Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-12
Savage Fight in a School,

Capt Clifford, says Marion (Ky.) correspondent
Of January 18th, formerly of the 4Sth Kentucky
Nolunteers, but better known the Bloody 18TH"
has for several months past been teacher of very
large school two mi es south of this place. Every
hing was progressing finely until last Friday be-
tween the hours of and o'clock P. NJ when the
professor noticed disturbance and on investigating
IT. found it necessary to intic punishment on some
scholars intertered in behalf of the pupil while the
other part acted in behalf of the professor, and
general fight ensued.
There were about sixty boys in school at the time
and they were about equally divided for and against
the professor. Some half dozen boys managed TO
get the professor adjoining room and wereabout
70 use the old fellow up, when about twenty of the
boys headed by the gallant Lieut.. Woodsides, for
merry OF the same regiment, to his rescue It
Is to be amented that the young officer while lead
ing the boys to Justice, received mortal wound from
pistol shot This young officer, scarcely seventeen
Years OF age was at the storming of Fort Doneson,
shiloh and ths siege of Vicksburg, and was always
IN the thickest of the fight, and never received a
Scratch and had come home and was taking his last
course at college, when he stricken down by the
heartlesS wretch.
Captain Clifford received a severe wound from
KNIFE, and was also severely beaten with clubs and
IS at this time in critical condition, but it is to be
hoped that he may recover ne is man highly es-
teelned by every person who knows him. He served
three years IN the army, and acquitted himself on all
occasions with honor. and had come home and while
engaged IN his profession treated in this way by
the young men of the community, which is too bad
a or Us to mention He dey9ted Christian and
excellent teacher, but he will not attempt his pro-
lesion any more at this place.
Scientific.
Excellent results are obtained in the economical
use OF coal by feeding the fire from below and thus
burning the fuel from the surface downward instead
OF from below upward, as usual. The air admitted
IS heated somewhat by the lower strata of fuel he
fore 1t comes In contact with the hot Goals which
assists In very marked manner the complete COM
6usuon OF the carbon. In pudding furnace which
had consumed Il ewt. of fuel, only 20 lbs of un-
burned residue was found. The notifications neces-
sary to carry out this improvement under boilers are
few and inexpensive and the results so good that at
the Gartness Works, near Glasgow, the weekly re-
turns show saving of one third
Among the great tunnels of the world is that which
connects Camagli with st. Margherita on the road
between Genoa and Chiavari. 1t is 1850 yards in
length, and is lust completed,
Dry silver in the metallic state destroys ozone Ar
senic does the same, but it also combines with drv
oxygen, its separate action ozone cannot be ex
actly distinguished.
duct of the Chinese mines The consumption of coal
IN the Celestial Empire is therefore. ton to every
4O5 persons.
1t requires many 1000 tons of coal to produce
circular block of anine twenty-four inches high
by nine inches wide, but this is sufficient to dive 0
miles of silk fabric.
photography in colors has progressed so far that
doll dressed by the operator can be perfectly renro
duced on the plates. A greater triumph is photo
graphing peacocks feather. 1t has been found that
none but pure coors take WELL those that are made bv
amAture OF TWO primary eolors giving but one of the
primaries on the plate. These photographs will NOT
stand full light long, they turn brown but NAV he
preserved in an album.
The ice break last week in the Des Moines
has proved very disastrous. At Croton, large mill
was swept away than half the houses destroyed
and many of the inhabitants barely escaped with
their lives. Great damage also done at Bona
parte At last accounts the river at Croton was SUBJ
siding. but there was much reason to apprehend an=
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