Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet., 1865-08-10
General News.

and Marchloness OF Ur0gheda, al
Portland. These noble personages
are on their way to the White Noun
tains.
There is chap in Fall River Mas
sachusetts, giving exhibitions in
swimming. He is tied all around
and pitched into the water. Then
he loosens his hands and feet and
does his teats.
The Hon. Charles Carroll, rela-
tion of the famous Charles Carroll,
of Carrollton," of Independence
memory, died at his residence in
Livingston county, New York, last
Saturday, at the age Of seventy
years.
The students of Harvard College,
received Admiral Farragut. with
rousing cheers on his entering the
grounds. The whifile-tree Of his
barouche became disordered, the
horses were removed, a long rope
attached, and be was drawn by
about 500 students for over half q
mile.
The Chattanooga Gazette, of the
sth inst, says /: "The railroad be-
tween Chattanooga and Atlanta has
been completed, and trains can
now run through to Augusta, Ma
con, Columbus, Montgomery, No
bile, and all points South The
road is not yet in the best of order,
hnt repairs are daily being made on
it,
A movement is on foot in Italy to
canonizc Christopher Columbus,
and make him the patron saint Of
mariners.
A Mr.. Talbot, is producing a
Sensation" in Virginia City, by
shooting apples off the head Of Cap.
tain Clarkson, with pistol, at a
distance OF thirty feet.
Charles j. Faulkner, of Virginia
is at Washington, pressing his
claim for pardon. He argues that
he was Union man during the
war
+ The Government pays a rent of
81 900 per mouth for Ford's Theatre
and reserves the right of purchase
for 100000. The building is to be
used as depository for rebel ar
chives.
A teetotal firm launched vessel
at Yarmouth lately, and christened
it with bottle of ginger beer.
jeff. Davis's, commission as lst
Lieutenant Of Dragons, signed An
drew Jackson, President and Lewis
Cass, Secretary OF Wai, ,,.j ,3.ted
April 10, 1884, to rank from March
4, 1884, has fallen into the hands Of
a. member Of Governor Oglesby's
staff.
Judge Wright, Of New Orleans,
who has been incarcerated for four.
teen months in Fort Warren, char
ged with corresponding with rebels,
has been released.
Mr.. Peabody, the London Banker
has witnessed the erection and oc.
cnpation of the first Of his houses
for the London poor.
The illustrious, dashiDg, fashion
able, handsome author of Pelham"
Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, novelist
poet and statesman, has become ut.
terly deaf, and been forced to aban.
don the society Of his most intimate
friends.
The mine of lead lately discover
ed in Benton county, Mo-, is sixteen
miles south Of Warsaw, on Deer
Creek, and contains an inexhausti.
BILE supply of the valuable metal
Some of the specimens are of block
lead, found on the surface. It lies
in large chunks composed of small
blocks or pieces.
Great results are expected from
coal mining at st. Joseph. Mo. A
company has there just bought, for
81, 900, forty-acre tract, ON which
there are said to be strong indica-
tions of oil as well as coal, and the
machinery for operating is already
looked for, from the East.
More coal oil has been discover
ed in Missouri. The Grand River
Ne'os, learns that new oil we'll
has been found in Ray county, a
few miles south Of Breckenridge,
producing twenty five barrels Of oil
per day 1t is thought that the
Ray county region is permeated
with oil veins, which will yield
Hurrah for Missouri