Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-25
MISCELLANY. i.

answers Because it is '9S in the shade"
The Mississippi is making great inroads
upon the upper part of the city of Memphis
People behind the times sh ould he fed on
ketchup.
Virginia has been called the Mother of
Presidents; England may be apty styled the Grand
mother ofPrecedents.
Hereafter no arms will be issued to vol
unteer organizations without the approval of the
Chief or Ordnance of Secretary of War.
Miss Motely, daughter of the United States
Minister at Vienna, has been married to Mr. Ives of
Providenc, R. |.
VIM. Althotf, of st. Louis, had a little
quarrel with his wife, put pistol to his head and
blew his brains out.
The California News Letter says that the
immigration from that State was never so great as
this year, and the immigration never so small.
Over 600 persons arrived at st. Joseph,
No. last week from the gold mines of Montana and
Idaho. all of whom seemed to have plenty of dust
"A man was robbed of $500 diamond
breast pin while snoozing in one of the cushioned
chairs of the Lindell Hotel billiard saloon, St
Louis.
The King and Queen of Portugal are
much blamed for deserting their capital during the
cholera and Charivari puts this epigram into their
mouths "As the reigning epidemic prevails in our
dominions, let it reign in our stead.'
"A young man, by the name of Rogers, was
thrown from buggy at Adrian, Mich, on Friday
last dragging with him fowlng piece which was &C
cidentally discharged sending large charge of shot
into his groin, killing him almost instantly.
The officers of the Quartermaster's De
partment have been ordered to make special reports
of military cemeteries known to them and recon-
mendng means of preventing interments from being
deseerated
Among the histories Of the late rebellion
in preparation abroad is in French by NJ Laugel
on The United States during the War" and one in
German by Professor Frederick Neumann. entitled
Causes and History of the Civil Warm the United
States of America"
1t is said there is scarcely doubt but that
the bill will pass Congress providing for the heirs of
soldiers who died in rebel prisons TO be privileged to
collect Communication of the Government rations for
the time the deceased were prisoners of war.
1t is formally stated that the Spanish gov
eminent is about to profit by the recently inaugurated
alliance with France to lay the foundation of com
mercal treaty between the two countries which will
open up new field for Spanish trade, hitherto much
cramped in its foreign relations.
The "local' Of one of our Southern ex-
changes relates the following pathetic incident:
There was little Birkshire pig,
And he fell out of butchers cart:
Along came a Freedman Bureau feller
And picked him up and kissed him for his mother,
A mother and her daughter have been
burned to death at Derby England. The daughter
was reaching something from the mantel piece when
her clothes took fire. In her alarm she ran to her
mother, to whose clothes the flames were communi-
Gated, and before they could be extnguished the
mother and daughter were burned to ashes.
1t was the custom of an old lady who
formerly entertained travellers before her guests
commenced meal to ask blessing, which she gen.
orally concluded in this wise: Make us truly thank
ful for the food before Nancy. hand over the
corn bread first, and then the biscuits afterwards
Amen"
Confederate money is the best the New
York Citizen knows Of A friend says the editor has
just given us about two thousand dollars in twenty
dollar bills Of that currency. They neither sign
ed, numbered dated but nevertheless Just as
good as though they Of what other bank notes
in the country, in like condition. could the same be
said?
"A London bookseller, who announces
Saxe's Poems in cheap reprint for the English peo-
pie. takes the liberty to print the u. Godfrey
Saxe"-seeing which the author said II forgive the
cockney for stealing the poems but for bedeviling my
name in that afecsed style would like to pull his
piratical nose for him."
The following letter was recently written
by the French Procureur Imperial. NJ. Dupin in re-
ply to an invitation to dinner from NJ. Troplong sent
with the official notice of the ceremony the open
ing of the law courts The Sainte Chapelle is too
cold the sitting is too warm your dinner too good
excuse me if ! decline.-DUPIN."
An old soldier of the First Empire, Capt.
Collin. has just died at Montmorency. France aged
ninety-six. The deceased captains military career
larror of l~1.,z r
was one of the first who received the decoration of
the Legion of Honor and was probably al his death
the Oldest member of that order
The county lunatic asylum of Gloucester
England, advertses for might nurse who can read
vocal music at sight and for a male attendant" who
is a good violinist. The salary offered is sixteen
pounds per annum, increasing one pound yearly up
to twenty pounds, with board. washing and lodging
for the woman, and twenty-four pounds per annum
for the
Punch gives the following as rule for
railway travelling will you allow me- sir, to offer
you clgar?' Thank you; but / never smoke
Have you any objection to my lighting one, sir ??
"Oh, no; none in the least" This plan is infallibe
with the most puritanical-looking fellow traveller
Never think of putting the second question first The
production of the cigar and the generous offer are
sure to dlsarm all crusty objections. Try it.
There is picture of Gen. Lee on exhibi.
ton in New York which was painted last fall from
life by E. c. Bruce of Winchester, Va, and was
afterwards viewed by committee of the Senate and
House of Delegates of Virginia. who reported favor
ably, and agreed to give twenty-five hundred dollars
in gold for its purchase. While the bill was pending
the city of Richmond was occupied by the Federal
forces
"A German and an italian were lately
arrested in New York for swindling express COM
panies One of them would go out of the city and
send his trunk in by express. The other would then
call at the Office, describe the trunk, and produce
key fitting the lock. After securing the trunk, the
other would arrive and demand his property or its
value and, with the aid of witnesses generally made
his claim good. The game. however, was played
once too often, aud the sharpers were coypegsa,