The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-21
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A WOMAN WITH Two HUsBANDs-THB LAST MAR
t nlEp nshPs hER.-A woman residing in East Deer
toWnShlp, IN this county, whose maiden name was
CatharIne Hoax, and who was raised near MilIers-
| to"n' on Dun creek, was married many years ago
TO man named John Fletcher. About six years
| ago Fletcher left his home on Bull Creek and did
not return according to promise His wife receiv
ing no letters from, and hearing no word of him,
| concluded he was dead Thus matters stood untii
| last winter, when Mrs. Fletcher became acquainted
| with and was married to VIM. Pitman and thew
| nave lived on the farm of Mr.. Thomas Cbristy,
| ABOUT three miles from Tarentum in peace and
| quiet; Dut on last Tuesday evening, Fletcher re-
turned to his residence, and learning of his wiraa
| whereabouts, started next morning for tho rasi
dence of Pitman, to lay claim to the woman. He
talked to her, in the absence of Pitman desiring
her to go with him, and finally claimed one-half 0f
the original house furniture. In a short time pit
man came in and the two men settled the matter
Pltman agreeing to pay Fletcher five dollars for
MS share OF the furniture, and Fletcher, promising
TO leave and give them no further trouble.-Pius-
burg Despatch, Sept. 10.
THE GOLD DoLLAR-The Boston Advertiser. COM
mentlng on the recent order to recon the geld dol
lar into pieces of larger denomination. SAYS:
inns step has been found necessary in conse-
quehce OF the trouble made by this small coin par
tlcuaTly IN New York. 1t has not been found
possible to keep the coins in crculation they accu-
| muiated IN the sub-treasury, and being paid out
|
custom house; and to add to the difficulty, it has
been found impossible to take them by weight but
they have to be counted laborously one by one
thus loading the government officers with a vast
amount of useless labor.
Whatever attractions metallic currency NAV
nave, the gold dollar for any general use is simply
nuisance 1t Is too small, too easily lost too
easily mistaken, and too easily loses its value bv
wear or by unlawful practices.
The AMERICAN Vegetarian SoCIErY is now
hoiolng Its annual session in Philadelphia. The
old officers were all reelected. series of resoIu-
tions were adopted asserting that as general rule
the strongest men in the world the most beautifulv
| organized and developed men, the farest complex
loned men, the wisest and most profound thinkers
| the most moral, humane and virtuOus men, and the
longest lived men, have been vegetarians: and facts
well established abundantly prove that those who
i've exclusively on vegetable diet can and do en-
dure the extremes Of heat and cold, hard and lonr
continuous toll and exposure and long continued
prIVatlon, better than those who live on flesh or
mixed diet. That moral social and religious life
IS best promoted and improved by living vegeta-
rian life.
CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN DIPLOMATS AT HAM
BURG.-We learn from the German exchanges that
during the third week in August a conference of
the American ministers to the courts of Berlin,
copenhagen and st. Petersburg-Messrs WRIGHT
Suchanan and Appeton--was held in the city ri
| Hamburg, in obedience to instructions from the
Administration at Washington. The subject of the
conference is said to have been the policy to bn
| adopted by the United States in the present poti
cal position In Europe, and especially with refer
| ence to the question of protecting naturalized
| American citizens of German birth As no re-
porter was present, the proceedings have not tran
| splred. Mr.. Appleton on his way to ST. Pc
tersburg, via Lubec to relieve his predecessor Mr.
Pickens.-Phiia. Inquirer.
From SoUTH AMERICA.-By a decree ofthe Pres-
dent oil Venezuela, rice, corn, potatoes salt beef
lard and other necessares, may be introduced free
OF duty "and all importation charges, ordinary and
extraordinary" through anv of the ports of that
republic The decree will remain in force until re-
hn anna .rtho =
Ayres papers to July % have been received The
question of changing the capital of the Argentine
Republic was agitating the public mind, but moth
ing can be done until the Legislature meets. The
United States surveying steamer Argentine had
returned from unsuccessful attempt to ascend
the Salado. There is no other
IMPORTANT DIsCovERY.-Dr Oier, a celebrated
French physician, has discovered that bone does not
Immediately die when the heart ceases to beat
For, after the death of animal Dr. Olier has re-
moved bone from the body to that of living ami
nal, and the bone thus introduced has united itself
completely to that properly belonging to the ami
NAL. There seems to be no doubt, therefore, that
we may mend and replace our bones, as easily as a
! table-leg.
LITERARY THTEvING.-The Courier des Etats
Onts OF Saturday announces that in future the let
ters OF its Paris correspondent, NJ. Gaillardet will
be copyrighted. 1t is driven to this course by the
fact that these letters continually being used by
! other journals without acknowledgment of the
source whence obtained. 1t especially audes to
INC vi Nan francisco paper having,
for more than year, copied these letters literally
and used them original.
The Cincinnati Commercial relates the follow
ing, incidentwhich occurred at Convington, Ken
tucky:
"At the Circuit Court on SATURDAY. another
! white man, named James Moore, was placed on
trial for vagrancy, and the jury finding him guilty.
he was sentenced to be sold at public auction iuGo
involuntary servitude for six months
GIFT TO A CHURCH.-Judge Perkins, of Louisiana,
pl IN MP Enis rob
Petersburg, Va, chime of nine BELLS the heaviest
o. whieh fo "sha a9S lbs, and the rest respective
lbs. The total weight of the nine bells is therefore
! G,574 lbs. The bells have been hung, and will 90
| into operation on Sunday.
The American Bank-Note Company has sent out
a corps of artists, equipped with presses and the
necessary apparatus for completing the order of the
| Bank OF st. Petersburg, which goes into operation
as soon as these details shall have been arranged,
with capital of $4,000, 900 sterling. The bill of
| the Bank Note Company will be nearly Sl000 900.
| handsome compliment to American skill.
The trial of the merchant Aud, accused of set
ting hre to his own premises, in Market street.
Philadelphia, is now going on, and the evidence
thus lar elected bears hard upon the accused. Bar
rels IN the storage room OF the burning building
were found filled with combustible material, appa-
rently placed there for incendary purposes.
A M. Baldwin, of Iowa, on the I'd instant, mur-
dered neighbor named Abner Munger, with blows
on the head with a board-then went before n ius-
tice () while Munger lay dying, complained of him
self for assault and battery, was fined one dollar
and discharged He then forthwith took himself off
beyond the reach of arrest!
The New YORK Express complains of the unfair
ness of the teegraphc political reports of the
Northern lines. 1t says that whenever a disturb
ance is created at Republican meeting it is her
aided in the strongest language all over the
| try, but when a Democratic a Bell meeting is
| broken up, nothing is said about it.
An attempt was made on Tuesday to rob the
| Liberty Bank in Providence, r. L. by a couple of
young men who entered the bank and threw spirits
of ammonia into the face of the only officer then
present. He gave the alarm notwithstanding his
injuries, and both of the wOud-be robbers were
| rested.
| On Wednesday morning two of the New York
ferry boats, the George Washington and Nebraska,
came in collision in the harbOr, by which both
| badly injured. large number ofpassengers
| on board at the time, but injured fur
| ther than great fright.
Adam Hauverman recently died in Antwerp,
Jefferson county, N. Y. at the age of l02 years.
Prior to the Revolutionary war he was made prs-
oner by the Indians under Brandt and carried to
Canada. He bought of the Indians by a tra-
der, who kept him several years as an interpreter.
| There is now continuous chain of railroads
| from Bangor to New Orleans, composed of eighteen
| independent roads; costing in the aggregate, for
2,344 miles of road, $50, 1864 ,OS4, nearly one
! tenth of the whole railway system in the United
| States.
The Board of HEALTH of Philadelphia, have de-
termined to visit the establishments in that city
where, it is sad vile concoctons sold purport-
ing to be true and genuine liquors, for the purpose
| of anayzing them and ascertaining their compo-
| nent parts.
| The custom-house returns from the port of Mon
rovia for the year ending September 80, 1882 show
imports total, Sl43 S54 exports. total $3.50, 1863 22
excess of exports, S46,5l522 Of the imports, $780,,
65l from the United States; S3l, ,90S from Great
| Britain.
An immense quantity of grain is now held in
freight cars on the track of the Central Railroad
| near Albany One of the trains thus loaded is about
a mile in length; and it is sometimes two and three
DAYS after carload is sold before it be deliver
| ed.
! The Philadelphia North American of yesterday
publishes letter said to be from a very RESPONSE
| BILE source, giving unqualified denial to the
thenticity of the late publication purporting to be
the confession of Lady Gurney.
Between October l5 and December IT, there will
| be Government land sales embracing four and
| three-quarters million in Minnesota; and
| a quarter million in Iowa, and some half
| million acres in Kansas.
Injurious reports having been circulated respect
ing the Artisans Bank of New York, the Clearing
| House Committee report that they have examined
| the accounts, and find sufficient to recon-
mend its suspension from the Clearing House.
Joseph Brown, who has Travelled occasionally for
the purpose OF being exhibited as living skeleton,
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