Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-11

was Venementy discussed IN snort speeches, eDdln;
at last in the passage of the contested amendment
by two-thirds vote.
GENEEAL NEWS.
No change has been made in the form O
the plow used in Sicily since the time of the Romans
The Emperor of the French was born a
the Tuileries on the goth os April 1905 and has row
therefore, completed his 5Sth year.
The 3lst of December is the favorite da,
for getting married in Scotland and fully one-twen
ueth OF tho weddings of the year occur on that day
-ArtemuS Ward is at his home in Water
ford, Me-, and sails for Liverpool June p to Lecture
to the English on the Mormons
The Agricultural Bureau is in receipt O
swarm of stingless bees from Honduras. They arr
said to be excellent honey y-makcrs.
The English Admiralty are about to have
the whole Of the japanese coasts and rivers accurate
~ surveyed. This is ominous for Japan.
The English Admiralty are about to have
the whole Of the Japanese coasts and rivers accurate
ly surveyed. However, the English are not yet mon
archs all they survey"
The Germans in Newark, n. j., are in.
augurating measures for the establishment of hos
ptal in thar city for the accommodation of their el
low cohntrymen.
AT Boston the harbor police boat is or.
dered below to intercept and place in quarantine
every craft that may be conveying the seeds of pes
thence among its freight or passengers.
Different sounds travel with different de-
grees of velocity. a call to dinner will run over
ten-acre lot in q minute and a half while a summon
to work will take from five to ten minutes
"A prize fight came off at Plthole on Friday
afternoon last, between two bruisers named Hogan
and Ellott-Elliott came off badly whipped. Hogan
delivered himselfup to the officers for trial
The Emperor of Russia has sent special
commissioner to this country to investigate the work
ing of our internal revenue laws and especially the
tax on incomes.
In Adrian, lady observing building
with stcope. asked her gentleman attendant: What
church is that?" The gentleman. after reading the
sign, Deuge, No. g." replied: 'I guess it must be
the Third Baptist"
"A weaver in a Scotch manufacturing town
has been presented by his fellow workmen with a
silver snuffbox for his independence in refusing to
remove his pigsy when ordered TO do 50 By the
tary authorities.
The late volcano, which upheaved a new
island in the Grecian Archipelago also brought up
tulrigged ship with all her mast5 SET She had been
no one knows how many years buried in the bosom
Of the ocean.
The sum Of $1,000 has been set apart by
the government of Canada for the purpose of having
that country represented at the French Exhibition
collection of geological and neurological speci-
mems has already been begun.
"A Cincinnati paper says that a peach
grower in that vicinity has ten thousand trees and
will perhaps get ten bushels of fruit On full crop
he would have received profit of ten thousand dol
lars at the minimum price.
At fair in Massachusetts the average
weight of men found to be 14l 4 pounds of wo-
men 124}5 pounds. The largest man rejoiced in 2O3
pounds of flesh; the largest woman in 274 pounds
The number weighed was % 900 persons.
Captain Montague, Fenian gentleman,
of the Swceny type is out in very bitter letter
since the killian fasco, demo uneing O'Mahoney
without stint, under the new name of "O'Make-
money"
The former cordial intercourse Of Northern
and Southern divines gradually being restored In
Washington city religious conferences of various de-
are held and clerical speakers from all
parts of Virginia, Maryland, Alabama, the Caro-
linas, &C.. take active parts in the exercises.
An artist in Paris committed suicide re-
Gently. because two pictures of his not adudged
of favorably. He left letter for his brother, in
which he said that the fact showed that he had no
talent and when has no talent at 40, it is time
to die"
The oldest man in Illinois is Mr.. Jordan
Rhodes of Huntsville. He is over one hundred and
four years of age, splits rails, carries easily two
bushe sack of meal his shoulder and can walk as
briskly any of his neighbors.
"A party in New York purchased over a
year three hundred and fifty bales of cotton for
which he paid some $3.50 per pound. That cotton
kept until lately when sold at thirtyseyen
cents per pound, inticting upon the the ter
rble loss of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in Blackwood's Magazine is an article on
"Demenology at Home and Abroad"-in which the
writer states that late August, 1861 a man so
years of age flung into mill stream in the parish
of Sible Hedinghan, and "swum for wizard and
died Of his maltreatment, in Christian England.
-"Mother," said little Ned, one morning
after having fallen out of bed Il think know why
fell out of bed last night. 1t was because slept
too lear where got in Musing little while as
if in doubt whether he had given the right expana-
ton, he added, mo, that wasn't the reason; it was
because 1 slept too where fell OUT.
An injunction has been granted on the
application of several stockholders Of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, restraining the directors
from disposins of certain assets of the company, on
the ground of fraud in the sale of one of them. The
argument was set down for yesterday at New York.
Mr.. Wentworth, of Illinois, asked and
obtained leave of absence for three weeks from the
House of Representatives on Saturday week. but an
nounced that he would not avail himself of the
privilege unless he could effect pair on the ques-
tions Of liberty, of economy, and of keeping whisky
out of the Senate.
"A gentleman residing on Walnut street,
Philadelphia started for Europe a few weeks SINCE
leaving his horses and corriaopS in chorpe Of his
coachman. But few days elapsed before the coach
man sold one of the carriages and horse and then
fed from the city. Four horses that left in the
stable remained without food for over DAY, before
the fight of the coachman was known.
The Union Passenger Railway, of Phila-
delphis, took n contract recently for carrying the
local mails with view of evading the State law and
running their cars on Sunday. The contract went
into effect ysstarday-but the Postmaster General
has notified the company that he will sanction only
two trips on each Sunday-ope in the morning and
one in the evening.
Louisville is suffering from visitation of
rats. and a city ordinance is proposed giving pre-
MUM of a cent head for every Norway rodent tha
shall be duly produced before the city treasurer 1t
Is said that man of ordinary industry, working
eight hours daily, may earn from five to fifteen dol
las per dag by killing rats, even at this low rate
Such is the eupdity Of the male nur ses
in the Paris hspitais, 8iIauaed by dealers in hair
the moment fem ale patient dies kerwhole head Of
hair is cut off, One ma,s nurse at the Hotei Diaa is
said to have made 500 francs ~ selling the hair and
teeth Of dead patients his ward TOR dentists are as
eager purchasers of eorpses teeth as hairdressers
are of corpses' hair.
The Rev. E. B. Farchild says that while
in Palestine. he met on the banks of the Jordan twv
English clergymen filling an assortment of cans and
bottles with water from the river. The water was
intended for the baptism of children on their return
home, and one remarked that it would pay the ex-
penses of his tour to the Holy Land-as he would
not baptize child with it for less than "a note
"A man named Watson, in Mississippi, who
was supposed to be the leader of gang of horse
thieves was taken by the citizens killed. and secretly
buried last week. His family was told that he had
been compelled to leave the country, but bis sister,
in-law found his body and had it taken to Starkvle
and an inquest held on it. Trouble is anticipated
There are said to be some ten thousand
places in New York where intoxicating liquors are
Sold Of this number it is supposed that about one
half, or at least between three and four thousand
Will be suppressed under the operation of the new
excise law and these the lowest of the groggeries in
the city.
In the lower part of Hardin county, KY,
coal oil has been used successfully in the cure of hog
cholera. In one case several hogs in lot of which
seventy had just died, cured by drenchng them
with two taolespoontuls of coal OIL repeating thu