Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.


doors Unpleasant style of a family man that.
-lhe Memphis appeal declares that State
sovereignty, in the absolute sense is dead thing
OF the irrevocabe past for which there is no resur
| rection.'
Benjamin F. CasweIl, the other dav at
Memphis, tried to kill the sister-in-law of a Mr..
Henry Taylor because she rejected his suit He shot
at her four or five times, but missed.
"A car load offreedmen-men, women and
children-arrivcd at Providence, R. L, on Sunday.
| from the South, agent of the Freedmen's Bureau
having secured places for them as servants there.
The trick of cutting off man S nose, as
performed by Heller, in Worcester, Mass, on We'd
nesday night caused one of the audience-a man-to
1alnt away. d. was taken out on one of the setees
| dickens declined recent invitation to
read before Victoria the ground that he would not
go as performer where he not received as a
| gentleman.
| -lhe Belgian Chambers is about to intro
duce new clause into the penal code of that coun
Try punlshlDg with fine Imprisonment all persons
| convicted of cock fighting
| -Ihe number af Mormons in Norway, has
| lately been considerably increasing. There are now
565 Of them at Chrisiania 1913 of whom are men and
| 365 women.
| In 1928 the price of gas in London was
los per feet and five guineas for each public lamp
per annum In 1914 the price of gas was reduced to
's per 900 feet and the public lamps 10 four guineas
| each.
"A new liquor law having been adopted
for Indiana county, Pa. saloon keeper at Blairs-
vle In that county, took the matter so seriously to
| heart that he went home and cut his throat. No
other cause existed for the commission of the deed
The annual exhibition of the New York
Academy of Design is now open. The two prominent
;nt;p
west Point foundry and Gignoux's view of Mont
Blanc.
"A free fight occurred on Tuesday last
among the lawyers in the court room of the Court of
CRIMINAL Correction in st. Louis, Missouri No Sc
rious damage resulted. as learned gentlemen con-
tented themselves with fair fist fight"
The clothing of man was found on
Tuesday last ono mile from Liberty, Indiana in the
woods The garments were nearly new and of pood
material, including socks, boots and undercIothes.
Some of the clothes were quito bloody and it is spn
posed the owner murdered.
The misery of being called upon suddenly
to make an extempore speech was cnce got over by
noted English mathematician, who delivered himself
IN this fashion: Gentlemen, morbid desire for
originality prevents from saying This is the
proudest moment Of my life and it do es not occur to
me to say anything eIse."
"A little boy, the son of a farmer near
Louisville. while playing in the yard on Friday,
found bottle of medicine, which his father had hid
there The boy thinking it was mixture of sugar
and water drank some of the contents of the bottle
mercury and aquafortis) which caused his death in
few minutes.
"A man by the name ofThomas C. Norris
committed suicide near indianapolis on Wednesday
of last week, by placing his head under the main
crank OF steam saw mill. 1t was known that he
had long contemplated suicide as a cure-al for some
secret trouble which was weighing heavily on his
mind.
Weston Emison, of Vincennes, Indiana.
accidentally shot himself last Saturday. He was
sitting on chair, rocking backwards and forwards
and the chair upset. and the revolver in his pocket
was discharged simultaneously Herewith the ball
penetrating his abdomen. from which he survived
but few hours
An agent is travelling about the rural dis
tricts selling copies of the well known engra,,us
The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Ley
den." He expatates very glibly upon the notable
points Of the picture but bewders his customers by
assuring them that the large figure in the centre is
hat of ''the celebrated Christopher Columbus"
"A merchant at Cork has brought an action
for $4,000 damages against magistrate for sending
sixty policemen to his house. which they ransacked
in a rough way in search of arms and munitions of
war; In England. every mans house is his castle,
which the King" &c.i but it is different in ireland
don't you see?
The Union Congressional Committee have
Just received. through Hon. VIM. D. Kelly the check
OF w. STILL colored man of Philadelphia for one
thousand two hundred dollars contribution from
three colored associations of Pennsylvania for the
purpose of circulating Congressional speeches advo
eating universal suffrage.
The largest dstillery on the continent was
opened at Louisville. KY. on the 10Th. under the
name of The Kentucky Bourbon Company" incor-
porated by the State of New York. 1t is owned by
capitalists in New York, Boston and Louisville. It's
capacity for dislling whskey is million gal
Ions year. besides extensive quantity of flour.
"A call has been issued for a convention to
meet at Knoxville on May Sd, composed of delega-
tons from all counties in East Tennessee, to memor
riaze the Legislature for leave to form new State
to be called the State of East Tennessee or to take
such steps in reference to the matter may be deemed
advisable.
Bishop Andrew has formally taken leave
of the Southern Methodist General Conference His
feeble health. the nrmties of age demand rest, and
he requested to be placed on the retired list He
spoke hopefully of the Church and her interests and
bid the Conference affectionate farewell. Every
eye in the house filled with tears.
The enormous development lately given by
ladies to their back hair last week applied to
smuggling purposes. well dressed woman was
stopped when entering Belgium for concealng about
100 yards of Valencienhes lace in what is called the
chignon. Since then any unusual dimension of that
portion of the coifure is strictly examined by the
Custom House officials.
Cham, the caricaturist of the Charivari,
in his pictorial review of the week. has sly hit at
the perpetual changes in the Greek cabinet. cizea
ofAthens is having his likeness taken by photo
grapher; the right focus having been obtained, the
artist says. DO not change your position. Not
change" replies the other, then people will not
know me; l am Greek minister"
There are forty-nine tunnels, and cuttings
innumerable on the line of the new railway from
Bologne to Florence in Central Italy. By such loco
motion the traveller loses much of the grandeur of
the Apprentices. and naturally laments that the IA
cities allowed when crossing the AIleghanies are
debarred the tourist in Italy, for in America the pas
senger is permitted-at his own risk, be it under
stood-to stand on a narrow platform outside the
cars. from whence he obtains admirable birds eye
views of the Alleghanies he passes over them By
this new Appenine railway, the distance from Turin
to Florence 2S5 miles. is now completed in thirteen
Lours.
The Halifax Sun of Friday last says that
there has not been so much caution exercised to
prevent the spread of the plague from the steam
ship England as ought to have been, and that beds
and rubbish thrown from the ship have drifted
seen by fishermen floating about although since
the ship has been quarantined no bodies have
been thrown overheard A burial party of men re-
main on shore, and flag is hoisted on board when
corpse awaits burial. The coffin is hung over the
side, the boat puts off, the coffin is lowered into the
boat, it is taken ashore and consigned to deep
trench. series of which is prepared on the beach,
Not only the residents, but the pedes-
trians. Sixth street, Cincinnati, were terribly
alarmed on Friday afternoon by the announcement
that the big black bear that has been on exhibition
for some time past. at the Sixth street museum, had
broken the bars of, and made his escape from his
cage and rushed wildly into the street. The first
person he met happened to be negro named Saun-
ders, whom he attacked breaking one of his arms,
| and decorating his body otherwise very severely.
He then made his way into confectionery close BY
soaring the inmates almost to death, and helping
| himself to what came in his way, demolshipg nu-
merous glass jars. He finally captured with the
aid of some soldiers who happened to be about, and
| safely lodged in his cage, which will be doubly
| barred in the future. Saunders the negro. will
bring suit for damages against the proprietor of the
| museum.
ADJUSTMENTS.
| HOLIDAY STREET THEATRE.-The second and last
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