Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-27
MISCELLANY.

| cuse on the 18th Of December.
| Two hundred thousand dollars were re-
allied by the sale of government mules at Springfield
| ILL.,, last week.
| Iron smelling is soon to be commenced in
California near Downeville where rich deposit of
| iron ore has been discovered of great extent
| Two more persons heve mysteriously dis
| appeared in Berlin-making eleven within the last
five weeks-and no trace of them can be found.
When Arrah na Pogue is played out West,
it is announced THE great Fenian drama-forbid-
| den by British authority"
| The Pail Mall Gazette remarks that Lord
Brougham is now 81 years DID, and as yet has shown
no symptoms of decay, except by an increasing fond
ness for Social Science gatherings
| The death of the fattest man in the world
| is recorded in Paris. His name was NJ Helme, of
German origin. At the time Of his death he weighed
| 500 lbs, and was Il years of age.
An Indianian sends to tn e United States
Treasury 81 600 bond as his contribution towards
fund he wishes started for paying off the National
| debt
"A commission from the Canadian Pro
vinces is expected to leave England early next
month, to promote trade between British North
America and the West India Islands.
"A cat is not generally considered a very
teachable animal. But there is one in store in
Concord N. H.. that has been taught to cut with its
teeth the twine with which packages are tied, and
performs its work with much deXterity.
-Pithole City has no church at present.
but two buildings for that purpose are in process of
erection. In the meantime, religious service is held
in the theatre in which also dramatic performances
take place nightly during the week
Her May, the editor of Holstine paper.
who was recently imprisoned for writing articles of
fensive to the Prussian Government but now reeas-
ed has applied to be released from the character of
Prussian citizen. The application was refused
The ball season Just opening in New York
promises to be more brilliant than any preceding
Over thousand balls are to be held, and all the
principal bathrooms engaged nearly every night
until March.
The Savannah NerS says that Hon. Chas.
J. Jenkins recently elected Governor Of Georgia.
was throughout the wara conservative secessonisto
and is an accomplished gentleman and man IF ater-
ling integrity.
"A Boston lady who had left her velvet
cloak and white plumed hat with most faithful
servant to be aired and carefully kept in her alb
Sence, afterwards amazed to find it photographed
on the doorway of an art gallery, with Bridget's
smiling face and robust form included,
1t is estimated that about five hundred
families have left Quebec with the government If
each family spent 1000 year. and the average
would not be below the figure, the loss to the retail
trade ofQuebec will be equal to half million of dol
lars.
The original will Of George Washington
has been once more placed in the archives of the
State of Virginia, after escaping the vicssitudes of
the last four years 1t is i'll Washngton's clear and
distinct handwriting and the signature is attached to
every page.
AL the documents accompanying the re-
port of the Secretary of the Navy are naw printed
They contain full history Of cur naval operations
on the southern coast The estimate for this Depart
men for the next fiscal year amounts to twenty three
millions of dollars.
An old lady in Paris, wishing to make
coffee used snuff by mistake for the infusion. The
liquid tasted strangely but she and her husband both
drank oft, shortly after seized with agonizing
pains, and the physicians able to the life of
only one of them.
The Emperor of Mexico has begun the
erection of a national theatre and offers two prizes
of thousand dollars each for the best tragedy and
the best comedy to be performed within its walls
Maximilian had better take that he does not
take the leading part in farce presently to be
played outside the walls
"A skif running as ferry boat across the
Ohio river, between Cincinnati and Covington, was
lately accoscd in the night by piratica craft and
the sole passenger robbed of his baggage money and
watch. The pirates took away the oars of the skif
aud leaving it to drift with the current nado their
escape unpursued
Captain Thomas Rhodes, an old and well
known citizen of Mississippi, and perhaps, the oldest
steamboat captain in the South died at his residence
in Pascagoula on the evening Of the 18th. He was
of the early pioneers Ct the country the first
to establish line of steamers between New Orleans
and Mobile, and carried the first United States mail
between those two places.
The strong minded women of Germany,
numbering Gne hundred and thirty, recently held a
convention at Leipsc, to consider the evils under
which the sex labor in that country, and to devise
remedies. A few got excited but the majority en-
tered into the discussion with coolness and ability
4 pretty fraulien suggested that the best remedy
would be wholesale female emigration to America.
-Gerritt Smith, of New York, is now in
Chicago for the purpose of prosecuting the proprie-
tors of the Chicago Tribune for libel published in
that journal in June last wherein, by implication, he
is accused of eigning insanity, to escape from his
| responsibility in the John Brown raid and that he
purposely continued it until after Lincoln was in
augurated
-. 49,, 90.
Since the termination OF the war, oU,OOU
bales of cotton have been shipped from Apaachcola
Florida and there were ten thousand bales hand
,Lo,o ~, +bo 15tb Tboro oro sonoo FORTY Thousand
.ei0 %, on ~ ~ ~
- IL tLo do,,th or ,otor ,or,i+s ,,ol;o =;
Go"n "Hlio 'no uep'h VI "I'o' POI iat'is ~
all over eghty thousand pales that VIII pc Snpped
| thence this season.
"A gentleman just arrived in New York
from Colorado, by the overland route, speaks of a
diaos and an old man captured, who was tied to a
wagon and burned to death The body was discov-
! cred tbe newt morning. with an arrow driven into
| eocb cvo Cen Connorwos in favor ofextermination
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| A"e 'oiio"i ii'5 iine' "ei' 'oNn" ""u'' .no
pillow OF soluler "ho was lyihe aeao IN hospltai
near Fort royal oou'h oar0iiha'
| lay me down to sleep,
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