The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-18
CITY NTELLIGENCE.

The Cry PASSENGER RAILwAY.-The following
communication from the grantees named in the
the City Railway ordinance was received yesterday
afternoon in the First Branch, read and ordered
to be entered on the journal:
To the Honorable Members of the
FIRST and Second Branches Of the City CouncH
We have observed in the newspapers of this morning
that the Mayor has sent to your honorable body com
muncaton upon the subject of grant to construct
Guy Passenger Railway This message, which charges
that there has been violation of the contract bv ba
grantees, and which invites the appointment of iont
committee of the Councils for investigation for reasons
doubtless known to the Mayor was not sent o
Branch until the day before the close its session and
will not have reached the Second Branch until the day
on which it will adjourn for months. We are un-
willing to rest under the charges for three months and
we therefore ask that reconsider the resolution to ad
ourn until September and that you give us nom the on
portuny to make the investigation asked by the Mayor
We are sure that your sense fjuStce will recognize the
reasonableness of our request and that Councils will
not dissolve until they have adopted suggestions of
the Mayor and furnished all facilities in their
power to vndicate ourselves against the charges pre-
ferred. f
We also ask that your honorable body would print the
message of the Mayor and the correspondence accom-
panying it, in which have endeavored to put in his
1.-THE Mayors possession all the facts our connection
Council may feel necessary correspondence
has been published to say something additional the
public Very Respectfully,
Your Obt sevts,
lSigned,l MM II: TRAvERs,
W s. BROWNING,
WM. DEGoEY,
ROBT. CATRCART
j. b. SUMwALT.
LEXINGTON MARKET.-The following were the
ruling prices at Lexington Market Yesterday
sroin steak per lh Carrots snap 5 s 8 p PIX
Rounds 49,. lG@ l. Cymlng 3l@ 81 pr d.
o0re' PORK S 10 GsParasu: sPnT @ I Il i BT3c Br
Salt shoulders lGa II Cherries. Sa 10 Der ot
Ham, whole.....nE u Gooseberries. -. I21H .
Midding iG l. June Apples 5i&5 q pr pr pE
SauSages Illp u :. MscGLLANEous
l''u MaTraS a II i'er rol. PGln.: IT, Gs i@% q 3 pr d.
Moun'nmu l5@ l8 Eggs. s.....:..... 200 prd'z
By The quarter l5o sa appes: nS9Ei5es tS eS = =
Forequarers. 6aaloo spring chickens s. 50 az pr rdz
IIindauarters 75al.5O Ghickens. s7G q pair If
$Rsfasr:. SR5fS @ Large rocR!.. f.'H 10 IS bunch
TEGETAnLFs Perch -. Pa Pa 8 IS bunch naiE
Potaoes ytr @ 5a %n Fd 3 @ " pr pr S 1
- (mercer) 25le 81 Holsters $50. So :. each.
kae SPROUTS ga "a Pr pr pS aa lSF''D'"' 's
To PREVENT THE AILANrHus FROM SMELLING.
we now in the midst of this nuisance, which i'm
parts to our streets an odor not precisely that of
excited skunk or a crushed tumble bug,
but something between. quite as agreeable
and refreshing, we offer the following preventive,
which we have known to be tried and to prove eff
fectual. About the first of June or few days later
in backward season, cause all the branches of the
tree to be sawed off from six inches to foot from
the trunk, which must then be carefully white
washed up to the first fork. If this operation is
regularly performed, not only will the Ailanthus
be completely nodOrous, but it will present very
cheerful and elegant appearance on the side walk.
No boxes need be employed for the protection of
this tree, horse will bite it, and even boys de-
cline to 'bark'' it. But it never appears to such
advantage with its head cut off, and its trunk
neatly white washed.
VIOLENT AsGAULT.-On Thursday evening, about
eight o'clock, two men named Smms and Gard
bppD fha Init
States tTigate ST. Lawrence had difficulty in the
house OF Ned Berry, on Thames street, near Broad
way, in which Gardner was seriously injured.
Simms asked Gardner if he (Gardner) had not
struck him, and although Gardner had not he
jokinglv replied that he had. Whereupon Simms'
threw his arm around his neck and drawing Gard
per's face close to his own, caught G.'s lower lip
with his teeth and bit it almost off. The cut is
nearly two inches in length. Gardner was taken
to the office of DR.. Dwinelie, who dressed the
wound and Smnls made his escape.
ENGINE HousE.-The Fire Commissioners are now
engaged in building engine house at the corner
of Lexington and North streets, in which will be
placed steam fire engine No. 4. This site for
merly occupied by the Monumental Hose Company,
and in addition to the house used by that Company,
which is being altered, the Commissioners intend
erecting building in the for stabling and
other purposes The Improvement will be a tenn
porary one, and will be removed when the citv
concludes to build the new City Hall.
SUICIDE AT THE ALMsHousE-Ye Yesterday morning
man named - Cotton, for the past six months
an inmate and hostler at the Almshouse committed
suicide by hanging himself with rein to one of
the rafters of the Almshouse stables When dis
covered he had been hanging about half an hour
The deceased was about fifty years of age and dur
ing the time he was inmate of the Amshouse
had led perfectly sober life. An inquest was
held upon his remains and the jury rendered ver-
dict of ''death by his own hands-cause, inducing
him to commit the act, unknown"
or Tbo
thorizing the closing of Conway street between
Howard and Eutaw streets, passed the First Branch
of the City Council yesterday afternoon. The
street is ordered to be closed Internationally.