Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-09
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.


telegraphs in the north oftho kingdom
The Worcester police court has raised its
tariff on poor drunkards.rom 81 and costs to 50 and
costs and for second offence S3 and COSTS instead Of
81 and costs.
The Western colleges, academies and
semuares better patronized this year than ever
before, and among the pupils are large numbers of
veteran soldiers.
reports from Florida represent that emf
grants pouring into that State from every direc-
ton and the papers say that they are welcome espe-
cially if they bring money.
The Buffalo street railroad company is
insovenC, and its property in the hands Of receiver
What cost $l75,CG0 is offered for $4,000, with no
takers.
The report comes to us from Paris that
arrangements are being made for visit of the Sew
enth New York Regiment to the Exposition Univer-
sale.
At the recent election in Madison, Wis,
thirty-fve negroes exercised tho right of suffrage
under the recent decision of the supreme court of
that State.
The great bridge across the Ohio river at
Cincinnati is said to be nearly completed. 1t is two
thousand feet long, and Of the spans, measuring
thousand feet is said to be the largest in the
world.
Gen, j. Watts DePeyster, of New York,
recently gave dinner to Captain I.abouohe, of the
British army who had attained his Tooth birthday
and was one Of the guards upon Napoleon Bonaparte
at ST. Helena.
1t is said that s. ". Pike, the proprietor
Of the Opera house in Cincinnati proposes to erect
magnificent opera house in New York city. III has
been offered s. GO a foot fer one hundred feet OF
ground on which the burned building stood
Joseph Bridges, the pioneer locomotive
burg Cambria county, on the $0h ult., aged fifty
FIVE years. Thirty years ago he ran the first locomo-
tive built west the AIloghanios.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Haskell. Of West
Gloucester, Mass celebrated the sixtieth anniversary
Of their wedding few days ago. Mr. Haskell lives
III the house where he was born eighty-three years
ago.
The Commissioner of Pensions having
received large numbers oi communications from all
parts of the country, asking whether pension money
can be attached for debt, has issued decision that
such money cannot thus be attached.
In England the income of tax is six pence
upon every pound. about q per cent. During the
fiscal year just ended, the aggregate Incomes upon
which taxes were collected we're 81 .652 645 and
the amount Of tax was Sal 100.
The Oldest man in Rushville county, Hi
nois, is Mr.. Jordan Rhodes of Huntsville. He is
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carries easily two busbe sack fmeal on his shoul-
der, and can walk hriSky any of his neighbors
"A man at Globe Village (Southbridge)
who left of chewing tobacco sey era weeks ago has
since gained twelve bounds Of flesh. His appetite
meanwhile has increased to an alarming extent and
1t is feared he viii DO obliged to resume tobacco or
starye to death.
N far from Fort Caspar, or Platte bridge,
on the old Oregon and California route, and about
ono hundred and thirty miles west Of Fort Laramie
there are situate some coal oil springs which run f
teen hundred gallons day. This location is in the
Black Hills, three miles from the Red Butts.
"A letter written from New York to
Southern paper asserts that there is in Wall street
southern minister who "outproach" any three of
the ablest diyines in the city, engaged in the gold
and general brokerage business, and making great
fortune.
BY the simple invention of moulding com
mon bricks with dove-tailed grooves. in various
ways, by means of whieh they can be more firmly
cementcd together, decided Improvement in the
construction of brick walls appears to have been
cured at little or no additional cost.
Many of the Weather families of New
York, Philadelphia and Boston are going to spend
the ensuing summer in Europe. Some of them are
already packing up to go. All the steamship lines
anticipate from this source a more profitable season
than they had at any time since the beginning Of the
late war.
On Wednesday, the 18th ult., Mr.. Andrew
Pinkham, Of Alton, n. IL. partially deranged.
left his home, and not returning, was unavaingly
sought for by his family and neghbors until the nexr
Monday, when he found dead in a piece of
woods, in Clifford, about mile from Lake Village
and twenty miles from his home.
The St. Paul Press of the Goth saws work
men engaged in excavang the cellar for the Schur-
meier Block in that city havo found vein of silver
and copper quartz. A nice legal question has arisen
on it. Does the vein belong to the men who struck
it. to A F. Parker who has tho contract for excava-
ting if, or to MIR. Schurmeier who owns the ground?
The Montreal papers state that in the
Court of Queen Bench tho prisoners charged with
attempting to kidnap George N. Sanders have been
formally acquitted. This has happened through
technical bundor in taking the depoitions before the
Police Magistrate. by whom the prisoners were com
mitted
The New Orleans Picsyune, alluding to
the statement that c. W. Howard and Judge Sbaffer
of California. have the largest dairy farm in the
world, covering seventy-one thousand acres, says
that the Ranchero Carisi!as. of the CavaGos family
between Brownsville and Corpus Christi in Texas
covers over eighty leagues, or more than four hun
dred thousand acres
An unknown woman, too poor to pay the
fare across the regular bridge, at Troy NJ Y, on
Sunday evening, attempted pass on the long rail
road bridge, and becoming dizzy, fell through into
the wa'e and was drowned. No one knew her namo
history but it is supposed that she was the mother
of little boy who found crying in the streets for
his mother on the same evening.
The dairymen of Cincinnati have met and
resolved that the price cf pure milk, on and after
May st shall be ten cents per quart. This news Is
he reverse Of eucOurapinp to fhe hO have
been anticipating reduction in the cost of living r
consequence Of the decline in gold. The press of that
city very naturally solcits information in regard to
the assumed fact upon which their decision is based
The average value of one hundred and
fifty dwelling houses on Beacon street Boston, is
$4,000. The houses of Gardner Brewer and
james N. Beebe worth about $780, COO each David
Sears house is assessed at Sl559OO the house of ihe
late II. G. Otis at Sll5.GO0, Congressman Hooper's
house at Sl25,00O, Z. R. Mudges, S6SOO0 and II. Il.
Hunnewcll's at $40 900.
Three young workwomen in good health en-
tered in the service of Paris manufacturer who
gagged them in filing boxes with those dangerous toys
known as Pharoahs serponts. After continuing their
work for days only they were seized with alarm
ing Illness and were obliged TO be removed to the
Lariboshire Hospital. Their lives have been saved,
but their health is forever gone.
The only prisoner at the Massachusetts
State prison. at CharlestOwn subjected TO close
dnement for life. is James Wilson, whowa ncarcera-
ted in 1858 for the murder Of a fellow convict named
Adams. He committed the deed on the very day he
had completed sentence for stealing. lie was for
merly good mathematician aad metaphySician, but
he has lost most of his mental powers by his long
confinement.
South American wool shrinks an average
Of 81 to 6S per cent, frequently the latter in
sorting and securing it. Cape of Good Hope wool
about the same. The American fleece woods from o
to IS per cent. according to fneness, the fine wool
shrinking most. Canada wool about % per cent. II
is understood that there is breed of sheep in Ner
mont whose leeces weigh 2S pounds, and yield only
four pounds of wool.
Already Paris is astir with projects con-
nected with the great exhibition. A company has
been formed to rent all the various apartments in
Paris with the object of underettng them to visitors
at their own price. The Compagnie Generate Immo-
biierer which owns the Grand Hotel, the Hotel de
Louvre, and many other buildings in Paris. has
issued prospectus for the sale of three millions of
francs stock for the erection of the Grand Hotel de
ihxposition in which they propose to give visitors
| chance to live at reasonable rates.
"A wedding took place in this city last
| week. which offered convincing proof that all the
money has not been spent yet The bride was Miss
| Allaire and the groom Mr. Walker The bride was
| dressed in white satin of