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Fatal Accident at Camp Curtin.
--On Thursday, while one of the Potter county volunteers was fixing a lock on a loaded rifle at Camp Curtin, near Harrisburg, Pa., it was prematurely discharged, and the ball passed directly through the head of a bystander named Geo. Madison, of Shippen, Cameron county, Pa., a member of the Cameron Rifles, killing him almost instantly.
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affecting Anecdote. (search)
Excitement in Harrisburg, Pa.
--Early on Saturday morning last a large Palmetto flage was discovered floating from the top of the flagestaff over the market house at Harrisburg It was speedily removed and demolished.
The affair created a great sensation, and an active hunt was instituted for the "andacions" individual who heisted the flage, but at last accounts he had not been found, Return of the Seventh, Regiment to New York Strong Systems of a Row — Opinion Differ as to the "Gallantry" of the Regiment.
The New York Herald of Sunday last has the subjoined account of the return and reception of the Seventh Regiment.
It will be seen that it required some effort on the part of the military authorities to suppress a decides demonstration of hostility on the part of less favored volunteers:
This patriotic, efficient, and thoroughly disciplined regiment returned to the city yesterday afternoon, in obedience to the orders of the venerable Commander-in-chief of the Unite
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], A Cancer the result of using Pins as Toothpicks. (search)
A Cancer the result of using Pins as Toothpicks.
--The Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph says: "A lady has been in the habit of picking her teeth with pins.
A trifling humor was the consequence, which terminated in a cancer.
The brass and quick silver used in making these pins will account for this circumstance.
Pins are always pernicious to the teeth, and should never be used for toothpicks."
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], A long walk. (search)
Movement of U. S. Troops. Boston, Jan. 8.
--The steamer Jos. Whitney is being chartered to convey troops and munitions of war from Boston to Fort Tortugas. Election of Pennsylvania U. S. Senator.
Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 8.--Mr. Cowan (Rep.) has been elected U. S. Senator, in place of Bigler.
He is not a radical abolitionist, and was formerly a Clay whig.
Riot at Harrisburg.
--A fierce riot occurred among the returned volunteers at Harrisburg, Pa., on the 27th ult., in consequence of the neglect of the Federal Government to pay them off. The Harrisburg Patriot says:
A large number of the volunteers congregated in the Market Square, who had expected to spend the Sabbath at home, became clamorous, some of them exceedingly infuriated.
An effigy labeled "Pay-master," was hung on the lamp-post in front of the Jones House, which was set on fire and consumed amid the huzzis of the soldiers.
While the conflagration was going on, the Twelfth Regiment of reserves marched in from Camp Curtin and charged down Second street.
The returned volunteers being without arms gave way. The cry was then raised, "To the arsenal for your arms!." and the crowd commenced rushing in that direction.
The Twelfth went up Third street at double-quick time, and succeeded in surrounding the arsenal before the volunteers could get any arms out of it.
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], The bogus Government in Missouri . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], To prevent speculation. (search)
The Nut crop
--Shellbarks and chestnuts were never more abundant in this section of the country than at the present time.
The country stores in the "shellbark region" are fairly groaning under the weight of nuts stored away on the story next to the roof.
At some stores bushels upon bushels of them have been received.
The price paid for shell, barks has been from 50 cents to $1.25 a bushel, and chestnut from five to eight cents a quart.
The running price up the country last week, for shellbarks, was eighty cents, and chestnuts $1.50.--Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph.
The death of S. P. Hibberd, of the well known steamboat firm of Athearn &Hibberd, of Cincinnati, is announced in the papers of that city.
The Episcopal Convention, which has been in session for some days at Columbia, S. C., adjourned on Friday, the 25th ult.
Ripe raspberries, of the second growth this season, are now among the luxuries at Harrisburg, Pa.