Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-26

-Thad. Stevens speech is styled, "a
butcher knife stump -Larangue"
The Round Table calls tin. wooden and
glass weddings. hcucft nights for married besga,s
AT recent sale Of autographs in Ger
many, a pen, authenticated as having bceu used by
Schiller, sold for about 60 cents.
The Chicago Times says that in 1852
there were but serentytwo cattle shipped from that
city against two hundred and sixty-two thousand
four hundred and iorty-sx shipped last season.
Heavy SHOWS have fallen on the plains.
over % trains arc snow bound at different points
and large number Of animals dying from star
walton and cold weather.
"A man was in court in Fall River on
Wednesday, who, though he is fifty years of age has
never moved from the house he now occupies, and
yet he has lived in two States and three towns.
Thousands Of rails on the Weldon (N.
c. Railroad lying along the roadside in the shape
Of two sides of triangle, and many are still left
coiled around the trees.
A meeting of the citizens of Atlanta, Ga,
has been called to organize a regiment in order to
clear the city of conndres whose business is murder
and robbery. Gen. Anderson will take command
The Iiberel General Antonio Rosales is
reported killed by the French near Hermiselo. Sc
nora. lie Is spoken Of as brave man, and highly
respected by all parties eycn the French vino seldom
speak well Of anybody but themselves.
Alloy, six years old, set fire to his father
hay stack, in Waterbury. Conn, last Moaday and
thereby called out the fire companies As their COW
had been Sold he couldn't any use IN keeping the
hay.
THE secret worth knowing which man
recently received sending Letter with ten cents
enclosed 10 one of the numerous swindng advertise
rncnts seen in almost every newspaper was None
but fools answer my advertisement"
The English gossips find fault with the
match Just made by Queen Victoria. for the Princes
Helena, rs Charles Augustus. her intended is four
teen years her senior and poor besides. But it's
love match.
Most Of the royal family of Sweden write
poetry. The daughters Of Mr.. Martin Topper who
are excellent hnguiss, have translated several of
these Royal Swedish lyrics which they are about to
publish aldenGurn to the new edition Of their
Poems by Three Sisters"
"A story is told of Quaker volunteer who
was il = ssirmsh. Coming in pretty close contact
with one Of the enemy. he remarked Friend its
unfortunate. but thee stands just where I'm going to
shoot, aad. blazing away. down came the oastruc-
ton.
The Marshall Texas Repubhcaa com
plains very much of the constant and extensive rob
berries carried on in the town and its vicinity The
editor 1T is longer safe to walk the streets
OF night without six-shooter and searching in
curry IN front and rear. We have lived in Texas for
nearly nineteen years, and we have never known
during that period property and life so insecure"
Two youths in Paris were admirers of an
actress at one of the Boulevard theatres The other
night, rs i'll lack would have it. they were both at
the theatre, and both flung one francs worth of
flowers to the object of their affections. The young
lady took up only of the bouquets, whereon the
Nutt ba 1
him through the body with a rapier. The wounded
man Is not expected TO survive
An actor IN a Western theatre had quar-
relied With and separated from his wife, who was
engaged al the same theatre. He wa, playing the
hero III a piece in which she personatcd a page and
had occasion to fall dying in her arms She let him
down gently until within two feet of the stage and
then dropped him. his head striking the boards with
4 thud that showed that the blow was a hard one
Being dead, he could not resent the indignity
The Secretary Of the Cleveland Freed
mems Aid Commission cautions the public against
the statements of woman who has been canyas,ine
Northern Ohio in aid of thousands of suffering poor
of the District of Columbia" He says the poor of
Washington are we'll cared for as in other cities of
the North the evils existing last year having been
remeded. The person in question has no connection
with either the Freedmens Bureau or the Freedmens
and Union Commission.
"A curious and cruel way of cooking turtles
appears in a Chinese cookery book. The turtle is
placed in vessel of water. the fire. with a lid
over it having aperture of such size and so ar
ranged tn at the turtle just get his head out. and
within the reach of highly spced wine. As the tenn
perature of the water increases, does lis thirst
and he gradually goes on drinking the seasoned fluid
until the heat kills him, by which time his whole sys-
tenn has become impregnated with the vno-aromatic
seasoning, and favor described delicious, is i'm
parted to the flesh
DR.. William A. Hammond. late Surgeon
General of the United States has gone to Europe in
charge OF grandson of the late John Jacob Astor;
and gossiping CORES pendent says that he receives
Tor his services $4,000 in gold for six months all
travelling and subsistence expenses literally paid.
ana SSVO for each month occupied beyond the six.
CHARGE OF SHooTING.-Harmann H. Uhlenberr was
arrested yesterday by policeman Frost of the middle
district charged with shooting girl aged about IA
years named Mary Lort. 1t appears that the girl
IN company with her father was passing the corner
OF Park and Clay streets early in the morning on
their way to church, when the accused not knowing
that any one was near, opened the front door of the
house and discharged one barrel of revolver which
he had in his hand part of the contents of which took
effect in the forehead of the little girl inHictinp
very ugly wound, though not Of serious character
A warrant was then secured for the arrest of the
young man who was lodged in the station house for
hearing before Justice Spicer The injured girl was
attended to by Professor Smith.