Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.


Last week % persons discontinued the
sale of liquors in Boston. In several instances
| liquors that had been purchased from wholesale
dealers were returned to them.
Eighteen boxes of the new work of A. D.
Richardson, the New York TriJunes war CORES.
pondent. were destroyed at the recent fire in Detroit
They were consigned to merchant in the latter city,
In country churchyard this epitaph may
be seen; Hear lies the body of John Robinson, and
Ruth. his wife" Underneath is the motto, Their
warfare is accomplished
Gen. Schofeld has been making two
months trip through Italy and the south of France
lie has now returned to Paris. where he intends to
remain for some time.
--lhe British Government has offered to
the widow OF George Gordon. executed for his al
legged participation in the Jamaica nsurrecton-res-
toratlon Of all his confscated prOpery-a pretty
we're criticism upon the course of Gov. Eyre.
The method of manufacturing gas from
crude petroleum is likely to create revolution in
lghtproducing methods. The gas is said to be much
superior to that made from COAL and costs only half
as much.
During the day on Sunday fourteen bodies
ofthe unfortunate victims of the late fire in Detroit
were recovered from the ruins. Sixteen in all have
been thus far found. Four out Of the number were
cOlored.
VIM. Craft, famous as fugitive slave,
and husband of Ellen Craft heroine well remem
bered, has established large school 1t Whydah,
South Africa and the King of Dahomey testifes his
appreciation by sending him present of six slaves.
-SylyanuS Packard merchant of Boston,
who died week two since, left over one hundred
thousand dollars to Taft's College, Unvergalist in
stt0tion at Somerville Mass. to which he had been
a liberal friend during his lifetime.
The Mexican Times gives the following
estimates OF the population of the six largest towns
of the Empire: Mexico, 21OOOO Puebls IS, 600; Quad
aijara, 7000O Guanajuanto OO0O Queretaro, 4s OOO
Matamoras, .0G0.
Many photograph artists throughout the
country sell their pictures without afixing the neces-
sry stamps required by law. U. S. Commissioner
Wilkins is gathering up such artists before his court
and inflicting the penalty of the law upon them
"A newspaper correspondent, who has trav-
eled over several hundred miles in PENNSYLVANIA,
Delaware and Maryland, reports that, excepting.
perhaps one field in twenty-five, wheat is in n fine
condition.
smuggling is so extensively practiced on
the Russo Prussian frontier that it has been cacu-
lated the loss of revenue in district covering about
one third of the whole frontier, amounted in 1860 to
n5lOOoO rOuOes, and in 1851 to 10, 10000 roubles
Carlyle has brother and sister now living
in Canada and two brothers and one sister in Scot
land. One of them is Dr. Carlyle, the translator of
Dante" Carlyle has declined tho decree of doctor
OF laws from the University Of Edinburg
M. Z. Robinson announces, in q paper
read before the French Academy of Sciences that,
after surmountins great difficulties he has discover
ed that the ray Is electric fish, although less so
than the several species of the torpedo.
Major Hastings, of Alabama, whose first
expedition for Brazil proved failure by the wreck
of his vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, has just been
compelled to return to Mobile after second start
by small l-pox breaking out among his passengers.
"A Boston pork dealer came to his death
in very singular way on Thursday. lie leaned
forward bench to reach piece of pork, and
came in contact with sharp knife. which severed
the arteries above his hip, causing his death in
short time.
The chinch bugs are making sad havoc
among the corn plantations of Mississippi. As many
as fifty have been counted upon single stalk. In
some places patches of ten and twelve acres have
been destroyed Replanting is going on to great
extent.
A late Houston (Texas) paper says the
wheat harvest the Upper Colorado river surpasses
that OF any former year. The grass is exceedingly
fine and tho beevea lusciousy fat. The country is
swarnng with cGtte dealers from the Western States
eager to pay the highest market prices.
The Portland (Me.) transcript says the
Quakers. who onne so plerty in that city as to
render day of fasting and prayer necessary to pre-
vent their further increase. have now drindled
down to two families. who occasionally hold religious
services in their meeting house on Oak street.
The people Of Louisiana are considerably
interested in the petroleum question The surface
indications in the Calcavieu region said to be
equal to any in Pennsylvania Two companies have
been formed to operate in that region, one having
loo the other 1000 acres of land.
The monster ironclad new vessel Dun
derberg is now receiving the completing touch of the
mechanics at the yard of Wm. II. Webb her builder,
New York. The Government hasrecently intimated
to the contractor the necessity to complete the YES
sci at the earliest moment. She has fery powerful
battery
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says:
If members of Congress will take pains to inquire
they will find that not few of the most staunch and
influential Republicans all over the country believe
that the loyal representatives from the South should
be admitted to Congress. and that their continued
exclusion threatens ruin to the party.
The rinderpest has appeared in CadZon
Forest. England, among the famous breed of wild
cattle belonging to the Duke of Hamilton. The
duke, with view to preserve his valuable herd of
Ayrshires, has put them down in his coal pits where
they enjoying complete immunity from the plague
though it is raging above.
Hon. Russell Sage, formerly of Troy, now
of New York. is famous for ten strikes in the way of
speculation Some weeks sinoe he purchased 200 900
bushels of wheat at $l.l0. 1t is worth to-day S1.5S
per bushel. We understand Mr.. Sage holds it at
$lt0. and as soon the price reaches that point he
will dispose of it, making upon the speculation the
nice little sum of 100000.
"A young girl, seventeen years Of age, at
tempted to commit suicide by drowning few DAYS
since in Paris; her sweetheart had forsaken her. The
first words she uttered when she recovered her senses
were: Mon Dieul how cold the Seine isl" The
boatman who rescued her stood near and exclaimed:
"Ah! my little darling, it has nobody to warm its
bed"
John Randolph is said, upon one occa-
sion to have visited race course near the city OF
New York. flash looking stranger offered to bet
him $500 upon the result Of the race and introduc-
ing his companion. said "Mr. Randolph my friend
here, Squire Tompkins. will hold the stakes" But,
SIR squeaked the orator of the Roanoke, who will
hold Squire Thompkins after give him my money!"
The ceremony Of ''burying the Free Aca-
demy." now changed By act Of the New York
Legislature to College, took place the other night
and was attended with great ceremony. Immediately
after mdnight-the beginning of the month of May
a grand demonstration Of the bell-ringer, who had
previ) )usiy ceased his toilirg.
"A gigantic cotton factory, called the
Manassas" mandatory has been built at Carroll
ton. Miss. 1t contains 10000 spndles, 1900 looms
and goes into operation July lst. The stock now
stands Is per cent above par. The company owns
200 of land, contiguous to thu factory all we'll
wooded. It is factory which would do honor to
Lowell or any other town.
The Oldest church now existing in this
country is one near Smithfed Isle of Wight county,
Va. 1t was built in the reign of Charles /. between
the years 1880 and 1885. The brick, and lime and
timber were imported from England. The timber is
English oak and was framed in England. The struc-
ture is of brick erected in the most Substantial
The mortar has become so hardened that it will
strike fire in collision with steel.
The New Albany Ind. Ledger has an
account of an Individual who had doubtless been
reading about the cholera, who presented himself be-
fore physician the other day expressing apprehen-
slons lest he should haveit In a few hours he was
attacked with every symptom of the disease and the
] next morning was hopelessly i'll, having passed
through the various stages of the disease It is q
| plain case of probable death from morbid ;map;na
| ton.
| "A Greek merchant in London, Mr.. Peter
Pantia Rolla, has given $4,000 to Kings College