Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-13
MISCELLANY.

"A son OF ROBERT burns, ageQ u, uleu IN
Cheltenham, England, recently.
The death of the Hon. Samuel T. Sawyer,
founder and for many years editor and proprietor of
the Norfolk VaD Argus, is announced
"A new theatre, called the Academy of
Music has been opened at Salt Lake City. 1t is
owned and managed not by Mormons, but by Gen.
tiles, and has good stock company.
1t is understood that Hon. James Harlan
will probably be elected to the United States Senate
from Iowa, and that he will retire from the Interior
Department to accept that position, from which he
was called by President Lincoln.
The Detroit Free Press says that 137, 500
bushels of potatoes have been purchased at that place
for shipment by twelve of the principal buyers.
This at price of As cents per bushe would
foot up $6O,S75.
"A Richmond paper says that some of the
leading capitalists of the North, after visiting Rich
mond and seeing the condition of affairs in Virginia.
have begun the formation of Loan Associations
with sufficient capital to make liberal loans,
1t is difficult to have straightforward an
swer from Highland witness. One of the Scottish
judges, weary of the evasons and crcumlocutions OF
such one, said to the interpreter, Mr. Macwheede,
do desire the to say Yes No. if the Gaelic Ian
guage admits of that subtle distinction
An Indiana farmer, recently deceased,
left by will thousand dollar en-forty bond to
be applied to the extinguishment of the national
debt. Were he alive, it would crafty him, probably
to know that his money would pay the interest on
the debt for exactly t,eo minutes!
1t is calculated that, for every million OF
pounds of raw silk produced in France, two hundred
and fifty million pounds weight of leaves are con-
sumed, and that five million trees, of the average
age of thirty years, stripped to furnish them.
The Aberdeen Miss ,Sunny South re-
ports the arrival there of train of over twenty
wagons loaded with machinery for an establishment
for the manufacture of cotton goods. This cotton
factory will soon be in active operation and Aber
deem then boast the most extensive establishment
of the kind in the State, if not in the South.
Bishop Greene, of the Episcopal Diocese
of Mississippi publishes report of the late council
of the Southern dioceses at Augusta Ca, and ap-
OF its action leaving each diocese at liberty to
unite with the Northern dioceses or not. He, how
ever thinks that they will all ultimately do so He
directs his churches to resume praying for the Pres-
dent of the United States and all in authority.
The reception of General Grant at Savan.
nah seems to have been rather tame affair. Say;
The Republican, in concluding description of it:
Thus ended the tame event of the seasonthe visit OF
Lieutenant General U. S. Grant to the commercial
emporium of Georgia. We never remember witness
ing cold, inanimate and cherries reception as
was rendered the great military hero of the age, and
and were led to exclaim, Sic transit gloria mundi
"A Hartford paper publishes the following
Some time last fall sent you an account of woman
shoemaker, living in Union, Tolland county, Con-
necticut, and who in four months besides doing he
household work, had with the help of her boy to dc
the pegging, earned one hundred and eighty dollars
in bottoming thick half-double soled boots There
is another chapter to the story. After that time
| during the winter she made shoemaking a kind o
secondary business till about the 18th of April wher
she commenced on six months contract, with moth
ing to hinder but her ordinary household work; and
find, by examining the books of her employers, tina
with the help of her boy to do the pegging she ha
earned in six months in bottoming thick hafdouble
soled boots, three hundred and forty y-six dollar
(S346) Truly many daughters have done WE'LL but
think she excels them all, If any woman shoemake
can DO better would like to know where to find her