Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-02
MISCELLANY.

The present wealth of the British Islands
is estimated at thirty thousand millions of dollars
An elephant and bull fight recently took
place in Ubida in Spain. The elephant stamped one
bull to death, and crushed another with his trunk.
Morris Ellsworth, convicted of the mur-
der of his wife at Newark, N. j.. will be hung in that
city on the 10th instant.
AT ball in Vienna an officer caught in
ady's crinone, fell and broke his leg; she fell also
and broke her leg.
We publish Washington letter in another
column in regard to the exorbitant hotel charges in
that city.
DR.. Rothvong, of Milersburg, Pa, was
accidentally killed by railroad accident at that place
on Monday last.
"A French newspaper says only three Of
its subscribers are bald and they in fol
subscription.
"A man in Manchester, Eng, horsewhip
ped his wife in the public street; but he was too re-
spectacle to arrest.
"A poor blacksmith in Ohio recently in.
vested few dollars in two acres of oil land out
which. In a few months, he made $4,000.
AT recent city election. Pthole, Pa,
claiming 1000 inhabitants poed only 1l2 legal votes
The oldest inhabitant" had hardly been there Ions
enough to VOTE
olive Logan, the actress, has filed de.
cree of divorce against her husband Henry A. De-
ille in New York city. The suit is not defended by
Mr.. Delile.
-Ex-Governor Clark, of Mississippi, has
declined to receive any portion of the sum of money
which has been raised by the citizens of his State for
the benefit of himself and Mrs Jefferson Davis
"A drunken man in Greenville, Conn, cut
away the stairway, and his family had to jump
out OF the second-story window to escape the
blockade.
The Toledo Commercial says that on
Thursday the house of James Smart situated
in the outside of Delta, Fulton county, Ohio, was
burned, Mr.. Smart and his wife perishipg in the
flames.
"A new city is springing up on the oppo-
site side of the valley from Pithole City, 1t has not
yet been baptised. and there is as much discussion
over its proper cognomen there usually over the
name to be given new baby.
/ "A correspondent of the Clarhsburg West
Ta0 National telegram thinks that State has been
Unfortunately christened, and that it should have
,een called by the bea eiful and appropriate Indian
-me of Kanawha."
"A nice young man, in Sandusky, Ohio,
other day, obtained an introduction to young
3 on the ice. and shortly after stole her skates,
ich she had permitted him to assist her in taking
The Boston Post says: ga New York mil
onaire said to be afflicted with the leprosy, was
.ured by the President of the New York Medical
University, and in his gratitude rendered him S. OOC
fee, but the doctor accepted but $780,"
The first theological seminary on the est
ern continent was built on Service Creek Beaver
county. Pa. in 1894 1t was a substantial log build
ing, and is yet standing the old site. hograpf
of it was recently taken.
Governor Hamilton, of Texas, has issueG
proclamation to the effect that all persons in tn,
amnesty exception list" who have received his re
commentator for special pardon resume the
usual avocations
The Royal Irish Academy recently de
clined gold cup of the value of $780, Left them b,
the will of the late Smith 0'Brien on the ground
that they had not place of sufficient safety to pu
it into
The new five cent fractional currency will
probably be issued this week About S20, 900 worth
of defaced and mutlaed currencv is daily destroyed
at Washington by burning. and $4,000 worth il
printed.
1t is announced that number of adopted
citizens in New York have got up petition for pre-
sentation to the Grand jury calling for an ndictmen
: of the President. Senate and Cabinet of an embry
= Irish Republic.
The sentences by General Courts Martha
yate William'H. Hildebrand. of the Fifth indians
Cavalry, to be shot to death, have been commute.
py the President to confinement at hard labor in tn
ohio penitentiary for ten years each.
a tram of six hundred bales of cotton wa
lately seized by the military authorities at Coriptb
Mississippi. Part of il pelonped tn GeneraI Forres,
who was reported as having been shot by the guard
rorrest Is nov partner of cotton firm in Memphis
ana the statement of his being shot was probably
'se to cover fttle more cotton -thieying.
"A servant Ii the employ of the Duke @
Augustenburg has been dismissed for racsiv;n
~ oney in return for sporting everything thot w.
ing on at the Princes issidence. He also purloine
rrince ielters' IL Is 'aid that by this means
ually came to comprehend the merits Of tb CLI,
g-Holstein question.
"A nurse girl at Prestol, England uh
q limited badly was about to be dncharued hr :,
aster. who feared the child might ges a cas-, n T.
sc, when she happened to go with soma friends
The Preston Exhibition. There she amu,ed her,
by taking galvanic shocks which. strange to say h;
the effect of removing the squint
Wildcats seem to abound in Litchfe
county, Conn., this winter. Fifteen or twenty ha
already been killed in different towns In Cornya
on Christmas day. one was driven out into the op
fields near j. h. Harrisons residence where t
house dog and another canine pitched in and ga
him battle; but it was not until he had got char
from gun that the "varmIt'' was killed Mr.Hs
r1son and his boys have killed seven of these ere
lures.
a. Inc Boston Traceler says that the import
ION Oh poots and shoes from Europe is certainly d
I dvantageous to the country at large but the inc
yiduai purchasers of the $2OOOOO or S. 900 wor
brought over within few weeks cannot be blame
o long as tne prlce OF those Manufactured at home
% high. For some classes of work the manufactures
1y L. :