Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-08-26
MisfslIaneous. q
Riotous Miners.

lPottsviiie. Pa. Correspondence (Aug ~ of the
New York Times.l
That part of the Schuylkll coal district
locally known as North Of the Noun
tain district embracing the Mahauoy
coai'neld--was the scene Of perfect sa-
turnalia last night throughout the entire
length and breadth Of it. Yesterday was
payday at most OF the collieries in the
district-the first payday of any impor-
tance since last December. The first con-
siderable money since the long strike, was
paid out To the miners, and IL was but nat
ural to expect that, after all their protesta-
tions that the long suffering storekeepers
should be paid ''oHt OF their first earnings"
the whole, or at least the greater part of
it would find its way into the merchants
tills. Probably good deal of il did; but
enough went for bad whisky to convert
thirty or forty miles of country into a
bowling pandemonium.
INDIsCRIMINATE SHOOTING.
In all tie colliery villages, and some at
least of the principal towns. gangs of
drunken rOughs went staggering along the
streets, iourishing revolvers, picking
quarrels with all they met, calling aloud.
'.Show u, man TO shoot!' and swearing
to kill the first man that insulted them. In
Mahanoy City two men met on the street,
quarrelled, and without loss of time pro-
ceeded to empty their revolvers at each
other. Fortunately for themselves, both
were too drunk TO take good aim, and,
though both fired a number of shots, only
one was struck, and but slightly wounded
liz the cheek. The street was full of peo
pie, and, as might have been expected.
many found themselves quite too near the
position Of targets to be at all agreeable to
them. One man, Christian Zimmerman.
who was standing at the door Of store in
which his wife was making purchases, was
struck by bullet, which penetrated his
lungs, and at the last accounts he was dv
ing. 1t is not known which of the com
batants fired the fatal shot, but both were
arrested, not, however, on a charge of
manslaughter, but merely of aggravated
assault and battery on each other.
ADVENTURES OF "BULLY BILL."h
One OF them, John Dugan, was arrested
In SSoo bail ;but the other. William Thomas,
better known as Bully Bill" notorious
character. was committed to prison in de-
fault or SlSOO bail. and went yery willing
iy, as he thought the county Jail was a
safer place for him at present than the
streets of MahanOy City, A singular fatal
ity seems to attach to ''Bully BilI.r He is
wild, harum.scarum young fellow. gen
ally drunk, always leader in his set. al
ways getting into serapes, and always
coming out alive where anybody else
| would be murdered. He has more lives
tnan cat. last Spring the Times pub
lished an account of the trial Of one
DOugherty for the murder Of Chief Burgess
Major, Of Ashanoy City, and his acauittal
through the testimony OF witnesses who
swore that Major was killed by as.Pat Nc
Cam" who closely resembled Dougherty.
and who, Of course, Was not to be found.
Inc whole case was such q trayesty OF
justice that the name OF Pat McCann be-
came aby-wOrd expressive Of Individual
akin 70 him who "struck Billy Patterson, .
Not long after his acqtttal, Dougherty,