The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-11-18
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VIM. Johnson, Esq, only brother of the Pres
ident died at Galveston. Texas, on the 9th inst,
lfronfthe effects OF an accidental gun shot.
Gen Kirkpatrick, the dashing cavalry officer,
has been appointed Minister to Chill, in South
America.
John Hanan, Esq, an old and influential MEM
Der of the Baltimore bar, and for many years
U. S. Commissioner for the district of Maryland,
died in that city on Saturday last.
Geo. G. Maund, Esq, has been appointed
States Attorney for Baltimore city, in place OF
Hon. John l.. Thomas, elected 10 Congress.
In Louisiana, civil authority stalking the place
Of military rule, General Candy has turned over
New Orleans to the city authorities, and has also
Withdrawn the Provost Marshal in parishes ex-
cept in certain cases, and has stopped the charity
issue of ralions to persons uneonnected with the
army. Governor Wells has called a session Of
the Legislature for the purpose of electng United
States Senators.
The official vote of Colorado at the election
September s, is declared as follows: For the
Constitution, 3, O24 against, 2,s5O-showing a
majority of only l55 in favor Of State Govern
nent On The proposition TO strike the word
white " from the New Constitution, the ayes
were 476, and the nays 4, 1872. ,.s.a.,a 7Ibs
The new Legislature of the State of Iowa is
politically divided as follows Senate Republic
can, Az Opposition, s. House-Republican, SO;
Opposition Is. Republican majority on joint
ballot 1867 large enough for all practical pur-
poses. ~ -t, ,.,.. s,t
The receipts from customs i'll October, amount
ed to- the enormous sum of seventeen millions,
more than was estimated they would be: The
receipts at the four principal ports Of entry were
as follows New York, $ll ,OoS, 1871 OS; Boston,
$L247, loo.l2; Philadelphia, $5o3, 1853 II !. Bal
timore, $l9, 1876 o. ,a. IA
Wisconsin has given a majority of between
five thousand and six thousand against negro
General John G. Breckenridge, is reported to
beliying at ST. Catherine s. Canada. The Lou
sville Jourt,dt anticipates his return 10 Kentucky
at an early day. ~.
Over i, 100 licenses TO retail liquor dealers have
been taken out in the District of Columbia this
year, This is about one liquor shop for every 81
persons in the District. aAt<3ef seti
Wirz was hungat Washington, on Friday last,
and his body buried in the prison yard by the
side Of the conspirators. ,sa,.qsa
The fact has just been made public that some
weeks ago, during the visit of Virus wife to
Washington, An attempt was made by her to fore
stall the sentence of the court in her husbands
case by poisoning him. When kissing him at
parting in the cell after one of their interviews,
she managed to convey from her own mouth into
his a little ball of strychnine, covered with coat
ings of oiled silk and icorice. Colonel Baker,
who was present and noticed the suspicious pro-
ceeding,, sprang forward, and, by Selling Wirz
by the throat, compelled him to spit out the ar
ticle An examination showed its poisonous
character and the object it was designed to accom-
plish. Mrs. Wirz was not again allowed to visit
her husband. s9.nsl b tuaft8qa lsaai 50 1a Isl
The petition claiming to represent Is, 900 ladies
OF Baltimore, which was lately delivered TO the
President asking the pardon Of JEFF. Davis, was
gotten up by being carried to several private
schools in the city, where many little girls signed
it, scarcely old enough to know what they were
doing. So says the Baltimore Anlericon. This
plan of getting up a petition does credit to female
ingenuity. oa .ts @ qt1
Major Henry Dixon, Paymaster US A., was
shot by DR.. II. G. Maddox, at Alexandria, Va,
last week, from the effects of which he died.
Gen. John A. Logan, has been appointed Min
lister to the Republic of Mexico. lie is an earn
est friend Of the Liberals and opposed to Maxi
milan" n iI5s@b 15fsn A2ta sf3aa 5A
, Hon. Preston King, late y s. Senator from
New York, and recently appointed Collector Of
customs for the port of New York, jumped over
board from ferry boat on Monday and was
drowned in the harbor. He is supposed to have
been laboring under temporary alteration Of
mind y jsoa fi ia sH = en#e 81
} Bishop Nottingham has issued an address to
the Episcopal clergy Of his Diocese in reference
to the observance of Thanksgiving day.
The total annual product OF coffee in the world,
is set down ina recent circular at an average OF
aboutsix hundred and twenty-five million pounds
or about three hundred thousand tons. Half Of
this is produced in Brazil About fifty thousand
tons come from Java and Sumatra, 80, 900 tons
from Ceylon %, 900 tons from St. Domingo, and
the,remainder from q variety of other countries
in or near the torrid zone. aH.
Encke, an astronomer of great distinction is
dead. He was born in 1871, and was the discov-
erer of the comet of triennial appearance, which
haor hic H. oIe I'd
orally regarded as in the FIRST rank of the sacants
of his generation.
According to the address of the State Teach
crs' Association Of Tennessee, there are SO, 900
adults in that State who can neither read nor
write, and 300, 900 children without school adj
vantages. 1t seems that one quarter of the adults
are totally illiterate. asel Hid.
In Berlin as we'll as Hamburg, Bremen and
other German cities, meetings have been held and
arrangements made for the purpose of taking up
subscriptions in aid of the freedmen of the United
States. A history of our late four years war,
by a captain ia the Prussian army, has just been
published in Berlin, and is favorably noticed by
the press of that city, 1atl H w9lq
Next year, 1866, is the centenary of the exist
ence Of Methodistism in the United States, or the
one hundreth year since the organization was
first formed, which was afterwards ripened into
what's known as the Methodist Episcopal Church.
II was in the year l776, that a small number of
emigrants from the Wesleyan connection in Eng
land formed themselves into a society in Philip
Embury' carpenter shop on Barrack street, New
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Measures are under consideration by the Commit
tee appointed at the last General Conference, for
the appropriate observance of the occasi On.
Indian Summer. gH 81 4