Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GAEERESS


the Reconstruction Committee were debated at length
on proposition to print ten thousand copies thereof
the proposition being finally adopted.
HoUsE.-An important debate sprung up on the
loan bill. growing out of the assault made on the
Secretary of the Treasury by the Comptroller of the
Currency in letter recently; the Secretary being
sustained in his statements of facts and figures.
GENERAL NEWS.
There were twenty-four divorce cases in a
single county in Vermont last week.
The sum of $780, 900 has been raised in
Illinois for the purpose of establishing a Soldiers
College.
"A friend in Albany describes the State
Legislature assembled there as "Faro's Host" What
can he mean?
"A fire broke out in Salisbury, N. C re,
Gently, destroying two newspaper offices and six
stores. Loss estimated at $4,000.
-Bituminous coal, of which hogs will eat
from to two pounds per day. is regarded by the
Prairie Farmer as "a preventive of hog cholera.
"A cotton factory has been erected at Oak
land, near San Francisco, capable of producing one
thousand two hundred and eighty yards cloth day
The Syracuse IN. W Courier mentions
the death of William Obey. pensioner of 1872. at the
advanced age of one hundred and six years and
days.
"A dry, warm soil seems most favorable
to the production of honey. White clover. even,
when it grows low. marshy land. has little or no
honey in it.
"A correspondent of the Albany Cultiuator,
in talking about tight barns says farmers may choose
between lateeut hay, open sheds and bone; or early
hay. tight barns and fat stock.
A cottage in Newport has been let for
the snug little of $4,000 for the ensuing season.
There ought to be great deal of love in that cottage
to make it pay.
-Bayard Taylor has introduced new water
melon which keeps through the winter He obtained
the seeds from Volga, Russia. from melon grown
on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
"A Chicago firm, dealing in tobacco and
cigars. has just been convicted of making false in
come returns. The penalties amount to nearly
$4,000.
One account of the recent marriage of the
Princess Anna Murat says that the whips of the
coachmen cost twenty dollars each and the silk
stockings of the footmer thirty dollars pair.
The San Francisco Bulletin thinks that
mining, like charity, should begin at homo. 1t has
long leader" deprecating the tendency of Califor-
mans to emigrate to South America in search of
richer gold and silver fields
"A Wisconsin paper speaking of the efforts
to develop the lead mines by deep mining, claims
that there are in the Galena mines two thousand
square miles of mineral land of which one thousand
square miles good for digging anywhere
Horse flesh is now regularly sold in the
licensed markets of Paris. butcher slaughters and
sels under the eye of government inspector horse
flesh to all whose appettes have been cultivated to
that delicate point.
San Francisco statistics exhibit very re-
markable growth in population during the war. In
1860 there $1,000 citizens: in 1866 119O0O The
Bulletin thinks that there will be less rapid increase
in the future. It's estimate for 1870 is 10000.
Young men in Lawrence, Kansas, have to
marry to get shelter from the weather; landladies
there take none but married people. The unfortu-
nate youths say it is a conspiracy between the young
ladies and the boarding-house keepers.
Bohemia, according to estimate, had at
one time 10000 colonies of bees on 10000 square
miles. and writer for the Prairie Farme, does not
hesitate to say that square mile of the West is
ever likely to be overstocked with bees.
"A total eclipse of the moon occurs on the
30th of this month. 1t begins at fifty three minutes
past o'clock, is at its total at fifty nine minutes past
10, and begins to disappear at thirty minutes
past y. 1t is visible throughout the United States
An agent from some great capitalists and
contractors who propose to establish tunnel under
the from Dover to Calais has arrived in Paris
apply to the Emperor for permission to make borngs
the French soil in order to ascertain the practica
bility of the scheme.
business in New Orleans must be pros
porous The papers publish triple or quadruple sheets
almost every day; and the last number of the Times
which has reached us, had eighteen pages, "the
largest published in America as one of the regu
lar editions of daily paper"
There is an excitement in Chillicothe,
Ohio. over deficit of thirty-nine thousand dollars
Just discovered an the account of the County Trea
surer That official insists that the money has been
stolen from HE safe and that he has not misappro-
priated any of it.
1t has transpired that the Emperor of the
French and Prince Metternch both nearly lost their
lives by the fall of immense limb of an oak while
out shooting. They had just passed it when it fell
with tremendous crash. What a confusion in the
worlds affairs was most happily escaped. and but by
second
-Bee-keepers will be glad to learn that NJ.
Duche,an, French chemist after two years patient
observation, has discovered the source of the para
site which attacks tose insects. He has found the
parasite on the flowers OF elianhus onnus (the sun
tower) and on the bees. and he has proved c0pclu-
svsly that it gets upon the bee from the plant. anu
not upon the plant from the bee.
"A wedding was awkwardly interrupted at
Bristol England, last month. A young woman who
was to have been married next morning, was taken
into custody charge Of stealing articles of mil
lnery, the property of firm by whom she had been
employed. Her intended husband vainly pleaded for
a remand, in order that the marriage might take
place. The magistrates, inexorable, sent the damsel
to Jail for two months.
The daughter of keeper of an old
curiosity shop in Paris has Just lost her leg from
singular accident. She was displaying Malay dag
ger to an amateur of arms, when the weapon fell
from the scabbard and slightly erazed her foot which
began to swell Immediately. The doctor at once
tested the weapon and found that the point had been
dipped ia one of those dire poisons against which
there is no antiGote.
The Toronto Gl05s says that Bristol Bill
and the other rogues who concerned in the Gait
Bank robbery, we're aided in their work By some
members of the Toronto police, who kept them
posted to the movements of the police force and
one of them concealed Bristol Bill in his house for
several days. The discovery was made sy confess
sion of of the parties whose statements cor
roborated by known facts.
"A workman at the granite quarry in
Quincy. Mass. few days since completed drill and
ignted the fuse. which for want of air or other
cause, went out. To complete the Job in hand, the
careless workman undertook the dangerous task Of
drilling around the fuse to remove it. and while
engaged spark from the drill ignted the fuse caus-
ing instantaneous explosion, and blowing the un-
fortunate man to pieces His mutilated remains were
gathered together and duly buried.
The Fur Companies formerly sent from
St. Louis two boats each summer up to the Rocky
Mountains to supply their trading posts and bring
back the accumulation of furs and petries, and the
Government sent one to take out the Indian annui-
ties. Now no Less than seventy five steamers ad
vertised to leave during the month Of April. I'm
mense quantities of goods and groceries are being
purchased to 90 to the mountains thif season.