Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-04
GENERAL NEWS.

time being pretty much occupied with proceedings
mad IN the Brooks and Dodge contested election
case.
GENERAL NEWS.
President Johnson made call of sympa-
thy upon the wife Of the late Senator Foote imme-
diately after her great bereavement
"A Pittsburg, Pa, paper recommends tent
life for tho summer at least as measure to bring
landlords to their senses onthe rent question.
Seven young Japanese have been sent to
Russia to learn the language and study military and
naval science.
Wake up and pay for your lodgings"
said deacon as he nudged sleepy stranger with
| the contribution box
According to the Cork Examiner, up
wards of five thousand persons are awaiting ship
ment to the United States from ireland. Two-thirds
OF them belong to the middle and farming class
| The Washington correspondent of the
Rochester Democrat states that a reconciliation has
taken place between Grant and Butler, and that the
| latter's work will not appear.
| "A. Pardu, q successful coal merchant in
the Lehigh region. has given $4,000 to Lafayette
| Collose at Easton. Pa. Another evidence of the
creditable and udicous liberay OF Pennsyivanians.
| Madame Lind Godschmidt is now at
| Cannes, where her health has much improved. She
had with her usual generosity, agreed to sing at
| concert for the benefit of a local hospital.
| There are about 5000 colored people in
| Boston. They generally quiet aud Industrious
! and some Of them are worth $4,000 apiece. They
| support five colored churches.
The British Parliament is petitoned to
oust no less than seventy members of the House of
Commons. on the ground of bribery and corruption
at their elections.
The Cork Examiner says that in the south
OF ireland the cOnstabuary are resigning in large
numbers, in of he Of
pay, and are emigrating chiefly to Australia.
"A dry goods firm which started in bust
ness in New York January 1st with S300.OOO capital,
has just fliled the capital having been exhausted
and the firm finding itself 100000 in debt
1t is estimated that the whole oil territory
of Pennsylvania might have been purchased a few
years ago for 2OO0OO and it is held to bo worth
more than 25O,OOO.OOO.
"A child II months old fell over the rail
ing of porch from the third floor of a house, in St.
Louis the other day. and strange to say the babe was
but little hurt.
The last Bremen steamer at New York
brought an Abyssinan hex, several Kangaroos,
some New Holland ostriches, and great variety Of
Australian birds for a menagerie
-Southerners are buying nice residences in
the fashionable parts of Boston. Over twenty first
class houses there have lately been purchased by
Southerners who say they made fortunes during tho
war. and have come North to invest it,
Thomas Carlyle, the new rector of Edin-
burgh University, is in excellent health again. and
will deliver his inaugural address some time in April
bust Of the new rector, by Woolner is attracting
attention in London.
"A Florida member of the late rebel Con-
gress has just left Washington, having inefectually
sought q pardon from the President. Mr. johnson
occlines 10 consider applications from members of
that dofunct legislative body.
The London Times suggests to Stephens, the
Fenan leader, to keep diary, wherever he may be
in hiding assuring him that the details of the man
ner in which he eudes the detectives will one day be
an interesting and profitable publication.
The MiantonOmah, the fleetest and most
powerful Of iron-clads has been ordered to get
ready for cruise off the fishing banks Of Newfound-
land. to protect the interests of American fishermen
there.
Mr. NJ. S. Buckley, of Philadelphia, for
twenty-five years past in the employ of the Reading
Railroad Company in charge of the coal interest of
that road, has been presented with purse of three
thousand dollars by some Of the heaviest coal dealers
in Philadelphia.
"A newspaper correspondent says that in
Georgia, where Shermans army made a sweep of all
the carriages the ladies now go visiting in carts
They call them caytes de Uisite and console them
selves with the thought that they in the height Of
fashion.
Gen. W. ". Wood, the leader of the Bra
lillian emigration scheme, has rcnounced his adopted
country and become again a citizen of Adams
county, Mis-. The Nachez Courier of the Dist an
nounces him as having been elected County Attorney
in the place of John S. Holt Esq., resigned.
There are, it appears, 339 thoroughfares in
the city of London and l63 Of these are only of su
fcient width to allow of single line traffic. while
there l0l which afford double line traffic and only
70 which afford room for three lines or more There
are 1000 vehicles passing daily through the city.
A bottle containing the following message,
written in pencil on torn envelope, was picked up
on the beach at Brighton, England. fortnight ago.
11th Of January, on hoard the London. We are
just going down. No chance of safety. Please give
this to Avonia Jones. Surrey Theatre. Gustavus
Vaughan Brooke
Damascus is the oldest city in the world.
Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the shore Baalbec
is a ruin; Palmyra lies buried in the sands Of the
desert Ninevah and Babylon have disappeared
from the shores of the Tigris and the Euphrates
Damascus remains what it was before the days of
Abraham-a centre of trade and travel an island OF
verdure in a desert.
The Provincetown Mass fishermen are
hesitating about reftng for the next season. They
held their last seasons catch of Goldfish over the win
ter. and have 100000 worth of fish in store
With the repeal of the reciprocity treaty and the
probable loss of the bounty they find their business
seriously crippled
"A newly invented harpoon contains a
pound of powder with ten second fuse. and is in
slant death to a whale. 1t is to be used in the sui
phur bottom whales which very large and plenty
in the Iceland and Spitzenburg seas, and have
hitherto been neglected, because they sink as soon
as killed. The new harpoon is to hold them.
Nashua, n. H., woman, who lost a very
dear child few weeks ago. on Tuesday last became
little deranged, and managed to procure the key OF
the tomb in which the body was laid opened the cof
fin, took the child in her arms and bore it home.
There she tended it though it was still living and
defed all endeavors to take it from her for sew
eral hours and it was only from tho effects of al.
opiae administered to her that the efforts made were
finally successful.
Sir William Gore Ouseley, the celebrated
English diplomatis died recently at the age of sixty
seven. He attached to the British Legation at
Washington in 1925, where he remained five years
lie was afterward Minister to the State of La Plata
in South America. In 1857 he appointed Special
Minister to the United States to settle the Clayton
| Bulwer question. Sir William was married to an
American lady at Washington in 1929. She was the
| daughter of Governor Van Ness of Vermont.
| The United States and Brazil Mail Steam
snip Company has memorial before the House Com
mttee on Postofice and posroads asking for an ex
tension of the route from Rio Janero to Montevdeo
| and Buenos Ayres. The new line of mail steamers
| between New York and the ports of Laguayra and
Porto Cabello, in Venezuela touching at St. Thomas.
will make tho first trip from New York on the 9TH of
| April. The Company has a subsidy from the Vene-
| zuelan Government for carrying its mails and has
now made apple alton to the Postofice Department
| for similar service.
| The manufacture of tobacco in the State
of New York is being prosecuted in a most extensive
scale. Quite number of factories have been started
| in Brooklyn, and are being conducted extern
sive scale. They employ capital of several millions.
and afford work for thousands Of operatives. These
| latter consist chiefly Of women boys and girls. and
l many of the women as much as ten, twelve or
fifteen dollars per week. Several Of the overseers
| superintendents are from Petersburg, Va
The new postal law proposed to Congress
does not alter present mail rates. except to reduce
| them in certain cases. Dead letters are to be
turned to the writer free of postage, and letters
marked ito be returned if not called for" are also
transmitted without charge. Money orders may be
increased in amount to fifty dollars, and will be good
for one year. The defacing of United States letter
| boxes, pillar boxes or receiving boxes of any kind,
or nuring the letters therein by pouring in water
other fluids, is made an offense punishable by law.
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