Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-30

Mr.. John Lusby. of the Chesapeake Club. acted rs
umpire, and Messrs. Richard Ward, of the Clifton.
and Gilbert Walters, of the Mazeppa, were the
scorers Clifton took l2 fly balls and the BTazeppa
Food orGes prevailed while the playing was in pro-
gTess.
IHE LOCAL PREACHERS AssOCtA1IoN-yhe an
nual meeting Of this Association, composed Of the
local proacEors OF the Methodist EpiscgpaI Church
was cid last evening at the Monument street Sta
uon. Inc exercises were ofan interesting character
%lu ofeW forth quite respectable audience Tie
annual sermon was preached by Rev. MIR. Loape
Addresses were also made by Rev. Isaac P. Cook
and Rev. Mr.. Heffner. The former who is the Pres
ldent OF the Association, made statement in refer
once TO It's workings, the success attending IT, Sc
ihe ASSOCIATION purpose on holding centenary re
union and tea meeting on tomorrow evening, in the
New Assembly Rooms the design of which is TO pro
mote social and religious intercourse and advance the
interests Of the centenary of American Methodism
Inc exercises will consist of singing prayer and brief
addresses on interesting topics. plain repast will
be served at o'clock. The admission fee il placed
at24' ana the profits Gf any TO be devoted to
worthy object Tickets can be had of Henry f Cook
No. 1G Baltimore street, near Gay.
ASSAULTED AND CUT BY 4 NEGRo.-OfIicer Bowers
arrested negro named Richard Robinson, on Satur-
day night. charged with assauting and cutting two
white men, named George Dill and Charles Vickry.
1t seems that the assaulted parties were passing along
Low street near Forest, when they met the negro.
and as the pavement at that point was somewhat mar
row, lhey told the negro to give the way which he
Indignantly refused to do and after some words had
passed between the parties the African drew a good
sized dirk knife and began to cut right and left in
1ctng quite a severe wound upon Mr. Dill the other
party who Is an aged man, escaped unnjured though
his clothing was cut by the infurated negro At this
stage Of the affair. the officer came up and took the
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police station, where he is held for an examination
before Justice Spcer. The examination is deferred
IN order to ascertain the character Of the injury re-
ceived by Mr.. Dill and which is said to be of ser
Gus nature.
SUPPOSED lNCENDGARIsM.--At at early hour on Sa-
turday morning fire discovered in the rear Dor
ton of the cooper establishment of Messrs Kimbau
Schaner u Co., Central avenue. near Canton avenue
An alarm communicated from box 50, the fire.
men responding with their ual alacriy and extin-
gushing the flames in short space of time. The
loss will reach about $1,000, onehaf Of which is coy
cred by insurance stallion valued at from S4OO to
$500 perished with the building Tho fire was s,,,,
posed to have originated from incend: oi,, -
Michael HarEisan and Peter McIrri 1vere o-rostaS
on the charge Of having BEEN the porpetrators TbsH
were detained until me afternoon of the dav of be
Po a' inc eastern station house. but after an exami-
n1Ilon oelore Justice Whale were DISCHARGED sniff
~ .'i~0lI0e not pelnG ddduced to warrant their
comm'ttal toE trial.
Fox IIUEIING-Last fall the RaItiroora Fov HINT
ing Club was organized. and now numbers twen ty-
TWO members. nearly all residents of the city. The
Kennels which are at Benzies Point contain eighteen
me dogs. On Monday last grey fox-one of which
mas not been seen in these parts before for several
years-Was started and after lively chase the dors
caught and killed him. On the previous Thursday
red fox was denned" and dug out after an eycitin
pursuit OF over four hours. Again on Monday the
party beat up Bowly's Quarters and fell in with
another red fox. who shared the fate of his pre-
deceSsors, having been chased to Carrols Point In
these exploits Mr.. George P. West took the first
brush, Mr.. Samuel Hyde, of Hartford county, the
second, and Mr.. P. }. Roche the third.
IKE MONSTER BEEvEs.-The four monster beeves
purchased for benevolent purpose by Mr. Louis L.
Barrapger, Jr. and which were exhibited in Monu-
ment Square on Friday. have been slaughtered at
the establishment of Mr. Z. KneH, on PENNSYLVANIA
avenue. They turned out" excellently and this su
perior article Of beef will be exposed for sale to-
morrow morning by Mr.. Barranger at his stalls Nos
Il and ii Lexington market the proceeds of the en-
tire sales to be equally divided between the Door of
baltimore and tho Southern Relief Fair The
sIaughterIg OF these monsters attracted a large
crowd OF persons interested in such matters and all
expressed themselves astonished at the fine quality
Of the meat.
tNTERED BT BURGLARs.-0n Saturday night, bout
eleven o'clock, the dwellings of Martin Goldsbor-
ough and Gerard Hopkins. Nos, IS and 5S Courtland
street, were both entered by burglars. They were,
however, fortunately frightened away without Sc
curing the desired booty. Mrs. Goldsborough heard
the noise made by the thieves, and giving an ALARM
caused them to beat hasty retreat. Policeman
wills pursued them for some distance but unfortu-
nately did not succeed in capturing the burgIarious
party In their flight tn hey dropped a gum blanket,
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house by the officer
GOATS Running AT LAReE-ORners of these ami
mails seen to be ignorant of the fact that there is an
ordinance prohibiting their running at large upon
the Streets Several arrests have already been made
for the violation of this ordinance and on Saturday
policemen Sabes and Phillips took tour Others named
VIM. Deagan, Timothy Cain, John Freshman and
Michael Wright into custody. charged with yioat-
Ing the same ordinance. They were arraigned before
Justice Whalen and each fined 81 and costs, upon
payment OF which they were released. 1t would be
well for others to notice the ordinance relating to
this matter and thereby avoid trouble and expense
PUBLIC SCHOOL Text BooKs-MANDAMUs CASE
In the Superior Court Saturday. Messrs William
Schley and john N. Frazier, counsel on behalf of
the State board of education. filed a petition for
mandamus, directed to tho school commissioners Of
Baltimore city. to compel them to use in. .theh:
public schools Of the city, such text r Ign ana
prescribed by the petitione-- looks as may be
books in the schools or % as the uniform text
a rule for tbs ra.- .he State. The court ordered
next sat- --Pondents to show cause on or before
,..rday, why the maudamus should not issue.
ACCIDENT.-A cOlored boy, about ten years of age,
badly injured shortly after one O'Clock on Satur
day afternoon, on Green street, near Lexington. He
attempted to jump upon city passenger car while
it was in motion, but made msstep and fell. Of
the wheels ofthe passing his left foot, crush
ing it most painfully. He was removed to the resi-
dence of his aunt No. 70 Arch street, where DR..
Eastman attended him. The driver of the car was
not regarded as blameable in the matter
BASE BALL.-Ihe Monumental Base bail CIuo' on
Saturday evening last elected as officers 1or the en-
suing year the following named persons: PRESIDENT
David Henley; Vice President. B. f. Leltch Secreta-
Nv Josenh Grape; Treasurer. Thomas NJ. Applegarth
BOARD of Directors, DR.. Casper h. Miller, john 3.
Garrnan and George C. Afford.
ETpr-The alarm of fire about eleven o'clock yes
terdav morning. was caused by the partial burning
of the roof of a back building attached to No l44
South Charles street, owned by Samuel Ready The
fire is supposed to have originated from a defect in
the chimney. The damage is estimated at $500.
OFFICIAL VIsIT-The members of the City Council,
by invitation of the Superintendent of the Columbian
Institute for the deaf and dumb, located at Wash
ingtOn, D. c., will tomorrow visit that Institution
for the purpose of making the customary inspection.
The AMERICAN MEDICAL CoNvENrIoN.-This i'm
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