The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-11-17
NEWS ITEMS.

was witnessed DO&C race. luo 0ntIIcc iuClU-
ded Is French men-of-war boats, pulling 16
oars each, and an American cutter, pulling IL
oars. Notwit Outstanding all attempts, very un-
scrupulously made, to foul and lead them out
of the course, the Yankee boys were winners
by two boats length. Cherbourg seems to be
fated ground for European naval contests, when
their craft are matched against vessels built
by American mechanics and manned by Amer
can seamen.
MS-A fire in Alderman Blocks House in
Fredericton, New Brunswick, was announced
by dog. Here is the story "The fire was
first detected by Newfoundland dog, the
property of Mr.. Block. The noble brute, with
almost human instinct, tore his way into the
house by means of one of the doors, and arous-
ed the family by his barking, and then ran to
the stable door which he endeavored to open.
80 that the horse his almost inseparable COM
panion, might escape. There he remained
struggling though ever effort was made to en-
tice him away, and when tho fire went out he
was found lying dead at his post"
1ss>The theory that petroleum is not to be
found east of the Allegany Mountains is found
to be incorrect by the fact, as we are informed,
that oil has been struck in a well now being
bored on portion of the lands formerly be-
longing to the Somerset Iron and Coal Compa-
ny Of Pennsylvania, situted in Somerset coun
ty, ten miles northwest of Cumberland, Md
the indications are that it will be one of the
largest producing wells in the country.
Ms>One skate factory in Worcester, Mass,
has consumed during tho present year 5000
gross of screws, two tons of brass, 1000 pounds
of German silver, nearly six tons of rosewood,
and ten tons of STEEL which have been worked
up by thirty five men and women into $4,000
pairs of skates. 1t also uses annually $4,000
brass thinbles which are inserted in the wood
and to which the runners are affixed, effectual-
ly preventing the splitting of the wood
Mg-The systematized efforts of the large
Democratic ring which has been industriously
at work to secure the removal of Commissioner
Rollins and the appointment of Spooner, of
Ohio, in his stead, have been for the present
defeated by the President referring the case to
Secretary McCulloch, who is opposed to any
change being made. Mr.. Rollins is busily at
work in getting up bis annual report, which is
made direct to Congress.
MTThe New York papers announce the
breaking up of various specializing movements
in the necessaries of life in that city, " hich
has caused a most gratifying decline in prices.
Pork has fallen four dollars q barrel, wheat
from FIVE to eight cents bushel, and corn
eight cents a bushel. Buyers, it is reported,
even at these reduced figures, are very scarce.
TEA single firm in London consumes, on
an average, the whites of two thousand eggs
daily or six hundred thousand annually, in the
manufacture of albumnized paper for photo
graphic printing. 1t is estimated that six
millions of inchoate fowls are sacrificed to the
sun, in this way, in Great Britain.
Mas-According to Washington despatch,
Democratic politicians from Maryland there
say that Gov. Swami will urge the Legislature
to create some militia system at its approach
i'm, Of Eaapipn ho toto
from falling into the hands of the Republicans
in the future.
ms-It is understood that Thad. Stevens, at
the opening of Congress, will move the APP
pontrnent of joint committee, charged with
the duty of investigating the official conduct of
President johnson, and reporting what action,
if any, is required by Congress.
My-The bill making habitual drunkenness
a sufficient cause for divorce has passed the
Vermont egislature-l3 to ll--with an amend
ment requiring that the drunkenness be of two
years Duration previous to the finding of the
libel.
EsS-The Chicago Times the leading Demo-
cratic journal in the Northwest and the Bos-
ton Post. the organ of the Democracy in New
England, both advocate the granting of the
right of sutfage to the colored men.
GaS~The Virginia Alleghanies are swarming
with game. party from Albemarle, who en-
tered the mountsins from Staunton, killed 81
deer in five days. One buck weighed two hun
dred and fifty pounds.
ErR. B. Goodyear ran as independent
candidate for Congress from the first district of
Maryland, at the recent election, on the plat
form of impartial suffrage, and received Is
votes.
@-The Franklin county (Pa.) Republican
Convention met Chambersburg on Monday,
and instructed their delegates to the Legisla-
ture 10 vote for Governor Curtin as United States
Senator.
MN-At Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Roman
Catholics are erecting cathedral to seat four
thousand persons, at q cost of one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars
m~General Pile, Congressman elect in the
LIST Missouri Congressional District, has brought
a suit against the Missouri Republican for SLAM
der, laying his damages at $4,000.
M~Two Fenian prisoners named Daniel
Wheelan and John Quanar, were tried recent
ly, at Toronto, found guilty, and sentenced to
be hanged on the 18th of December.
Ms-Gov. Swami has appointed Thursday,
the goth instant, as day of thanksgiving
This isthe same day designated by President
johnson.
Ng-One hoop-skirt establishment in New
York uses, three tons of steel daily, and gives
employment to 1900 persons.
Gs>The English papers report that the re-
ceipts of the Atlantic Telegraph Company now
average from $4,000 to $4,000 daily.
mrJohn A. Bingham, Of Ohio it is said in
Washington, is preparing articles of impeach-
ment against the President
n&-The national debt has been reduced
S2l5,OO 900 within the past fifteen months.