Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-14
NEWS ITEMS.

Washington, August 1.-THE Presi-
dent has neither written nor spoken
any desire that Judge Dent should
withdraw from the Mississippi canvass,
and the Judge will stump the State for
himself or whoever may be the nomi-
nee for Governor of the Conservative
Republicans.
F. G. Foster, of Wake county N. c.,
the inventor of the ovid Goose Type
Setter" will sell an interest in this
machine for the purpose of enabling
him to complete the invention. The
press of Raleigh sanction the machine
as all that Mr.. Foster claims Tor it.
A party has sprung up in Tennessee
which proposes to repudiate the twenty
million State debt contracted under
the Brownlow administration. Emer-
son Etheridge is warm supporter Of
this movement
Notwithstanding the stipulated con-
ditions OF the martial law law in Spain,
suspected Carlists are sLot without tr ial
by the troops. A report is current that
General Prim will offer the crown of
Spain to the King of Portugal, on SINH
lar conditions to those existing be-
tween Austria and Hungary. Gen eral
Prim has arrived in Paris
Gov. Palmer, of Illinois. made a
speech in republican convention, Oh
Tuesday, which was strongly State
rights in sentiment. He is not in fa-
vor of the fifteenth appointment, for the
reason that he opposes the surrender OF
the States. control of suffrage to the
general government.
The Suffolk Sun says: We are in
formed by gentlemen from Isle of
Wight and Southampton, that the corn
in those counties has been seriously
damaged by the recent severe droughts.
In some localities the corn is entirely
burnt up, and, at the best. nothing like
the half of an ordinary crop will be
realized. The potato crop has also sui
fered severely.
The London Times in an article on
the Irish Church establishment says !;
whatever its practical result may be,
the measure is the boldest and greatest
act of modern legislation. One conse-
auence of the measure has been, the
withdrawal by the authorities of Trini-
ty College of the opposition to the pro-
posal for admitting Catholics and nom
conformists to fellowship"
Gen. R. E. Lee and his two daughters,
Mildred and Agnes, are at Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs, the guests of a
private gentleman.
Postmaster General Creswell's house,
near Elkton, Maryland, was entered by
burglars on Tuesday evening about 7
o'clock, and quantity of clothing sto-
len. One of the robbers was caught with
full suit Of Mr.. Creswell's clothes on.
The other escaped.
One Of our exchanges says that the
visit of General Candy to Washington
is not in relation to the test oath in
Virginia, but to make arrangements with
the War Department to pay the expen-
ses attending the late registration in the
| State. We think it related to both.
The National Labor Convention as
sembles in Philadelphia on Monday the
10th instant. 1t will be composed Of
delegates from trades unions in all parts
of the country, including California and
several OF the Southern States. Several
questions relative to labor will engage
the attention of the convention, includ-
ing the Chinese, the eight hour law and
the apprenticeship question.
Orders have been given to the tellers
in the Treasury Department at Wash
ingon to pay out no more ten-dollal
green backs. The whole issue will be
Withdrawn and destroyed, and no new
greenbacks of the denomination will be
| substituted.
The President has not, it is positively
stated, requested Judge Dent 20 with
draw from the Mississippi canvass. The
Judge intends to stump the State in
the interest of the Conservative Repub-
licans, whether he heads the ticket on
not.
Liverpool, August IL Mr.. Moor
head attended the council of the Cham
Der of Commerce yesterday, and gave
information in regard to the resources
of the Southern States with view to
their further development in connec-
ton with the trade between England
and the United States.