Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-20


The Surgeon General has recently had
constructed a very beautiful model of the Hicks
General Hospital in this city, which is designed to
be sent to France for exhibition the Paris EXPOSE
ton in 1867. The model is made of wood, and is in
the scale of one inch to twenty feet.
The steamer George Washington, of the
Cromwell, New York and New Orleans line, arrived
in New York on Saturday making the unprecedent-
edly quick run of five days and eighteen hours from
New Orleans city. II is stated that this time has
never been equalled.
Plans have been drawn up for the con,
structon of large network of railway embracing
the whole of the interior Of the Austrian Empire.
The expenses are to be betrayed by the issue of rail-
way bonds to the amount of 100000 forms, bearing
interest per cent? and redeemable within thirtytwo
years.
-Thos Jewett of Georgetown, Mass, one
of the survivors of the class of 1877 at Harvard COL
lege, died recently at a very advanced age. He had
long been in quite INDECENT circumstances and was
almost forgotten by his contemporaries. Only two Of
his classmates survive-the venerable Rev. William
jerks. D. D., and Horace Bnney, LII. D. of Phila-
delphia.
The Union dead at Fort Pillow are being
re-interred in a neat cemetery over which monu-
ment is to be raised. The rebel dead remain neg
lected by both friends and foes. The work of disin
interrng the rebel dead buried upon private property
in the Shenandoah Valley. to beinterredat Winches-
ter, is now being prosecuted The graves of the Ma
toual Cemetery, at Andersonvlle, to be planted
with flowers.
1t is related of Lord Cockburn, that he
was once sitting on the hillside with bis shepherd,
when. observing the sheep reposing in the coolest
situation. he remarked, John, if l were a sheep. L
would lie on the other side of the hill" The shep-
herd answered, "Ah. my lord. but if ye had been
sheep We would haze had mair sense"
Mr. Aaron Sargent and his family of four
members were driving home in Royalston VT, du-
ring the storm Saturday last, when the horse in
the darkness walked off the bridge into Millers river
throwing the whole party into the stream. Mr.. Sar-
gent escaped and saved one child; but his wife and
the other two children were drowned.
An English journal remarks that the taste
for living out of town becoming as general in Paris
as in London and Paris correspondent writes that
most of the French authors and publishers leav-
ing the gay and crowded capital for queter and
cheaper retreats in the adjacent country.
-Thirty-six thousand ''moves' occur on
an average every year in Paris-generay IN April
The business of moving" is carried on by firms of
great skill in handling furniture often packing the
furniture of a whole house in one van.
| At Liverpool, recently, Mr.. Charles Ma
thews. the actor said to friend: By the way it is
exactly 81 years since made my first appearance in
Liverpool" Dear me! in what character was that?1
asked the friend. In the character of baby was
the reply. Il was born in the next street just 81
years ago."
"A white man in St. Louis became enraged
at negro, the other day, and was about to strike
him with brickbat, when the colored man fell back
on reserved rights Look here white man, don't
you strike with dat ar rock-dont you do It, sar.
I'd have you know dat wen you strikes me you strikes
a Bureau"
"A New Haven lady has little boy about
two years old of dark complexion who was sent into
the sitting room to amuse himself. Soon his mother
heard crash and on going into the room found fine
mirror broken into small pieces On being asked
what he had done it for he said he not going to
have that curly head "brack" boy making up faces
at him
On Friday evening as train No. 8, on the
Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, was
stopping at Alliance for supper, old gentleman.
whose name unable to learn, bound West"
was robbed of the neat little sum of s. 600 in greens
backs, How it was done or by whom is mystery