The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-30
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number
ings banks in France is 1873, having 1886 900 deposit
ors and 275, 900 900 francs deposites. The number
of depositors in France compared with the popua-
tion is one to thrtyeght; in the city of Paris one
to seven. In Prussia the proportion is one to
thirty ysix; in Great Britain, one to fifteen; in Bel
gium, one to eight; in Saxony, one to four; in the
principal towns of Switzerland, one to three.
HEAVY LEGIsLArIoN.-A bill was recently intro
duced in the British House of Commons by Lord
j. Russell and Mr.. Headam, l58 pages in length
and nearly two inches thick. 1t proposes to amend
and consolidate the laws relating to bankrupts and
insovents, and contains no less than 46l clauses
New MODEL FOR SCYTHEs-Some English farm
ers have discarded the ordinary scythes in their
moving this year for an implement in all respects
the same except that it is fifteen inches shorter
1t is stated that the result is saving of one-third
in the labor.
The loss sustained by the late fire at the London
Docks, is estimated at three millions dollars in
Guiding 5000 tons sugar, go tons saltpetre, 1000
bales jute and hemp, 49, 900 bags rice besides large
quantity of rum and brandy.
The case of Lady Lytton Bulwer having been ad-
justed to the satisfaction of all parties on the Soc
cial report other ladyshps condition, she had been
set at liberty.
The operatives in a cotton factory at Philadel-
phia, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and at the
Harmony Mills, in Cohoes, N Y, have struck for
higher wages.
The Boston branch of the American Tract So
cety has issued Address, stating that its organ
ic relations have not been changed, but that its
work will proceed as usual
The Democratic State Central Committee of
Ohio has called nominating Convention, to meet
at Columbus on the 10Th inst. The appointment is
one delegate to every five hundred votes.
mania of suicide prevails among the Asiatics on
the island of Cuba. Almost every paper contains
accounts of suicides of coolies by hanging, poison
ing, drowning, &c.
The Penobscot Indians are now doing a smashing
business in manufacturing hoops for ladies' dresses
out of basket stuff The red ladies have also adopt
ed the fashion in its greatest amplitude.
The Springfield Mass Republican says that it is
probable that Springfield will still have grand re-
gatta this season, notwithstanding the breaking up
of the College race.
A huge rattlesnake was discovered in bed be-
tween two sleeping children, at Peora ILL.,. lately
By good management and luck, the children were
removed unharmed.
Gen. Walker has raised several thousand dollars
at Columbus Miss, and enlisted thirty men, to be
ready to leave for Nicaragua about the first of Sep
tember.
Mrs. Deborah Sprague, wife of Quincy Sprague,
of Weymouth, Mass, formerly of East Randolph,
committed suicide on the 7th July, by hanging her
self with handkerchief on chamber door.
Bradford Allen, of the well-known house of Mat
thewson and Allen extensive jewellers, died Prov
idence, X. l.. on Saturday, of malignant erysipeas
and pneumonia, at the age of fitty-two years.
Lord Richard Grosvcnor, Lord Henry Cavendish
and the Hon. Mr.. Ashley left st. Anthony, Mime
sofa, Tuesday, the 20th instant, buffalo hunt
in the wids of Dacotah.
Mr.. Thomas Puryear, of Columbia, South Caro-
lima, the of Charleston has left for England,
for the purpose of being present at the Goodwood
! Cup Race.
| The extensive furniture warehouse of Scaritt d
Mason, st. Louis, totally destroyed by fire on
] nIn,r, n
! 000
! The coal trade of Alexandria, Va, has increased
to such extent that parties engaged in the busi
ness contemplate the erection of several
| wharves.
The re-rolling of old rails is extensively and sue
cessuy carried on at Detroit, Cleveland, and either
now is, soon will be, by extensive works at Chi
! cago.
! The factory property of Henry d. Stone, the
defaulting lawyer, of Worcester, Mass, was sold
at auction on Saturday for $4,000 1t cost 500 900.
! The Democrats of Delaware are to hold State
! Convention at Dover, August 26th, to nominate
candidates for Governor and Congress.
The Charleston Mercury, ofthe 22d ::acknoM edges
the receipt OF ripe grapes, grown this season. the
! open air, in that city.
Mr. Asa Foster, a farmer of Canterbury, n. H.,
is now in his oath year, and his wife is in her 18th
year.
/ Two men, named v Bflen and Qulnlam, who were
blasting rock in awel in Somerville, Mass, were
| suffocated by foul air on the 26th inst.
The French Government has undertaken, experiment
ally NJ Cote's project for replenishng the oyster banks
on the coast.
The latest from London is to the effect that
Sir Allan McNab would bo the first Governor Of New Gale
donia
The lsraelites of Terre Haute, Ind are about to
construct a synagogue at that place.
Three fire companies from Toronto visited the
fremen of Rochester on Friday.