Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.

| Memphis, Tenn, has put up Lighthouses
in year.
In one small town in Vermont there are
fifty widows.
The eight hour bill has been defeated in
the New Jersey Legislature.
| The Notifications on the "Battery'' at
| Charleston are being leyeled for promenade ground
Prince Esterhazy is now negotiating a
loan of 600 to pay off his debts His jewels arc
| valued at f320,0OO
Many bets are pending in Albany on the
| question Of the pardon of Ketchum during Gov.
| ernor Fentons term of Office
The Pittsfeld, Mass, coal dealers not
having yet heard of any reduction in the price Of coal
continue to charge S16 ton.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a law
to punish horse stealing and burglary by night with
death.
DR.. Winship, Of Boston, now weighs one
hundred and sixty pounds. is thirty two years of age
and can lift ton and a quarter.
Mr.. Perrin, of Woodstock, CT, with a
nice for the fitness of things hung himself in his
Slaughter house.
The United States steamer Macedonia
has arrived at the GospoIt Navy Yard. to be fitted
as a school-siip for the Annapolis Academy.
The criminal records of England show
that only one actor ever banged there. Thiswas
in the seventeenth century. for highway robbery
The Rock Island Paper Mill Company of
Columbus Ga, ANNOUNCE their purpose of rebuilding
their paper-works at an early day.
"A scheme has been started in Italy for
paying the national debt of that country by popular
subscription.
Every paper in New York advocates the
adoption of the new system Of fares graduated ac-
cord 10 roolp h. ID,-J,
-Reports are current of arrests in Lower
Canada for treason. At al points on the frontier
there are skrmish lines extending many miles.
"A SLAYER has just been captured by Span
ish frigate off the coast of Cuba Several hundred
slaves were on board, some estimates making the
number as high as l,500.
The Wisconsin Senate has adopted reso-
luton striking out the word white from the Sec
ti0n in regard to qualifications of electors by vote
of17 to il.
1t is stated that the summer boarding
places along Long Island Sound are already mostly
engaged for the season. the fear Of the cholera in
York causing brisk demand for them.
st. Petersburg letters say that the Budget
of Russian finance shows deficit of a. 0q0 900 rou-
bes. Considerable dissatisfaction exists with the
present Emperor's administration and economy.
Patti has signed her engagement of three
months with the st. Petersburg Opera. She is to
have ti00 per nigbt-that is $1,000 for her three
months stay in that capital.
The firm of Fanctta, Friedman & Co., to-
baeconiss, of Chicago have been mulcted in the sum
of ST500 for making erroneous internal revenue re-
turns of their respective incomes.
The freight trains of the Norfolk and Pc
tersburg railroad are bringing cotton into Norfolk
from Georgia and Tennessee. One thousand bales
destined for the steamer Ephcsus will arrive by the
same route in time for her departure 10 Liverpool.
Captain Smith, of Georgetown, Conn.
accidentally dropped coal of fire into package Of
damp powder the other day, and leaning over to blow
the coal away, lost the sight of both his eyes by tie
explosion.
"A rock battle between whites and blacks
occurred in Richmond. Va. On Tuesday Stones
were freely used on both sides, until the police ap-
pcared and Guelled the disturbance. It came Of
some white boys chasing coIored soldier
The Solcl of Paris contains letter from
Victor Hugo, in which the veteran waiter declines
the offer made by the editor of $4,000 for his new
work Les Travaillcurs dc la Mer.' to be published
in the shape of tewi7etoa
The Buffalo On. " Commercial says
that among those who apply for lodging at the sta
ton houses of that city often appears the of
one, now 4 years of age who formerly was cIassed
"A case is now pending in Rhode Island,
in which Il wealthy man married. and, dying soon
after left viii, that made before his marriage
His estate is valued at 81 100000 and his widow is
left an expensive and very doubtful lawsuit instead
of large fortune.
The Columbus Ga, Enquirer of the 10th,
represents the weather during the present month as
enough for May. Plenty of dust in the streets
and no rain. With the continuance of such weather
even peach bloom, it says, will be fully developed be-
fore the end of the month.
"A descent was made on body of snug
glers at Bristol Mass, on Sunday. The goods were
in barn, where the officers found twenty bar
rels of rum covered up under the hay and about
-, - ''ioi!-.a cigars ir hores ahout the size of
box, and sixteen demijonns Or tt,tuus VI
In the French. Chamber there are IS
lawyers IS mayors 80 officers of rank. IS merchants
II literary men. y bankers, magistrates 60 physi-
clans, chamberlains. and 2 equerres to the Empe-
ror. Eighty-four only of the members are in the
habit of addressing the house. and of these 13 only
good speakers.
General Sheridan has gone to the Rio
Grande to look after his troops there who are very
disorderly, and likely to breed trouble with the
French and Mexicans. Generals Thomas, Meade and
Sherman who were waiting for him at st. Louis will
proceed to the business of organizing the ArnyBoard
without him.
Lieutenant General Granthas ordered that
commanding officers of posts and depots WILL as soon
possible after the arrival of deserters their posts
forward charges to the Commanding General of the
department in which their posts or depots may be
situated, who will with as little delay as practicable
take to have the deserters brought to trial
"A new method of shoeing horses has been
trial in Paris for year more past. By it the
hoof is but little cut away tho shoe is light the
f,otr +he nd SoI tn
naturally, while the horse never slips. 1t has been
tried successfully for some months on the omnibus
horses.
Hon. Tappan RObie, of Gorham, Me-,
has presented that town with the money to procure
monument to the deceased Union soldiers of the
place. The town has accepted the contribution and
the monument has been placed in front of the town
house. The town has lost fifty soldiers in.the war
whose names will be inscribed upon the marble
Out of forty-eight candidates, the Paris
Imperial Society of Surgery has chosen the following
ten foreign correspondents: Donders of Utrecht
Longmore Of Netley Hospital; Bilroth of Zuricb
Brown SeQuard of Boston; Holmes Of Londor.
IIumphry of Cambridge Gurlt of Berlin: Neudorfor
of Prague Smith (probably Stephen SMITH of New
York. and Emmert of Berne.
AT recent meeting of the institute of
Technology, at Boston, there was an interesting dis
cussion upon the danger of steam-pipes passing
through and in contact with wood. 1t was shown
that the wood, by being constantly heated. assumes
the condition. to greater or less degree of fine char
COAL condition the most favorable to spontaneous
combustion. The danger is of course greatest when
the pipes pass through pine wood
~ was a sugar-planter once, but l didn't
make anything by it. said Yankee oster to a COM
pany of Maine capitalists whom he overheard talking
the hotel steps about going South to buy up plan
tati0ns, and work them on large scale. You a
sugar planter, Josh !" exclaimed one of the capital
lists, with great SURPRISE when was that? Tell us
what you know about it." Twas when buried my
old sUeet- heart"
The jailor at St. Johnsbury, Vt, last
week suspcctng that two of his prisoners were con-
cocting some plan for escape, made an examination
of their CELL and found that they had taken the zinc
from under the stove. and melted in the hollow of
stove leg, had slung shot in the ashes. They
were ready to knock down their keeper and make
their escape. The timely discovery frustrated their
plans.
On Sunday night last, the 18th instant,
the county jail in this village consumed by fire,
leaving nothing but the bare walls standing. Two
negroes charged with larceny were confined there at
the time, who, it is thought, fired the building and
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