Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-10-26
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An exciting capture offugitive slaves took
place few days since near Sandusky, Ohio.
A colored family that escaped from Mason
county, Ky, had rented some wild land and
were making themselves comfortable, having
raised excellent crops this season. Their
Kentucky master got information of their
Whereabouts and employed deputy L. S.
marshal Manson of Cincinnati, successful
negro hunter, to catch them. He went at
night and seized them all and succeeded in
getting six of them to Cincinnati, and after
hasty formalities before commissioner, they
were hurried into Kentucky. One of the
young negro children was dropped in corn
field by one of the posse who was alarmed
by a gun fired at him by a free negro. One
of the women carried off is said to have been
free, and two of the children were born in
Ohio
At Cincinnati, a few days since, newly
arrived German named Swartz, anxious to
serve his employers, set the engine of the
Excelsior Touring mill into rapid motion,
in the absence of the engineer, and while at
work among the machinery was almost in
stantly killed by the explosion of a large
burr stone. He had just got work and sent
back to Germany for his family.
The wife of L. Nj. Hill, miller at Racine,
Wis, attended several ladies in visit to
the mill, last Saturday, and being caught in
the machinery was instantly killed.
AT Collinsvile, southern Illinois, on the
| lth, portable steam engine exploded on
the street, killing four persons and severely
scalding several others.
Diphtheria is prevailing to frightful ex-
tent in Western New York. Mr. Vancamp
of the Lyons Press, Mr.. Sentell of the
Waterloo Observer, Mr.. Collins of the
Rochester Democrat, Mr.. Parker of the
Geneva Gazette, have each followed to the
grave a child, stricken down by this terrible
malady.
The hopes of the oil gatherers in Penn
sylvania are raised, notwithstanding the
falling off of the oil run, by the statement
Of Rev. DIR. Malcom, lately missionary to
Burmah, that the oil wells at Irrawady have
been worked for ages without failing. There
are 400 hundred of them in space of II
miles square, and each we'll yields about
four hundred pounds of oil per day, besides
large quantities of water. The temper
AZURE of the oil, as received in the buckets,
is ninety degrees.
! Some time since, the wife of an Ohio
farmer eloped with one of her husband S
laborers. The man said nothing about it.
got divorce, married a sister out of the
same family, and all went as before
| The other day knock was heard at the
door, and the farmer opening it, beheld
wan, pale and ragged, his truant former
wife. She had been deserted and had now
come back repentant. Her sister and sue
cessor refused to see her, but the husband
more forgiying, will build her a cottage al
the end of the farm, and support her du
ring the balance of life.
Six convicts in the Joliet (IlL) state pris
on rushed upon the guard, one day las
/. week, and overpowering him escaped will
his musket. With his revolver, however
he shot two in the legs and disabled them
two others then returned Of their own ac
cord; and the other two were soon after
captured.
Two children digging roots,in Badax coun.
ty, Wis, last week, were attacked by a bear
which killed the younger one, aged 0 the
elder aged IL, was found giving fight to
the beast when assistance arrived.