Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-21
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MISCELLANY.

An American who was asked by naughty
Englishman to bound his country. thus complied:-
America is bounded on the north by the aurora
borealis, the east by the rising SUM- on the west
by the procession of the equnoxe and on the south
by the day of judgment"
-Rumors of negro instructions in Nor
gan, Green Walton and Jackson counties, Georgia,
are prevalent. Several negroes have been arrested
and force Of Union troops have been sent to Wilkes
county TO suppress an outbreak at that point
The Augusta Chronicle says that a move
ment is being made to amend the statute of Georgia
regulating interest that any stipulated rate may
be collected. This is with view of inducing North
capital to find its way into Georgia.
The Richmond Enquirer, of the 10Th
inst. says that reports current in the city that
Gen. Terry about to issue order prohibiting
the sale of liquor until the 18th of January The
streets alive with men who had 'smelt the ,at,,
and were busy with their bottles, demijohrs and
casks, laying in months supply.
The vexed question about the place at
Worms where the Luther monument is to be erected
has at last been solved to the satisfaction of the Lu
ther Monument Committee. The place selected is
before the Neuthor, near the public promenade
"A stupid fellow in Chicago took poison
and determined to die because he wanted to distin
suish himself equally with two murderers hung there
prospects for fame are damaged by a difference Of
opinion as to the right way of spelling his name.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
says that the average annual taxable production of
the different kinds of manufactured tobacco from
September l, 1852 to June 80. 1865 was t42 SO916S
pounds. which, at present rates, would have pro-
duced SIS, 736, 1856.
The Chicago Journal says there are at the
present time over two hundred insane men and wo-
supported at public expense in the counties of
Northern Illinois. Most of these helpless unfortun-
ates are in the county aims houses without decent
care and with no efforts whatever making for their
relief or restoration to sanity Ii the alms-house of
Cook county alone there at present fortysix insane
men and forty-six insane women.
"A most determined attempt at wife mur-
der was made Monday evening by Robert Nicholas.
at No, 1879 Sullivan street, New York, assisted by
his aunt The furious made an assault upon
the unfortunate woman with axe, striking her on
the head As she about escaping from his fury
MIRA Nicholas was seized by the husbands aunt Jen-
net Fairgrave, and beaten by her with a club. The
appearance Of an officer soon closed the scene, and
both the would-be murderers were locked up.
Marshal Halleck, of Decatur, H., on Sat
urday last arrested young man who had been sport
ing around that town in a rather extravagapt stvle
and upon searching found six or seven thousand dol
lars his person. in money and other valuables.
The marshal was directed to convey the young gen.
tleman to ST. Louis where turned out that he was
the son of hotel keeper Olive street. and that in
the capacity Ofcerk he had possessed himself of the
vauables left in hls by the guests of the house
"A correspondent says that Chambersburg
is rapidly recovering from the severe blow it sus-
tanned during the New and beautiful
buildings, stores, dwellings, factories, ETC., have
been and are being built in all parts of the
burned district. Some of them are exceedingly
tasteful, and quite costly. Workmen are busily
engaged on these Improvements in all directions.
The noise and hustle incident to this spirit of the
terpFise and improvement gives the town decidedly
business aspect 1t expected in the course of fifteen
months, or two years hence, every building IN the
burned district will either be thoroughly renovated
orreplaced with new one. With such result, Cham
bersburg is destined become one ofthe neatest and
most beautiful inland towns in our country,