Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-15

One hundred citizens of Chattanooga,
Tenn. have volunteered as police force for that
city, under the control of the Mayor
The San Antonia Herald says that 800
people have come to that place from Mexico since the
close Of the war.
The steamship Trent, associated with the
seizure of Mason and Slidel by United States frig
ate. has closed her career and workmen are now
breaking her up the Isle of Dogs. in England.
An Irish yachtman has Just made the
voyage from Liverpool to Sydney, Australia in q
ton vessel, accomplishing the extraordinary feat in
134 days.
-Wm. L. Marshall, of Fitchburg, Mass,
who seventeen old when his father died in
solvent, has just paid up the balance Of his fathers
Indebtedness principal and interest.
Mrs. Southworth S last story is founded
upon the circumstances attending the murder, with
in a space of twelve months. of every member of a
noble family residing in Ailworth Abbey. There's
richness"
1t has just been decided that the Liver
pool Stock Board is liable to local taxation. The
wndfal thus accruing to the parish is close upon one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in the shape Of
arrears.
The Tennessee House of Representa-
tive laid on the table the bill allowing the adopted
daughter of Andrew jackson to spend the remainder
of her days at the Hermitage. The Chattanooga
Gazette says this is virtually turning her out of doors.
Mr. Hiram Penny, station agent on the
Harlem Railroad at Towner's station, was knocked
senseless while in the act of counting some money
last week, and robbed Of over 0OO by an unknown
man. who is supposed to have escaped on the next
train.
Margaret Rooney, young lady sixteen
ofo ntad in Yorly nt
picking pockets at funerals. She would attend a
funeral, pretend to be mourner, and rife pockets
during the prayer. At one funeral she obtained SOC
in this way from of the mourners.
AT Cairo, on Saturday, as an officer Of
the I'd Wisconsin cavalry endeavoring to
a drunken soldier from the top of car the train
started and both persons were precpitated to the
ground. The soldiers head cut entirely off and
| the officer was severely bruised.
Coroner Wagner, of Chicago, has re-
ported to the city authorities that there positively
place in that city for the poor to bury their dead
and for some time past those who unable to buy
lot in fashionable cemetery have been compelled
to bury their deceased friends in the open prairie
| in the sand heaps along the lake shore!
"A few days ago the engineer on one of tht
trains the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Will
the train in rapid motion, hawk sitting upoI
the track ahead, and imagining it to be broken rail
became frightened that he jumped from the engn
| and was Immediately killed.
| The Pittsburg Commercial says that it il
proposed to lay down twelve miles of tubing from
Pit Hole to Ttusvlle for the conveyance of oil with
out the delay and expense Of teaming. The follow
ing is the estimate:-Allowng two thousand barrel
of oil per day to pass through the tube sixty thou
sand barrels of OIL at the present rate of teaming
would pay for the whole capital stock, Sl5O0O0 il
| thirty days.
The Montana Post, of October 28th, says
Last week the queen trophy of the mountains wa
| found by DeFoe & Co., in Deadwood Gulch. Thi
monster nugget weighed fourteen and half pounds
avoirdupos, and measures in length nine inches; i
breadth. two and half inches and in thickness on
and half inch. The specimen is almost entirely fre
from quartz, The lump is worth $500 in grseuhacks,