Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-19
MISCELLANY

A ten per cent. interest law has passed
! the Georgia Legislature,
-jacksonport, Ark, is rejoicing over the
, disappearance Of the s-atl-poy.
! The people OF Columbus, Ga, are rais-
ing money TO erect a monument to the ConGederates
/ who fell in the war.
"A fire occurred at Alexandria on Thurs.
day night, consuming the King Stree. Theatre. Loss
| estimated at $1,000.
Chicago has something new 70 boast Of It
now claims the possession of the most noble palutaI
! eating house on tho continent
| At Ieas. Thousand persons have perished
in te storms Of the Of the English coast within
! tho brief space Of tho last few weeks
| Among the recently elected directors of
| the First National Bank Of New Orleans, we notice
| tho names of Gordon Granger and T.. }. Heron
lately major generals il the army the United States
| The Ship Young Mechanic, of Rockland,
| Maine. lately sailed from Boston to Calcutta in
esbty-ninc days, and returned in cishty-eight avs
the quickest passage made between those norts
In New Y Yorji rents begin to decline. and
its believed that Ley will yet approach n ,bo min.
Of reason. In other cities it is said, oere has been
! similar sivins away.
The first army wagon. used by the national
army in the war against oa rebellion has been pre-
served, and Will tsu-c in the Worlds Exhibition at
| Paris, next year,
The widows IN india are growing sensible,
1aty are beginning to marry again instead Of burn
ing themselves on the funeral piles of their deceased
spouEcs. The innovation has caused profound SEN
| saton.
In the Capitol at Washington there are
ten aud half Of halls galleries rojaudas, H.
| brarics, ante-rooms and corridors. The man vine
| walks through each one from end to end viii have
| travelled some miles
| brigham Young has been made forlou
wiIoweE twenty eight times during his coniuga ex-
| peEielce. lie euiufes his many bereavemeuts with
| the forttude Of Dahomcy chief One hundred and
| eighty-Gvc comiDrters are still spared to him
-"BolIy,' a leading gambler of Cinc;n-
natl, distinguished himself the other day by escortip
= crowd Of shoeess refugees from North Carolina
into shoe store, covering their feet with leather ana
paving the bill
One member of Congress, from q West.
ern State, hai no friends to whom to ;i7e his avo
tickets to the Lincoln commemoratjg, cerc,pcnips
and accordingly sold them, ma siu, Gfty dollars by
tae operation. -
"a man Gro. .,sIng the Mississippi in small
'oat tho ,eT night was wedged in by ice, and his
boat mashed He got upon cake of ice, where ne
remained twenty-four hours floating to st. Louis
forty mies-betore he rescued. lie found
| almost sensoless from cold, but will live.
William b. Astor is held greatly respon-
sibe for the awful rise of rents in New York. lie
owns about eighteen hundred houses. One of his
small houses was rented for $500 Last year he raseS
the rent to $780, and charges, this year, $500 for
the same.
The number Of Valentines set down as
delivered in New York the l4th and 18th insts is
over $500, which does not include the very ,oanv
thousands under the modest wrapping of the ordi
nnubfIass tbnr ,Lar &C.
syes of love or folly and frolic will ean 100000
Out of population Of five thousand,
Fredericksburg gave one thousand two hundred to
the Confederate cause. Over one-tenth of the num-
Der were killed or died in the service and at least
Ten per cent more forever disabled. This rather
heayy on small place. At the present time there
are twenty blacks to one white man in the town.
John q. Quigley who dropped, supposed
70 be dead, at NorwaIk, Conn, Sunday, was
beng shaved in preparation for the grave, but in the
operation his face cut with the razor which A.
the blood flowing, and Mr.. Quigley arose, resuo mod
his garments, and went about his business. ost 90
hough he had never been dead.
"A passenger who was on tho stea,osr
liami. recently lost in the Mississippi; river i'm
i'rineu 'tO JuSV peiore the accident tho water was
30 10" N inc ooer that 1t W us literally at white
neat and then the engineer instead Of blowing Off,
and allowing it to cool, let on cold water and this
horrible tragedy was the result
An act has beenpassed by the lower House
"t the hentucky Legislature authorizing the inter-
marriage OF negroes and muIattoes and legalizing
lAe relation of those who have heretofore do now
i've together as husband and wife. The same act
makes tia criminal olense, punishable by condne-
nent in the peuitentary, not less than five wears for
any white person to marry negro or mulatto.
Another young American lady, saws
Paris letter to the New york Herald has baor MAJ
ried into the ranks Of the French aristocracv and
bears the title Of Countess Miss ate PbaIen dangb
ter OF James Phalen' Esq. of New York, was YES
eraay married at the church Of St. PHILIPPE de Roule.
20 inc COUNT n harmonic de Lara. An elegant deaer
which Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow and Gen, scbofeId were
present 1hls is the second daughter of Mr. Phalen
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