The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-24

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| Saturday, July l7th, 2,42SO5 tons of coal were
shipped over the Cumberland and PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad, G523 tens over the road of the Georges
! Creek Coal and Iron Company and l,I27.l4 tons
! over the Hampshire Coal and Iron Company's
road making an aggregate for the week from the
! whole coal region Of10.2ll.l0 tons. Total ship
ments for the year from the entire region 249 sol is
tons.-C@aberind TeieDaph
SUDDEN DEATH.-In Middetown, Conn, Horace
! Cole, died very suddenly on Thursday, aged 60
years lie was sitting in his chair reading letter
from his sister, in which account of the sud
| den death of three persons by lightning when he
made the remark, Sin the midst of life we are in
DEATH" which no sooner finished than his foot
dropped to the floor, his head fell back and he was
corpse.
ANOTHER MURDER TRIAL IN WAsHryGToy-Tb
Criminal Court of Washington has been engaged
for several days in the trial Of Hcisser and John
son; for the murder of young Stoops. Fhe testimo-
ny has all been given in, and yesterday the counsel
on both sides were engaged in speaking. During
yesterdays sitting Judge Crawford was taken sud
denly i'll, and compelled to retire to and remain
IN the Marshals room lin sight and hearing of the
courtroom) during portion Of the argument orthe
counsel.
The Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Rail
road Company held short session in Alexandria
yesterday. The recent subscription to the road OF
the part OF the State of Virginia of $500, ,O0O was
accepted, and the directors authorized to receive
the SlOO 900 subscribed by Clarke county upon Ger
tain conditions.
On Monday, Margaret Stout, the mother of Ira,
and Charles, his younger brother. who have been
confined in the Rochester y. Y. Jail since the 2Oth
OF last December, as witnesses, were discharged
from custody.
The Rev. W. Hutchinson, graduate ofY ale Col
lege OF the class Of 1854, and who has since been
engaged tutor in the College, is to be ordained
at New Haven tomorrow a Missionary to the
North American mission.
cat fish was caught in the Minnesota river
few days since, which weighed sixty-fve pounds
and was provided with mouth large enough TO
take in the end of a fence post
4 salt company was organized at CLYDE Wavne
county, on Saturday, with capital Of 500 900
The engineer is the same person who dug the first
salt well in Salina.
The steamer Fulton, which sails from New York
Tor Liverpool to-day, takes out Prof Morse and fam
ly, Baron Gerolt, Mr.. J. p. o. Sullivan, the new
American Consul to Singapore and a large number
of others.
James Nolan, aged about 90 years, found guilty
OF the murder of Capt. ,Jno. Ren0n on the 10Th of
August last, was hung at New Orleans on Friday
last, within the walls of the Parish Prison.
I, The vickSsburg Eyhig mentions report that E!
Governor Henry S. Foote, late of Mississippi is
shortly to become connected with the editorial de-
partment Of the Memphis Ecenmg Ledgcr.
The Chief of Police has taken census of the pub
lie drinking shops in Boston, and returns the num-
Der at 1863, being 32i less than last year.
The Texas papers are urging the election of Hon.
John II. Reagan, to the seat in the Senate, made
vacant by the death of Gen. Henderson.
Edwin Forrest, the tragcdian, is pleasurng in the
West. He intends, after more professional tour
through the States, to finally retire from the stage
The new Jewish Synagogue at Richmond, Va,
was consecrated on Thursday. The building is de
'cribed as being quite an ornament to the city.
The Charleston IS. C.) Jfercury learns that the
cotton and rice crops all through the Sea Island
Flni OF that State very promising and IN excel
The Orange and Alexandria Railroad continues to
10 large business in through travel, the new line
o the southwest growing more popular every day.
The courts of Cincinnati are at present melting
nut justice to pickpOckets, some half dozen having
'een sent to the penitentiary on Thursday.
Two men in West Haven, Conn. have raised this
eason 900 quarts of Strawberries upon an acre
nd quarter Of ground
The Pittsburg Pa Chronicle saws that the TToI-
furnace made, last week Isl tons l7SG
ounds of good, gray, marketable iron
The largest snow bank remaining on anv Of tbe
White Mountain peaks is upon Mount Madison, the
lost northern summit of the range.
Among the unpaid letters in the Norfolk post of
&c 18TH INST was one for B. Stern of Baltimore.
The brig NJ. Sheppard, at Salem from Para, had
Ooard seven large sized serpents.
The Mississippi river at Vicksburg, when food
as highest, was 81 feet deep.