The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-30
MOVEMENT OF OCEAN STEAMERS
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As Mr.. John Crump and family, consisting of him
self, wife and infant, and daughter about seven
teen or eighteen years old, were on their return
home to Chambersburg, Pa, from bunker meet
ing, the daughter was instantly killed by lightning.
The family was in one-horse wagon, the youihg
lady occupying hind seat, and it is said her clio
thing was literally torn into shreds. Strange as it
may seem, the other occupants of the wagon cs-
capped with slight stunning. The horse was knock
ed down.
A project is foot to build a railroad on the
west side of the Susquehanna to connect with the
Sunbury and Erie road at Lewisburg, and extend
to opposite Dauphin, where it will form link with
the designed extension of the Lebanon Valley Rail
road The object of the road is to endeavor to
obtain large share of the great trade that must
eventually go over the Sunbury and Erie Railroad
over line that centres at Philadelphia, instead of
permitting it to go to Baltimore, as it otherwise
will by the Northern Central road.
We have received says Kentucky paper, from
the auditor list of all the men in Breathitt
county, in that State, who sixty-fve years of
age and upwards. The list contains the names of
ttty-five persons, whose united ages amount to
l63 years, and the average age of each person is
near V seventy-six years. The two oldest of these
men, Jonathan Fugett and Jane Howard. are, re-
spectively, l04 and los years of age. The entire
population of Breathitt county is 1886.
The hard times are beginning to tell upon some
classes of real estate in Boston. Stores and houses
in certain situations and of certain sizes continue
to let well, and to bring good prices; but the num-
Der OF houses for sale or to rent is large and is dali
ly becoming larger. When leases have Terminated
rents have fallen, in most localities, and where a
considerable number of houses stand vacant as at
the south part of the city, many of them can be
purchased at less than cost.
The western waters very high in sc and 81
Seven years after in "A, and in seven wears after
in 81 and then again in SO we have great flood
The superstitious can exercise their talents
upon the magical number seven. We are told that
the Indians of the West held such tradition also
of a seven years tiood.-LouiSrWe Journal
Advices from Turks Island to June 8, report the
weather fine and salt making prosperous; 1000 bush.
were sold that day at 81 cts. per bushel. The
islands healthy and greatly enlivened and
benefited by the visits of English and American
vessels of war;
The Massachusetts, Arms Company, of Chicopee
Falls, now employs about 100 workmen, and is I'LL
ing orders for 5000 Maynards patent breech-load-
ing firearms, and also 5000 Adams patent self-re-
volving arms. A part of these are for the United
States government.
Steubenville, Ohio, stands upon coal bed.
shaft has been sunk in Market street. and coal
reached at the depth of 220 feet. The vein is four
feet thick, and the coal is of superior quality for
household, mechanical manufacturing and gas pur-
poses. About 1000 bushels are raised daily, and
the amount will soon be increased to 5000 bushels
The special commission which has recently in
qured into the State of the Iowa treasury, has
found deficiency of Sl0S I'll 2S for which there is
nothing to show but unsecured and valueness drafts
checks and certificates of deposit of certain private
bankers and persons
The Grand Jury of Albany county, New York
have unanimously presented the professional Jurors
ana loungers OF the courts as a nuisance.
The Fredericksburg WAY Ne,cs has heard that the
wheat crop in LOudon and Fairfax counties has
been seriously injured by the rust.