Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-22
MESs ELLANy,

Out Of 100000 900 worth of property in
South Carolina in 1860 but S5O,OGO,O00 remains.
"A paper is being signed by the citizens of
indianapolis, Ind, protesting against the pardon of
Jefferson Davis.
The New England Farmer says that the
Lowell cotton manufacturers realize profit of one
dollar on every pound of cotton they use.
-lhe officers and men Of the British army
in Madras have been ordered by the Commander-in-
Chief to cultivate their boards.
"A foreign vessel, loaded with German
emgrants arrived at New Orleans few days ago, the
first for several years.
Or one hundred and twenty inmates of the
Lunatic Asylum of Tennessee sixty arc reported as
having become deranged by excitement during the
war.
The hod-carrierS employed by CON
tractor in Boston struck for two dollars and seventy
five cents per day on Thursday. and they were dis
charged, and their places filled with negroes.
"A woman in Chicago shot and severely
wounded her husband few days since because he
refused to divide the proceeds of a stock of goods
with her.
An old California digger, with witch
hazestick has convinced Benjamin Beech, who lives
near WiIliamsport, Pa, that there is silver on his
place. and the fellow has already dug down fifty feet
to find it.
The Lewiston, Maine, Jo,uWaI is informed
that several volunteers for the Mexican Republican
army have been secured in that vicinity lately They
were promised Sl,1O0 bounty on reaching Boston
The bounty, it is feared, they will never see.
Sir Henry Rawlinson lately declared in a
lecture to English mechanics that the favoritc
amusement of little boys in Bagdad is to get on the
backs of oStriches and run races
&c L.
Ala, has been arresting discharged Federal soldiers,
on charge of robbery and murder committed while in
service. Gen. Grierson released the prisoners and
forbade any further proceedings against them.
"A difficulty occurred at a religious meet
ing in Russellvile, Chester county, Pa on Wednes-
day evening. which resulted in the murder of two
men, one named Miller, by desperado whose name
has not transpred.
The Young Mems Society, Of Detroit
offered the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher $1,000 for
course of six lectures, he to select his own time
The Offer unprecedenty large it was was declined
by Henry Ward Beecher with thanks for its lber-
ality.
A one hundred dollar counterfeit COM
pound interest note was offered for exchange at the
banking house Of Henry Greenbaum, Chicago on
Friday afternoon. The only difference between the
counterfeit and genuine is that the die on the left
hand corner touches the letter I, in the United
States. and the engraving of the word States is
done in bungling manner.
-Anlntant, eighteen months old, was scalded
to death with hot grease in st. Louis last NIoday
The child was sitting in a chair near the stove upon
which her mother was frying onions in frying PAM
the mother turned around for moment, when the
child caught hold of the pam upsettng the con-
tents, and the hot grease falling on her, she so
badly burnt that death ensued in two hours.
The Department of Agriculture at Wash
ngton has been astonished by the advent in its midst
of handsome present in the shape of an enormous
cabbage from Michigan. 1t sent to the Depart
ment by the Hon. j. F. briggs of Saginaw District
by whom it raised from seed obtained there last
spring. The weight of this monstrous cabbage head
thirty pounds, and it Just filled half barrel
plump full!
"A man in Atlanta had well nearly filled
with rubbish which he wanted cleaned out The
freedmen in that country are not much in favor of
work and are difficult to hire but the owner of the
well quickly started story that an iron safe belong
ing the express company, and full of god had been
thrown into the well when the city was evacuated
In less than an hour his.yard was filled with negroes
who cleaned out his well in almost no time. But
they didn't find the safe.
"A new way has been discovered in Berlin
for making butter. The cream is put into close
linen bag and buried in the ground at the depth of
about foot and half. At the end of twenty four
hours it is taken out, and found quite firm 1t is
then only necessary to beat it up with glass of water
to get rid of the butter-milk. To prevent any ad-
mixture OF earth it is better to enclose the first bag
In second. very large quantity of cream requires
a rather longer time This method is said never to
fail. and the butter to be of particularly fine
quality.
The Governor of British Columbia has
been making a sort of pleasure tour to the town of
Lllvet, upon the Fraser River While in the village
the thermometer 102 in the shade. Five hundred
Indians came to the place, sumptuousy treated
on bread and molasses and entertained the official
visitors with squaw horseback. In return,
they made very free with his Excellency's liquors
and cigars. The Governor also came near being
swept away by very violent torrent of rain, one
night. and returned to his capital refreshed and re.
ipyjgorated,