Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GEEERAL NEWS.

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"A er-hearted mamma in Indianapoli:
recently prosecuted her daughter for stealing some
| her clothes.
Intelligence from Australia is to the effec
that the country is suffering severely from disastrou:
| floods.
A grand National Horse Exhibition com.
mences at Adrian. Michigan, the 18th of June
and will close on the 23d of the same month.
| "A Western critic, in speaking of new
play says: The unties are admirably observed
the dullness, which commences in the first act neve
| flags for moment until the curtain falls
Twenty one companies having paid in capi
tai equal to 00 have been organized in Massa
cbusets within year, for the purpose of deveopine
| mechanical inventions.
| The Prince Imperial of France recently fur.
nished sketch Cor scrawD of flute player for tht
illustrated Partisan paper lie EUennent The sale o
| the journal was enormous.
| On Saturday last, an elderly man was
found by the police in Boston. in an intoxicated
condition. and upon searching him at the station
| house $l0,959.D was found in his pockets.
The New Orleans Picayune says that petro.
leum of great purity. and in large quantities. has
been found in Angeline. Trinity and Nacogdaches
counties. Eastern Texas
The largest amount of revenue paid by
the British people in any one year was 1910 900 0OO
The amount which the people of the United States
will pay this year will be 54OOOOOOO.
The clerks of the European Steamship
offices in the leading Eastern cities continue to be
besiesed with letters engaging berths on the vessels
to leave port this spring and summer. Such an ex-
odus was never known before.
Among the European armies of the pre-
sent day. the Italian Minister declares that the
French army alone be said to be equal or supe-
ror to that of Italy in point of the military education
of the soldiers.
"A French professor has discovered that
the earth does not fast as it did two thou
sand years ago. The learned man computes that in
one thousand six hundred millions of years hence it
will come to a stand-still.
An improvement has been made in the
carriages employed to convey the immense blocks of
cut stone used in the new buildings in Paris. For
the clumsy wo-wheeled dray is substituted carriage
on four wheels made of wrought iron.
"A man named Bray, of Molong, Aus
tralia. went about twenty miles in the bush some
time ago, and in the course of few days obtained
one hundred and fifty gallons of wild honey from the
trunks of trees. The favor of the honey is thought
by some to be fully equal to that produced by domes-
ticated bees.
"A young man and wife arrived at st. Louis
by of the Mississippi steamers one day last week
with neither baggage nor money to pay their fare
The clerk of the boat seized the wife in payment,
and kept her on the boat as security. Whereupon
the husband took out warrant against him for kid
mapping. Thus the matter stood at last accounts.
-Grotesque scarf pins are the '.rage' for
gentlemen abroad. Dandies parade the street with
wonderfully lfe-like representation, in enamel of
human eye an inch two below the chin, or in
place thereof a lighted cigar with ruby at the end
to indicate the fire, lucifer match of precious
metal. closely resembling the real article
"A gentleman from Alabama has furnished
tabular statement by counties showing the number
of men belonging to the Union Leagues which have
been organized in that State since the close of the
war. The aggregate is eighteen thousand and up
ward. of whom, it is said two-thirds can take the
test oath.
The Government has finally determined
to hold the gold claimed by the Richmond banks as
belonging to them, account of the seizure Of
which has been given already. The proofs seem to
establish clearly that the gold belonged to the So
called Southern Confederacy and was on deposit
with the banks subject to the drafts of the Confed-
eracy
On the 18th of February there was at
Morris warehouse. Sydney, Australia, the largest
quantity of pure copper of New South Wales produc-
ton that has ever been in the city at one time Over
ninety tons of this valuable metal were received
there within few weeks from the Cadianguliong
Copper Mining Company, and awaited sale or ship
ment.
Last week, in New York State, a Young
man named Charles Godfrey was standing on board
leaning against the side of the barn. and was looking
in at window, when the board fell from under him
and at the same moment the sash came down upon
his neck. hanging him between it and the window
sill. His neck was disocated, and death instanta-
neously followed.
The steamer Sunset, en- route for the
mountains. which was drawn out Of the river two
weeks ago by crevasse into the slough and shortly
afterward left her high and dry is now having ways
built under her to slide her back into the river She
is sixty feet from the shore. but it is believed she will
be got aoat when she will proceed on her voyage to
Fort Benton.
For many years before his decease, the
late Duke of Northumberland had refraned from
drawing his half pay to which he entitled by his
rank of Admiral in the navy. His executors, Earl
Grosvenor and Lord Redesdale. have however ap-
piled for and received from the Admiralty about
f,40O under this head. The present Duke has deci-
ded upon appropriating the sum for the benefit of
various naval charities.
The annual report of the Philadelphia
Apprentices Library shows that II 1876 volumes have
$50 to females. There $1,000 volumes in the
library. The average number using books each
month III boys and 1,O73 girls. SCI new volumes
added during the year. Since the organization
of the library in 1920 40 245 boys and 13, ,1S5 girls
making total of So 4l persons having participated
in the benefits of this very useful institution.
Another orator in appealing to the ''bone
and sinew," said: MY friends. I am proud to see
around night the hardy yoemanry of the land
for love the agricultural interests of the country
and well may love them. fellow citizens for was
born farmer-the happiest days of my youth were
spent in the peaceful avocations of son of the soil
If may be allowed to use a fgurative expression
my friends. may say was raised between two rows
of corn "a pumpkin, by thunderl" exclaimed an
| inebriated chap just in front of the stage.
The Mayor of Jackson, Miss, lately ten
dered his resignation, which was not accepted. He
as his reason for wishing to resign increasing
duties. municipal poverty in money and institutions
| 10 police, no jail alarming increase of crime and
immortality, constant complaints ofroads and bridges
| the insufferabe stencil of worthless freed people
| who daily crowd his Office, and many other af]ic
| tions. including the miserable. grumbling and un-
charitable feeling so fashionable towards public of
fcers. His life, he says, is threatened almost daily
| -Eervey Champion, of Hartford, fifty years
DID, and worth S2500 has been arrested for stealing
large NUMBERS OF valuable trees ana vines from thu
grounds Of various citizens and transferring them t.
his own garden. This species of theft seems to hay
| been mania with him. The owners of the vine
1 and trees have known that they losing thei
l property for year or more, and number ofperson
| have been suspected, one of whom recovered larg
sum of damages for SANDER on account of beini
charged with these thefts.
"A Boston exchange estimates that 4:
American sea-growng craft and 10 foreigners (bounC
to or from United States ports have been reporte
the past month as either totally lost missing The
comprise steamers, ships, 10 barks II brigs, 8
schooners, and sloop. Of these 25 were wrecked.
abandoned, burned, foundered. run down,
capsized, exploded, and are missing-total6l 81 Tn
total value of the obove domestic craft exclusive
cargoes) is estim ated at 81 ,OO0. 900 in specie.
| "A Constaptinopie letter, dated on tn
11th of April, says Bad news comes from Trebi
gond. series of rainfals has swept away nearly tn
whole of the works in progress for the railroad be
| tween that town and Erzeroum, destroying in fe'
days the result Of several months labor and the
| penditure of many millions of piastres. The grea
| enterprise is thus again thrown back indefinitely
| and another important start given to the Russian
for their rival ute between Poti and Bakou which
| once completed. viii, it can hardly be doubted. d
| vert nearly the whole of the great Persian trait
| from its old Armenian channel
Major General Sickles, of New York, con
manding the Department of South Carolina, brinl
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