Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-15
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"A fellow was arrested in Boston the other
day for robbng cripple of pair of crutches Such
bastard that would steal the coins off his dead
mothers eyes
Gail Hamilton says one can be daughter,
sister. friend, without impeachment of ones sagaci-
ty; but its dreadful endorsement of man to marry
him.
England has got an infnitessimal revolu.
ton close at home. Theltc island of Lundy, ceebra-
ted for its granite, refuses to let any sheris officers
and policemen land on its shores
M. About, in a recent publication, says
of an avaricous man. that 1T had been proved that
after having kndlcd his fire, he stuck cork in the
end of the bellows to save the little wind that was
left in them"
Mrs. Sarah J. Holmes, aged sixty-four,
and Esquire Larln, aged sixty-eght, residing:
near Belair, in Virginia, recently ran away and got
married. They away from their children, who
opposed the match.
The Methodist Church Extension Society
at Philadelphia has appropriated ten thousand dol
lars g erect Methodist church in Nashville, Tenn
and ten thousand dollars more for the Nashville
district Also 500, 300 for the States recently in re-
bellion
Last week an ocelot, or tiger-cat, was
shot and killed in the graveyard at Rushville, Indi-
ana, where it had taken refuge in tree. The ami
NAL had escaped from Van Amburgh's menagerie.
now IN winter quarters near COnnersville. III that
State
-Brevet Major General Mott has been ap-
pointed Paymaster of the Camden and Amboy Rail-
road Company, in the place Of w. P McMehael, ESD.
Brigadier General Hickman is Conductor on the
Central Railroad. Brig. General McAister is quiet
y residing at Belvdere. engaged in attending to his
affairs
AT horse race at Dickers' Station, in
Knox county, Indiana, on Friday last, man named
Homer johnson killed another named Case, by
striking him with slung-shot Henry Hull fired
into crowd wounding several persons and killing
horse. He pursued and mortally wounded
johnson was not arrested.
An officer writing to the Marietta Regis
'e' fvn Brownsville ro>"s, .hot tho MORN
ing after the Imperalists fired upon the Americans
for cheering the Liberals at Matamoras two hun
drcd men were absent from their brigade and with
the Liberals on the other side of the Rio Grande-
This they called the expression of practical indgna-
ton.
The Boston Traceier says: ''The Stone
wall is supposed to have brought the yellow fever
from Havana, n death having occurred on board of
her very suddenly: These rebel sea waSps contrivet to
sting after the Confederacy dead as witnesshe
action of the Shenandoah, and now in smaller way,
that of the Sonewall which is that of pest bearer"
An unusually bold robbery was committed
weighing
some two hundred pounds, strongly chained to the
floor, was taken from private room in the boarding
house of Mr.. Weekman, lowered from rear window.
and carried off The safe contained about 5000 in
money, $4,000 worth of papers, notes, &c.
Mrs. Ann Gentry for twenty-seven and
half years postmistress at Columbia Missouri re-
Gently resigned. She is the widow of General Rich
ard Gentry, who made the postmaster at that
place during Jackson'S first term. On his death in
the Seminole war, his wife appointed his success
sOr, by Amos Kendall
While at work in the yard in front of the
Boston City Hall. on Wednesday, Mr.. John Seardon.
the city gardener found in the earth an old and rusty
silver cOn which. on being cleansed, proved to be
Danish piece dated ILL., and quite perfect in its gene
raj appearance for a coin hundred and ffty-four
years old.
The following dialogue actually took place,
a short time since, between n visiting examiner and
pupil in a school near Salisbury England Now,
the first boy in the grammar class" First boy-"Here
| be, SIR" Examiner-"Well, my good boy can you
tell me what vowels are?" First boy-"Vowels, zir?
Ees. of course 1 can." Examiner-"Tell me- then.
what are vowes?" First boy-"Why. vowels be
chickensl'
"A Richmond paper referring to the Vir-
gna Legislature says that it is curious fact that in
the House of Delegates, of ninetysiX members with
Il single exception-that of the delegate from Rock
bridge county-every member is an "od line Whig,'
while in the Senate, the exceptions but three or
four the remainder being all of the like party ante
cedents The whole delegation elect in Congress and
large majority Of the State and local officers of
every grade, were also Wings.
-Apropos to Lamartine's letter it is related
that some years since friend of the poet was COM
miserating him the prospect of giving up his
country seat St. Point. The friend was told not to
distress himself because ST. Point would be given
up. Well persisted the friend have you not put
it up for lottery" What matters that?" replied
Lamartine 'is there the st. Anthony lottery but
who ever suppOses that the winner will get Saint
Anthony"
PUCK-the San Francisco comic paper-cites the
late earthquake in that city as a proof that the
world wags" The same paper comes out for the
Fenians in this wise:-