The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-26
D OM E S TIC.

The stories told of the freaks of the late tornado
in Illinois quite astonishing the hurricane
must have been to the frightened inhabitants
The Peoria Transcript is responsible for the follow
ing:
cat Kappa, two ladies were blown away and
have not since been heard from They probably
wore hoops. At Chcnos it dai""l;shad Il house com
petcly, and yet left a bookcase that was i'll it
without scratch broken pane Of glass. 1t
carried large mirror sixty feet and laid 1t down
unbrokcn. The next morning after the storm
man seen to crawl from under barn, who,
after being questioned stated that as he was coming
across the prairie, the wind picked him up and
carried him Il half-mic, setting him down in pond
of water four feet deep; he wadcd out and got on
little rise of ground, when the wind took him
again and hurried him with violence against the
side of the barn, under which he crawled and spent
the night.
''The most wonderful feat of all, however, oc-
Cured at Chenos \ farm house was blown at
two jumps no less than 800 feet from where it stood,
and set down so easily that the plastering was not
cracked or the dishes Knocked off the table, which
set for supper. A similar occurrence took
place at Gilman, where kitchen was blown from
the side of the house into a slough without a plate
being broken, and when informant left, the in
mates were iourneying back and forth on raft to
get the cooking utensils for breakfast"
The Juvenile thief who picked the pocket of Lola
Montez of forty dollars in New York. few days
since, has been arrested. He is an inc0rrigihc
young rascal, and several times has called at the
detective squad and gave himself up to the
officers, saying that he had understood they had
been looking for him. suppOsing him to have been
the party who had relieved certain parties who had
been robbed. AS they were never able to tasten
I anything on him he always succeeded in getting
clear, until this time, when he committed to
the tombs.
James James, of Townsend, Sandusky county,
Ohio, having conceived grudge againsthis cousin
Isaac June, went to the house of the latter, few
days since, and after taking breakfast with him,
rose from the table, and drawing revolver, sad
'Junc, have come here to commit murder, and
going to do it." The pistol missed fire, and
June sprang upon James, who drew a large knife
and hacked his victim in q horrible manner. Mrs.
june who was in adjoining room, gave the
alarm, and James was arrested, but not until June
was mOrtally wounded.
The body of johnson Chaefer, young English
man, who disappeared so mysteriously, about three
weeks ago from the steamboat Hero, on her way to
Albany, brought to New York from Fishkill,
where it picked out of the river Friday last,
by fisherman. His money, consisting of about
$4,000, in drafts, his gold watch and other valua
bles were found upon his person, untouched
From the fact that he had so much money in his
possession, it feared by his friends that he was
murdered and then cast overheard
The Washington Star says eve hear that Mr.
I Clark Mills has temporarily suspended the work
the equestrian statue of Washington, ordered Of
him BY the Government The cause of this suspen-
sion is said to be the uncertainty about its eventual
location. There are points connected with it that
cannot be finally determined on until after it shall
/ be definitely known precisely where and how it is
/ to be placed.
/ The old revolutionary hotel, corner of Broad and
Main streets, Burlington, in New Jersey, called
Blue Anchor, has been torn down. Washington,
Knox, Green, Cadwaader, Reed, Dickinson, Max
well, all have gathered around its festive board and
reposed in its chambers while Count Donop.
Rawlc and Knyphauscn have rested within it for
! time.
/ Judge Nelson, of Campbell county, Ky, who has
gained an unenviabe notorietY from his connection
/ 6 Ill, hos honr, Indie in
the United States District Court for the District
of Kentucky, for assisting q soldier named Beck to
desert from the garrison at Newport.
George Reed. a saloon keeper, at Troy, n. Y,
/ murdered his wife. on Green Island, opposite this
| CITY, on Saturday night, by stabbng her with
/ dirk He then stabbed himself several times diving
} immediately Mrs X. fingered for only hours
Causc-iealousy. Reed was 25 and his wife Is years
oGage.
A letter from Kansas gives an account of an en-
counter between Captain Anderson with squad of
/ United States troops and company of MOntgome-
/ rvs outlaws In the aifray young soldier named
Alvin Satterwait was mortally wounded; he has
since died.
/ According to the New Orleans Picoy,ne, the
damages caused by the Bell crevasse arc variously
estimated at from four to five millions of dollars,
the general impression being that for two seasons
no sugar crops can be raised on the submerged
plantations
warrant has been issued in Albany, \. y :, for
the arrest of Mrs. Hartung suspicion of poison
ing her husband. She fed in company with a
/ young man who boarded in the same house with
her. The police are on her track.
A negro belonging to Mr. John Chappell, OF Rich,
mond county n c. recently killed his master and
mistress and their two children with an axe. The
neighbors completed the fifth act of the tragedy by
despatching the negro.
| Jobn Ruth, High Constable of Washington, Pa,
either poisoned himself deliberately or by mistake,
! ON Thursday, by taking strychnine. Ashe was re
snectable man. so years old, and had no reason to
commit suicide, the latter is probably true.
The Pension Office has detected land is now en-
gagged in prosecuting those concerned,) various
frauds committed in Vermont, by forging papers
for obtaining bounty land warrants, &c.
Mr.. Hail. the turnkey of the Illinois Peniten-
tiary, terribly stabbed by convict, who dragged
| him in the CELL has fully recovered
! Charles B. Kendall. who killed William Gregory
at Cincinnati, few days ago, has been committed
to charge of murder
Letters received by the Iowa Senators and Repre-
sentatives at Washington confirm the stories of ex
! tensive gold discoveries in that State