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

A summons to the provost marshals
| office is called coming to grief in the South.
Another name for Feniansm-Pat riot
ism.
Dan Setchel is creating great sensation
| in California.
The red skins of Arizona render them
| selves very unpleasant by scalpng every pedestrian
they encounter.
A proper secresy is the only mystery of
able men; mystery is the only secresy of weak and
| cunning ones.
Il would rather have newspapers with
out government" said the great Jefferson. than
government without newspapers
There is child in Detroit with two per-
| fectly formed noses-One Roman, and the other
| Grecian.
"A French savan. says Adam was 1913 feet
inches tall and Eve was IS feet 9I inches. Noah
he declares, equally large young
"A nun is in custody in Paris for burning
the nose of her school children with red-hot
tongs.
p. Maloche and E. F. Motion. citizens Of
New Orleans, were arrested in that city Thursday,
by order of L. Rayne who had received information
that they preparing to fight duel.
-Advices from Panama report the discov-
cry of rich gold mines in the vicinity of Tumaco and
Barbacoas State of Cauca. New Grenada. Four men
III eight udHS iOoh out thirty pOuhuss
Sliding chairs are in vogue in New York
for the amusement of those who canno, skate. or
prefer to be pushed over the ice by those who
can.
"A Mrs. Day, seventy years old, of Derry,
\ H. lately four cords OF wood for her stove and
spun twelve skens Of woollen yarn during three
weeks,
The WeStern Christian Adcocate estimates
that, including the Evangelical German Protestants,
there are in Cincinnati 1900 Protestant Church
members.
The Catholics of Chicago have formed an
association with capital of S3OOOGO for the purpose
Of building hall to be called the Catholic Hall. 1t
will be stock association with shares at $25 each
A destructive fire occurred in St. Louis
recently in rear of the Merchants Exchange. de-
stroyng property and goods to the extent of $780,
COO. Insured for two-thirds.
An exchange says that Western apples
sold at auction in Springfield, Mass Saturday at
$3.50 to 81 per bb, falling OF of nearly onehalf
within month.
The numbering season in the Maine woods
has begun with unusual activity. The yield of the
coming season will hardly fall short of 900 feet
of logs.
A man, supposed to be an Irishman, dri
yer of male team was found frozen 70 death
Friday, eight miles from Inoistown, III. His whip
was held fast by his frozen fingers.
The New York Evening Post compares
Lamartines last illumination to the crazy Yagares of
poor old John Coffin Nazro who used to New
Workers by going TO the battery and exciaiming.
Europe, attention BY nations light WHEEL"
- The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Company have commenced suit against their late
President for 100000 damages for permitting the
rebel government to the machinery of the road
during the war.
The brothers of Lieut.. George Tackett,
who was killed in Shelby county H., last MONTH by
Thos NJ Thornton have offered reward of
thousand dollars for the delivery OF the murderer to
The sheriff of that county.
The foreign trade Of Boston this year,
says the Troreler, will amount to nearly sixty mil
lions Of dollars of imports reckoned in United States
currency There is great increase III her East India
trade there being fifteen ships on the way to that
port.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Adrertiser says;
Eleven negroes have been sentenced to the peniten
ary from this county-seven have bee sentenced
to the same institution from Tuscaloosa county, and
to he hanged. At this rate the penitentary will
soon be filed to overfowing
The Richmond Times SAYS that many of
the Sw,des and Germans who recently arrived there
from the North, are about to pull up stakes and
leave. They say they cannot stand the fare-'ba-
con- caL5ag and corn dodgers" They propose set
Ting in TIE West.
The Nethodists of this country propose
to raise $20OOOU0 during the coming which is
their centennial year for benevolent purposes, and
one gentleman of the denomination has come for
ward with subscription eff S250000 for the endow-
| nent OF 4 theological seminary.
| Admiral Farragut, with some friends. via-
tied the fair in Brooklyn, n. - ednesday eve
ming A young Miss approached him with the grab
| bag and mportuned him to try his luck which he
did, and became the possessor of pen-wiper, for
which he gave the enterprisng young lady a twenty
dollar bill.
The University of Montpelier (France)
has Just conferred the title of Bachelor Of Letters on
young irl only twenty of age, who has passed
all the examinations ard obtained the first prize for
latin theme This is the fourth time this ,gree
has been conferred on women within three years, by
different universities in that country.
"A report of a most remarkable discovery
comes to from Italy An Italian souant is said to
| have discovered process by which sounds may be
transmitted By electrical process any distance so
| that two personS-one in Rome and the other in
Paris-may converse together, recognizing the sound
of each others voices.
An effort is making in New Orleans to
adopt the California system of buying and selling for
gold, though it is doubtful whether the plan could be
made 10 work as completely in the Eldorada state.
In certain articles of trade for instance cotton OF
other articles of export foreign countries, the ehort
| could doubt be made successful. out III the
average run of domestic trade 1t would certainly
prove failure.