American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-12-11

GOLD lRoNsIDEs." A Washington letter
says it is understood that Commodore Stewart
is to take command of the Ohio, now fitting
out in Boston harbor. The subordinate Off.
GERS have received orders to report themselves
on board on the 18th inst, and the Ohio will
sail in few days after, with sealed orders.
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WARM AND Cool. At the late Lord May
or's dinner IN London, amongst other good
things on the bill of fare, 46 dishes of brandy
cherries are enumerated amongst the articles OF
the dessert. This was probably meant as an
offset to the $50 dishes of ice cream placed
upon the table at the same moment
Frozen To DEATH. MIR. VIM Hatch was
frozen to death during the storm OF the night
preceding Thanksgiving, while going from
Cummngton to his house at Worth ington,
Mass. He fell by the roadside, being unable
to withstand the wind and snow, and there per-
shed.
Coon STREAK OF LUCK. A correspon-
dent from Havana to N. Orleans La PatriG, says
that the grand prize of the Royal Lottery-the
500, oO0-was drawn by fifty negroes, most of
them slaves. They had joined to buy three
whole tickets, and gave one dollar each for that
purpose. Fortunately one Of those tickets was
the number, 1897, and on the morning of the
18th they found that each of them had won
$4,000
PoRK. The Madison ga Banner of the Cd
inst. says, the average price of hogs in that city
is ~ so, but some packers are unwilling to
give that, though some small sales were made
at $2.75.
ROYAL FAMILY. 1t is rumored in England
that there is again probability of an increase
in the royal family. There appears to be no
apprehension Of the extinction of that stock,
or the bringing in of any of the Pretender's
family.
ON THEIR WAY. The Phade phia volun-
teers who left that city on Monday, started
from Harrisburg on Tuesday in the canal boats
prepared for them.
The WIND WAGON. MIR. Thomas, Of St.
Louis, has made such experiments with his
"wind wagon" as to insure its success. He has
fitted his wagon with sails, and is about to en-
gage in the transportation Of goods TO Santa
Fe. ..
WESTERN PRODUCE. A letter from Toledo,
Ohio, says: "The warehouses in every direc-
tim ra ahsolutaIy ,,nrraJ m, oh an, ant IL oo.
but the prices of transportation have been SO
enormous that even the highest prices east
would scarcely justify forwarding; and even
when willing to pay the freights, the means of
transporting were insufficient to send forward
one-fourth part of the grain on hand.n
AFFLIcTING DIsPENsATIoN. Rev. William
Fowler, of N. Y, and general superintendent
of the Primitive Methodist Church in this coun-
try, died on Friday last of congestion of the
brain. He had recently been on missionary
visit to Canada, where he was eminontly sue
cessfu, but it is thought he excited himself to a
greater extent than he could bear
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FOUND DEAD. Mr.. Jesse c. Davis, res
pectabIe citizen, was found dead near his farm,
about three miles from Cambridge, Md, on
Monday last. He was on his return from a
visit to neighbor, and is supposed to have
been taken suddenly i'll.
DECLINED. Government six per cent. stock
is now selling considerably below par at New
York. The proposed loan of nine millions, for
twenty years, is alleged as cause for the de-
cline.
FoR MEXICO. A company volunteers, fol
Mexico, left Albany, N. Y, on Monday, on
their way to Mexico. They are under COM
mand of Capt Van Olinda.
THOMAS MOORE. The rumor that this eel
ebrated poet was dying, is contradcted. He
was in good health at his cottage, near Devices
Ireland.
AN EAGLE. A native American Eagle has
been taken alive on Long Island, measuring I
feet 4 inches from tip to tip of wing.
BOOT AND SHOE FACTORY.
! ga The subscriber would respectful,
| III inform his friends aid the pubi;
| nu>,R1 -.aam generally, that he is continuing tn,
| 81 SOUTH GAY sTRERT, oppo
site The Exchange, third door from
jecoRd ST., Baltimore, where he intends to manufac
ture BOOTS, GATHER BOOTS and SHOES, O
every description, In the most fashionable and an
proved styles, of the best workmanship and material
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