Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-03
MESCEE.E.ASY.

Mrs. Jenny Blitz Van Iandt, who is now
in Italy, calls herself Madame yanzini for the sake
of euphOny.
The French Minister at Washington en-
phatically denies the runors that Napoleon is about
to W thdraw his troops from Mexico.
w. ii. Herndon, of Springfield, ILL.,, who
was Abraham Lincons law partner for twenty years
is lecturing about him.
Josh Billings says he has waited pashuntly
for more than twenty five years for the millennium
tew commence, and-jist look at butter 50 cents Il
pound
Both factions of the Fenians and the Fc-
MAN Siscrhood have been holding mass meeting in
St. Louis. They denounced each other. and their ma
tiolal Senate and Congress alternately.
"A San Francisco correspondent of the
New York Times writes that a dollar in gold in Cali
fUrna goes about far as u greenback dollar nNew
York.
Rev. Alfred Owen, a Baptist minister at
Lynn, Mass, broke through the ice while skating
the other day but was so tall that he touched bottom
and escaped injury.
"A "Plain Song Society has been formed
at Exeter, England for the express purpose of ad-
vancng the cause of what is called in this country
congregational music.
An Indian was murdered at a Chicago
saloon on the evening ofthe Sh by the keeper ohm
Stone. who struck him with some kind of weapon
over the right eye. The unoffending victim was well
known vender of trinkets in the public streets.
The Toronto Leader is publishing. in
loaded type series of medical articles written by
DR.. Blackburn. the practitioner charged with at
tempting to introduce yellow fever and small -pox
among the United State troops during our late war
"A young lady named Rose arrived at Lou
isvilIe, from Texas on Thursday morning on herway
to Shelby county, where she was to be married
While going to the Lexington depot she was over
by a wagon and so badly injured that she died in
few hours.
"A desperado, named Curly, shot and
probably fatally wounded policeman Tyler, in Rich
mond, on Saturday last while that officer was taking
him to the police station. lie also shot at another
officer VINO was assisting Tyler but fortunately did
him no injury.
"A young man named Joseph Stewart
living in North Newport near Bangor. Me-. few
days ago had his foot caught in chain attached to-
runaway horse, and was thus dragged mile and Il
half over the frozen ground and several fences. He
lived six hours after the accident.
Albert D. Richardson, Junius II. Browne
and William Z Davis, correspondents, who werecon-
fined at Salisbury for many months are among the
witnesses summoned by the Government in the case
of Gee, the former rebel commandant at Salisbury
now on trial at Raleigh.
The CrUmpt0n Nd Gazette of last Sat
urday says; The body of Mr. J. Ross Wolvertnn of
this place was found near the village He had been
missing since Wednesday night. jury of inquest
was summoned by Esquire Ruth. who rendered
verdict of Death from fit of intoxicatien"
The Boston Tr0rcler saws thai during
the year just about closing, the number Of failures
IN Massachusetts,. considering the amount Of bust
ness transacted has been remarkably small. 1t has
been, taken altogether, one of the most prosperous
years for business known in the history of the old
Commonwealth
H. Willard, formerly war correspondent
of the Tribune is to be married in few days to Fan
ME- only daughter of VIM. Lloyd Garrison George
VIM. Smalley. of the editors of that journal, was
welded some years since to the adopted daughter of
Wendell Phillips, and two more Of the attaches of
that paper are now engaged to daughter, Of Revs.
Dr. Cheeyer and Henry Ward Beecher.
The No"iteue du Clerge says: AT Havre,
a bomb which fell on the Church of Notre Dame in
1857, has been placed stone console in the Chapel
of the Virgin The proectile bears the following in
scription: In the commandment of 1857. this bomb,
thrown by the English fleet fell through the vaulted
roof in front of the altar of the Virgin and remained
suspended on a plank without bursting"
There is a vast bed of coal underlying the
city of La Sale. Illinois, The ciy fathers propose to
lies at depth 800 400 feet below the surface to
the highest bidder and expect to get bonus or roy
atty OF 30 cents per ton for the privilege 1t is esti
mated that there q 900 tons under each acre. and
as the city plat embraces go acres, the bonus may
amount to three or four millions of dollars
One of the largest slave holders in South
en Kentucky has gone mad on account of the liberia
ton of his slaves, and i. now inmate of the Luna
tic Asylum at Hopkiusvillo Kentucky He owned
over Two hundred negroes, and had accumulated by
their labor large fortune. He was probably worth
one hundred thousand dollars independent of his
slaves.
The New Bedford Mercury says 'tAmong
the inmates Of the House of Correction in this city
Solomon Austin, of Taunton. now II years of age He
has been committed to that institution thirty-eight
times for drunkenness, and has served the country
therein for about eleven years Of his life HE'S now
In under sentence for drunkenness-sccond offence
though the thirty-eight time-and Notwithstanding
his advanced and his irregular habits is quite
vigorous and he makes himself useful in the prison
The Paris, Kentucky, WeStern Citizen, is |
accepting the situation sensby. We find the follow
ing paragraph Of good advice in its editorial columns
of this week: Our farmers may rest assured that
there will be labor enough in the country and at fair
rates. if they will only be patient and allow the blacks
time to get over their recent liberation from bondage
Hands hiring in adjoining counties cheaper than
with us. Let farmers offer only fair prices and
they will get as much labor as they need in yery
short time"