Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-02
NEWS or THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.

-Bayard Taylor and George H. Boxer are
going the plains to Colorado for a summer e1-
cursion.
The body of woman was found in the
Ohio river near the State line on Friday morning
last. Her name is unknown. On her person was
found $4,000 in greenbacks.
There is not now from the mouth of the
Susquehanna. between Port Deposit and Clark's
Ferry, distance near one hundred miles. bridge
passabe for vehicles or foot passengers
Wheat in upper Georgia is believed to be
out of danger and is promising we'll. Cotton is not
promising. There will not be fourth of a crop.
Planters are still plowins up and planting corn.
The London Orchestra says that when
Mr.. Sims Reeves. the English tenor. went to New
castle last month, the bells of St. Nicholas rang him
in. as if he had been New Year. a Queens birth
day, Judge of assize. or q confirming bishop.
-Stonewall jackson never would open
letter which came to him on Sunday. nor ever if he
could help it, send away letter which, in the ordi-
nary course of mall would have to make any part of
its journey on that day.
The farmers of Durham, Maine, have
lost several thousand dollars worth of stock by the
hands of some unknown scoundrels who have been
cutting the throats of horses and there in mali
cious mischief
Archibald Mcneil, a porter in a New
York store. stole letter containing $4,000 in u S.
1905 and fed to Canada. He as traced to Montreal
and thence to Quebec where he was found just as he
was about to take steamer for Europe. and S.,
recovered.
Gen. Trotter, of the Freedmen's Bureau,
at Chattanooga. Tenn, has discontinued issuing ra-
tions gratis. He found it impossible to prevent
abuses of the custom. People would apply in droves
whom he ascerained to live in remote counties and
who had drawn previously in adjacent places.
"A military commission has been convened
by order of Gen. Grant, and is now in session at Nor
folk, for the purpose of investigating the causes
which led to the recent riot in that city. The pro-
ceedings will be conducted with closed doors, and
the evidence will be submitted directly to Gen. Grant
"A number of young Germans engaged in
commercial pursuits are now compelled to leave
London having received orders to join the Prussian
and Saxon armies. If they do not obey the summons
they lose rights of citizenship and any property they
may inherit is forfeited.
At recent fire in Auch, France, a woman
with her child were in burning house; the Arch
bishop offered 1000 francs then 5000 francs then an
annuity of 1000 francs, to anybody who would res
cue them. Nobody budged. Thereupon he threw of
his cassock. ran into the flames, rescued them and
them the l2O0f annually he had won for himself
Richard L. Merwin, Esq, of New Haven,
Conn.,. has mare that weighs seventeen hundred
and twenty pounds! Her shoes appear as though
they would cover peck measure. and her strength
is in proportion to her sze She is but eight years
old, and has gained two hundred pounds in year
and half. .. b..
The Columbus Enquirer states that all
the bridges on the State road between Chattanooga
and Dalton were washed away by the recent heavy
rains There several bridges across the Chicka-
mauga. between Dalton and Chattanooga, and it is
feared that the disaster will for time delay the
transportation of freight.
The dress in which Queen Marie Amelie
was buried the robe she wore at that last break
fast in the Palace of the Tuileries which was inter
rupted by revolution. 1t a dress of dark-col
ored silk soled with tho mud of England and France,
the waves and rain of the channel, and mended by
her during those first days of exile when money and
| even credit had deserted her.
! "A rat hunt in Frazeysburgh, Muskingum
county, Ohio, continuing three weeks, terminated
on last Saturday. The male community of the town
ship divided into two parties and devoted their en-
ergies to the bloody work, with the understanding
that the company killing the fewest number of the
vermin should pay for supper for both. Saturday
evening they counted tails" and the result was
that three thousand one hundred and seventy eight
rats had been killed. Company No. killed l.47s.
while the other slaughtered 1.7Oo.
|-During the performance of Lent's circus
in Brooklyn. N. Y, on Wednesday while the Levan-
tine brothers were performing the trapeze one OF
them, who the upper bar near the ceiling, at
tempted the feat of dropping from the bar and catch
ing the feet of the performer the lower bar, but
missed his hold and fell to the ground distance
about thirty five feet injuring himself in serious il
not fatal manner. There was great excitement
among the audience in consequence but the remain
/ der of the performance went on as usual. -
The widow of johnson Hatch, late oi
Wells, Me-. now upwards of seventy years of age re.
lates the following curious fact. Something more
than thirty years since she heard discussion in re-
aton to how long the terminating principle in corr
| would continue sound and good. She resolved tc
try the experiment and prove the fact She selected
nice sound ear Of corn and planted few kernels from
1t every year for thirty years. Every for twenty
nine years the corn grew and aourished, but th,
thististh yeay II fsilea 70 come Up ~ sssout,