Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Nineteen million Of francs were taken i
1855 by the Paris theatres.

Nineteen million of francs were taken in
1855 by the Paris theatres.
Real estate in New York has advanced 25
per cent. in 4 month.
The English champion billiard player, Rob-
erts has been beaten at French carom by Melvin
Foster by fifteen points in eight innings.
An immense church and college edifce is
to be erected in tho town of st. Meinrad, Spencer
county, Indiana. by the Roman Catholics
a new counterfeit on the $50 compound
interest note has been received at the Treasury De-
partment from Charleston, c.
Mr. Thomas L. Evans, an aged and well
known citizen of Norfolk Va died suddenly in that
city on Thursday last.
The thermometer in San Francisco ranged
about 60 degrees above zero all winter On the 14th
it reached 70.
Thirty thousand pounds of fine wool have
lately been purchased in the vicinity of St. Albans
at5I@GO cents per pound.
The gold-bearing quartz in the vicinity OF
the Great Falls of the Potomac, about fourteen
miles from Washington City, is beginning to attract
considerable attention.
The floor Of the Presbyterian Church at
Greenbush N. Y, Settled" last Sunday during
funeral service and caused great CONSERVATION but
it was vacated before any damage resulted.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has au
thorizcd Government agents torecommonce the sales
of captured and conscated cotton seized by the mill
tary authorities
The Newburyport Herald comes out in sup
sort Of President Johnson's policy, and says Gen
eral Banks has prepared an elaborate speech in which
he will sustain the President.
There IS an enormous pigeon roostin Martin
county, Indiana. Ii covers territory of ten miles
t.r-rr and +vg ID
sque5-bling in that territory
We learn that Warfeld, HUNTINGTON. Mitch
ell, Smith and Heichew, five of those charged with
riotng in Alexandria Christmas day, and recently
tried by military commission, have been released.
A toast given few years ago for the shoe
and leather manufacturers; May they have all
the women in the country to sboe, and the men to
boot"
American -four is going largely at Havana
contract was made not long agofor thirty thousand
barrels, in weekly deliveries of three thousand bar
rclS. at eleven and half dollars per barrel
1t Is stated that the Treasury Department
eontemplates printing three or four hundred thou
sand dollars of the greenback currency in ones and
tw0s TO replace equal amount that has been mutt
lated and destroyed.
The New York Common Council have ap-
pointed city railroad inspector, with salary of
$500 year. to that the ears are kept Clean to
insure seats for all passengers, require that conduc-
ors shall be civil and drivers profane etc Il this
officer does his duty, he will earn his salary.
cotton factory has been established near
San Francisco. Tho State Legislature has offered
large premiums for the encouragement of cotton
manufacturing, and the Bulletin believes that at no
distant day California viii raise her own cotton and
manufacture all that is need for domestic use.
Three young ladies were lately frozen to
death near Chain Lake, Minnesota. They attempted
to return home from singing school in a snow storm
with an team, and although the distance was only
one and half miles they were out two nights and
one day -Four young men with them were badly
frozen.