Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-29
MISCELLANY.

Boarding house lady-"Do you like meat
rare, sir?" New lodger-' No, madam like it three
times day."
C. F. Brooke, of Rhode Island, was re-
Gently garroted in Richmond. Va. and robbed of
$1.7OO.
"A dispatch from Colfax, California, says
that snow-slde had occurred there, buryng house
ten feet deep and killing one man.
Out of 30O,0 900 persons married in Eng.
land in 1863, only 1S2,4O8 were able to sign their
names.
Thomas Hargrove, an Old and well known
citizen of Richmond died suddenly on Friday last
from heart disease.
Miss Longworth, otherwise known as
Mrs. Yelverton. has suits pending against three
English newspapers for libel.
Ten thousand ''notces to quit have
been given to tenants of houses which are be pulled
down to make room for new streets in Paris
"A polite youth in Weatherfeld, Conn,
knet to assist young lady hurt his knee, took cold
and died from inflammation.
The laws passed in Wisconsin, few years
ago. abolishing capital punishment. are to be re-
pealed and the old laws revived Reason-murder
rampant.
Nobody ever lost anything by love-"
said sage-lookng person. THAT is not true" said
young lady who heard the remark, for l once lost
three nights sleep"
After recent English execution, men
went through the streets of London selling pretended
pieces of the fatal cord at two-pence for "alf an
ninch."
An account Of the recent marriage Of the
Princess Anna Murat states that the whips of the
coachmen cost twenty dollars each, and the silk
stockings of the footmen thirty dollars pair.
Miss Rose Murray died in a fortune tell
er's chair in Brooklyn, n. Y, the other day. The
mysteries of the future revealed to her without
the idle gossiping of the soothsayer.
The Providence Press makes the incredible
statement that Hartford photographer has succeed
ed in taking picture Of himself, trundling himself
home in a wheelbarrow.
The grand jury Of Lafayette County,
Miss, have found true bill' against General A.
j. Smith, T. S. A.. for burning the court house and
town of Oxford in the summer of lS64-and that is
probably all they will find.
The largest sum received for a poem by
an American writer was paid to Robert Trent Paine
for his famous song, Adams and Liberty" That
spirited composition brought its author Sll line,
which was about $1.5O a word.
An EngGshman by the name of John
Naylor of Higay recently died at the great age of
one hundred and seventeen years, as was shown by
his baptsmal register. Up to the time of his death
he was an active walker and in full possession of all
his faculties.
Another sensational report has been start
in Canada to the effect that several iron plated bal
looms are being constructed in the atcs of the Fe-
nian Headquarters, Now York, which, as soon as
ready, will be filed with Fenans and proceed to Ire
land, taking Canada the way.
Col. Parker the Chief of the Seneca In
dans who is on Gen. Grants staff and who has been
employed as engineer upon some of the most i'm
portant public works in the country, studied law
about twenty years ago, but was excluded from the
bar because his color.
The young men of Rushville, Indiana
have signed pledge to abstain from the use of all
intoxicating liquors for one year, on condition that
whenever one of their number violates the pledge
his name is to be published in both the county
papers.
The New York Express has the following
"Tf brooks are, as poets call them the most joyou
things IN nature. what are they always murmurin,
about?" The Boston transcript suggests that Jim
and Erastus should be able to answer their own ques
ton.
The Portsmouth correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser says some conductors on railroad
in that State have been living of the rate of severa
thousands year on a salary of $50 a month, ant
rapidly accumulating property. The stockholder
smelt rat, and detectives set a trap and caugh
them.
General Iilson reports from Georgia thai
the planters are much more generally disposed nov
than they were before New Year. to treat freedmen
fairly and consequence conflicts btween the two
classes are not frequent as formerly. The black
badly used in some counties last fall tha
mostly left and there is great demand for labor
The commander of French man-Of-wa
has been extorminating the cannibal Inhabitants o
village in the island of New Caledonia, in the Pa
cifc they having been guilty of killing aud eatins
the captain and four of French vessel who fel
into their hands 4 French garrison has now beer
placed on the island.
"A Paris butcher has obtained authority
to open shop for the sale of horse-lesh, on cohd
ton that he will construct special slaughter house
for the Horses to be placed under the superntend
ence Of inspector. The opening of the shop is tc
be celebrated by banquet ct which horse e-meat will
form the principal dish.
The kentucky Senate has passed an act
to incorporate negro bank at Louisville one of the
ncorporstors being worth 100000. They put II
provision, however, that the said bank shall have
no connection with the FreedineH's Bureau ana tina
persons shall be permitted to act as officers who
have ever lived in Boston, Mass"
-Twenty-six letters from Eoltaire to the
Margarine of Baireuth, sister of Frederick tn,
Great, have been discovered by Mr. George Horn
| among the papers of the Baircuth family and havt
been published by him. They cover time from
l1i2 to lTjS, and said to present curious anl
interesting picture Of German court life Of the period
The John Brown song seems to have beer
adopted in the British navy. serious disturbance
recently took place on board Her Majestys steame
Iaoplar OF NoIpor,;s,
| fusing to come up when the watches were cae,
and beginning to shout and yell in chorus Wei
hang Commander Patten to an old apple tree" &c
At the time of the great fire at Augusta
Maine, last September, the Augusta Bank held stat
| bonds to the amount Of fifteen thousand dollars
| which were destroyed with other books and paper
belonging to the bank. The officers of the bank hav
pettioned the legislature to authorize the State Urea
surer to issue to them bonds and coupons Of lik
amount, upon filing satisfactory bond or indemnity
The Catholic Patriarch of Abyssinia ha.
addressed memorial to the Emperor Napoleon
setting forth the grievances Of Roman Catholics il
that country as hardly less ntolerabe than those
which Mr. Cameron, the English Envoy, and Other
English Proesants subjected 1t is to be hoped
that Napoleon and Victoria will combine to bring
the Emperor Theodorus to reason.
The Californians are in doubt whether
they have a Legislature or not. The last one in has
tly passing resolutions in honor of the late President
Lincoln, concluded with Resolved, That this Leg
islature do now adjourn" which was accordingly
done. 1t is cOutended that 5y the terms of the
resolution the Legislature adjourned sine die, and
cannot legally get together unless by action Of the
Governor in calling a special session.
About five weeks since a gentleman
named wilkins, 55 or 80 years of age residing il
DanYers, near the plains, woke up in the night and
surprised his wife by saying that he wished he was il
heaven. The next morning he went out and has not
since been alive. On Tuesday of this week a
nephew of his from the West was out cunning and
found body in an old peat house. which proved to
be that Of Mr.. Wilkins. No especial reason is as
signed for the act.
"A notorious fellow named VIM Roach
made an attempt upon his own life in Boston, a few
days since which is regarded as unfortunate for the
community in that it was not successful He IS the
same person who caused the death of Lieut.. Hunter
of the navy, in the fall of 1852 by beating him in
North street. The Journal very benevOlently sug-
gests though he discharged a loaded pistol in hi.
mouth and blew off the top of his head that 1T is
feared that Roach will recover"
1t is estimated, says the London Times
that about three hundred thousand fat cattle, repre-
senting about ninety thousand tons of beef ar,
taken for our annual supply. But it is also estirq
ted that eighty thousand tons OF fish of the Iarg.,
and finer kinds enter into the years CONSUMPTION
independently of sprats, herrings, and shellfsh
There is reason therefore, to rejoice at hcannounce
me thnf I tha ,lv. oF ,,,s Il.