Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-04

CEREBRAL NEWS.


fatally poisoned few days ago, by chewing pieces Of
enamelle3 paper collar
Fifteen thousand dollars were realized by
tde Washington Artillery of New Orleans. at u ball
last week. for its disabled members.
The Mobile Ala Tribune has news that
portion Of the State militia will presently be called
out to assist the police in the preservation of public
order.
in Cork, Ireland a short time ago the
crier of the court endeavored to suppress the crowd
by exclaiming. "Au ye blackguards that isn't law
yers, lave the cOort"
"A Providence man lately put 500 in a
straw bed for safe keeping, and went away for few
days When he returned he found the bed filed with
fresh straw and his money hopelessly gone.
"A New Bedford paper says that one
pound and fifteen ounces of butter we're taken from
one milking from a Durham owned there, and
insinuates the fact as challenge to such as may be
interested.
The Asiatic Society of Bengal, originally
established by Sir William Jones. has transferred its
museum and collections of all kinds to the Indian
Government. who to use them a grand scale
as the basis Of q royal museum
On Sunday morning, on the sloop James
Coates at Poughkeepsie, \. y. one Of the hands
name benjamin Hunt had his head completely sew
cred from his body by coming in contact with the
main boom. Hunt leaves q widowed mother.
The fact that twice in the course of few
weeks the London Fire Brigade was not once called
cut il the space Of twenty1our hours is considered
fact of sufficient Importance for the newspapers to
chronicle it and congratulate the insurance COM
paniea.
The O8t DeW&chc Post Of Vienna states
that large number of about be sent
from that city to Acclimatization Society of Berlin
k,F1E IL,
colony, and 10 destroy the catcrpiars. which commit
| great rIyages in that country.
The steamer James Raymond, which ex
pIoded near Memphis, on the Mississippi river. on
Tuesday, was old and dilapidated vessel Tho dis
aster caused by old crack in the boiler, which
was discovered after the slaughter. Two lives were
lost and fifteen persons badly injured by the accident.
Capt. John Ericsson is to be paid S13, $50
his reward in full for planning the United States
war steamer Princeton, and experimenting the con-
structon of the machinery of the vessel. Mr.. Ercs-
has realized large fortune By his improvements
and inventions during tho war.
| Mrs. Mowatt Ritchie, whose literary and
hisJrionc talents have won for her high reputation
is at present residing in London being prevented by
ill-heath from accepting the very eligible offers she
mas had. both in this country and in England, to
| appear on the stage.
1 ~ CuAlOua IhCud5G LAS .uSj DCCu colab-
| lished in the Jariin des Pantes. In an iron cage
| have been placed young ioness, an Algerian wild
boar and ttIs dog. This last is quite the master.
the lioness generally amusing herself with teasing
| the boar. When, however the loness goes too far
| the dog intortercs ard re-establishes order.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says that
since the close of the the lumber interest has
sumed great proportions in different sections of the
South, particularly the Florida coast in the neigh
| borhood Of Pensacola Bay and Key West. a large
nua,ber of saw mills in process Of erection in
| that locality.
The works of George Inness have just
| been sold in New York. The pictures without the
frames. brought about $500. Peace and Plenty
put up 50 800, Withdrawn; the largest prices
obtained were follows: Sunset" S5lO; Delaware
Wafer Gap" S40O; Over the River $685. Smiths
| Pond. $3.50.
| Gold has been discovered in Indiana.
The indianapolis Journal says 1--WE have seen and
| examined some gold from Brown county, and it is
as near the pure metal and is found in as large guam
titles, it is in California Old miners that the
| mines in Brown county will pay equally as we'll il
not better. than the mines Of the golden Fl Dorado
Along the line Of the Nashville and Decatur
Railroad, between Columbia and Pulaski, during
thunder storm last week, half mile of the telegraph
wires melted, and divided into small fragments
a bUckshot or small rifle ball. The glass insula
tors used and the poles shiVereG into frag
ments.
| -Renan and Add -el- Kader recently met a
| Damascus. u. Renan, who speaks Arabic, was con
ver3ing with the Emir of the past and present. lie
US speak of you," said Abd-e!-Kader, 'and of you
/ Life Of Jesus" You have then read it?" said N
Rcnan, with surprise. The Emr sent for the volume
| and opening it, said, ''sce not only have read il
| but hare annotated it." The Life Of Jesus" an
notated by AbdelKader. is certainly curious work
and what is still more strange. the Emir thinks 0
| publishing it.
The Troy Times of Saturday has the fol
lowirc-Last evening" a son of the Emerald Isle wa
quietly wheeling barrow the sidewalk on Fiftl
street. 1t was Of course in violation Of city Ordi
nance A. c. ?. observed the offending Fenian, ant
directed him to take to the street Pat looked at III
blue coat moment with sort of contemp:uou
suile then picked the barrow up, shouldered it,
marched off on the sidewalk, whistlipg wearing 0
the green" as he walked along. The policeman
seemed to enjoy the joke as much as Pat.
"A man named Hermann, who had lonl
exhibited as Lion tamer" was proceeding with hi
performance a couple of weeks since, at town il
, Lower Austria. lie entered the cage with serpen
| on his back, and according to custom, placed hi
head within the open jaws Of Senegal lion. It wa
his last exhibition for the animal suddenly
its native rocy and before the head could be with
drawn it shapeless mass, the lion having liter
ally crushed it. To prevent other mlshaps the kin
G. the forest despatched by firearms.
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