Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-14
NEWS OF THE DAY,
cSENERAA NEWS.

Plaster, an invaluable fertilizer has been
discovered in nexhaustible quantities in Rocking
ham county, Va.
Pearl, grey and azure blue are the fash
ionable colors for Paris ladies' stockings and boots
of black satin with gilt heels.
1t is considered probable that the Ameri-
can Government will establish depot at Lisbon for
the use of their Mediterranean squadron.
Among the new buildings to be built by
the city of Boston this season is $6OCOO station
| house for the harbor police.
Sheep shearing festivals are being held
throughout Ohio and Michigan. The yield of fleece
is heavy and of excellent quality.
Building Improvements are going ahead
| in Fredericksburg. Several factories are being
| rapidly pushed to completion.
| Five negroes, while endeavoring to reach
Norfolk from the lighter at Bowlin's Ferry in a small
| boat were swamped and drowned.
An Indian out West remarked upon seeing
alady with dress arranged over Empress trail
| "Ughi much wigwamv'
"A specimen of kaolne, used for making
porcelain. has recently been discovered on the land.
! of Z. NJ. Swan. in Caroline county. Va.
There was recently a conflict at Zurich,
owing to an attempt the part of public authorities
| to put down duelling among the students Arms
were resorted to, and twenty wounded.
Mr.. George W. Phillips, of Essex coun-
ty. Virginia, committed suicide few days since by
shooting himself with both loads of his double barrel
| gun.
| in the recent journals received from Pc
nang and Singapore there loud complaints raised
by merchants at those ports at the growing encroach
| ments of the Dutch on the island of Sumatra
| There is house in Pembroke, Mass,
which is go old. 1t is still inhabited has al
ways been in one family and is believed to be the
| oldest house in the United States.
| -Aspecial dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette
says that General Logan for Congress- and against
the reconstruction policy of the President without
reservation.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has
decided that stamp is part of note and
need not be copied, and that the omission to stamp
note does not render it invalid unless such omission
is fraudulent.
"A whole family named Saylor, living in
Jenkins. Iowa, were poisoned a short time ago by
eating wild parsnips supposng them to be arti-
chokes. One daughter died. and the rest of the fam
lily were saved by timely remedies.
Mr.. Robert W. Williams, of the Green
Spring neighborhood, in Louisa county, committed
suicide Wednesday last py taking corrosive sub
Innate. He subject to arrangement and had
been recently good deal depressed.
In Birmingham, England, the other day,
woman accidentally killed her infant by pressing
its head against the front of her dress in which
needle was sticking The needle entered the childs
head and caused fatal injuries.
The tract of land in Chicago, known as
the Douglas property, owned by the late Senator
Douglas. recently sold for $50 600 cash. Another
valuable piece of property belonging to the estate
will be sold next week.
A of tho Arnbuaolor;oo1 ro,-
| gress in London has been arranged The Queen is
announced patron, the Prince of Wales as honor
ary president, and the Marquis Camden as working
| president
Three novices-one gentleman and two
lad;es-essayed first appearance at the Boston thea
tres last week, The gentleman made a failure and
the ladies succeeded, and one of them has been
gagged at the Boston Theatre by Edwin Booth.
"A new gas-burner has been introduced in
Edinburgh The nib is composed of patent ada
mas" sceous substance not liable to corrosion or
oxidation and the result is that the flame is always
steady and the gas thoroughly consumed.
"A bill is before the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture which provides for the appointment of an in
spector of manufactures, whose duty it shall be to
to all the children employed as operatives the
| full benefit of the State laws.
| The Springfield Republic is very much
aggravated because the individual who invented the
return ball" is making so muck money out of his
invention. The editor says he could have invented
| it himself if he had thought of it! Jest So
"A young man named Hilliard Pitman
committed suicide in Switzerland county last week.
He borrowed a neighbors gun. loaded it, walked out
in the woods. perched himself fence, and delib
erately shot himself through the head.
Evan Lewis, a citizen of Chester coun.
ty, PENN died recently at the age of forty-seven
years He was the largest man in his county weigh
ing $50 pounds before his death. 1t took six men to
carry his corpse and mis- grave had to be made three
| feet wide.
The latest fashionable collar for gents
has rundown corners. on which appear dogs and
horses heads. These figures are repeated on the
| wristbands. The shirt itself is spotted over with
small horse-shoes, or with the heads of dogs and
| horses.
| The semi-annual report of the Indiana
| Superintendent of Public Instruction shows that
there are 1924 children between the ages of six and
twenty years needing instruction. and appro-
praton of 81 005 S3 for common school purposes
| is required.
| The rebels in China have succumbed at
last, and the imperial army is being disbaRded. The
issue decided in single battle, when the rebel
army, fifty thousand strong after cOntending for two
days. defeated and the entire force either killed
or captured.
| Ada Hemmers, child three years old,
was scalded to death at Hudson city, N. j. on Satur-
day by falling into kettle of hot water which her
mother had left standing upon the floor. When she
was taken up the flesh peeled from her head and
| shoulders.
| Governor Orr, of South Carolina, regard
ing the teaching of freed people, believes it good for
them and good for the State. He says the teachers
L h,U In otaJ in hair fhotfb
dice against them and their occupation is disap-
1 peariry.
Richard alias David A. Watson, alias
John F. Gray. and Lewis Claus alias Charles Thom-
as, who stole four horses at Frostburg, Md, the
3Oth utimo. were arrested in Staunton on Saturday
last. They had sold two horses. But eighty five
dollars of the price was recovered
| "A fine steamer has been built on the Mis-
sissippi river. at Quincy. Illinois, and called the
Andrew Johnson. as a compliment to the Presi-
dent of the United States. The citizens Of Quincy
presented the captain with set of colors copy OF
| the Constitution. and portrait Of the President
General Singleton made the presentation speech.
In Paris an amusing caricature has been
| made of Mons. Verdi. The composer is represented
half man and half lion. seated at the piano and
composing the name falls over the whole body like
fur mantle. and the tail strikes the keys of the nj
II
score before him is written, I'll trouve a tort
l (Trouatore.)
| "A correspondent of the Morning Posl
states that not many years since. Herr Wachtel tht
well known tenor, the driver of public vehicl,
| in Hamburg. His voice having been heard by som,
connoisseurs. he advised to leave the road ant
| take to the boards. He Is now one of the German
stars. and engaged at salary at the Hof. Theatre
| at Berlin with permission to travel at certain pc
RODS Of the year to recruit his health and over hi
| pockets
The scheme for erecting at the South enc
in Boston, first-cass hotel, scale of magnitude
and elegance not surpassed on this continent promi
ses to be success. The plans have been drawn TO
structure which with the land will cost $1,000 600
and will be furnished at expense of S25O0O0. TIL
Messrs. Leland of New York. and George w. Pearson
OF Boston, have proposed for lease. guaranteeing
the propretors five per cent. the cost of the rea
, estate and furniture as the minimum, and oferin
per cent on the gross receipts Of the house as tn
4 maximum Of rents.