The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-14

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AN AWFUL AND MuRDERoUs AFFRAY BETWEEN TWO
BRoTHERs-THEY KILL EACH oTHER.-We learn
from the Evansville (Pa.) Journal of the Sth inst
that on the night before, at ball, two brothers
named John Paul Evans and Robert NJ. Evans, be-
tween whom bitter feud had for some time pre-
vious existed met. Over hundred people were
there. About midnight Paul came in, intoxicated
He walked up to his brother and asked him to
drink. His brother refased whereupon Paul drew
a knife seeing which, Robert drew a six-shooter
Paul stepped back and drew six shooter. Robert
drew knife and put it between his teeth and COM
menced firing. Paul returned the fire, and each
fired six shots, and then closed and used their
knives. They were mortally wounded.
Paul started for the front door and went out:
was followed and brought back and died in twenty
minutes. He was shot in the upper part of the
breast and cut several times the abdomen.
Robert, when Paul left the room, followed him as
far as the inside door, where he fell struck the
wall and skinned his face. He was carried to
temporary couch, and lay insensible for nearly
three hours, when he also died. He was shot
through the left lobe of the brain and in the right
side beneath the ribs. They both seemed to die of
| inward bleeding.
During the encounter, younger brother, Ber-
| ~, shot three balls at Paul, one of which, it is
! said, hit him. Solomon Gumberts a son of Simon
| Gumberts, bystander, was accdently shot by one
of the random balls in the right thigh, the bullet
| narrowly missing the femoral artery. His cOndi
| tion is serious.
1t is rumored that German was arrested for
| We know nothing of the truth ofthis
The widowed mother and the brothers of these
| unfortunate men are overwhelmed with grief. Nav
| God help them.
The coroner's inquest will be held this rnornipr
DEATH OF AN OLD MAID.-In this city, Yesterday
afternoon, Miss Mary p. Townsend, daughter OF
| DR.. Townsend, died at her residence in Hawkins
street, where she was born and had lived for sixty
| five years. She was reputed to be worth 100000
| yet she was never known to mingle in society, or
| fo Qpv nf ha-r latiy how,
the death OF her sister, who also preferred single
life to q married one. The oay attendant which
was ever permitted in the house was a woman
| Since the death of the doctor the carriage house
| has remained closed with carriage and harness
| just as he left them and no was allowed to en-
| ter it. When Miss Townsend was first taken i'll
she advised to consult physician, but she re-
fused, and continued obdurate to the last Neither
! would she allow single person in her while
sick and dying, excepting her female servant. Like
her sister, she is supposed to have left all her
welath for charitable purposes.-Boston Journal.
The New Orleans Delta, of Wednesday evening,
| says that duel was to have taken place on the
morning of that day between two gentlemen of the
| Third District but circumstances and the inter-
ference Of friends prevented it. The cause of the
contemplated meeting was political difference of
opinion.
The ladies of Panama have presented an elegant
| copy OF Shakespeare, in two volumes, to Captain
| W. D. Porter, of the United States soop.of-war
St. Marys, in consideration of the services render.
ed by that officer during the recent trouble in that
city, and as a mark of esteem for the gallant cap
| tain.
The United States marines still maintain theiI
| position at Fort W Washington, without further re
Inducements Major Terret has been relieved
from the command of the fortress by Capt. Taylor
of the Marine Corps. Capt. Taylor is a native o
this Alexandria Gazette.
portable sun-dia recently patented in Berlin
consists of hollow metallic hemisphere, represent
ing in its shape the visible armament By mean
OF pendulum and a sort of meridian CIRCLE i
may be so placed at any moment, in the sunshine
as to indicate the hour and minute of the day.
According to the Salt Lake correspondent of tn
New York Times, there is no doubt that coal ex
lists in large quantities in the great basin of Utah
The Bank of Kentucky has made donation O
Eve hundred dollars for the relief of the poor 0
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