Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-29

"A man in. Paris slept three days and a half
woke up and died
In one of the letters opened at the dead
letter Office in Washington, were 100000 in bonds
"A snow storm, lasting two days and two
nights, has made st. Paul. Minnesota, a wilderness.
At the hotels in Madrid the price is S12
per day.
1t IS thought General Crittenden will be
elected to the United States Senate from kentucky
as the successor Of Mr.. Davis.
1t was recently reported that the late cleo
ton in Newfoundland had been very favorable to the
Confederation scheme, but good authority states that
the plan Of annexation to the United States has
great many more friends.
1t is said that the last male aboriginal in
habitant of Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. was
present at recent ball of the Governor of Hobart
Town. accompanied by three women, the only living
representatives of their tribe who numbered in the
first of this century from 5000 to ,0O0
There has been larger increase in the
number of inmates of the Charlestown State prison
in Massachusetts, during the last month, than for
any corresponding length of time since the prison
was opened. Many of the new convicts are "garro-
terS."
p. A. j. Russell, a printer of the Leaven-
worth (kansas) Times, challenges any compositor in
that city for the of 500 or $780, to the following
effect: That in one hour, one day week, he
can set more type and cleaner proof than any COM
positor in the city or State.
"A butcher of some eminence was in com.
pany with several ladies' at a game of whist where,
having lost two three ''rubbers one of the ladies'
addressing him. asked. Pray, sir what the stakes
now?" to which, mindful of his occupation he
Immediately replied Madam. the best rump | can
not sell lower than ten pence halfpenny pound.'s
Madame Louise Collet came very near
being stoned to death by the people of Ischia. a.
village Naples who, through fear of the cholera
conceived the idea that this famous blue stocking had
poisoned the fountains 1t is certainly hard to be
thus repaid Tor three volumes devoted to the eulogy
Of the Italians.
The Chairman of the South Carolina
delegation to the President declares his belief that
emancipation has already increased the self resnect
OF the negroes, and many very prominent planters.
hitherto successful in their business are of opnion
that the negroes if properly paid and well treated
will work under the new system,
Smuggling between Switzerland and Tranoa
Is reduced to science. You buy watch of = Co
neva matchmaker. He asks you, viii Won take II
with you' or shall we deliver at Pars?p IF ven an
Swer that you prefer it delivered at Paris he Gives
you note, with which, when you arrive at PARIS
you go 10 an appointed place and receive your watch
aS innocent OF the payment of duty as when it left
the goldsmith's hands in Geneva.
In Boston, Johnny Dehny, hackman,
VINO Killed little boy by striking him with whip,
mas oeen sentenced to FIVE hundred dollars to the
mother OF the child. Our readers may remember the
singular case Denny driving by, cracked his whip at
the little boy to make him as he says get out of the
way but the boy was on the curbstone. The whin.
iasn new around his neck, and the child was thug
dragged by the neck till he came under the wheels
where he was fatally injured