Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-29
GE;NERAL NEWS.

DIR. Robert B. Lyme, real estate broker,
died suddenly in Richmond OF Tuesday.
Our Paris letter will be found unusually
interesting to-day.
A young man named Henry Clarke died
suddenly in Philadelphia on Tuesday night while
playing game of billiards.
Collector Hough, of Memphis, has brought
a suit against the Memphis Argus for libel laying
his damages at S230OO
-One Of the London papers publishes q
gastronomic article describing the merits of steaks
off of lions tigers elephants and divers other beasts
Murdoch, the tragedian, reads the Decla-
ration of Independence at Madison, Wis, on the
Fourth.
There will be general distribution of re-
lief to needy disabled soldiers at New York on the
Fourth of July.
Willard Chapman, Nova Scotian. ag ed
one hundred years. is looking for his relatives in
Iowa.
Jas M. Winslow, Of st, Paul, Minnesota.
offers to build hotel costing S200OOO in that city,
II the citizens will furnish site and $40 600 bonus
Chief Justice Chase has subscribed the
sum of 5000 towards the new Metropolitan Meth
odst Episcopal Church about to be erected in Wash
ington.
"A very destructive fire occurred in St.
Joseph, Mo-. last Thursday. The finest block of
buildings in the city destroyed, involying,a loss
of some S400OOO.
jacob Kotch, Of Keokuk. iowa, load .,d
toy cannon, using marble for ball, pl, rod N.
muzze in his month and touching :, of Tri.,, =
match. blew out his desperate brair.
"A Texas paper thinkst L.,at the LARGEST col.
lection of Conservative ewspapers in existsnce Is
that made by Major Gsueral sheridan's order Ever
paper IN MS MN Try department has to send copy
to headquar'. .ers. N'
Ar irish girl, named Margaret Flannery,
~ IrleanF. New York, started fire the other day by
pouring kerosene oil upon it. She met with the
saal success in speedily burning to death by the oil
III the can taking fire and exploding.
j. H. Wade, Esq President of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company. i. understood to be
tho President of the Consolidated Telegraph
Company, which has capital of $50 900. and will
control 10000 miles of wire.
The foundation stone of new building,
for the use of the British and Foreign Bible Society
was laid in London the 1lth inst. by the Prince
of Wales, with imposing ceremonies and in presence
of large c0ncourse Of persons. 4
DIR. L. n. Burke, well known Irish born
physician. of Cincinnati. has just returned from
protractcd visit TO his native land. DR.. Burke says
that the Fenian movement in Ireland was a wretched
farce, which terminated with the arrest Of Stephens
"A Virginia paper says: 1t is noticeable
fact in the travel the railroads at this time that
there are many more people going North than South
Tho trains generally light from the North while
those from the South frequently bear very fair loads
In Switzerland the telegraph is the prop
erty of tho State. An Office is established in almost
every village, and the charge is uniform one frank
for twenty-five words irrespective of distance. The
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large revenue to the Government
On Tuesday evening VIM. H. Mercer. a
well known citizen of Philadelphia. was drowned.
With a companion, he undertook to swim to a
schooner some distance from the shore, but his
strength failed him and be sank. Hi companion
was rescued.
A young lady by the name of Martha
Bennett, murdered at Edinburg, Indiana, on the
23d. by Philip Ditman. lie shot her four times with
pistol, and then set fire to her clothes. Jealousy is
supposed to be the cause. Ditman was arrested and
sent to Franklin in irons.
"A Louisiana paper says that in that State
horse stealing is managed follow: The owner Of
horse makes a bargain with a thief to take the
horse to Ibervilie and Baton Rouge, and sell him.
The thief brings the half the moaey and tells
the name of purchaser. Then the owner goes and
reclaims the horse as having been stolen.
"A day or two since we recorded a case of
Lynch law in Western Missouri. Since then, on
Thursday, mob of desperadoes who sympathized
with the victims of the popular Indignation attacked
the town of Winthrop. Buchanan county, where the
hanging took place. They were defeated, however
and nine of them captured
John W. Forney is a candidate for the
United States Senatorship from Pennsylvania The
Pennsylvania Legislature has done many very foolish
things, so it is impossible to say whether j. W. f.
will or will not exchange the Clerks seat for the
Senator'S in the United States Senate.-C2eseland
Herald.
A suit to recover damages Of the Ameri-
can Telegraph Company is now pending in the Su.
perior Court ut New Bedford, Massachusetts, The
plaintiff, who was recruiting agent in 1861 received
despatch requesting hi to furnish ten men at $l75
per man, when it should have read $l25. He has
brought the suit against the Telegraph Company to
recover the difference.
The Rev. DR.. Bacon, of New Haven,
said in recent address that during mis- forty-one
years pastorate over his church. he had expended
for his family over S25CCO beyond all that had been
paid him directly or Indirectly By the church. From
which we conclude that he has been more fortunate
than ninety-ninc hundreds Of his fellow cergymen
in having any reserve to draw upon.
Head Centre Stephens had narrow es-
cape at Philadelphia the other day, while returning
from Washington to New York. The train in which
he travelling came in collision with another train
while being switched upon side track. The greater
part of the car in which he sitting torn away;
and had he not Immediately previously changed his
seat, the consedu cnces might have been fatal
The Charleston (Ill.) Courier learns from
gentleman who has been travelling extensively in
the southern part Of that State that wide breadth
Of cotton has been planted. which looks splendidly
notwithstanding the backwardness of the season
Oneplanter alone has between two hundred and fifty
and three hundred acres in cultivation. There are
also number of gins ready to be put in successful
operation as the crop is ripe.
"A Springfield, ILL.,, lawyer is preparing a
case for the United States Supreme Court which at
tacks the constitutcnality of the income tax. The
contestant reports upwards of fifty-two thousand
dollars income the past year. but under protest, he
declines to pay tho tax, and will, when the usual
compulsory action is invoked, ask injunction from
Judge Davis to restrain the Government officials
from collecting.
"A minister's wife says: sThe first time |
took my eldest boy to church, when he was two
years and half old, managed with carcsses, and
frowns. aud candy. to keep him very still till the
sermon was half done. By this time his patience
was exhausted, and he climbed to his feet and stood
on his seat looking at the preacher (hs father) quite
intently, then, if he had hit upon certain relief
for his troubles he pulled by the chin to attract
my attention, and exclaimed in a distinct voice,
Mamma. make papa say Amen"
The late Augustus Russell Street, of New
Haven. the founder of the ale School of Fine Arts
is reported to have loft by will some $4,000 for the
endowment of professorship in the Yale Theolozi-
cal School, to revert in certain contingencies to the
College library. and about equal sum for the COM
pletion of the Art building and the endowment of
oha;rs &c, =.
These posthumous gifts of Mr. Street to the College,
combined with his donations while alive will swell
the aggregate of his benefactions to over S25O0OO
-Gustave Dore, the wonderful illustrator of
classics still frequent subject of conversation in
Paris. He was born in Strasburg in 1892 and so n ay
be regarded half German in his origin. He COM
menced his marvellous labors when only 16 on the
Journal pour Rire. wherein his caricatures gained
him the first beginnings of fame. This branch of art
seems to be his forte His works arc already more
numerous than any hslfdoEsn Of the QIdss! artists