Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-28
GENERAL NEWS.


Committee.
GNNERAE. NEWS.
"A new sporting journal is to be started in
Paris entitled lie Derby"
There are over 400 Christian commu-
nicants in India. 10000 in Burmah, and not far from
10000 in the Island of Madagascar
The leader of the gang of guerillas who
seized the steamer Belfast on the Tombigbee river
some months ago has been tried in Mobile by a mill
tary commission, and required to pay fine of S. OGO
"A party of eighteen lumberers, in Mich
igan, were lately poisoned and all died from eating
batch of biscuit in preparing which strychnine had
been accidentally used instead of saleratus.
Mrs Charles, the author of the "Schon-
bergCota Family. is publishing serialy in an Eng.
lish magazine story entitled THE Draytons and
the Davenants: being the Personal Recollections of
Mrs. Olive Drayton, of the Fen Country"
The new first class hotel at Charlestown,
Mass, is to be built by Moses A Dow, publisher of
the WoUeriy Magazine. He has paid $50, 600 for the
land, and the building will cost Sl5O,O1O more
Journalism has evidently been profitable in his case
-Strakosch's opera troupe having been an
nounced to appear in Norfolk, one of the
clergymen of that citv has preached a sermon de-
nouncing it and warning the members of his congre-
CATION not to lend their countenancc TO its immor-
atty.
Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's second
son. young fellow Of twenty -ono has just been
promoted to be a captain in the British Navy, and
Parliament has granted him an allowance of S75, 600
year. He istalked of as the Viceroy of the pro-
jected British American Confederation.
The late Mr.. c. A. Poulson bequeathed
his large and valuable collection of local works and
curiousy illustrated books to the Philadelphia Lii
brary and also the of five hundred dollars to pay
the expenses incident to the arrangement of the
books
"A freight train on the Erie Railroad ran
OFF the track on Wednesday. near Binghamton, N
The cars were loaded with petroleum. and one of the
barrels burst by the conclusion Tho fluid spread
over the ground and little boy touched match to
it onIy for fun" Result: four cars of petroleum and
two barns burnt.
The annual report of pork and beef pack
ers at Chicago prepared by Henry Mlward. was pub
lished on Saturday. The figures compare as follows
1866 1865
IOBs, ,ib2 15Ol
Catue, Z3,I2S 81, ,i59
The total packing of hogs in the West it is sup
posed. will foot up between sixteen and seventeen
hundred thousand. against near twenty-five hundred
thousand last year.
"A German paper publishes an anecdote
of President Lincoln which has not been in print in
this country. A lieutenant, whom debts compelled
to leave his atherand and service succeeded in being
admitted to the late President Lincoln and. by reason
of his commendable and winning department and
intelligent appearance, was promised leutenant's
commission in cavalry regiment He was so en-
raptured with his success. that he deemed it duty
TO inform the President that he belonged to one OF
the oldest noble houses in Germany. "0h, never
mind that" said Mr.. Lincoln. you will not find that
to be an obstacle to your advancement"