Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-17
NEWS ITEMS.


the 18th constitutional amendment was
called up and the vote taken, although
the democratic members present had
announced that they had sent their res
ignations to the Governor that morning.
The Lieutenant Governor ruled that the
Senate had no official notice of their res
ignations, and declared the amendment
ratified by a vote of II yeas to 1 nay,
l l Senators present not voting. In the
House Friday afternoon, after announce
ment of the resignation of AZ members,
the joint resolution of ratification was
passed by vote of yeas 81, nays none.
Two democrats and one republican re.
fused to vote.
Dispatches were received at the Navy
Department Friday from Admiral Hoff,
commanding the West India squadron,
giving an account of the condition of af-
fairs in the Island of Cuba, and they
were regarded as of such importance
that copies were transmitted to the State
Department., and also laid before the
! Cabinet at their meeting. The informa-
ton conveyed in these dispatches is sim
liar to the official dispatches received at
the State Department, and also by the
special agent dispatched by the Govern
ment to Cuba some two weeks ago. The
tenor of the communications is to the
effect that the instruction is nearly at
i it's end.
By the Gulf cable the usual accounts
of engagements between Spaniards and
Cubans have been received. All are ar
ranged and magnified to suit both par
ties. Charges of atrocities, assassinations
and crimes are made by the journals and
private letters. Altogether the war news
so far received is unreliable, and all the
fighting, according to impartial corres-
pondents, Insignificant.
In Paris, May 14th, several electoral
meetings were dispersed, causing in some
Instances riotous proceedings. A num-
Der of sergeants de vile were badly hurt.
Many arrests were made. On the same
Gay E. B. Washburne, the new Ameri-
can minister to France, and j. Barthe-
my, French minister to Washington,
who sailed from New York on the first
instant in the Periere, arrived in Paris.
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church in the United States will
meet in the city of Mobile on the third
Thursday 1.-THE 2Oth) of May. The OPEN
ing sermon will be preached by the Rev.
John N. Waddell, moderator Of the last
Assembly. The Seaboard and Roanoke,
t. he Norfolk and Petersburg, Southside,
and Virginia and Tennessee railroads
will transport commissioners for one fare
going and returning, upon certificate of
membership.
The Washington Typographical I'm
ion was expected to reject the applica-
ton for membership by Douglass the
colored printer now employed in the
Government printing office. Should the
workmen in the Office strike on account
of the Superintendent's continuing to
employ him, the Superintendent says be
will fill their places in "a hours with
competent compositors who will not OBJ
ject to work with a colored typo.
The Bavarian Cabinet has addressed a
circular to the continental Powers, great
and small, inviting diplomatic confer
ence in Munich charged to devise means
for the preservation of the State against
the Church. Bavaria ranked as ever
faithful to Rome few years ago. Her
people must be sorely pressed when they
appeal to-day, even to Prussia for pro-
lection from the Papacy.
From the Congressional Globe we find
that in the present House of Represent
atives there are one hundred and thirty
ty-one lawyers, seven editors, ten mer-
chants, seven bankers, eight manufactu-
turers, fifteen farmers, two planters, five
general business men, one coal operator,
two lumbermen, two real estate agents,
two physicians, two railroad managers,
three clergymen, one printer, and one
agriculturist.
Accounts from all parts of South Car
olina represent the cotton crop as yery
injured by the recent cold wea- /
Their. Sea Island cotton, however. locks |
promising.
Admiral Goldsborough has been or
dered to make an inspection of navy
yards, and Inspector General Hardie, at
his own request, is directed to report to
General Sheridan at Chicago.