The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-02
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

Police RECoRDs.-The criminal statistics of the
city for the month of MAY last past, present the
following exhibit: Assault with intent to kill 10;
assault and battery sc; assault on officers s. as
saulting and stabbing l; assauting wives Is: abus-
ing 81; assauting parents l; abusing families 4;
breach of ordinances 50; breach of peace 299: dis
turbing public worship l; fast driving a. fraud l;
lighting in the street %; gambling on the Sabbath
A; interfering with officers A; intoXication 3l5:
keeping disorderlv houses A. larceny 81; suspicion
of murder l; peddling without license |; receiving
stolen goods 3; robbery l2 threatening to kill 9:
destroying property 2; perjury 2; shooting at per-
sons Z; passing counterfeit money 2; selling liquor
on Sunday l; vending lottery 5lices 2;-total ar
rests lOO3. Of all the parties arrested, the fol-
lowing disposition was made of them: Committed
for trial "a; committed for examination 2s; baed
for trial l04; baied to keep the peace 173; commit
ted in default of bail 459; fined l65
The number of watch-hOuse dodgers, or persons
in destitute circumstances, who nightly resort to
the station houses for shelter and rest there were
during the period ,023-of whom 695 were
white males, 2l2 white females, 70 colored males
and 46 Colored females.
REMEMBERING HOUSES IN THE CITY.-In the First
Branch of the City Council last night an ordinance
introduced by Mr.. Wood the subject ofre-number-
ing the houses in the city, called up and passed.
The plan proposed is to make Calvert street going
east and west, and Baltimore street going north and
south, the initial or starting point-and to allow
one hundred numbers to each square, the odd num-
bers being the south and east side, and the even
numbers the north and west side of every street,
lane and alley.
The numbers used to be of white raised metal ON
black ground, and of uniform size. Messrs. An
drew Salisbury VIM. H. Lester for the Western
district, all that portion of the city west of Cal
vert street, and Robert K. Ross & VIM H. Travers
for the Eastern district are the persons designed
to be benefited by the ordinance and are to receive
20 cents for each number affixed; while "each and
every person refusing, interrupting or preventing
the atfixng the said number or who shall remove
it after it has been affixed, shall forfeit and pay
penalty of five dollars
ACCIDENT-0n Tuesday about one o'clock a man
named Godfrey Miller, while driving a cart down
Bond street Orleans, struck the animal be was
driving blow with whip, causing him to kick
his hoof striking Miller on the left arm near the
shoulder, causing a compound fracture of the arm
and also dislocatng the shoulder. The man was
conveyed into house near by, and the shoulder
was replaced and the arm set, when he was re-
moved to his home in Canton.
ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.-About two o'clock YES
terday morning an attempt made to break into
the store of - Block, on Bond street, near
Canton avenue. The burglar used an auger and
endeavored to bore the lock Off but placing it too
high struck pane of glass, the breaking of which
alarmed the proprietor and the thieves Immediately
fled, leaving behind them a large chisel. The same
store was robbed about two months since of about
$500 worth of goods.
FIRE INSPECTORS REPoRT.-The monthly report
of Fire Inspector Boyd shows the following state
ment of the number of fires, alarms. &C., for the
month of May, 1859, with corresponding table for
May, 1858: