Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-15
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out the results of his harvest and adds
his signature, and the swindler rldes a
way with his prize. When lie has lei
sure he cuts of the statistics, fills out
the blank space with u promissory note
and negotiates the same at the nearest
! bank.
The disaster AT the Tay Bridge in
Scotland shows to be a most serious af-
fair. The details of the tragedy will
never be known in detail rs not sin
gle person on the Inflated train escaped.
| The tram LEFT Edinburgh at fifteen
minutes past four in the afternoon. 1t
consisted of four third-class cars, one
| first class and one Second-claSs and the
brakesmen's van. The night was one
| of bright moonlight, but the wind
! was blowing a hurricane. 1t is believ-
| ed that during the gale the gap in the
bridge was made and that the train ran
into the gap. Perhaps the bridge gave
way with the tram. The gap in the
bridge is about half mile long, COM
pmsing eleven of the longest spans, each
245 feet in length. 1t is not known
how many persons were on the train,
and the number is estimated at from
200 to 500. Oaly a few bodies haYe
been found. The water ut the Gap is
twenty-five feet deep. but ut the bottom
is qGicksand into Which the bodies
would soon siuk. The affair will be in,
veStigatci.
FARMERS RETURNS TO CENSUS
TAKEUs.-The farmers paust look ont
for the census taker, who will begin
his rounds on the first of next Jane and
must complete them within that month
The returns required of them win of
course be for the year 1859, iol the C.
reals, peas, beans, rice. tobacco, cotton,
potatoes, fruits OF all kinds, hay. clo-
yer, grass seed, hemp, flax, honey,
sugar-cane. sorghum, and, in short,
everything harvested in the Fall. For
certain agricultural pro duets there is
no regular harvest, for they are gather
el IS they mature, week by week and
day by day. These comprise butter.
cheese, milk sold, value of animals
slaughtered, yield of market gardens,
timber of all kinds and home manufac-
lures. The returns must be made MS
accurate as possible, bu. will be very
little labor TO the Careful farmer.-Er-
change.
Twenty kegs Of gold were received in
Chicago from New York few days
ago. Each weighing about three hun
dred pounds, and containing $4,000,
making 81 500 900 in all. This money
was sent Is jim Keene in payment for
wheat.
The Pennsylvania Millers' State As
sOciation viii meet in its fifth semi.au-
nual convention in the LOchiel Hotel,
at Harrisburg, on Tuesday. the 18th
inst. Important business is to be
transacted, including the election of
officers for the ensuing year, the con-
sideration of the propriety of changing
the time Of meetings, and to make ar
rangements to have the State credita-
bly, represented at the coming Millers'
international Exposition at Cincinnati,
Ohio, in June next. All who are in-
terested in the industry are invited to
attend.the meeting. Excursion tickets
will lie issued on the railroads center
ing at Harrisburg, orders for which
may be obtained upon application to
the secretary of the association, A. L.
Schoch. Selinsgrove, Pa.
Monroe Snyder, {, respected citizen
of Bethlehem, who carried $65 900 in
surance policies, was found February
%, 1868, dead in the Monocacy creek at
that place, and wounds were found up
on his person showing that he was mur-
jered. The insurance companies re-
sisted payment of the policies, but were
finally compelled to pay. 1t has now
been discovered, it is said, that he was
murdered by hired men, and startling
developments are promised.
At Aineville, Lehigh county, a blast
in a quarry threw stone five hundred
yards and killed woman who was
feeding chickens in her back yard.
There is considerable excitement ir
Indiana and Kansas at the unexpected
turn OF affairs in the negro exodus bus
mess. The indianapolis Sentinel re-
ports that the negro immigrants to that
State are dying of fever and starvation
naming nine cases in one house. Tht
troublesome disease is the scarlet fever
brought on by want of food and lack o.
accommodations. Thirteen North Car
olina negroes were found crowded into
one small room, filthy in the extreme
Forty cases Of fever among the negroe!
were reported III indianapolis on Fri
day. Kansas specials to the st. Louis
Republican says that negro immigrant
en- route north have been stopped b,
squads returning. There is no destitu
tion, but the negroes complain of TIL