Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.

The British feet now off the Canadian
coast is manned by 57l7 men, and carries an aggre-
gate of AS guns.
"A bogus lottery concern, doing large
business. was broken up at North Salem, n. H.. on
Tuesday night, and the two principals arrested.
1t is stated that, in the production of glass
for achromatc lenses the American glass makers
beat the world.
C. Hosaphat has a plan for paying off the
National debt His plan is to convert the entire in
debtedness into greenbacks, and keep them in crcu
laton till they naturally out.
Queen Victoras health has become i'm
paired again recently. and it is rumored she is
threatened with insanity. This is about the hun
dr. edith time this report has been started
According to the New York Tribune s
market report. game is brisk in the New York mar
ket 1t says: "a lot of pigeons went off very quickly
upon arrival not to the dealers stands but into the
Health Commissioners carts"
"A Louisiana paper reports that in Brashear
city of that State one gentleman sold five hundred
bales of moss Of three hundred pounds each and is
accumulating Moss generally sells at five and
a half cents per pound.
In q match game Of base ball at Ply
mouth. Conn, on Saturday. man named BIakesey
knocked the ball distance of 2lS yards into the Nau-
where it fell in. That batting ended the game the
fielders on the opposite side Couldn't see" going TWO
miles for the ball.
On Sunday afternoon Il fire broke out at
TheYold, c. w, which ragged until thrty-three shops
and houses and large number of smaller buildings
were destroyed. Nearly the whole of the business
part of the town is in ruins. The loss estimated at
$250000 Forty fifty families are rendered house
less.
A correspondent of the Maine Farmer,
wri tes: "a neighbor of mine few days ago applied
kero oil to very valuable pair of four year old
oxen to kill lice Both after taken sick
and one OF them has died. On being opened the smell
of the oil uas quite strong, and without doubt it
caused the sickness and death of the animal"
Judge Hunter, Of the Memphis Criminal
Court, has decided that the law of Tennessee dis
eliminating against coGred persons in the licensing
of billiard tables is in conAict with the Civil Rights
act recently passed by Congress- and therefore, void
The negroes of Memphis, may now cfen as many bill
liard saloons as they want.
The Government is about to remove a
large part of the negro population from Roanoke
Island to the interior of North Carolina. whence
they came. A large steamer has left Newbern for
that purpose. They will be distributed over the
State so that they may readily obtain employ
ment The same disposition will probably be made
of the negroes in camp near NeTbern.
An interesting little daughter Of Peter S.
Poorks. OF Westerly, R. l.. was fatally poisoned on
Sunday aft ernoon last by taking creosote. She wai
about four years of age, and was playing with an
older sister, aged about six years, when they found
the bottle containing creosote in bureau. and both
took some-the younger child plentifully. who died
in few minutes.
The telegraph led the entire American
press into singular error the other day. in foreign
despatch in which the Gar said to have declared
that the province of Lithuania worse governed
| now than it had been under Nicholas. So unflial
and selfdamaging an assertion naturally attracted
inquiries. and it appears that the Ckas Polish
newspaper, and not the Russian emperor that made
the statement.
1 notwithstanding the hue and cry raised
against cholera it makes meagre death record COM
| pared with consumption. Take Boston for instance
Since the cholera first appeared in this country in
1872 only eleven hundred have died in that
city of the disorder. During the same period OF
thiryfour probably from eight to ten thousand
\ persons have died there from CONSUMPTION alone
and like proportion may be given for New York
A and other large cities.
AT Lawrence, Kansas, there are confined
two oted rebel guerillas. named Maddox and Jone,
who are accused of participating in the famous Oman
tre in that place. Since the arrest of these
parties we'll authenticated report has been received
| that some two hundred bushwhackers were quietl,
arming in Western Missouri, and proposed at an un
| expected time to dash upon Lawrence. rescue thu
captives. and again burn the town. In preparation
for such an attempt, the town is garrisoned by tw
4 companies of regulars.
Chief Justice Bigelow made short worl
with divorce case which came before him at Spring
| field day or two ago. 1t was application of
l,,eI 49,
| extreme cruelty. 1t coming up in testimony tina
the woman had been beaten and otherwise ill-uset
BY her husband, the Judge at once decided the cai
in her favor taking occasion to remark that in cas-
of any violence By husband to the wife, he should
not hear all the points before deciding in favor of tn
latter. The woman might forgive cruelty tovart
herself but the Court would not