Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

SENATE.-In the Senate the great event of yester-
day the passage of the Loan BILL and for Balti
more, action taken in the direction of deepening
the ship channel.
HoUsE-The House affirmed anew the action of
the Senate in passing over the veto of the President
the Civil Rights bill, amidst loud rejoicing.
GFNERAE. NEWS.
The Boliver Bulletin thinks that Harde-
county. Tenn will raise this fall larger cotton
crop than any other county in the South.
"A pretty servant girl at Halifax recently
became heiress to one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars Her beaux think her prctter than ever.
-Ihe wiic of a policemen in Detroit, while
dressing Goldfish recently, found diamond inside
her purchase worth $25.
DR.. Connolly, perhaps the most eminent
consulting physician in lunacy cases. died recently in
England. He was the authJr of a curious treatise
"On the Madness of Hamlet" which many of our
readers will remember.
The Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
hold back about twenty cars per day. heavily laden
for Atlanta, Knoxville and East Tennessee. The
facilities of the road south of Chattanooga are not
sufficient to lessen the accumulation of freight.
On Thursday morning large and beauti-
full specimen of the white swan (cygnus fer,ss) was
shot in Burlington Bay, Hamilton. The bird was
snowy white in plumage and measured feet inches
from the pack TO the tip OF the tail.
Prospects are frightening at Columbus,
Georgia. Several steam saw mills are being built
and large lumber business is ntipipated Churches
are being organized; many citizens have settled
there within the past year. among whom is men
toned General John 3. Gordon who is engaged with
zeal in the religious as well as secular enterprises of
the place.
-"Two-thirds of the members Of nv
Church." says pastor, ARE honorary members
They don't come to prayermeetings; they don't at
tend Sunday school, they don't add to the life of the
Church; they the passengers on the gospel ship
they bear no burdens; add strength; their names
are on our books; they are honorary members"
The New Orleans Bee says that, "as to
the present disposition OF freedmen to live up to their
contracts by reasonable good faith and PERSISTENCE
information from the interior of the State and from
some other States is of highly gratifying nature
Not less than onehalf of the former number of agr
cultural laborers in the South has been extnguished
in five or has been withdrawn from agriculture"
Many philosophers connect the yisitations
of cholera with meteorological influences, and have
studied the phenomena recorded in cholera times
One of the most curious results found is the unusual
height of the barometer. In 1882 when the epidemic
was at its height the barometer marked $780, 18i9 it
was 30.9l. height not likely to be reached oftener
than in thirty years. In 1854 it stood at 305O
These are the maximum nights.
The citizens Of Crawford county, Ind,
have been annoyed by wolves recently, who slaugh-
tered q number of their sheep. few days ago :;
party of one hundred men started in quest of the
common enemy They succeeded in killing three of
the yarmints. Satisfied that there are still more of
them pEowling around another party is organized
go in quest and extermnate the whole gang if posi-
bic.
The last rail between Kansas City, No
and Wyandote, Kansas, joining the Missouri and the
Union Pacific Railroads, laid on Monday last bv
the principal officers of each road. On Tuesday the
new Board of Directors of the Union Pacific and
number of friends of the road took tour of nspec
tion to Cross Creek, the present terminus of the line
ninety miles west of Wyandotte. The road will be
ready for traffic to Fort Riley carry in June, giving
three hundred and seventy-fve miles of direct rail
west of st. Louis.
The great Nimrod in England just ROW is
the Duke of Beaufort who with his son, the Marquis
of Worcester, hunts every day except Sunday, from
October to the Sth of May in order to kill the May
fox. The Dukes place, Badminton. in Gloucester
shire, about thirteen miles from Bath, has a very
superb house, with avenue of beeches four hun
dred years old, and the avenue is three miles long
and five hundred feet wide, in beautifully soft and
green turf; the park abounding in DEER among them
great many red deer unusual in England.
The Vidette, the anti Mormon paper pub
lished at Salt Lake City, is disturbing "the Saints"
seriously. Of Young, it says-'does he acknow
ledge that he cannot stop the advancing career of
civilization? He knows that when civilization
reaches the threshold of his infamous system it will
hurl him. reeking with pollution and covered with
innumerable wrongs and crimes from its presence.
He trcnbles now he gazes upon its advancing
column, and nightly requires his dupes to stand
guard over his couch and harem. Docs he fear the
stroke of an avenging spirit ?"
-Hattersley's type setting machine has been
in operation during the past six months in the office
of newspaper in Hall, England. 1t is said that by
the of this machine a clever compositor can set
up and justify at the rate of between three and four
thousand types per hour and that much larger num-
Der per hour be set by those better accustomed
to the manipulation of the machine. 1t should be
understood that the English method of measuring
types is by the IN" instead of the IN, the N" being
considered the average size of the letters of the al
phabet This English machine, therefore, sets about
one-half the amount per hour which is accomplished
by the Alden machine, American invention.