Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-16
MISCELLANY,
Near Bedford Fnolapd - - E4uo 81

Near bedford, England, is little village
church, where the lord Of the manor hs. a private
box or apartment overlooking the chancel. A little
flight Of steps outside the church leads to the double
door OF this secluded Oratory which is furnished with
fireplace and sundry comfortable chairs and foot
stools. The proprietor is a dcvout man. and never
misses morning service. When the service CON
mences he opens the sash window which is exactly
opposite the reading desk, and behaves with the
strcteSt decorm until the prayers are over and the
psalm Immediately before the sermon sung 10 the
end Then, Just the minister enters the pulpit he
shuts down the sash and devOtes himself to reading
the letters by the morning post, which have in tho
meanwhile been brought to him by his servant.
-Once IN a church. a young man who car
ricd the collecting plate. before starting to collect
put his hand IN his pocket as usual, and put shil
ing as he supposed the plate, and then passed it
round among the congregation. which numbered
many young and pretty girls. The girls, AS they
looked at the plate, all seemed astonshed and
amused; and the young man, taking a glance at the
plate found that instead of shilling, he had mt n
conversation 0zcngo on the plate: with the words
will you marry me? nred letters staring everybody
in the face. None Of the young ladies, however
closed with the offer.
A citizen Of Birmingham England. has
been killed by singular accident He had long
pipe in his mouth, and as he was opening the garden
OF
with such force that the end Of it, which he had in
his mouth, went through his tongue. An abscess
rapidly formed under his tongue and caused his
death.
There died recently at Orange, near Tar
hes, France, old artillery officer named Pierre
Gaubert, aged one hundred and thirteen He was in
most Of the battles of the Republic and the Empire
and fired his last shot at III battle Of Tou-
louise.
The Free VIII Baptist General Confer
ence Of Maine passed a resolution prohibiting the
ordination of ministers who use tobacco The clergy
men addicted to the Of the weed say they don't
see much free 'eW about that
The Wheeling Mtelliqencey saws il is not
10 be disguised that within the State of West Vir-
gina there is reaetionary party not only Il, regards
national politics, but regards the very existence
of the State of West Virginia.
The steamer Savannah was run into bv
the steamer Mayfower. on the 9Th instant. near Sa-
vannah. Ga., and 50 much damaged that she immedi-
ately sunk The loss caused by the collision will
amount to S5O0O0.
A tumutuous asSemblagc of peasants
lately took place at saragossa SPAIN with the object
Of refusing payment of the municipal octroi. The
measures taken by the authorities however promptly
succeeded in restoring order.
A Milledgeville tGa.) letter says, specu.
lators and capitalists have been for long time past
buying up the State bonds of Georgia, and are CON
seqentiy working hard to adopt the war debt.
-Ihe New Bedford Mercury remarks that
on tuesday 7th inst. Andrew Johnson's draft was
endorsed by Massachusetts. New York, New Jersey,
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
"A negro woman, covered with small-n0y,
wandered along Market street. Montgomery. few
days since. There were about forty case on streets
So says the Memphis Appeal
The Governor of Illinois has despatched
an agent to Europe for the purpose of inspecting
some of the best sugar factories there
Letters from Calcutta. dated Sept sth,
state that telegram received there the day pre-
vious, in thirty hours from London.
-Agassiz is having great time in Brazil.
In three weeks he discovered three hundred entirely
new species of fish in the valley Of the Amazon
-AlcXander Garrett, an old citizen of Rich
mOnd, died suddenly in that city on AToodcv