Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-25
MISCELLANY.

-Rev. Geo. Rowe, an old and much eS'
teemed citizen of Fredericksburg Va. died in that
city on Friday last,
Captain NJ. L. Weems of Baltimore, has
contributed 500 towards the relief of the suffering
poor Of Fredericksburg. Va.
There is a telegraph rumor that the
Brooklyn Auditors office shows deficiency of hun
dred thousand dollars.
1t is said that there is young man not
yet out his teens in Rochester who has made about
million of dollars by speculations in oil stocks.
"A joker in the Washington Republican
says he would be perfectly willing to share the for
tunes of with the noble army of contractors.
A man in Newburgh offers to skate with
anybody this side of the Equator for $500 side the
distance to be five miles.
The bark B. Sewall, from Bath, Me-, for
Galveston, with cargo of hay and potatoes. was
wrecked below Galveston, Dec. rs. The captain and
crew saved
-''Sir,n asked a newly fedged legislator of
fellow passenger the Hudson River Railroad,
are you going to the LEGISLATURE" mo, thank
God not so bad as that. I going to the State
PRISON."
"A North Carolina editor of a weekly pa
per gets off the following salutatory: I'm assuming
the control of the Banner bring very little into it.
and expect to take very little out oft. But shall
try to makea substantial, readable and reliable pa
per-"
The aged father of the late NJ lie Rachel,
81. Felix, announces that he is ready to undertake
the instruction ofpups for the stage. lie adds that
he was the sole instructor of Rachel and his other
daughter Liza, The star OF the Gate.
"A correspondent OF the London Times
says of Westminster Abbey that each day adds to the
mschiovous effects of climate upon the building.
Damp is now doing much harm did any icono-
clast of former days. On thaw taking place after
prolonged frost the stone falls in all directions.
AT one Of the principal Belgian coal mines
fortune teller had predicted that the ID of Decem-
Der would be signalized by a terrible catastrophe
which would cost the life Of great number of min
The effect of this prediction that none Of the
workmen would descend into the mine that day, and
all work stopped. The prediction was neccsss-
rily unfulflled.
The following advertisement was published
in the Boston EUening Post in 1885
10 be sold by the printer of this paper. the very
best negro woman in the town. She has had the
small poN and measles is as hearty as horse as
brisk as a bird, and will work like beaver.
The Nor'- Hester says the Hudson Bay
Company recently forwarded TO St Paul six thousand
mink skins, contained in twelve ordinary. sized
boxeS-prObably the most valuable package of furs
to ST. Paul. They were sold at nine dollars
The duty upon the skins was twelve hundred dollars
in gold.
The Ncwburyport Herald relates that a
State constable called at shop kept by an Irish
woman last week and inquired if she had whisky in
some bottles behind the counter. She answered,
Yes" He wanted some. and she placed bottle on
the counter with glass that he might help himself
He turned out some of the liquid, which proved be
kerosine oil, and left a sadder, but no wiser man.
ts al pf ba 1o+a OIL.
that on visiting Paris he was asked by the surgeon
chef of the Empire how many times he had per-
formed a certain wonderful feat of surgery He re-
piled that he performed the operation thirteen times
'Ah, but Monsieur, have done him one hundred
and sixty time. How time did you save his
le?' continued the Frenchman, after he had looked
into the blank amazement of Sir Astlay's face II y
said the Engshman. saved eleven out of thirteen
How Macy did you save out of one hundred and
sixty" "Ah, Monsieur. l lose dem all but de opera
ton was very brilliante"
"A Harrisburg correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Press says:-"The usual number of railroad
passes are being distributed. 1t is rumored that one
of our legislators intends offering bill making it il
legal for any railroad company to send such permits
to either members or employees. If such bill was
passed it would relieve the gentlemen who represent
the different districts of vast deal of trouble. rs
each is daily annoyed with applications for these
gratultes IRON thelr constituents. One letter was
received, in which the writer asked for four an
nuals.'"
1t is understood by late ruling of Judge
Sharswood of the Philadelphia District, that ma
jorty of the persons living together as husbands and
wives in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvana were
never legally married. This decision is based upon
old law enacted in 170l declaring that intention
of marriage must be published in meeting and posted
on meetnghouses before the ceremony can be legally
performed" which the learned judge declares to be
still in force, having been repealed The stat
ute has long been ignored, and whether it is safe to
thus declare nine tenths of the supposed marriages
null and void, and their offspring Legitimate, re-
mains to be seen.
IA Philadelphia brush gives us this pic
ture: At the beginning of the war modest lieutenant
in garrison at the extreme northwest boundary of
the nation, the Columbia river declared that if
chance should be offered him, he would strive hard
to gain captains commission. Fate did not at first
propitious to him. Until long after the war
was in progress he had chance to rise, and was
still lieutenant But opportunity came at last and
with great rapidity that young to be colo
mel, brigadier general and major general of volun-
teers and brgadier general and major general in the
regular army. The whole country delights to honor
him for his daring science bravery and patriotism
and his name is Philip H. Sheridan