Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS-.

berland to Pittsburg elected considerable discus
sion. The airline advocates seem to be indulging
high hopes. from what took place on the motion tc
enlarge the committee.
GENERAL. NEWS.
Honolulu dates of the 9th ult. state that
the eruption of the great volcano has ceased
Thirteen Massachusetts sportsmen re-
Gently caught .692 pounds of fish in eight hours
The cotton harvest in Algeria is magnif-
cent.
"A single transportation company in St
Louis has made engagements for 100000 pounds o
freight to Montana Territory.
There is a great deal of sickness prevail
ing in Lexington. By.-spotted typhoid fever auG
pneumonia.
Horse and mule stealing is carried on to 9
large extent in Mississippi by negroes and white
outlaws.
-Ihirty-one fishing vessels arrived at Glou-
cester. Mass, from the Georges last week. They
brought over 100000 pounds of fish,
The Sandusky Register says twenty acres OF
vineyard sold Friday, within one mile of San
dusky, for $4,000.
The Egyptian government on the first OF
January, for the first time, commenced the use of
postage stamps.
Tia Colombo by Gounod, and 'EZildan
by Flotow, are in preparation at the Paris Opera
Comique.
There were in China in 1865, 1877 mis-
sionaries, including ladies. Of these 80 are Ameri-
cans, II English and is are German.
"A bill before Congress proposes the coin
age of five cent pieces, composed of copper and
nickel, to take the place of the five cent currency
The unfinished marble hotel at Portland,
Maine, was put up at auction on Saturday. 1t has
cost about $l5O0OO.
R. M Reid's grocery, in Fredericksburg,
was robbed of $3.50 in gold and greenbacks a few
nights since.
The value of the property left by Richard
Thornton. of London. is 92592,99s. and the legacy
duty paid upon it amounts to fl50260 lis.
In New Orleans, recently, two men en-
gagged in carrying down corpse, had each leg
broken by the stairs giving way.
Old Rome is increasing in population
She had 20 inhabitants at the close of last year.
having gained 3.449 in 1865.
"A negro is said to have been killed at
Spotsylvania Court House, Monday. by the explosion
of an old SHE'LL
The bridge over Alligator Creek, North
Carolina, is scompleted, and the Wilmington and Man
chester trains now run through.
"A Montreal dispatch says the excitement
has almost ceased there. Full 10000 troops appeared
parade on Wednesday. The expense to the Cana
dian for defence is about cooper day
The Paris Patrie says that the new Prus-
sian frgato Hussar. lying at Brest, had enlisted
French sailors, but they were subsequently disem-
barked at the request of the authorities.
1t is stated that the plays of Sophocles,
Euripides and Eschylus and other classic authors,
are shortly to be performed at one of the Paris
theatres.
One day last week a stranger in st. Louis
was swindled out of $1,000 by gamblers Afterwards
they generously presented him with $50 to enable
him to return home.
The President has finally approved of the
distribution made by the official board of rewards
offered by the Government for the capture of Presi-
dent Lincolns assassins.
"A new Baptist church was dedicated in
Chicago on Sunday, the 18th inst. The dimensions
are, length 165 feet; breadth 112 feet; height OF
steeple $50 feet.
The grain remaining in the New York
Central Railroad Company's elevator and saved from
the late fire was sold at auction Wednesday after
noon for $2i 500.
Some people wonder that under existing
circumstances the price of milk in London has not
risen. But the riHderpest does not affect the COW
with iron tail.
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this country and the New York Clipper says she has
refused guarantee of $22 500 for hundred perform
ances in New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
AT St. Paul, Mimi, on the night of the
10Th, the thermometer indicated II degrees below
zero. This was twenty-four hours before the cold
snap" reached Rochester.
"A letter from Florence Nightingale dated
at London, Feb 2sth, speaks of her health as even
mo- dalioatn than IL hos hean Sha |
ways and entirely prisoner to MY room andlatterly
to position"
The Rev. Blunt, at recent meeting in
London. said that not long ago a woman had taken
him in with pteOus story that her husband had not
had days work for six months. 1t true for he
night watchman.
AT a recent fancy dress ball given by the
ultra fashionabes of Paris, Asia was represented by
a Russian lady. whose hair. arms and dress bazed
with the light of diamonds. Her entire outfit cost
$4,000.
Samuel Owen recently shot and killed
James Torrey. his half-brother in Fayette, Miss
The afray was witnessed by sister of the parties
Owen surrendered himself and was released on the
ground that he had acted in self-defense.
Mrs. Mansfield, who stabbed and killed
her husband. Jacob Mansfield, in Madison county,
Missouri last month, has been tried and acquitted.
1ue ucCt6Scu was ~ years OF uBe, DuL was IN tDe
habit of cruelty beating his wife while he was under
the influence liquor.
"A large and earnest meeting of working
men was held in Akron, O., on Tuesday evening, a
week. to take into consideration the feasibility of es
tablishng city market, with avew to protect them
selves against the exhorbiant prices asked for
the necessaries of life
The Monroe LA. IatelRgencer says that
an immigration society ought at to be organized
in that section. The requisite quantity of laborers is
not In the country. even if every negro should desire
to to work. and should labor as well as before the
war; There are not more than half as many laborers
in the two parishes of Ouachita and Morehouse as
wanted now, and for another year the want will be
still more seriously felt
The Wilmington Dispatch learns that at
the tournament at Laurensburg, N. c., on Wednes-
day last, Major d. G. Monroe and Mr. August Shaw
became involved in dispute, which resulted in the
former knocking the latter down, whereupon Shaw
quickly arose and shot his adversary through the
head killing him instantly. Major Monroe leaves
family, his wife being the daughter of the Rev. P
Mcpherson, an esteemed Presbyterian minister o
Robson county.
MIR. Hughes, of Cincinnati, has sold the
patent of his telegraph to France for and t,
Italy for 120O00 and is the point of concludins
another very profitable arrangement with Russia
ne is reaplug rlcner harvest from MS inventor
than Prof Morse who received but 400 00Of from al
the European governments together In addition t,
the emoluments which Mr.. Hughes gained in Rus
sia the Czar has made him knight of the Order o
St. Anne.
The United States Consul at Port Mahon
Mnorca Island under date of February %, informs
the Department of State that the United States mer
chant vessels eagerly sought after about the Med
erranean and preferred by freighters to the YES
sells of any other nation. He says that within yer,
short time past American vessels could have beer
chartered to advantage. The grain trade from tn,
Black Sea offers profitable employment to American
ship owners, and is now nearly monopolized by tn
Greeks,