Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
CDNGEES&.

GENERAL NEWS.
More than q million new-laid eggs a day,
il is said, are imported from France into E gland.
Bishop Mcllyaine has proposed a prayer
to avert the cholera, which TO be read in all ,he
congregations of the diocese of Ohio
A pitched battle between a rat and cock
came off in a stable in Edinburgh, Scotland few
weeks ag Q. IN which Chanticleer was the victor.
-lhe Connecticut Arms Company are man
ufacturing sheep-shearing machine, which is said
| to be marvel Of mechanical triumph.
| "A ball-castlng machine has been con
structed in Berlin, for the Tycoon. It is capable o
manufacturing l2.0GO rife balls day
Mr.. Wilson, of Meridian, Vermont, fell
into pan of boiling sap last week and was scalded
to death.
The United States steam corvette Canaan
daisua lately spent ten days at Liverpool and while
in port not the slightest attention was paid TO her by
the authorities.
1t is said that General Mcclellan is at
Berlin. in consultation with the Prussan ministry.
Then, in case Of with Austria Prussia will 20
to the wall.
Of twenty-five lots of kerosene oil lately
tested at Providence. R. T., only FIVE were safe for IL
Eliminating purposes. The rest were as explosive as
! gunpowder
| told has been found in Richand county,
Ohio and company has been organized to prose
cute the discovery. From few pans of surface soil
| SIP worth of gold was procured
| "A vineyard was lately sold by auction at
GeVrey in tho Cote Or France at the rate of S. coo
an aere-the highest price ksown to have beer given
! in that country.
| "A balloon train to ply between the Place
dc la Concordc and the Champ de Mars. is spoken of
as one of the schemes to be tried during the great
l gathering in Paris next wear.
Some villain at Troy attempted to abduct
little six year old girl of Mrs. Marks on Wednes-
day. The girl ran away from him Just as he was put
| ting her on board the cars for Boston.
| The Board of Health of New York city
have determined to remove the cellar population to
more healthy abodes and establish temporary cholera
hospitals for use in of necessity.
| DIR. Lancaster stated, at a recent inquest
in London that nfancide is greatly on the increase
IN that city. The increase in his district in 1863 1864
| and 1865. were 81. 100 and III, respectively.
Organ grinders have re-appeared in New
York. They are provided with their instruments by
Jolnt stock company, which has made fortune at
the business
Major Gen. Rosecrans arrived at San
Diego, March 10Th. The citizens gave him the free
dom of the place, fired one hundred guns. and de-
1t is said that the average money which
has changed hands in play every month this year
since January at Paris club alone is $500 0GO
which gives return of So 800 600 per annum.
The city of Paris is negotiating the pur-
chase of 500 acres Of land, in the neighb9rhood of
Portoise twenty miles from the city limits, for the
formation Of an enormous cemetery. to the service
Of which special line of railway will be devoted
"A raid was made last week on five or six
of the heaviest lottery policy dealers in New York.
at the instance of victim who alleges that he las
lost over $4,000 by their fraudulent and illegal trans
actions.
After quoting from John Locke, that
blind man took his idea of scarlet from the sound of
trumpet witty fellow says that hoop skirt hang
ing out of shop door reminds him of the peal of
BELLE
"A Canadian farmer named Alex. Thorn.
residing near Wellington while engaged in removing
frame barn, the cliers broke and the capstan few
back and struck him on the breast, over the heart
and threw him about thirty feet. lie lived but an
hour after the accident.
An East India paper reports that the
other day a sad accident happened near Shoolay
As elephant was rubbing itself against wall, it
fairly pushed it down. causing the death of two out
of three men who were sleeping on the other side
Of it.
An Englishman in New Zealand has sus-
pended wire rope across the Molyneux river, to
enable persons to and recross that river The
passenger has only to seat himself in sort of chair,
and with little exertion his part he is carried across
the river in n very short space of time.
Mr.. Mayall, a London photographer, has
invented solar camera by which he can mag
Nifty small cGrtes de vistss to fosize portraits One
of the best examples of the new process says a Lon
don journal, is photograph of Tennyson, enlarged
to various sizes. and gaining very much in softness
and delicacy.
"A few days ago a gentleman offered
news boy old fashioned silver sxpence for paper
explained his reprehensible conduct by saying he
had no currency. Taking it in his hand for an in
stant, the urchin. with indescribabe disdain, and
tone Of deepest disgust, said he handed it back
Here. mister, 1 don't want that
The fashionable ladies' shoe abroad at
this time is made of black and white checked y1ouh
de Sole and bordered all around with black and white
silk cord. The front is ornamented with black lace
rosette, with loops of black and white cord in the
center. The heels are covered with the black and
white checked Touh de sole.
"A recent meeting was held by the physi-
clans of Chicago to discuss the propriety of prohibit
ing all ntramura interments. DR.. Blake stated du-
ring the session that several reliable sea captains had
informed him that they could generally be made
aware of the approach to Chicago by stepping on
deck and taking nasal observations.
"A curious item of statistics in the French
papers illustrates the superstition of the Parisians
1t is observed that Fridays the omnibus travel of
Paris diminishes in proportion of twenty-five per
cent.-so strong is the superstitious avoidance of
doing anything that be helped on that unlucky"
day. 1t is also further remarked, that when Friday
happens to fall on the 18th Of the month"; the omn-
bus receipts decrease at the rate of fifty per cent
After a months investigation, says the
New York Tribune. committee from the Chicago
Scientific Academy report having found in 200 hogs
slaughtered, one in fftyeight affected by the richna
spas and this is said to be greater rate of disease
than exists generally in Germany. The advice given
to pork purveyors and consumers is simpler Let meat
be cooked thoroughly at l60 degrees Fahrenheit, or
be properly salted and smoked, be carefully des
scated. But this is poor comfort to choice of eanga
The South Bend Register says: We learn
that number of men at Walkerton, having slgs-
pected Philip Shultz of stealing certain mans
pocket book, took him into an upper room and hung
him. in order to make him confess and on failing to
make him do so the first trial. they put him up
again, and kept him up so long that when let down
life near extinct that it took about one hour
to bring him to. Afterwards the pocket book was
found. and Shultz proved innocent. He is a re-
turned soldier, and has commenced proceedings
against his prosecutors.
M. Gustaye de Beaumont, member of the
French Institute has just died in Paris at the age of
sixty-fve. In 1881 he to the United States in
company with De Tocqueville. In 1879 be was elected
member Of the House of Deputies, and distinguished
himself by the manner in whck he treated all ques-
tions bearing on political economy. In 1913 he was
appointed ambassador at Vienna, but soon resigned
He did not approve the coup detat and retired from
political life the I'd of December, 1852 He pub
lished many books-one the social, religious and
political state of Ireland; another Slavery in the
United States" His most important work. howev er
is the Treatise on the Pententary System of the
United States, and its Application to France"
-Adah Isaacs Menken arrived in New
York by the last steamer from Europe. bringing her
flying steed, Haidee l-Azeen, her diamonds, her
funds, her femme -de-chambre, and all her costly
wardrobe, with her. An engagement has been effect
| ed with Mr. George Wood, of the Broadway Theatre
by the terms of which she will appear twentyfour
nlgntS at that place of amusement, and receive for
| the same hve hundred dollars for each appearance
or Twelve thousand dollars for the season. Having
netted seventeen thousand pounds sterling in Lon
don received one hundred and twenty five thousand
dollars in gold for hundred nights in California
she may expect to lind but few managers in the Uni
ted States who able to eniov tho 1,,vr- &c bo-