Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.


New Orleans last week
John W. Forney is a candidate for the II
S. Senate.
Eight hundred and eighty-nine dogs wer
drowned last week in New York
The farmers of Accotinck, Va. are elate,
over good wheat crop.
"A batch Of sneak thieves have beel
caught and caSed in Hagerstown Nd.
"A. I. Stewart has purchased kellogg
Princess after the Bath. for $4,000.
1t is thought the confederation Of tn
British Provinces will be completed in August mex
"A man in New Hampshire COMMITTEES
suicide six days after he was married.
"a Woman in Black has been commit
ting forgeries out West. She has thus far elude
detection.
Several representatives pledged to vot
for Schuyler Colax for Senator have been nominated
in Indiana.
DR.. Philip C.. Slaughter died suddenly O
apoplexy in Fredericksburg. Va, on Tuesday nigh
last.
The Norfolk Day Book says sloop il
the Dismal Swamp Canal few days ago, was robbed
and two men on board murdered.
Senator Riddle is detained at his home. il
wilmington. Delaware. in consequence of q biliou
affection contracted in Washington
Mrs. Lincoln has presented the Chicago
Historical Society cane of President Lincoln The
cane is a handsome mahogany stick, with buckhorr
handle. silver mounted.
1t has been officially ascertained that foul
of the Fenisn prisoners under examination in Canada
were taken in the act of firing British soldiers anG
they will doubtless suffer death.
The Typographical Dramatic Association
Of Philadelphia is on visit to New York They
performed Henry ". on Saturday night, for the
benefit of the New York Dramatic Union
Henry 7. White, worthy young man Of
Shepherds.own. West Virginia, was accidentalIy
drowned in the Potomac river on Saturday afternoon
last.
"A microscopic marvel of art, from the LIE
Carpenter collection. cherry-stone upon which i:
carved charge of cavalry. was sold last month By
auction at the Hotel Drouet. in Paris, for $500.
In 1859, the lightning having struck the
steeple Of church in France there was afterwards
found impressed the cloth of the communion altar
the text of the conservation prayer contained in
book lying open close by.
Three photographers of Warsaw have
been sentenced to fine of 100 roubles each for hay
ing produced portraits of Kommissarof the peasant
who saved the Emperor's life, the shadow of which
uVpiOtou LILO Hodu VI uu ass
The average whaling catch of last year
was better than that of the year previous The work
so far as heard from this year. has been very
full in the Arctic sea- but not so fortunate on the
lower cruising grounds
"A man named O'Reilley, in Jersey city,
tried to drown his wife in the canal She was saved
by her son. IL years old who plunged into the water
and Selling her By the hair as she was sinking, swan
with her to the other side of the canal
An intelligent gentleman at Columbus,
Ga, writes that the storm era in that region seems
past. Nothing like it has been known for forty years
and the correspondent declares that several localities
which escaped the direct ravages of the war, have
been scourged as fearfully as the Others
"A prize of $4,000 francs is offered by the
French government for the discovery of the most
important application of the votaic pile to indus
trial and scientific purposes. Competition is offered
to all nations, and the claim will be examined in five
years.
The cattle plague has reappeared in Ire
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about half mile of Brennan where the disease first
broke out. and about quarter of mile from the
boundary of the Gordon which was then made.
The funeral of General Cass took place
on Wednesday, at Detroit. Business was entirely
suspended and all the organizations of the city took
part in the ceremonies. The sermon was preached
Elmwood cemetery.
"A case of murder too horrid for recita
occurred near Medina, N. Y, on the 18th instant
clergyman named Lindsey whipped his son, q chile
three years old. savasey that it died under the in
Fiction. In the statement before the coroners jury
the father confesses to have continued the chasse
ment for more than two hours.
"A family fete of great rarity has beer
celebrated at Olmutz. Moravia in honor of NJ. Wis
grill landed proprietor. and his wife. whose united
ages amounted to just 200 years. the husband bein
lO3 and the wife 81. They were married on May Is
1871. and celebrated the seventy-ffth anniversary
their union.
"A despatch to Boston paper from Ports
mouth. N. H., announces that the carpenters AM
caulkers, who dismissed for refusing to work Oh
the ship Simla, when locked in the Portsmouth
Navy Yard, have been re-employed, and Comma
dore Bailey. who had discharged them, has been or
dered to report to Washington at once.
"A steer was recently Photographed a
Indianapolis, Ind, which was seventeen hands an
three inches high, fifteen feet long, and weighed fou
thousand. one hundred and eighty nine pounds. II
was raised in Shelbyville Indiana. The owner sal
he was of the common stock, and declared his nten
"A man painting tie cornice of h ouse il
Hartford few days since, fell from the ladder and
was supposed he was badly hurt. Immediately afte
his fall young man ran to the store to inform tn
painter of the misfortune that had overtaken h
workman. The boss" listened to the description
of the fall and with the ruling passion still strong
him, asked anxiously. did he spill the painti'
Wolves and bears are unusually plent
in tha r., Nd ,
these animals have boldly penetrated to the settle
ments in the middle portion of Warren and Esse
equities, New York. Several sheep. few week
since, were killed in broad daylight in farmyar
near Pottersville, and two wolves and a bear wei
recently taken in trap in the village of Minerv
some Is miles from Caldwell, Lake George.
The Troy papers report a case of choler
| in that city. Mrs. Elizabeth Fox, living in Id
| Place. taken sick en- Wednesday night. an
| died on Thursday. Cholera has also appeared
| Elizabethport. New Jersey. Mrs. J. Bradley, an
her son. eleven years old, have died. and there hay
been four other cases. The Board of Health of IL
| town has adopted prompt measures for cleansii
and publication. and the disease is not extending.
| "A St. Louis paper asserts that during tt
| Crimean war an Englishman then residing in tn
| city, raised company Of Irish and English soldier
| drilled them in room over the United Stat es d
/ IrlcL ALlOrueyr huu mdECueu lAeu uuuOIeSteu al
| unquestioned to England, and thence to the seat
| war. Money was raised in st. Louis to transpt
/ these men across the seas but neither the COVER
ment nor the officers there attempted to interfere
the enforcement of the neutrality laws
| The Able Paradis, sixty-three years
! age, principal chaplain at Bicetre. was walking
i the Rue Vandamme, Paris, on tie morning of t
18th of May, when he was accosted by gentlema
| who asked him the hour. He replied, "Half-p,
| eleven the hour of my DEATH never mind; l
| ready, sustain mel" And before the latter requ
could be CO implied with, he grew pale. tottered. q
fell to the pavement. Medical assistance v
instantly procured, but he had ceased to live, a
l ture of an aneurism.
| A bull, on the way to the shambles, G
on the rampage the other day in New York.
first encountered an unfortunate bill sticker. VIII
| he tossed over his head, scattering the paste il
| shower through the air. Rushing on, the PEG
scattering before him. he came near impaling La
and tore off part of her dress with his horns q
tie man, less fortunate. was lifted from behind o
turned complete somersault in the air. By I
| time the animal was tired ands halted, while
crowd formed ring round him, keeping at respe
| full distance. Three policemen, with reyoly,
| pranced around, afraid to fire, but he was fna
lassooed with a rope, and had his throat ignom
iously cut. ---..-
The CHoLERA.-The New York Tribune of Sat
| day says:
One death from cholera occurred in this citv =