Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-25
NEWS OF THE DAY,
CONGRESS-.

Three men were killed by sun-stroke i
| New Orleans last week.
John W. Forney is a candidate for the e
! S. Senate
Eight hundred and eighty-nine dogs wer
drowned last week in New York.
| The farmers of Accotinck, Va. are elate
over good wheat crop.
| "A batch of sneak thieves have bee
caught and cased in Hagerstown, Nd.
| "A. L. Stewart has purchased Kellogg
Princess after the Bath, for $4,000.
| 1t is thought the confederation of tn
British Provinces will be completed in August mex
"A man in New Hampshire committe,
suicide six days after he was married.
| IA Woman in Black has been commit
| ting forgeries out West. She has thus far elude
| detection.
| Several representatives pledged to vot
for Schuyler Colax for Senator have been nominate
| in Indiana.
DR.. Philip G. Slaughter died suddenly O
apoplexy in Fredericksburg, Va, on Tuesday nigh
last.
The Norfolk Day Book says sloop il
the Dismal Swamp Canal, few days ago, was robbie,
and two men on board murdered
Senator Riddle is detained at his home. il
Wilmington. Delaware, in consequence of n biliou
affection contracted in Washington
Mrs. Lincoln has presented the Chicapc
Historical Society cane of President Lincoln. Th,
cane Is handsome. mahogany stick, with buckhorr
handle, silver mounted.
1t has been officially ascertained that foul
of the Fenan prisoners under examination in Canada
were taken in the act of firing on British soldiers and
they will doubtless suffer death.
-Vha
Of Philadelphia is n visit to New York. They
performed Henry ", on Saturday night, for the
benefit of the New York Dramatic Union.
Henry P. White, a worthy Young man OF
Shepherds.own. West Virginia, was accidentally
drowned in the Potomac river on Saturday afternoon
last.
A microscopic marvel of art, from the LIE
carpenter collection. cherry-stone upon which il
carved . charge of cavalry was sold last month bv
auction at the Hotel Drouet. in Paris for $500.
In 1859, the lightning having struck the
steeple Of church in France. there was afterwards
found impressed on the cloth of the communion altar
the text of tho conservation prayer contaihcd in
book lying open close by.
Three photographers of Warsaw have
been sentenced to fine of 100 rou5es each for hay-
ing produced portraits of Kommissarof the peasant
who saved the Emperor's life, the shadow of which
depicted the head of an ass.
The average whaling catch of last year
was better than that of the year previous The work
SO far as heard from this year. has been very
full in the Arctic sea- but not so fortunate on the
lower cruising grounds.
"A man named O'Reilley, in Jersey city,
tried to drown his wife in the canal She was saved
by her son. IL DID, who plunged into the water
and sezing her By the hair she was sinking swan
with her to the other side of the canal.
An intelligent gentleman at Columbus,
Ga. writes that the storm era in that region seems
past. Nothing like it has been known for forty years
and the correspondent declares that several localities
which escaped the direct ravages of the war, have
been scourged as fearfully as the Others
"A prize of $4,000 francs is offered bv the
French government for the discovery of the most
important application of the voltaic pile to indus
trial and scientific purposes Competition ia ofered
to all nations and the claim will be examined in five
years.
The cattle plague has reappeared in Ire
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about half mile of Brennan where the disease first
broke out. and about quarter of mile from the
boundary of the Gordon which was then made.
The funeral of General Cass took place
on Wednesday. at Detroit. Business was entirely
anu Oh inc city LOOK
part in the ceremonies. The sermon was preached
by Rev. DR.. ufield and the body was deposited at
Elmwood cemetery.
"A case of murder too horrid for recital
occurred Medina. N. Y, on the 18th instant.
clergyman named Lindsey, whipped his son, child
three old savasely that it died under the in
Fiction. In the statement before the coroners jury
the father confesses to have continued the chastse
ment for more than two hours.
"A family fete of great rarity has been
celebrated at 0lmutz. Moravia in honor of NJ. Wis
grill, landed proprietor. and his wife, whose united
ages amounted to just 200 years, the husband being
lob and the wife 81 They were married on May 25.
1871. and celebrated the seventy fifth anniversary of
their union.
"A despatch to q Boston paper from Ports
mouth, n. H., announces that the carpenters and
caulkers who dismissed for refusing to work on
the ship Simla, when docked in the Portsmouth
Navy Yard. have been re-employed. and Commo-
dore Bailey, who had discharged them, has been or
dered to report to Washington at once.
"A steer was recently Photographed at
Indianapolis. Ind. which was seventeen hands and
three inches high fifteen feet long. and weighed four
thousa and. one hundred and eighty-nine pounds. He
raised in shelbyville. Indiana. The owner said
he was of the common stock and declared his inten-
ton to increase his weight to five thousand pounds
"A man painting the cornice of h ouse in
Hartford few days snce fell from the ladder and
was supposed he was badly hurt. Immediately after
his fall young ran to the store to inform the
painter of the misfortune that had overtaken his
workman. The boss" listened to the description
of the fall and with the ruling passion still strong in
him. asked anxiously. did he spill the paintf'
Wolves and bears are unusually plenty
this season in the Adirondacks. and numbers Of
these animals have boldly penetrated to the settle
ments in the middle portion of Warren and Essex
coulties, New York. Several sheep. a few weeks
since. were killed in broad daylight in farm-yard
near Pottersville and two wolves and bear were
recently taken in trap in the village of Minerva
some Is miles from Caldwell, Lake George.
The Troy papers report a case of cholera
in that city. Mrs. Elizabeth Fox. living in Ida
Place. taken sick On Wednesday night and
died on Thursday. Cholera has also appeared at
Elizabethport, New Jersey. Mrs. ]. Bradley and
her eleven DID, have died, and there have
been four other cases. The Board of Health of the
town has adopted prompt measures for cleansing
and purifcation. and the disease is not extending.
-ASt. Louis paper asserts that during the
Crmean war an Englishman then residing in tha
city, raised company of Irish and English soldiers
drilled them in room over the United Stat es Dis
trict Attorney and marched them unmolested an,
unquestloned to England, and thence to the seat o
war. Money was raised in St. Louis to transpor
these men across the seas but neither the govern
ment nor the officers there attempted to interfere 70
the enforcement of the neutrality laws
The Able Paradis, sixty three years O
age. principal chaplain at Bicetre. was walking il
the Rue Vandamme. Paris. on tie morning of tn
18th of May. when he was accosted by gentleman
who asked him the hour. He replied, "Half-pas
eleven. tho hour of my death; never mind l al
ready, sustain me!' And before the latter reques
could be implied with, he grew pale. tottered,
fell to the pavement Medical assistance wa
instantly procured but he had ceased to live, an
the doctor declared the cause of death to be the rup
l ture of aneurism.
"A bull, on the way to the shambles, GO
on the rampage the other day in New York. II
] first encountered unfortunate bill stcker. whoI
| he tossed over his head scattering the paste in
| shower through the air. Rushing on, the peopl
scattering before him. he came near impaling lad,
and tore off part of her dress with his horns A ger
tie man, less fortunate. was lifted from behind m
turned q complete somersault in the air. By th
| time the animal was tired ands halted, while tb
crowd formed ring round him, keeping at respect
| full distance. Three policemen, with revolver
! pranced around, afraid to fire. but he was 6nalI
| lassooed with rope, and had his throat ignomir
iousy cut. -.---..-
The CHoLERA.-The New York Tribune of Satu,
| day says:
| One death from cholera occurred in this city We