Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.


yesterday devoted to the discussion of the
of the Committee of Fifteen. The death of General
Scott was announced, and a concurrent resolution,
making the Military Committees OF both Houses a
joint committee to take into consideration what
measures are necessary to be taken to express the
appreciation of Congress of the character and public
services of the General, was passed.
HoUsE.-A lively discussion took place in the
House yesterday on several proposed railway
schemes. in which Messrs. Stevens. Garfield and
0'Neil participated. The death of General Scott
being announced. the House. in respect to his mem
ory, adjourned. Be-.
GENERAL NEWS. -
In Norfolk, on Saturday last, two chill
dren were bitten by mad dog.
A Tennessee farmer says the radicals and
the cut-worms are doing their best to destroy the
country. .,
1t is reported in st. Louis that Sir Nor
ton Peto is the hacker of Fremont in his late pur
chase of the southwest branch of the Pacific Railroad.
1t is stated that the health of Senator
Wright of N. j., is much improved. and that he is
likely to recover entirely.
"A negro preacher was fined SIS in Cairo,
the other day. for expoundns the gospel with his fists
on the head of one of his flock. 80
That poor boy Probst is growing fat,
sleeps we'll. and is quite comfortable. He converses
nationally, says he ought to be hung eight times
he killed eight persons. In this the public
with him.
Three emigrant children died in Detroit.
Saturday. from a disease supposed to be Asiatic
cholera They had just arrivedi in the city, over the
Great Western Railway.
"A well has been recently struck on Burn
ing Springs well. Virginia. at depth 1856 feet call
ed Jones No. which is flowing at the rate of one
H. L. A. l.
"A new police regulation has gone into
effect in Chicago. All persons found Ioaing in the
streets, who can give reputable account of them
selves arrested and lodged in the station houses
DIR. Henry G. Cox, well known and
highly esteemed member of the medical profession.
died at his residence in New York city on Tuesday
morning. -..r.
The citizens Of Philadelphia are taking
action for the purpose of properly providing for and
educating Willie Deering the only survivor of the
Deering family.
The Cleveland Herald says that sturgeon
that have become unfit for food are used as fuel on
some of the Western steamboats,. Twenty sturgeon.
it is stated, make as much steam a cord of wood
The contributors to the late workingmen' s
exhibition in the Guldhall in London, have deter
mined to present to Mr. George Peabody an illumi-
mated vellum testimonial with gold medal, struck
in the same die as those awarded to the exhibitors
The latest style of bonnet has turned up
in Richmond Ind. 1t is described as consisting OF
two straws tied together with blue ribbon on the
top of the head and red tassels suspended at each
the four ends of the straws Price $40.
The printers of the Troy Whig are on a
strike" because the publishers refuse to discharge
foreman, against whom they conceived dislike
The propretors say the foreman is faithful and COM
pesent and very properly refuse to submit to the at
tempted dictation. 81. ....l
The editor of the Hou,na Guard Louis
lana. in n recent look along Bayou du Large, saw
but few negroes. I'VE walked out into the field
and saw no laborers but the planters themselves
their sons in few instances white ASSISTANTS.
All were in the fields plowing, hoeing. narrowing,
| panung-men, women and children. They are
mostly, educated gentlemen" The crops were gen
| orally fine order. -.
In Webster, Mass, recently, some youn.
men placed two small brown snakes in kind of fanc
paper basket, filled the opening with flowers so tha
the reptiles could not crawl out and hung the devic
upon the door knob of a house where some vonn,
ladies were boarding. The basket and content
| Glanced to be found first by the most timid of th
Iyoung ladies. who. upon Withdrawing the flower
and seeing the seFpents crawl out upon the t,hIe
was so much alarmed that she fell in spasns and /;
| still in very weak and nervous condition.