Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS,

complete destruction by fire of the palace Of Fua
| Pacha at Constantinope.
| There is great excitement at RAYMOND
Me- over the fact that farmer there has plowed III
| coal on his farm
| The floods in Western Alabama have beel
| very destructive. more so than for many years Th
freshet extends along river tract Of at least GOO miles
The wife Of Mr. Wm Cullen BRYANT i
dangerously i'll at her husbands residence, Rosyn
L. !.
The Massachusetts Legislature has enact
ed penalty of dollar for each trout caught be
| tween September 20 and March 90.
"A man some time ago made an assault
upon woman in Trim5ie KY. and tho case up fol
trial last week, resulted in the chap being fined $500
The newspaper venders in New Yorl
have been ordered to close their stands by oclocl
| on Sunday morning in future.
The estate of the late Calvin Fletcher, O
Indianapolis. Ind, is valued at from l,5GOG0O tc
| 50, ,0O0. 900.
"A bear weighing over 800 pounds wa:
killed on the 22d instant the farm of L. J. Boy
ington. in Warsaw township, Jefferson county. Pa.
The car drivers in New York render yalu
able services to the pckpockets by putting out the
lights at night, and by other little accidents.
"A youth in Louisville, ten years old, forged
note bearing his mothers signature and raised forty
dollars worth of goods upon it.
1t is said that Sir Morton Peto, the Lon
don banker, already sees way out of his difficulties
and viii soon resume payment
DE Lave, the acrobat, proposes to walk a
wire stretched over Niagara Falls carrying his wife
and son on his back
VIM: Book, charged with the murder of
James Lesage. in Queen Anne's county, Nd, has
been tried and acquitted
1t is reported that the hog cholera is rag
ing to an alarming extent in different portions of
Amherst county Va, many persons having lost all
they owned from this fatal disease.
Gov. Burnside has appointed as his aides
decamp gentlemen who have served under him in
thewar and have most honorably represented Rhode
Island in the field.
1t is given out that Santa Annals Com
mssioners have returned from Washington with
satisfactory represent He is at Elizabethtown
New Jetsey.
The coal dealers of Chicago, on Monday,
reduced the price of Lehgh coal five dollars per ton
at one jump. 1t sells there at SIS per ton with
prospect of another decline
Two sharp young country boys recently
caught seven young foxes near Rockford, Ill. They
took them to town. and made the Supervisors believe
they were wolves They got $40 bounty for them.
"A meeting of Texas planters was called
to take place in Galveston. on the 3Oth of May for
the purpose of forming Labor and Immigra ton Aid
Society for that State.
"A Jewish house, entire, has been exca-
waited in Syria dating two centuries before Christ 1t
is furnished after the Egyptian fashion, and parts of
the Old Testament were found in some of its rooms
Salmon fishing has been unusually good
~ Trnl IL 81.
attributed to the beneficial operations of the new
fishery law.
1t is feared that the cool mornings and
evenings in North Alabama. for the past ten days,
will injure the growing cotton. fair yield is how
ever anticipated The prospect for grain is excellent
In Richmond Va, on Wednesday last, q
white man convicted and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for eight years for shooting and robbing
colored man named Hawkins.
"A girl at Rockland, Me-, got up the other
night in a fit of somnambulism and cut off one-haIf
other flowing locks. She didn't know herself next
morning.
-"An honest man is the noblest work of
the Lords enthusiastically exclaimed HardsheD
Baptist; and then. after pause he added: but the
Lord hasn't had job in the world for fifty years."
The First National Bank of St. Louis has
experienced a run" by depositors. 1t was able to
satisfy most of them. and was holding its ground at
last accounts.
The Indian Peace Commissioners recent
ly arrived at Fort Laramie, Dacotah. There is
large attendance of the Sioux, Arrapoes and Cheyen
The prospects for treaty of peace are atter-
ing. The council was to open yesterday.
just as negro was about ascending the
scaffold to be hung in Clayton. Ala, on the 18th
inst, commutation of sentence to ten years imprs-
n
close thing.
further accounts are received of the al
legged poisoning by lead in Orange county 1t appears
there are heavy claims for damages against the pro-
prietor of the mill whence the poisoned -four has
been sent out.
"A Roman correspondent of the London
Morning Post states that the other morning one of
the priests of the church of Santa Maria della Pace
on entering his confessional, found murdered iE-
FAINT placed inside.
"A young couple in Jersey made arrange
ments to elope the other night. He stood beneath
the window. She threw out part of her wardrobe
to him, when along came policeman and arrested
him for thief. ''The course of true love-" &c.
The Sandusky (Ohio) Register of the 9th
inst. says: The wool was inaugurated by the
sale of two thousand pounds at fifty cents The wool
in very fine condition. Prices are ruling from
forty to fifty cepts.''
The Wheeling Intezligenccr cites the ami
mated business of the iron mills of that city as "A
evidence of the growing prosperity of that place
Heavy orders are reported from home and foreign
buyers.
"A woman, named Mary Noblet was ar
rested recently in Knox county, Ohio for stealing
meat and robbing and burning church library. 1t
is said she stole the meat and then stole the Sunday
school library to cook the meat with
An attempt is being made in North Car
olina to disfranchse ministers of the Gospel upon
the plea that they exempt from the perform
ancc of certain civil and military services such as
working roads, sitting on juries. SC.
In Utah, Judge Drake has denied the
right of Territorial Probate Courts to naturalize
foreigners. and has himself refused to naturalize
foreigners who practice polygamy as being in viola
ton of the act of Congress.
Five men, encamped i'll tent near Fort
Leavenworth. struck by lightning on May 10Th.
and four of the party were killed. The fifth barely
escaped, being badly singed. The lightning ran down
his back and shivered his boots but he will probably
recover.
. The Plover (Wis.,) Times says that the
local election, which should have occurred in that
place the 18th instant, neglected by the en-
tire voting populations the polls open every
body had forgotten it. The right of suffrage is not
very dear to those people.
"A clergyman on one occasion received no
fee for marrying parsmonious couple, and, m eet-
ing them several months after in social gathering
took up the baby and exclaimed: II believe have
a mortgage this child !" Baby's father, rather
than have explanation before the company quiet
ly handed over S. bill.
"A reception was given to General I. w.
Sherman at St. Paul, on Monday. About three hun
dred invited guests were present. Gen. Sherman, in
reply to complimentary toast. took occasion to de-
fend his expedition to the Southern coast He said
Port Royal had been denounced a failure. but if it
were the last words he uttered he would say it
not failure. No expedition. with the same re-
sources in the late war; produced onehaf its results
"A fierce and bloody fight took place on
Saturday afternoon at Alexandria, Mo-, just below
keokuk, Iowa, between two farmers named Miller
and Heacock resulting in the instant death of the
former and the mortal wounding of the latter.
teud had existed between them for many years. At
the time named they met at store. and had a few
words. Pistols were drawn and half dozen shots
were exchanged resulting as above stated. Both
have large families.
The local editor of Lynchburg paper,
while in the act of taking his vaise from the baggage
at station, let it fall the track and the whole
train passed over it. smashing it up horribly and
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