Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-20

ure in the proceedings of the House. the question of
reconsideration having elected an earnest debate.
The bill was finally recommitted by decided ma
jority.
Gloucester, Mass, is probably the largest
fishing town in the world.
Boston is to have new club, called the
Good Felloes of the Hub
"A real estate suit which has been in the
Prussian courts three hundred years was lately de-
cided.
"A child fell into pail of boiling water in
Petersboro, New Hampshire. the other day. and was
scaded to death.
"A cooperative store in Trenton, New
jersey, is doing q business of $4,000 a year. the
stockholders making large profits and buying cheaper
than they could at the other shops.
"A young lad named HesselS, shot his
mother through the head. in New York. on Saturday
morning while handling pistol, not knowing it
oa,'ed. The wound is fatal.
-Th,,re is a great rush for houses and
boar3;ng-bon es at Newport, in anticipation of sum-
mer. One cottag. mas just peen rented Ior the sea-
son for $1,000
"A fire was kindled in a pasture at Little
Compton, R. l.. on Saturday, to bur-, up some re-
fuse, and before it could be checked, it burn eu over
deal of damage
There are only seventy eight daily papers
printed in Great Britain and Ireland. for the supply
of thirty millions of readers, and this is claimed as
great advantage the numbers ten years ago under
the old stamp law.
The receipts of the American Missionary
Association for the week ending March 10, were
SS,S7lA. Of this sum $6,575.0S came from England.
In addition 70 the money Sc barrels and boxes Of
clothing received.
The winter has been very mild one in
the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Spring and
plowng and planting had all come the middle Of
February, even up 5000 and 5000 feet above the
sea. But the Sierras the season has been un-
usually severe; heavy and severe cold. The
papers of Northern California and Oregon are chilly
with the stories of rough winter in the mountains Of
| storms and food and frozen animals.
The business of the New York agency for
the great Paris Exposition is reported in most sat
ist, etory condition. Mechanical applications will be
received for few days longer. The commissioner of
agriculture has sent out five hundred circulars
TO agricultural societies. with view to full repre-
septation of our agricultural productions, stocks,
Soils fertilizers &C. Sky or ninety days yet remain
for agricultural applications.
"A strange and terrible fatality seems to
have followed the brothers McDouga OK lndianapo-
lis. The youngest brother Aaron, died from al acc-
dent-running a nail in his foot, which produced
lock jaw. Capt. Henry McDougal. the next brother,
was killed by being thrown from a buggy while the
horses were running away and Alexander, the last
of the three brothers to his death from njures
received at the explosion of the boilers of the steamer
| LockpOrt.
| The officers of the Lake Superior and
| Mississippi Railroad Company, on Saturday last
I nf 0nof+ +ba;- ,o-t
gage bonds at St. Paul. to be negotiated in New Yor
! and Europe. The bonds were of the denomination!
of 81 0G0 each, and there were consequently 4500
the documents to ill up sign and stamp Each bono
required revenue stamp of 81 SO that Si5oO wortt
| of stamps were used on the documents. The engra
wing and printing of the bonds also cost $1,000, re
auring quite an outlay before bond could be put il
| the market.
g--Secretary McCulioch has written lette
to several leading Republican Congressmen. il
which he says he feels much anxiety about the pot
ica situation and very much desires that somethin
| shall be done to restore harmony between the Gov
| ernment and the people of the Southern States. Ill
| thinks that one step in that direction would resul
| from a full and free conference between leadin
| Northern men and leading Southern men now in tn
city He suggests that the persons to whom his not
| is addressed invite a call from Governor Parson
| among others-Stdr
The recent discoveries of gold on Yer
| million Lake. Minnesota, have created considerabl
| excitement in various parts of the West. Two com
panies are already organized in Minneapolis an
| parties haze gone out with quartz mills ready I
commence operations when the snow shall have gon'
party went out from St. Paul last fall, and hav
made very satisfactory progress 1t is stated on goo
authority that the quartz n that resiGl Fi yield
least twenty-five dollars to the tor. and III sopl
places much more. It will be decidedly pleasant
| We are enabled thus to bring the gold business
l | much nearer home than heretofoye and doubtle
that fact will attract large numbers there who hes
tate about going to Colorado, Idaho or Montana.
a According to London letter, John Stua1
' Mill has given the House of Commons a lesson i
q | manners. He not only sits without his hat "br
even sets the example of leaving it at the door
pfOaaeding which is singular, unparliamentary, an
3 unprecedented. The hat is parliamentary inst
tution and is supposed to assist in promoting re,
dom of debate" Has it been left asks this write
to the distinguished political economist to give IL
I | House of Commons lesson in GOOD manners; an
will our legislators at distant day out of
nIimept to Mr. Mill sit uncovered, and, like him,
| more think of taking theiF beavers into the Hou
t with them than their greatcoats and umbrellas!
Many of the pictures in the National Ga
. | srvin London are again threatened with destru
: t;on from the cracking Of the varnish. This aris
!. | from a practice common among English painters
70 within thirty years ago. of glazing their pictur
! with asphaltum. Not long ago Wilkes Blind Fl
r dier," in the National Gallery. was carefully r
y paired by simply cooring the cracks made by t
shrinkage of the asphaltum, but the cracks are NJ
opening again, and the same thing is happening wi
many other pictures. In 1883 Professor Faraday
others reported upon the harmlessness OF gashgt
ing if properly managed but lately the cracking
gradual destruction have been attributed to
heating by hot water and want Of ventilation.