Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-20
MISCELLANY,

The Nashville Dispatch is becoming hope
full In its last issue the editor says that THE United
States is the best country to to- and the worst
country to leave
The jackson NjsSisSippian says, every
word of the story that the Legislature of that State
had a long debate whether they should hoist the L.
S. flag over the capitol is false.
"A condemned murderer named Henry
Wilson, who is under sentence of death at Gencseo
n. Y. has ntmated that he was the assassin of Burr
Burton, Esq, who. it will be remembered, mys
teriously shot in his house in Syracuse last May
"A letter from San Antonia says that every
body in Texas who has sheep wishes to get rid
of them. Every wool-grower in the country. with
out an exception. was ruined by the immense NOR
tality of their sheep in the last few years. Fine
rinoes offered at three dollars per head
"A Paris correspondent writes: "ln the
island of Ischia, Paris femme de letters, Madame
Louise Collet on the point being torn to pieces
by the nsular natives, the suspicion of spreading
germs of cholera through some mysterious instru-
mentality. Parisians are vastly amused at this lady
being taken for WITCH her rotundity of form ut
terly uniting her from playing the part of Candida
Rev. Mr.. Eustis, of New Haven. made
an onslaught upon New Haven vices" last Sunday
night. According TO his figures there are in the city
over five hundred grog shops, besides host Of liquor
selling restaurants and club-houses; concert
saloons doing large business-sometimes as much rs
$500 might've Of them for colOred people; six
faro tables, and large number of ether places for
gaming, and several hundred disreputable women.
The gold excitement continues in Greene
county, Pa The editor of the Wayneshurg NesseR-
ger has been furnished with specimen of rock sup
posed to be quartz, strata Of which about four feet
IN thickness found in of the wells at depth
OF five hundred and fifty feet. Ten feet below this
another vein of the same material was found and
twenty feet below this again still another
reached Should it prove TO be gold, arrangements
will doubtless soon be made for mining it.
1t will be remembered that Jones coun-
ty, Mississippi, having strong Union sentiment
during the nicknamed by the rebels in deri-
sion, "the Commonwealth of Jones" The LegisIa-
ture of the State has Just passed an act changing the
name to Darts county. The inhabitants might almost
be excused for rising in rebellion against such an
uncongenial name.
"A Western farmer, VINO wished to invest
the accumulations of his industry in United States
securities went to Jay Cookies office to procure the
treasury notes. The clerk inquired what denomina-
tion he would have them in. Having never heard
that word used excepting to distinguish the religious
sectS he, after little elaboration, replied Well
you may give me part in Old School Presbyterian,
to please the old lady, but give the heft ont in
freewill Baptist"
The City of Mexico has population of
100000, of which only $4,000 are gentlemen or
chants the rest are Indians or Lepros who throng
the streets fruit sellers, vendors of small wares,
water and pack carriers, etc.. etc. There is great
display of fine carriages and elegant equipages The
houses of the wealthy most barbaric in spendor.
The ladies at the opera dress very elegantly with a
profusion ofjewelry. No lady wears a bonnet. An
elegant mantilla is thrown over the head.
An untimely joke was lately played at
Breslau, on the occasion of the funeral of student
VINO had been killed in duel. The coffin had been
let down into the grave when voice was heard ap-
parenty proceeding from the inside of it, exclaim-
ing let me out. sufocatng." The coffin was
Immediately brought up and opened, but the body
was louhd To be quite dead The author of the hoax
was then discovered to be ventrloauist present
who was arrested for disturbing religious ceremony
The honorary monument to Thackerv. in
Westminster Abbey, was lately uncovered in the
presence of his daughter The memorial consists of
fine bust by Baron Marochett upon a base of red
serpentine, mounted bronze support, which bears
the nscription-a simple record of the name and of
the dates of birth and of DEATH The bustis slightly
toned. 1t is fixed against wallcolumn in the south
transept, behind the statue Of Addison.