Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-21
GENERAL NEWS.

ulplomauc expenses ana shortly a1terWar adj
journed.
GENERAL NEWS.
General Pemberton, who commanded at
Vicksburg has bought farm in Virginia and is cul-
tivating it.
-Sixty-fve French and Flemish paintings
were sold by auction in New York last week, realiz
ing an aggregate amount of over $4,000.
H. B. Chafin & Co. have paid tax on
fortytwo million dollars sales This is the largest
business in the country.
The Erie Railroad has discharged 1,5OO
men in consequence of the falling off in Western
freight and general traffic.
Gov. Walker has appointed Major John
Beard, of Tallahassee, Comptroller of Public Ac-
counts for the State of Florida.
A bully named Mcintosh was shot and
killed in Kingsport, Tennessee, by Martin Roller,
few days since.
-One OF the Strangest reports is that from
Chicago. Numbers of people are emigrating to Utah.
having heard that the Mormons are going to leave
for mid-ocean.
"A lady who edits q newpaper in one of
the western States. says that the popularity of her
journal is due to the fact that people are always
pecting she will say something she ought not to.
1t is reported that Queen Victoria is seri-
ously ILL., She received shock in the death
of Sir C. Phipps, the Keeper of the Privy Seal and
in effect her private secretary.
"A correspondent of the Norfolk Old Do
niion says that the Weldon bridge will be completed
in April The reconstruction will cost about 100000
original cost double that amount
The receipts of the Parisian theatres in
the last year amounted to about twelve and q half
millions of francs, than tenth of which was
paid out for authors rights in the plays performed
"A New York paper states that Mr.. II. c.
Jarrett has leased the Academy for the midsummer
weeks and will introduce the largest and most costly
ballet troupe imported. "Flic FLAG" is the ex-
| pected novelty.
The bills of fare at Paris restaurants now
include American buckwheat cakes" and "Ameri-
can apple and mince pies and placards hang over
the bars announcing American cocktails and
smaShes'
The New York Central proposes to run
three classes of passenger trains two, two and
half and three cents per mile If this plan is adopted
it will be something in the land. and will afford
the petroliaristocracy a nine days comfort.
-Apalachicola has received 100000 bales
Of cotton since May last and exported 65 345 bales
1900 to New York. 1000 to Liverpool and the re-
mainder tc New Orleans. Value of the cotton ex-
ported $13,O0O.0GG.
AT the Springfield Armory, 5000 Spring
field rifles to be altered 10 be used with Mr..
Alien breach-loading Improvement. The cost will
be about s. for each piece and when altered eighteen
shots can be fred in minute.
The Gelena I'll, Gazette says: "Many of
the peope of Warren and othar towns in the eastern
part of the county are using for fuel. We had
conversation with an Intelligent gentleman who has
been burning il, ani who considers it much cheaper
thAn wood"
Vast beds of oysters, equal to those of
cbesane, Ike Bay, have been found In the Gulf of
California, between MazatlaI and auagmas. from
which California will in future be supplied. They
are planted in San F-Hnese0 Day. and tere latte""
for the market.
The Montgomery lAla.) Mail says that
Gen. D. P. Hill has abandoned bis purpose ofleaving
the country and attaching himself to the cause Of
Maxmilian or settling in Brazil but has settled him
self at home and entered upon the publication of a
monthly. devoted to literature and agriculture.
They have some sharp rogues in Chicago.
Recently speculator named Deverell purchased in
Milwaukee five thousand dollars worth of -four and
gave in payment check on himself. Returning to
Chicago, he sold the -four and away with the pro-
ceeds leaving his check to be dishonored.
From recent scientific investigations in
Europe it has been shown most conclusvely that in
localities where impure water has been drank by the
inhabitants, the cholera has principally ragged,
ing impure water to be one of the chief causes of
cholera.
1t is stated that to exterminate vermin
from any animal it is only necessary to cover him
completely with grease oil. Any kind of oil will
do. 1t appears that evermin breathe through small
tles situated in various parts of their bodies which
N so or grease closes up, and they Immediately die.
Nj, IS Torrance, an American young lady,
So,tb Amer;c, n Indian princess in feather dress
With long featb hanging from the top of her hair,
which was drawn III eehunle lhuiah s'sle' anu d
great ring through he. nose
The Vicksburo {, '0tton Planters Gazette
savs that "as soon as the time arrives. when the
Southern States shall be reil- stated IN tne Union
land we predict that the day s lot very dlstanU
future of prosperity will open up TT 'ne oouth ia
surprising anything imagined or dream cd OF hereto
fore"
There is to be q gigantic aquariun among
the wonders of the Universal Exhibition Paris. The
front alone is to 100 feet every sort of fish
is to be collected therein for the amusement of the
public and sharks cod and porpoises are to ex
hibt their peculiar habits and customs in grottoes
and caves which to be excavated in the floor of
the building. and filled with sea-water.
There was almost riot in Worcester
(Mass) in the small hours of Saturday morning.
crowd of q hundred men attempting to rescue a
drunken prisoner from the police, and making it
necessary for the officers to fire upon them. Several
of the rioters were wounded. and some of the off,
GERS received seme hard knocks. one losing three
front teeth by stone thrown at him.
The report of Prof. George W. Hoss Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction of Iowa. for 1865
shows the number of children between the ages OF
six and twenty-one enumerated for school purposes
to be 23 1888 males and 26S All females; total 56224
The amount of revenue collected for school purposes
1897. .7427, of which 1898 254l l3 has been expend
ed. leaving balance in the treasury of 81 4SS.64
During the year 1865, the of S7962467 has been
| added to the school fund.
| The Grand Rapids Mich Eagle says
Sarah Pratt. the mother of ten children and owner
of good farm seven miles from st. Joseph was ir
town on Sunday last in search of her gay deceiver
George W. Mcintyre aged three years and ten
who won her affections and then told fibs and go
drunk on his wedding tour and left her alone in the
wide, wide world and her search so far for tbs
brute of man has been unsuccessful Such is life.
| "A case in now pending in Rhode Island
| in which a wealthy man married, and dying sooI
after left will that was made before his marriage
his estate is valued at million of dollars, and hi
-, lon is left an expensive and very doubtful law
.n;t inst, ad of large fortune Such as these
corstan, ly occurring, and show the great neces
St. Of liking, step in the intricate Of thu
Law without cops 'lting some whose business it il
to make those nitric, ecies plaln.
The following litter was found on the
person of man who had b.. en- arrested for burglary