The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-07
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The Cincinnati Price Current contains statement
OF the exports of provisions from the United States
| from January to April l. The aggregate, re-
duced to pounds, show a falling off 20, 765, $50.
This decrease is equal to about 900 hogs: but
an effect we have the deficit in the stocks in the
country on the LIST of November, the latter beinr
equal to at least 800 900 hogs. Taking the increase
| in the hog crop and putting the figures together
| the result is as follows Excess in crop OF hogs
$4,000 head; decrease in foreign exports, (equaN
100000 head total $780, 600. Deduct deficit in old
stocks, 300 900, and the net excess will be $50 600
head This exhibit regards the net excess is based
upon the suppositon that the home consumption
| has been equal to that of last year.
A respectable and wealthy farmer of Chester
| county, Penn, visited Philadelphia on Thursday
last, with his eldest daughter, girl of about nine
teen years OF age for the purpose of purchasing
her wedding suit She left her father for the pur-
pose OF examining some bonnets, with instructions
to meet him soon atterward in the upper part of the
city. Since that moment she has not been heard Of
although every effort has been made by the friends
OF the family to learn her whereabouts. The ques-
ton is, has she eloped or been murdered?
LARGE ESTATE LEFT WITHOUT A DIRECT HEIR.-
The death of Jesse Barber, aged four years and
nine months, Is announced in the Chicago papers
This little girl was the last surviving member of the
| family of the late Jabez Barber, of Chicago, who
with his wife and daughter, persisted in the Collins
steamer Pacific, in 1856. At the time of his death
his property was estimated at about 900, and
has increased in value to 500 600 By his will the
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her death it was to revert to the next of kin. The
nearest of kin Mary Ann, Harriet and Lucy
Barber, of Birmingham, England, and Eliza Bell, of
Simcoe, c. E. These ladies, who are in straitened
circumstances, will receive something over 100000
| each.
For the last year or two, there has been def
eiency in the supply of Chinese fire-crackers owing
10 the rebellion in China The consequence has
peen great advance in the price of these ndispensa
ole articles Tor the Fourth of July; but this year
.here Is hSeiy to be an abundance which will bring
dne price down. From July l, 1857, to February
-, 1898, there were shipped from Hong Kong to
the United States l40,361 boxes of fire crackers.
against 42,91S in the previous year and IS 800 box
es in the year before that.
The New Orleans Delta states that Lieuts Ra,cber
| and West, of General Walkers last exned;t;on RI
| Nicaragua who Were under bonds to stand tr;,I f
a violation of the neutrality laws, ALTHOUGH their
securities perfectly willing to remain on tbe;
bonds, delivered themselves up to the marshal and
requested to be sent to prison, stating that if the
government intended to keep them there from time
| to time they were determined they should be sun
ported by the same. The marshal accordingly took
| them in charge.
On Friday last the ship John Patten cleared at
Savannah, Ga, for ST. Petersburg, with 1,766,62S
| lbs. of cotton.
The resolution in relation to our difficulties, with
Paraguay, has been laid ON the table, in the Senate