Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-24
MISCELLANY.

The Official report, just published at Con
stantiuople, states the number of victims to the
cholera in Turkey this 10 have been barely u eco
The Peoria (Ill.J Transcript relates the
| curious case Of Iuuatic who restored to his
senses by a severe rap on his head with club.
Among the deaths registered in London
was that Of an infant from a splinter Of wood ,wal
lowed accidentally in little sugar. causing perfora-
ton of the bowels
1t is stated that General DudIy has al
rested negresscs who were leading dssolu,c lives at
Memphis, and bound them out to work on planta-
tons for the balance of the year and all of next
Mechanics wages are advancing in Eng
land. The cabinet makers in London lately de
manded an advance OF ten per cent on ali kinds Of
work, and received it.
Many railway travellers in England now
carry keys to lock and unlock railway carriages 50
that they may let themselves in cases of great
emergency, and lock themselves in. The KEYS car
red by some noblemen and gentlemen are made of
silver.
"A man in Brooklyn has been beaten to
death with a saucepan. His wife oHiciated at the
handle on the occasion.
Bishop Williams, of Connecticut. who was
recently at the point of DEATH has so much improved
in health to be able to ride.
Nineteen apprentices working in Lon
don bottle factory have been imprisoned for starting
a strike and following it up with little riot
There is dancing master in Boston who
has for pupils the grandchildren of some of his early
scholars
Miss Huldah Bruce, Of Hartford. Conn.
has given 100000 to ameliorate the condition of the
negro race.
1t is said there Is chap tout west who
laughs so loud that it loosens his teeth At one time
he shook off one of his ears.
An immense block of iron buildings.
weighing $4,000 tons, has Just been raised over two
feet in Chicago, without the least injury to the
building, or without disturhin g the occupants.
Chicago has the worst sidewalks in the
country. and c. Bulkley has obtained a verdict of
$4,000 damages against the city for injuries sustained
in falling through one of them.
BY the fall Of building in Berlin thirty
people were lately killed. They were buried on one
day with the honors Of public funeral. Large
collections of money were made for the surviving
relatives.
"A conductor ina horse car at Providence,
on Monday. asked a man who was sitting upright in
his seat for his fare, when it was seen that he was
dead His death occurred SO quietly that persons
sitting by his side had not noticed it.
"A family meeting of Victor Emanuel and
husbands. Prince Napoleon and the king Of Portu-
gal, took place recently Turin and they were all
enthusiastically received by the population.
Mr.. Iheogene Theriot, a resident of Ter
rebonne parish Louisiana, died Il short tmo since
from inflammation and fever produced by slight
prickinc of his finger with needle which he had
been using to perform surgical operation un 4 sick
horse.
"A Western editor apologies to his read
crs after this fashion: We expected to have death
and marriage to publish this week, but a violent
storm prevented the wedding, and the doctor being
sick, the patient recovered and We are accordingly
cheated out of both"
The flight Of the Partisan public, in con
sequence of the cholera panic has caused net los,
ofa hundred million of francs the trade and com
merce of Paris. This includes the sum usually spent
by foreigners at this time Of the year. as well as tha,
expended by Parisians themselves.
There is lady on exhibition at Whining
ton. n. c., who was born without arms She sews
croGhets, knits, cn5roderS and does many other
things with her feet She is the daughter OF a gen
tlemen who has been impoverished by the war and
is engaged exhibiting herself to assist her faith
cr's family.
The Secretary Of the Treasury. in ODE
dence TO demands from the northern country has con
sented to issue another batch Of five cent currency
notes. y new engraving is being prepared for them
carrying out the design of portraits upon fractional
currency 1t is not decided whose face will be on the
new stamps.
"A woman named McDaniels of Wells
county, Indiana took her infant child TO the woods
last week. and after stripping it naked threw it down
in pfic leaves and left it to die. hunter came
along heard its cries and had it taken care Of When
arrested for her heartleSS transaction the woman said
She supposed the little brat ould have died sooner.
The Lord Mayor has received letter
which contains the loowing:-"I hope you will read
tins and remember the danger you stand in. You
are never safe now Any day the pancrs may be fuli
Of your death, like that Of President Lincoln. Many
better man than you has had to die suddenly. May
the Lord have mercy upon your poor soul Time j.
near"
Two brothers, named Brown, got INTO a
difficulty with some boys in Ru.selyille Lower Ok
ford township, Chester county, Pa "Wednesday
night when man named Isaac Watterson and
another named Stephen Miller ntertcrcd. One of
the Browns stabbed WatterSon twiro in the leg ami
Miller in the side. Miller died from the effects Of
his wound the following day.
"A Mr.. Bird of Brookline, has sued the
city Of Boston for million and a half dollars the
being for bounty for recruits which he alleges
ia due him. Mr.. Bird claims that through Congress
siona legislation which he engineered into existence
and which retrospective in its action the above
modest is his of right. He has, says the Post,
enlisted the services of some half dozen able lawyers
A writer in the London Star, afraid that
some of the notabilities who attended Lord Pamers
tons funeral will catch cold adds that undoubtedly
the severe cold terminating iu inflammation which
killed the elder Canning, was caught while he was
attending the funeral Of the Duke of York; and il
is stated that the willy old Lord Edon, on the same
occasion, saved himself from the chance Of similar
fate by standing in his hat
"A steel vessel, which has Just arrived in
the Mersey. is the object Of much curiosity anl
scientific calculation The ship weathered the fright
full cyclone at Calcutta last year, and, although she
received twenty concussions each of which would
have sunk wooden vessel. came out of the war of
the elements with only honorable wounds Her
plates were twisted and indented, but not one of
them cracked
The following is said to make nice
breakfast dish Slice few cold biscuit or some dry
light bread; fry them slightly, in little butter or
nice gravy Beat three or four eggs, with half tea
cup full of new milk and pinch of salt. When the
bread is hot, pour the eggs over it and for a
few minutes. stir lightly. that all the eggs may be
cooked. This nice dish besides saving the dried
bread.
"A lady and gentleman entered the ferry
house at jersey City, their to New York, and
walked down on the bridge, engaged IN earnest con-
versation. They deeply absorbed in their
subject as to be utterly unmindful Of everything else,
and not noticing that no boat in, walked delib-
eratey overheard. With some difficulty they were
rescued by the ferry hands, when they seemed as
deeply concerned in regard to their appearance and
condition as they had previously been in the subject
on which they talked themselves overheard.
American and English bankers and capi-
talists interested in the production of cotton are
making inquiries in relation to organizing national
cotton growing company in the South. The English
attempt to produce cotton in India proves discour
aging. The only doubt of success IN the South is the
uncertainty Of securing the labor of the freedmen.
To remove their apprehensons this point Mr..
Conway, late of the Freedmens Bureau i'll Louisiana,
has been requested 10 visit Liverpool and London,
ana will probably leave within few weeks.
\ SINGULAR ACCIDENT.-The Chicago Tri-
bune mentions singular accident which oc-
Cured, few days since, on the Grand Trunk
Railroad thus:
While an express train was running at the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour the boiler
of the locomotive exploded with terrific force
and noise, and three of the cars were thrown