Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEwS.

-Ihirty-fve thousand trees on the southern
coast of England were blown down by recent
tempest.
| Mr.. S. c. Halls attempt to erect monu-
ment over Leigh Hunts grave i'll England has failed,
| for want Of funds.
Mrs. Adams, a venerable lady of Livings-
ton' Ala. was struck dead by lightning while within
doors few days since.
Kentucky is the only State Of the thirty
six that has not adopted the constitutional amend
| ment
! There are in San Francisco according to
the directory. one hundred and ten thousand inEab-
itants
There are over 700 Christian conmu-
nicants in india 10000 in Burmah, and not far, it is
said from 10000 in the island of Madagascar.
| Madame Juarez, wife Of the President of
the Mexican Republic. is at Washington, the guest
| of Senior Romero
| "A company Of soldiers are exhuming the
bodies Of soldiers buried on the battlefield Of Shiloh
and hurying them in the cemetery near by.
| A young ladyof Augusta New York, aged
l6 years, committed suicide the other day, because
| she had lived as long she wanted to-"
The Petersburg Express represents the
country between City Poin. and that city scene of
| desolation.
One hundred negroes from Richmond ar
rived in Petersburg their way to work on the VOL
don railroad on Wednesday.
"A young woman in Roanoke county
dropped dead from surprise at seeing her lsng lost
brother.
The consumption Of wine is said TO be
progressively increasing in Paris. from its great
abundance and tho consequent reduction in price
Louis Napoleon has been visiting some of
the lowest and most turbulent quarters Of Paris in
phGton driven by himself. His escort consisted of a
friend and couple of grooms.
Information from Detroit states that with
in fow days past many deserters from Canadian
voluntoers have crossed to that city. and it is
rumored that many others coming.
An American eagle, upwards of two feet
bigh and measuring eight feet from tip to tip of his
wings, shot about week since, on a cake of ice
floating in the river. a few miles below Albany
The Houston Telegraph claims that the |
only dark wines in the world that can compete in
fair way with the Mustang wine of Texas are the
Madeira, Burgundy, and the Lachryna Christie.
"A well-known wood engraver, named John |
Thompson, died recently in England. Many years |
ago. together with his brother Charles he vas much
employed by French publishers when scarcely wood
engraver existed in France.
Tho Toledo Blade saws that the ice in the |
lower end of Lake Erie is as firm as at any time du-
ring the winter. From Buffalo to point some dis
tauce above Erie the ice a solid mass from shore to
shore.
The Lelande astronomical prize, consist |
ing of gold medal valued at 5l2 francs was present.
ed by the Institute of France on the 9TH instant to |
Mr. Warren De La Rue. an Englishman, for his re-
searches in astronomical photography.
"A chimney took fire in Gloucesteron Sun
day, and the alarm being given, the congregations
rushed tumuluously out of the churches in the mid
4 acF,r op1c
the crowd at the door.
The railroad bridge across the Cumber-
land river at Clarksville has been completed Trains
will Immediately run through to the Tennessee
river There is now but one gap between Nashville |
and Memphis which will be filled in a short time.
Sir S. Morton Peto, Bart. NJ. P, we learn |
by the last English mail, is unable to attend to the !
discharge Of his Parliamentary duties. or to any |
business in London, by an attack of ilh of some
severity.
brigham Young raised in his garden of |
two and half acres LAST year. $50 bushels of peaches;
4Gl do apples 2 do plums; 25 do straw berries do
pears . pounds of cherries; 1872 do. of grapes with
gooseberies raspherries. and currans in abundance
Scotland bids fair to rival PENNSYLVANIA
in that new source of wealth which consists in
"strkin' ile." According to the Inverness Courier
many large fortunes being made by the lucky
6udng Of petroleum deposits
1T is stated on good authority that Phila
delrhian, who, few years ago. had revenue Of
$4,000 per annum, and cut large splurge among
the Jon'on of the city, is now an attendant in an
eating saloon in New FORK, on salary of few dol
lars per week.
"A New Hampshire man has gone to Eng
land to represent the interests oftwelve New amp-
shire persons claiming to be heirs of the accumulated
and accumulating interest on the estate of Robert
Wilson v-hO dice in ENGLAND
ing property worth S6OOOOG0O.
Queen Victoria has instituted new deco
ration, to be styled the Albert Medal to be awarded
in their proper to such persons as shall endan
ger their own lives in saving in endeavoring to
the lives of others frsm shpwreck or other peril
on the sea
"A grand excursion on the ice in sledges, |
took place recently at Ulriksd al in Sweden the
tege being led by the King and Queen in person. The
loyal sedge followed by 50 other slcdges occu-
pied by gentlemen and ladies Of the court. diploma
lists and high funetionaries.
Rich SOutherners are buying nice resi-. |
dences in the fashionable parts of Boston, and are
going to live there. Over twenty frst-class houses
there have lately been purchased by Southerners,
who say they made fortunes during the war, and
have come Ncrth to invest it.
"A lady ip New London, Conn, got up
ont of bed the other night in her Sleep and walked
to the cemetery quite distance. in her nightcothes
in returning home she fell into pond, getting COM
pletey soaked through. When she arrived home she |
almost frozen.
"A jury IN London has given a verdict for
&22.50O 10 Rev. Mr. Eland and wife, who severe
y injured in the recent railroad accident at Staple
hurst. few verdicts like this in the United States
would go a great way toward making railroad com |
panies careful.
The West Baton Rouge LA. Sugar Plant |
says! up to the present time we have heard no |
complaints by tho freedmen of the freedmen. EN-
pOyer and employed appear to be satisfied Tith each
other. The freedmen disposed to carry out their
contracts in good faith working with diligence and
energy smacking of by-gone days"
"A new member of the English House of |
Commons who had the habit of speaking very slowly,
recently undertook to debate the cattle plague bill
and astonished the House by saying 1--WE had the
rnderpes the burst of laughter which fol-
lowed, the member wa2 permitted to continue. and |
added-"On my farm. "
The Lynchburg NelrS of the 27th ultimo |
says: I'VE regret to hear from gentleman who pass
ed over the Virginia and Tennessee railroad from
Wythesville yesterday, that the wheat looking very
badly. The unprecedented cold spells some weeks |
back have frozen it out, and the prospect for full
yield is by means fattering."
The New York Erepiag Post, in the !
of article the prices of paintings in
America and Europe. estimates that within the past
two years upwards of million dollars have been
paid in New York. alone for the works of foreign and
native arstsand this. too. while the country was
struggling under the inficton of tremendous war.
During the last year Of the war, the Post
Office earned net profit of $780, 900 from mail
service in the loyal States. The first three months
that mail service resumed at the South there was
loss in the whole country of $4,000. As the
mail routes are being extended over the South the
| deficiency rapidly increases.
An English astronomer, Mr.. George F.
Burder, of Clifton writes that spot orrather clus-
ter of spots. of very unusual size, may now be
ON the suns disk 1t is large 10 be conspicuous
Iy visible with the naked eye when the sun is looked
at through a coored smoky glass, or through fog
| of suitable density.
| In Quebec they are so afraid of the Fen
| ians that the gates of the lower town regularly
closed every night at a certain hour, and after that
no person can enter. Any in the suburbs requir
| ing a physician only get him by sending
sage to the gate, where other messengers sta
toned to be in readiness to attend to demands of this
| kind.