Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-22
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.

Henry 7. Duke, citizen of Richmond,
Va died suddenly in that city on Saturday last
The salary of the Governor of California
is $14 900 per annum in gold.
During the past twostor three weeks ff.
teen cases of smallpox have occurred in Erie. Pa.
The annual revenue of the established
church of England is equal to S3OO.OOO,0OO.
"A Senator who is connoisseur in fine
arts. remarked upon BrumidTs DECORATION of the
interior of the Capitol dome. that it looked like
Jupiter surrounded by the Canterbury girls"
A man named Ellis has made preparations
to hatch sixteen thousand chickens" by steam,
during the coming season, his ranch the Ameri-
can river, in California.
The Patterson, On. J.) Press reports that
an unusually large apple crop is expected this year
Consequently champagne ought to be abundant and
cheap.
w. S. Bransom, a citizen of Richmond,
was murdered by negro near Yorktown, Va. few
days since. 1t is reported that the negro has been
arrested.
The Connecticut Legislature has rejected
a bill providing that no man seventy years of
age should make will The irreverent member
who introduced it ought to look out for bears.
The London Quarterly RerieD states that
the quantity of now required for one years con-
sumption in England, in sealing patents for inven-
tions alone, is upward of q tun and two hundred
weight.
George Ward, the Oldest Odd Fellow in
the world and of the signers of the first dispen-
sation" to America. died at Preston, England, re-
Gently, after half a century's connection with the
order.
About 40 tons of "toads," weighing ten
or twelve pounds each, and spotted trout weighing
from half pound to three pounds, are annually
caught out of Moorehead lake and sent to Boston
and other markets.
An old lady who recently visited Oneida,
New York. was asked on her return if the canal
passed through that village. She paused awhile and
answered, Il guess notI didn't see it, and if it did,
it must lhave gone through in the night when was
asleep"
There is a woman living in Lancaster,
Erie county. New York, in whose stomach o snake
has taken up its abode-so the physicians have deci
ded. Two years ago snake one yard long. was re-
moved from the stomach of New York volunteer
soldier, while stationed in Southern State.
Two sailors who shipped On board the
pirate Shenandoah in the Kamschatka sea- last sum-
mer turned up in New Bedford recently. When
they Joined the pirate they offered large pay
but only were finally showed ashore in England with
out penny. .-
The Cincinnati Times says that the friends
offs. N. Pike are determined that the Opera House
shall be rebuilt the old SITE in its former magn
cence They propose to raise the money that opera
tions may be begun the lst of March, 1867 Isaiah
Rogers, architect is said to be drawing the plans
The Memphis Ledger says the great havoc
which has been made in the cotton fields bordering
on the Mississippi River by the present overflow is
appalling. 1t is exsggeration to say that ,un-
counted thousands of of land prepared for cot
| ton have been abandoned.
| 1t is announced that National Tobacco
| Fair is to be held at Louisville, Kentucky on May
3Sth and 18th. and that representatives will attend
from Pennsylvania. Ohio. Virginia. Tennessee. Indi.
ana. Illinois, Missouri Kentucky. and several other
States. This convention will no doubt be of great
\ advantage to the tobacco trade.
| William b. Shoemaker, Sheriff of Gen
| try county Missouri. died suddenly on Tuesday last
under circumstances that raise the suspicion that he
! committed suicide. He was found dead in the road
with pistol shot in the head. He is said to have
| become perplexed in his tax accounts and had fol
| some time been detected and melancholy.
One William Holt was arrested, tried an6
convicted of the murder of Susan B. Smith, on tn,
18th Of March, 1866, and is serving out a term o
Imprisonment for life in the Michigan State Prison
But recent developments indicate that Holt is npo
cent and that the person who fred the fatal shot
still at large The eSse is being carefully worked nj
| bv the State authorities,
| The Jackson county wis., Banner re
norts that six Indians recently attempted to murde
| a. family named Warren. residing in that vicinity
4 The peighbors however. came to the rescue an
dreye the savages off before they had succeeded i
| accomplishing their deyilish purposes. The peopl
| of the neighborhood up in arms, and are boun
to secure the guilty or kill the entire band.
Major General Benz. Grierson is at presen
At youngstown, Ohio, on visit to his former friend
The General formerly resided ip Pittsburg and is re
membered by many of our citizens as an exceller
musician. He was pupil of Prof White. the leadt
Of whites Pittsburg Brass Band" which was cslt
brated in the western part of the State some fftee
or twenty years ago for its proficiency. The Profe
sor is now leader of the Youngstown Brass Band an
serenaded the General on the evening of his arriva
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