The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-15
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benjamin S. Arnold, postmaster at Elkhorn,
klircounty, KY, was arrested Saturday
last, charged with robbing the United States mail.
He was taken to Frankfort and after preliminary
investigation, was held to bail in the of $4,000
to answer the charge, which, failing to give he was
placed in Jail. He is man ofsome means, is very
respectfully connected and hitherto has been above
suspicion.
A little son of Mr. Adam Gregor, ofMililin town
ship, Cumberland county, Pa, aged between SIX
and seven years. strayed from home, and was iostln
the mountain, on the 23d ult. Dilgent search was
made for several days, but without success. on the
I'd inst, however, some nood-choppers found his
body in the mountain, about mile from his fathers
house The little fellow had starved to death.
The Kansas Daily Ledger of the 4th instant an
nounces, on the authority of private letter from
reliable gentleman, that everything was quiet at
the seat of war about Fort Scott, and that every
effort will be used to bring the guilty parties to
Justice, and punish them to the fullest extent OF the
law.
The Vicksburg True Southron, of June LIST, says
that the Iocusts predicted by DR.. g. b. Smith, of
MARYLAND. have made their appearance in that
county. and that the woods are vocal with their
music-by no means so sweet as the IEolian harp.
They do not occasion any damage.
Mr.. Elisha Cuff, respectable farmer of Salem,
n j.. has, since March 2Sth buried his wife, aged
twenty-nine years, and five children, aged eight,
five, four and two wears, and three months and has
been severely i'll himself. He is now left without
any family whatever
The house OF MI. JOlln small, residing Como
WACO township, Adams county, Pa, robbed of
gold and silver notes. and due bills to the amount
of about $500, while Mr.. ;. and family at
tending religious service at Conowago Chapel, on
Thursday forenoon.
A correspondent of the ST. Louis Democrat. writ
ing from Leavenworth, May Goth, says that
soldier of the Seventh Infantry was to be shot at
six o'clock, p. NJ. He had murdered two of his
feIlow-solders, and shot an officer in the arm in
Texas.
The Waterville, On. Y.,) Times SAYS lead has
been discovered in stone quarry in the town of
Kirkland. Several men at work with shovels,
crow-bars, picks and wheelbarrows, and the scene
is truly an animated one.
The last rail has been laid on the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad, and the ran through
to the terminus at "Morehead City" n. c., on the
I'd instant.
The Buffalo, New York and Erie Railroad have
reduced the fare from Buffalo to New York, or vice
versa, to 49, and from Batavia to New York to So,
and from Rochester to New y DIRK to 81.
A liberal gentleman of Milwaukee, director of
the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad, gave his
pastor, year ago, thousand dollar Lacrosse
bond 1t is now ascertained that he stole the bill.
A fire occurred in the pines of Burlington coun-
ty, n. j.. on last Thursday, and burned over dis
trict eight miles long and four broad, destroying
much valuable timber
John Akin has been convicted in the United
States Court, at Wilmington Del, for passing
counterfeits, and sentenced to Imprisonment for
three years.
An affray took place on the I'd inst, in Macon,
Miss, between Reuben Clopton, of the Clopton
House, and l.. Etheredge, of the Planters House,
in which the former was killed.
There at least two thousand people, of both
sexes, from other States, sojourning in Indiana and
Illinois, for the express purpose of getting rid of
their wives and husbands.
The rain has been so heavy in Cattaraugus
county, N. Y, that in of the churches prayers
have been put up for its cessation.
The Portland Argus says that in that city females
have for long time been employed in the Offices of
the Register of Probate and Register of Deeds.
The Natchez Courier of the LIST ult. reports the
Mississippi river stationary at that point.
New wheat has been sold at Athens Tenn for
Go cents per bushcl. Old wheat will hardly COM
mand any price.
We see it stated that Gen. Harvey has been ap-
pointed brigadier in place of General Smith, de-
ceased.
Mayor Weaver. of Pittsburgh, in imitation of
Mayor Tieman, of New York has made an onslaught
on the lottery and policy dealers of that city,