Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-17
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MISCELLANY.
1t is reported that General Ayeril, of
cavalry fame resident of the oil regions in the
proprletOrship of gang of oil teams
On fence in Berkshire is painted in
glarng capitals. Use Dr. Prior's Cough Basam, -
and Just below. Buy your gravcstones in Pitsfeld
Fifty thousand people have been added TO
! the population of Milan. since that city became
part of the dOminions Of Victor Emanuel.
The two verbs invented by the Associated
Press telcgraphers last week were even worse than
usual,-'jailed" and "sucided."
General Tom Thumb has been assessed
IN England for income tax at the rate of El0OOO per
| annum.
The Chihan government has ordered all
Spanish residents to the interior, and confscated
their property.
Near Potsdam, in Prussia, gunpowder is
manufactured from wood, on something like the gun
cotton principle.
A bill has been introduced in the Missis-
sipp Legislature compelling railroad companies in
that State to provide separate cars for negroes
"A Miss Elizabeth Garrett has been licensed
in England, a general practitioner of medicine.
the first instance of lady being so licensed there
"A bale of cotton at the Central Mills.
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found to contain four Shells one loaded, and weigh
ing fifty pounds in the aggregate.
The Philadelphia and Reading railroad
company have introduced gas to their locomotives
for the head lights which is brilliant and con-
sequently assures more safety than heretofore.
The correspondents in San Antonio,
Texas, write that money is so scarce among the
people that they unable to take the Presidents
amnesty oath and register as voters.
The number of hunters and trappers liv-
ing on the Red River of the North is estima-
ted at thirty thousand. They have no newspapers
no political organization, and only limited commu-
nicaton with the outer world
"A Rev. Mr.. Hill, and other magistrates of
Stowmarket Suffolk, England, lately committed
woman seventy years of age to prison for fourteen
days. with hard labor, for pluckng handful of corn
of the value of two pence.
The last slave in Lancaster county. Pa.
is negro man named Michael Ward, of great age
but brisk habits, who still enjoys life and makes him
self useful.
SO many Americans are in Canada buying
cattle, that the Toronto Globe is afraid the farmers
will be tempted by the high prices to sell all the
stock they have.
The owner Of one Of the largest estates in
Virginia recently offered to mortgage the whole of il
the destituton there.
In Burgundy a hare has been shot, be
tween whose cars horny protuberance some inches
long, was discovered. 1t is, in fact, miniature
unicorn.
Money was never so plenty and so cheap
in California The rate of interest is down to
per cent. month. In September four millions and
half of gold and silver came into san Francisco
from the mining districts
Western New York papers say that the
cry of mo apples, is intended solely to create a false
alarm and stimulate the market. They say the ap-
pies are less in number but larger in size than last
year. the bulk of the yield being equal that of last
year.
The late earthquake in San Francisco in
terrupted one congregation singing hymn Just at
the words
''Thc seas shall waste, the skies to smoke decay
Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away"
The product Of seven eighths of an acre
of Isabella grapes on Catawba Island says the San
dusky (0hio) Register. was brought over on Monday
last, and footed up II 491 pounds for which the pro-
ducers realized at seven cents per pound the Of
SIW,37 Besides this, number of boxes had been
picked before the purchases were made.
"A lamentable accident occurred lately at
Geneva. body of iremen were going through
their manouyreS. and seven of them had aScended an
escape ladder, placed at the height of fifth floor
when it suddenly broke, and six of the men were
preclpltated to the ground. One was killed on the
spot, and five others severely injured.
"A few days ago Il letter containing FIVE
hundred dollars was received by a gentleman of
Philadelphia, per express with an accompanying
note to the effect that the amount enclosed was the
just return for series Of peculations continued by
former employee for number Of months. The gem
tleman had never discovered the loss of the money
"A singular accident occurred the other
day in passenger on the Chicago Alton and st.
Louis Railroad. One of the lamps fell from its fast
cnngs and burst, throwing the oil over the floor In
the fall the oil became gnited and the flames flashed
along the with fearful rapdity, endangering the
lives of several passengers. Before the flames were
exnguished several seats were burned, and had the
car been full many passengers would have lost their
lives before they could have escaped.
About fifteen years ago a certain New
York millionaire was forced to compound with a
debtor by taking large lot of unimproved property
far out of the city, at valuation of Sl25000 He
considered himself greatly the loser by the trans
action, but since then the Central Park has been
located near his lot of wild land, and he has been
offered and refused repeatedly million of dollars
for his bargain, and now considers the property
worth three millions.