Board
of Education of the Virginia Baptist
| General Association, last week in ses-
sion at Richmond, 20 young men have
been aid d during the year to the ex-
tent Of $2,472 20 in preparing for the
ministry-one at the Theological Semi
nary at Greenvilie, and the rest at Rich.
mond College.
A bishop in Vienna, having refused
to obey summons to appear before
civil court, was arrested and taken be-
fore the judges by the police Austria
is getting ahead Of the English House
of Lords in the line of Church reform.
Dr.. Day, who has been on trial sew
eral days, at Marshall Michigan, charged
with child murder, by producing aoor-
ton, was last night found guilty. To