Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GNNGREGE.

to facilitate postal and commercial intercourse be-
tween the States was then taken up and after few
unimportant amendments passed
HoUsE.-The House yesterday took up and passed
the Freedmen's and Refugees bill, which continues
IN force for three years the present Freedmens Bu
reau. The House then discussed various propositions
looking to Southern restoration, but without reach
ing conclusion, adjourned.
GENERAL NEWS.
Arrests of Fenians in Ireland have been
resumed.
One of the wealthy Greens, shipbuilders
in England. has committed suicide
The Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina is in session at Raleigh, N, C.
Some Of the streets of Richmond are
described as almost equal to Virginia corduroy
roads.
"A "strong minded woman is of the opin-
ion that the only eectua way to promote peace is to
feed man nothing but vegetables
The citizens of Detroit intend extending
to Gen. Sherman grand military and civic reception
next month.
Two colored individuals, rejoicing in the
names OF George Washington and Napoleon Bona
parte recently INDUCED in q street fight in Mobile.
"A Malay prince is visiting England, and
the court papers record his movements His name is
Datu Tumongong Abubakar Sri Maharaiah off ohore.
Robert McGowan committed suicide by
Jumping from the steamer Herman Livingston On
the last trip of that steamer from Savannah to New
York
Reports from Southwestern Georgia give
more favorable accounts Of the crop prospect. The
wheat is nearly harvested and the yield is much
above the The promise is better than it has
been for years.
The prospects of an abundant and profit
able strawberry season in New Jersey are very en-
couragng. In every part of south Jersey, where an
interest Is manifested in the raising of strawberries
the crops appear more than usually PROMISING
The General Synod of the Lutheran
Church in the United States at its recent session in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, decided to hold its next meet
ing IN Harrisburg, in May. 1868. The Synod holds
its sessions biennalIy.
W. L. Whittemore, of Ell Paso, ILL.,, has
lust received verdict of S3l25 against the Illinois
Central Railroad Company. The plaintiff was put off
The cars and kicked by the conductor on account of
some dispute about his ticket.
The laying of the corner stone of the
Douglas Monument at Chicago has been POSTPONED
from the 18th of June to the 4h of July when it is
intended to make grand affair. The Masonic fra
terDity will conduct the ceremony.
In conference of negro preachers in
South Carolina, one of the preachers was charged
with having two living wives. besides the one at
present with him. The colored Bishop ruled that he
must not preach until he shall be relieved by Pro-
vidence of his difficulties
Pork and beans, it is said, are to be pro-
vided for Yankees in tho restaurants at the great
French Exposition. next year. They will be novel
ties to such Americans visit Paris The true pork
and beans Yankees not often seen on the Boule-
Yards.
The annual Convention of the Young
Mems Christian Associations of the United States and
Canadas will be held this year in Albany beginning
Friday June l. At the close of the Convention, the
delegates propose taking an excursion trip to Mon
real and vicinity.
"A letter from Governor Brownlow, at
areenville, Tenn, says he has Investigated the ex-
rayagant accounts of the whipping and driving off
II Southern men, and finds that all the outrages are
by small bands of lawless men, made up
# discharged rebel and Union soldiers combined for
,lunder.
In boring for coal at st. Joseph, Mo-, a
lepth of three hundred and fifty feet has been
cached. Two veins of coal have been passed-one
Eighteen inches and the other two feet thick Below
he second vein brine has been reached; it is said
much sensation in the city if oil had been struck
We have fallen on pestilential days.
cholera in the Orient, Italy and South France.
Crichina in Germany; Rnderpest in Russia, Holland
md England whereunto the Sheep Plague is added
these not all. Even the birds in Italy are dying
oy thousands of miasma, and marine epidemic on
he coast has made shrimps of the French oysters
Mrs. Keble, widow of the late Rev. John
aeble, died at Brookside. Bournemouth. England on
he llth instant, in the same house where her hus-
,and died. The London Star says that on the reno
a Of her husbands body to Hursley she begged that
lis might be kept open for hershe should not
,e long apart from him.
The Court of Inquiry in the case of Pay
master Paulding have concluded their investigation
md rendered their finding. They find Col Paulding
;uilty of the technical violation of the Paymaster
Generals circular forbidding the transfer of Govern
nent funds from one bank to another; but acqut
lin of any corrupt motive or personal interest in
making the transfer.
Ten thousand four hundred and nine ty-
eight emigrants arrived at the port of New York last
week. principally Irish and Germans. The Vice
Consul of the United States at Hamburg says that
10000 emigrants to the United States have already
engaged passage at that port alone; of them of
The best class Of people, with money for the support
If their families on this side
"A correspondence the Boston transcript
announces the appearance of new star in the
Northern Crown. Among the most singular cireum-
stances connected with the phenomenon is the
almost unexampled rapidity with which its light has
diminished. On Monday, May l4th. its brillancy
vas estimated at 29 while on the following Satur-
lay it was only SIS.
Reports have reached Atlanta, Ga, of a
IL
Fla negro was arrested for some offence and COM
mitted to jail, and large number of blacks assem-
bed and attempted to rescue him. whereupon fight
ensued between the party and the town officers. in
which the Marshal was killed. and several citizens
The Portland Argus says that Capt J. J.
Boyd. has secured patent which will make com.
plete revolution in applying buttons to garments By
this invention buttons be attached to any part of
wearing apparel without the of thread. The in
vention consists solely in making the button with
wire to be inserted into the cloth like corkscrew
and then pressed down fat so as to form ring to hold
the button in place.
Reports have been received at Chatta-
nooga of the murder at Resaca, Ga, of Union man
named Willis. his way home from church with his
wife, Six men, armed with guns, suddenly appeared
the roadside and ordered him to halt One villain
leVeled MS gun, Wnen MrS. W Ills caught the aSsaS-
sims hand and the ball passed over Mr.. Wiss head.
The rest Immediately fred all the shots taking effect
killing Willis at After cursing and abusing his
wife, the murderers fed.
On the night of the 22d, three men en-
tered the house of Mr.. Levi Harbour, about three
miles south of New Berlin, Sangamon Co., Ill.,, and,
after binding him, his wife and son. who asleep
at the time of the entrance robbed the house of $3.50
in gold, about $50 in silver and $1620 in greenbacks
and decamped, leaving the occupants of the house
bound. They remained in that condition until re-
leased by the neighbors next morning.
George W. Pridham, of Portland, Me-, a
painter at the repair shop of the Grand Trunk Rail-
road while engagedin painting the inside of tender
suddenly fell and assumed the appearance of man
deeply intoxicated. He was taken home, and soon
after went into convulsions attended by lockjaw.
physician was called, who decided that his condition
was the result of inhaing the poisonous vapor from
the naphtha in the paint.
"A gang of horse thieves in the neighbor-
borhood of Harrisburg, Pa, whose depredations had
given farmers and others much trouble for some time
past, has finally been broken UP and the leaders
captured and imprisoned. A man named Wilson. 9
pardoned convict, seems to have been the chief o
the gang, and the officer who effected his arrest !,
about to be the recipient of substantial reward fo,
bis success in bringing the party to justice.
AT the time of the explosion of the nitro
gycerine in the yard of Wells, Fargo Co., in San
Francisco, lad was sitting at his desk writing
while plastering and timber fell around without Sc