Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-10
."Going to Columbus again. 7 sun

-"Going to Columbus again. suppose?"
remarked Jones, the conductor. Haven't been
there yet said dead-head; II can't get to ride
more than six miles before they put me off. don't
think III get on more than two trains after
yOur'n before Columbus will be the putting-off
place." WELL do you think we can carry you IN
less you pay your fare ?' inquired Jones. Stop
her." quietly remarked dead-head well, l do
think, said JONES' :" of all the brassy individuals
ever met, you rather ahead of them ALL I'll take
you there for your impudenoe and nothing else and
dead-head was carried into Columbus on the same
train he started on three days before.
The editor of the Louisville Journal, al.
uding to a recent interview with the President says:
We expected to find the President weary ana worn
and haggard. Never were we more mistaken. He
was in the finest and most vigorous health his face
as fresh as in earliest manhood ere the storms of
state beat upon him, and as calm and serene and
cheerful as if only the responsibilities of a private
citizen rested upon him. 1t would have been evident
to any one, seeing him we saw him, that he is
firm, resolute, self-poised man. confident, but not
vainly arrogantly confident in his own strength
and as immovable as a rock or mountain in his own
deep and fixed purposes. His will is like his frame
and that is of IRON
The returns made by the express compa-
MES to the Internal Revenue Bureau show that the
past year has been highly successful one The re-
ceipts of the leading companies were as follows:
Adams, S6,9426S5 American, $3,746, III; United
States, $685.; Wells Fargo Co.. 1913 $685. Harm
den, $643l72 National, $2S6,773; Central S2O4 1861;
Kingsley, $139.417; Castle Garden, $3S, 1893; Long
Island Sl6,il4; American and Europe, S16S4S.
Five children of Moses jackson of North
cumberland. N H., died of diptheria wi thin ten days
in January last viz: Jan. Il, Ward, aged years;
Jan. b. Martha, years; Jan. IS, Decatur, years
Jan. 10, Phebe L., II years; and JAM 81, Owen, y
years. The four first were all lying dead in the house
at the same time
An eccentric character named Moody
Kent, died in Concord. N. H., a few days ago. A
writer in the Boston Journal says he native of
Massachusetts, was educated at Harvard College,
studied law, and practieed his profession until 1892
when he retired. His love of money was his pre-
vaing characteristic, and he died worth half mil
lion dollars, at the age of eighty seven. He never
married and leaves neither parents, brothers or
sisters.
-Commissionor Newton, of the Agricultu-
raj Department during the past week. received some
valuable specimens of fruit seeds and cereals from
different portions of the United States and Europe
The museum, containing large number of speci-
mems of fruit vegetables, birds. insects reptiles &C..
has recently received quite number of additions in
the shape of stuffed birds. fowls &c.
Fears are expressed that Chinese labor
will run out the white aborers in California Seve-
raj railroad companies have discharged their white
laborers and are employing these people, who work
very cheap There 10000, and they are pour
ing into the country in great numbers
The unconstructed rebels in Mexico are
described seedy and blue, and one letter writer
says Almost every Confederate who comes down
from the interior ends the narration of his experience
with, Whenever can scrape enough money together
to leave this id country, I'm going home again u"
The health officer of BROOKLYN, N. Y.
has secured the voluntary services of forty eminent
physicians who will inspect every house. street and
alley in the city, in order to thorough cleansing
against the cholera
There is a new ''burning well ~ in the oil
regions, on the Lake farm, near Pithole city 1t is
proposed to extend the tubing the top of the der
rick so that the fame may illuminate the surround
| ing country.
Mr.. L. Provost is going heavily into the
silkgrowing business in Pocheco about forty miles
| from San Francisco toward Sacramento. He has
| been extraordinarily successful.
The O'Conor Don, member of the British
Parliament for the county of Roscommon, ireland,
| is among the latest arrivals in New York.
The Instructions in Mobile Bay are to be
removed by the Government.