Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-18
MISCELLANY,

-COl. y. COMBS, an old and much esteem
ed citizen of st. Mary's county, died on Friday last
"A dog, whose drunken master fell, face
down. into a ditch in Chicago last Thursday night
saved the latter from sufocaton by his piteous viii
ning which attracted the attention of policeman
One of our exchanges from the far West
enlightens its readers by informing them that DR.
Joseph Worcester, author Of largest dictionary
and inventor of Worcestershire sauce is dead"
George S. Armstrong. an old resident Of
the township of Lodi, Michigan, died on November
Sd from eating tomato catsup made in copper
boiler.
A mortgage deed for $4,000 was lately
recorded at Warren. Ohio. 1t required 81 900 worth
of stamps and from the Atlantic and Great West
ern Railroad to John r. Peen Of New York.
"A man in Louisville, Ky, recently rob-
bed his own mother a poor woman. Of a barrel of
flour and barrel of potatoes which she had just
purchased with her hard earnings.
There will be an extensive crop Of SOr-
ghum in Connecticut next year. for the manufacture
of syrup. Mills for this purpose have been in sue
cesSful operation in many towns the present fall.
The Sandusky Register contains the state
ment of one of the grape-growers on one of the
islands i'll Lake Erie, near that place, asserting that
he has raised from acre this year. eight anda half
tons of Catawba grapes.
General indignation is felt in Government
and diplomatic circles at the wanton attack of Spain
upon Chill. The Spanish blockadng squadron con-
ssts of seven frigatcs. The greatest unanimity of
feeling prevails among the Chilians.
The Hamilton &C.. w. Spectator speaks
of the windows of that town being broken by a set of
scoundrels who fire shot through them at night, with
a kind of weapon that sends the shot with the voloc
ity Of pistol, but makes no report
"A profound observer remarks: II have
often observed at public entertainments that when
there is anything to be seen, and everybody wants
particularly to see it, ever ybody Immediately stands
up and effectually prevents anybody from seeing
anything"
The Portsmouth Journal has been shown
a very fine specimen of gold bearing quartz, taken
from a vein in Lisbon near Littleton, n. Ii. The
gold could be seen very distinctly with the naked
eye, and with the aid of glass it gave evidence of
being very rich. An assay of some of it recently
made in Boston, revealed $3.50 to the ton.
Trinity Church, New Haven, have con-
tracted for $3.50 organ, with 2S1 pipes and eleven
stops. The Journal says all known qualities of tone
will be represented in it. The bellows of the organ
will be constructed so as to be worked by water
power.
Rev. DR.. Tying was so disheartened by the
destruction of his church by fire, in New York. that
IL
deavored to procure some information from him, Al
gone the labor of my life is thus ended that church
will never be rebuilt, and wish you would let me
alone"
Charles Kidder, deputy collector at
Bridgewater, Maine, recently seized team and its
contents for violation of internal laws, and
one night soon after some twenty-five armed men
surrounded his house and demanded the team. Sew
eral shots were fired by both parties, and the mob
finally got the horses.
The comedy of "The Debutanten was
played lately at Petersburg. One of the incidents of
the play consists in the leading comic actors leaping
off the stage and wrestling the violin from the leader
of the orchestra-somemes some of the other instru-
ments seized instead. The stupid Petersburgians
did not understand the joke but thought there was
fight going on among the performers portion of
the audience, including all the ladies' ran out of the
theatre; and the tumult became great that it was
actually necessary for the manager to explain that
the unusual incident was part of the play.
Colonel j. H. Wood proprietor Of the
Chicago Museum, in announcing the suspension OF
the free list, makes the following remarks Dead
heads are those who obtain something for nothing
Hence, an editor reporter who visits the Museum
and gives his readers description OF What nc sees
and hears there thus rendering q"d pro quo lor MS
ticket is as far as possible from being dead mead
In foot ALWAYS consider printers ink as val
uable than money and am, therefore, ever anxious
TO establish mutual and equitable exchange of cour-
tesies with those who write for the public press"
| An incident said to have occurred during
| the Emperor Napoleons visit to San Sebastian. is
repeated with much pleasure by the Spaniards
| When the dinner table was set out the Queen per
ceived that four arm chairs had been placed under
| the same canopy at its head-for herself the Kine
Consort, the Emperor and the Empress. The stor,
goes that she instantly ordered two of them to be
moved, observing, with much vivacity, that under
royal canopy surmountedby the crown Of Spain nont
but the sovereign Of Spain should sit,