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DAILY I I 1 out of ftraJHsa Horrors of Westem Fires, neA BY A3. BYE- of TMyCuffMiriMOit' Froiu this point started by May's the ijtfm of mend to a we-no- and my afito'SodelyY de lot's Acadeniy of on nnd wAOOrf OF BUK'ATj. Oconto, bound to further They retn.ued, having OCOMO, WK Oct. 14,1871 coming dona in for the fif st time in day i spending an evening ml parative A b'g'u WHW the rain, the air is cold and chilly, a shudder we think that bntued and women i. be the desolate rfooda of dna'fiiqdOy they took of a here they hcd Bought dead At a pTace wbere they Ucoveiedthe boffiw tf M.r.-T.

aud.U jhepttUeu I accounts of i to TM -v 5ji this id-iron of conntij. "You have already had ngof iting the I have nitnc-jted wiiiuh no pen dwetlbe, Tn I a'deqoBto to" portray. terrible agnn I of tie victims were slowly roasted I be told. OJTV AND brmy. i moving quietly'- POQS Hke toVt policemen.

posters ar 0 up. sets, at 6:22. moonlight evenings. i. 1 On -Almnday I nwt, in company wit Brothers.

I 0lH pinlon: to of the ru'o Wetook a road that through to tsach Ihe Butferen. We caoietoa log hoaW; jnat rnnge of the gfOe. Here we found a men and wife nnd one child, who had lived mile no.lh-westrof this point. "A little ftnthejr on we found a small clearing, in-wnat once agreeu wood forest, we found several horses and the well into which: the people saved lives and i tn dcihea on elr back8 THIS is a good month to nft gnaae we encountered a. newly made beside the TMTna of a ouce WITF TH BOATS UUT.

-father probably resorted to det to suveHi'iffering the. pains dfJow roasting, mother was found away. We returned from our day of bxvi-on, reaching Oeop.to late at night 1 DE80T.AHQS. ie In track oL.lhe gahMure amateur in this I-is the time to seek Fall Besoi'a, was rnotb.tr CHICAGO cocoa nut at Frank H. BncVi.

a fine new atone yenrs agorto-day Pa TUB monnWnB ne Altoona are On fire, U-HE twin who lost has hcen discbveted. j. QirAwpcnreftHJf -against a visit ftvMi Ihe AK AUentown fire company a pair i home, We found a man inforiiied na that a father, ht refuge in the (an ont-door cellar for storing vegetables), the top of which was covered with lo and earth. The logs caught fire nnd the xneircw h.lf blown dnwn, while those left standing ate Mack to the top. The whole county had been.onJlrb for weeks, and the tori'S-l" fanned 4res into blaze 'e siuoke sparta, wera driyen along with the speed of Hghtm Iff the centre of clearings offnniififVi one hundred notes, jre saw wogous with the wood buiu6d off wuh re taothingiiear to have burned them.

ine flamea seemed to haye rolled jn great wa across the clearing, licking up, with firey or green thing. For miles I not discover an nnburned my hand. OcoSTO. MORRTS troupe 8 sve their In Elliot 1 Aostlemy of Music last night, to a fine audience. The programme pven a fineVone, m5ny of the fealu.c- tiejrig exceedingly fiinny.

The slnginginthe open- i part of the perforuiancn a particu- Jarly pleasing. The ballad, byBeraardO, received with ve.j tering is WRS'also the Mnrkinir "Bird," by Billy lbesor ng, rpference to the wurk JiJheBoclvtT. We dwelt first on itt an- there beiuf iimong lift directors, snd contributors, one of twentv-lve different denominations In (his country. of colporteurs, embracing shade of one, c'fl espacUy. Is able to toll 1 of the OtJrist'aq.

church they 2nd. He sposetif its TM newbei.Tifsefr4w(«-'i»?/ needed orttyfor ill bnfvolent wo Ql the year, the-receipts were Paid the 287 eolpertpri ding 54 Btudenta from 23 colleges, 79. Appropriated to th on abroad in cash, aud rtirtrlpuKa gia to ths poor and destlWUf 66. Thus the public are ery dollar they contribute sfc.ctly "fd to the benevolent work. speaWae of mauultude i)T ''Si ry Metfier.

fcld 5 oath of pofice an "id apon Wm, vr 1 1 Hiwharge of Ws official duties. It 7 an -Iteiootloa T. Metier senior wn- and flntoer Os-uhn nwanipted to quiet th a a work fie spoke of the the 21 Blinder to of: Tnl.f;-»tions of the infln- by the dog. a hearing before the ----morning gave bail In the sum offow each fpr their appearance at next court, FATAL AOCTTWNT AT Monday Mr. JfreOt conductor on theN, O.

ifwhii ot Ralston bv bfiing run over HiesscilaiMlIIndio I twin. Mr. Zlegler, it h'-h TM re freight con duotoronacoaTtra'in wh'irh rah ra to 0 had at the Utter pl.ce, about o'clock a. injBBjpingfromhis to the struck by -the caboose of another freight train, wbic backing doWu on the side track, bdirr the vsbonse engine passing over cutting him into A number of peicea andpf and resided oi tneir, organizing dl-Wbuting 18,295 Bibles among the, of UtisbUrg. are going upln Democrats- is'look- where they had died.

Several pieces -of garments -with humini Fit told, the awful story. From here we iniles through dcuse now blackened to the tops of the highest Hre?" nnd pfflved at Fetterly'a house the orily'one saved for miles. We found Payus's family of six aU.ve b'adly- They lived njile and by going into a large nnd" continuafly water on tht'pDolves. In the same spring, all the fish wero-kyiedAy the heat. KrPPFER FAMILY.

A distance from wheo X-'aynelived uroad Wife wcct. 1 rtfl.HnB.'.and 1MU I111UK V- were the leading and would of themselves-make a entertainment. The double jig, by the BarVow brothers, not bccji any minstrel troupe that ever tlus JapaneafliTonifcy fa a rare attraction, and aided Imuatlntf the -cntertftmiicnt ono of variety and excellence: tie clw within entire'changd of programme. Niofat Nuiiieroua repo.rts Veaet oT characters to jtnter houses at night; dently for the purpose -of plunder. different the of various dwelling in this city liave 'been tampered With bj these night prowl era, causing to the jfciutttes.

-The complaint 11 CQiiitisRvui OUu.u. a bana-of-housebrfnVeri prowl- the pow ing through it in 143 la in all parts of the world. The interested in his uphic por-, traiture sf trie destitution prevailing In rieWparts of the A number of tou6hfeg inddents were, told of the good accomplished and tract dwtribution. While the statistics of the spiritual necessities even of juur favored were absolutely stanllng. ALABOKDAY'sVoBK.

The Philipsburg Journal says that on Saturday fewl the steam flaw mill Hoover, Harris iiuAfcd about JwlfmUeifroftf that place turned out the most the result of 10 hon. and 26 ever been cut hy o.iy mill-in thnt rPfion of OtpW lumber manufRctorloa- the eiaet number offset cut en the above date and. within the tune stated IS 58,988. The mill ia new bavins been in oooration only since sutlng, and built by Wm. thatipJapc, who has no superior a mill 'fhft- TMwyer.

under, lllia accomplished L. The "yei the work ofUjBtaaj can if tbe.uiill is put to-iU i I child) in parents reside in Cascade, connljr, whereie will be borted OB Wednesday Mr. KJejcler brother of Ml Otto Siess, of SAT; MH.I«, On eaturdsy last Mr. Beish, and son, sged about twelve yeas, wwe engaged in shooting ducts on the boy in'company with another boy, filler, brtthe opposite side or GOOlJQA't' evi- over Dickinson, for Side Judge in Elk county, had onejnajority. breast ot Eeish below collar bone.

producing almost death. sprightly boy of promise, and beloved by aU who him. HV ld desth 1 has over the neigh- DnrHQuUp iL the -nymMthiffcwMhejiewpJe this tnf hour of uieif boy charged. SAB DBOWKING CASE. little of BBB buyUer, aged two n8J the 'near of Huiiiaburg, who Mavor 4 of making bridge at MUton fateift.being agi'ated.

temocrBts continue to bewail the 'retqlts-of (he "pew departure." JufiOB lti will hold h'ft first in Danville in Dcoe'uber. in the county. TfiE-anniorllies of anla tlf ntl at gale of-coal oil at night. I WJ i ol 1 i es by brpnding his imme on his dog. new Odd Fellows' Hull dedios'od on hard hearted, they flrtt anri two children sti when they heard the stojj" attempted tti rwcb Piiyue'b." lu getUiig.

there the wtorm separated them. The 'mether and both children reached Payne 1 where, j-ist at th edgo of Ihe spring, the "lojber perUhcd. Tho other Child a little tWirytar old wiU) terribly homed. I saw the poor IftMe' homeless sufferer lying at Fetterly's. The nremalns of the father were-foirou in the woods the next day.

here saw many hens, turkeys, and, inTrfct.everything usually found orr a fiu m. Froui here we-made our war best we could- around and wind to a settlement on SM'es road, and to' four fartrta wth NO LIVING TllISO ON THEM, but plenty of the people saved themselves. A short distance further on we came to the ruins of another home nfld found a man Chris kicking about the him ire tMr com and then pvil its troupe In DODGE milts- are tawing out a lot of logi A iU iu AU- the will AlleYitowners the latter part of this mm ii he saved anything. He he Utm bained. He Gd a disconsolate look jind pointed to a NBWLYMADEGBiVB made by his own and in heartbroken accents to us that as the-wind came upon them he-ran with his wife -Pnd four toward little hollow in the middl.of a field.

In 'the and darkness the mother and two children became separated trora. Te laid in one portion all nig' agio move. daylight he found bis wife buiued to death intentions are and summarily UVMWVillj I v-- ing about, and the greatest vigilance-should bewercised by-the authorities. Many of tbew characters, no doubt, would not stop at firing buildings if they thought tn.ero Wbuld be a good chance for plunder. Wfien inch Buspicions characters are found taf3peririg with the doors and windows of i at niKhlj.it ii CTidcBt they should be ElQIIT I-MZ GLOBE-.

Mr. J. 1 Thompson, conductor on tha Northern' Central railrpjd, 'hss traveled over more miles in the Ifrifc of hisffnty ing the past four than some of our uieal -travelers. He rims between 'Wil- liamsuort and Elmira, making a round trip every day. That is 1S6 mil Ji 986 per week' or 48,672 per and fqr fonr ysrs thae will eqnal 101,688 milw.

By counting ths unning" that he ins done, there it rHAM iA i --JJ Vi home of tis father-m-Uiw, Mr. iBd'Jook hif liflte bey in the canal a r)oint WjBrehe in fisrljng, while the chUd jort flistincn himself flowers bushes. The father frequently around i tUs Httlo wni safe missed him looked in the bushes, supposing that he had gone in searcn of more flowers. On fnm canal, he discovered a little -hat floattpg on tlursurface and tfco spot only to find that ww too late and that the vM flpark haJ fled. RAn.KfiAD Qs VV6 nnderstand that oo Monday morning two freight cars wet.throw*i-fr"n tha traeE bolpw Watson- low and badly As the nnmek train was going down to removaihe wreck it onfmtrmnMy collided Hith th.er.giaysl "lin ne-i boih.wginca- 3M! badly damaged.

One of the engi- niersaostaMed sonje slighS iojurtesrbut no lives were lost. "'IN -TUe ever day by Browaell, Market street. the flnest.Jhe aetisein offbrds. 'e is always the season. neen- hut nfeh fe 05 3 i neen- jfle oue of the most valuable in-thecity.

1 MKH 0. S'tt-iLiBELir said -to ke the oT a Baptist church in thisBtate. 'And is not happy. Off- eJundsf lust a collection taken up in the EpiSeOpW cfittrdi, Muutywior ttfe Chicago 93ft realized, and shoes for eveiybody, 31 West Third Btroet, opposite the Court Honse. Cheap for Lt THE SKCJK-'I DBA -Queer things are-sometimes found in Old secretaries ipd desks Mr.

W. JiicKs bus shown several ancient documents which be fonnd up yoar old desk; in'a kind of the flnea not defecu ive. -unning" tat er but little doubt hn hiw traveled 200,000 ars, eq dmingthe past four IP editor of JPhilipijbnrg has beonipToasnted wijh a "comoi Timer appears to He printed with ink marie of lamp black and apple butter. THB Sfatf Jownal- places Gn in It used to be in YKBi'" fn AT was one of gruod an days that poets sing much about RniLniiprit "he that giveU' the poor shall not lack." Think of IS HFK ying behind a loffTibout 150 foot from him, both badly his little boy not more than fifty feet from him, also to death. In wei-vntited many ruins of uuce peaceful homes, and gcaooL -A special meeting.6f Ine 'Board Leld night, to confer, bills for lg seheol buildJn s.

The -foilov lie hills allowed: ner W6 16 Floyd, $61.50 C. WaT- huiii, V. Btemfle, JiiO.70. ibe bill Of C. lor -id amounting to $957.40, and (he bill of Qeo.

carpentering and material, -amo'unting to were discn-yed-for some time and finally referred 'to a special uimmittco, consisting of Mes-ra Pollock, Beighard nnd Melick. DE. J. 8. K.

Lock who a fracture of the the brain, by jnnlping from his buggy while Ihe h'orse was. at full speed, on Wednesday last died'of his injufUs this moruing. J1U nn uiu UCOJL, --Tiiw I after e.tiloring throngh ihey I are Of no value, but the kind of "cur- rAftnAPTft. OOB SC5TM 1 rency Ona YUIUO, T. by pioneers.

One Several of about the same.dat« are notes and reeelpjts for chUes, Ac, CHICAGO, Oct. 10, WZJ. UJIICAUy, VO'. 2 Mti'n BuOfr, und ToWr CW, -Pts. contents perfect.

r. I NIJ A isartrcss merous or tae namuB. 1 ft. fe. the aH day ywterdsy ihet.he...4m- eter Bfood at Til 0 At" 1 moru- ing-(t mnrted the people of Williamiport jost a point this week od see bow, many they nan mail." or JJictmson uollfige, of the fla FAMILY.

We passed within half a mile of where the Taro father mo'herand stjven child'ren perished, with two men all found fully fifty feet from anything combustible. clothes were buiued off and btfiies bpdly -crisped. The poor mother lay on her-back with A IW.IN A OS lUOfa ABil five olhf children piled upon her, all young man had attftrirW to business closely, and built up a tergfe and Rrowino practice He much beloved by all who knen him, his will be deeply felt In Lorfr pavfn He leaves a wife and one child. OSEOF THE Mr. Who recently made a.

trip to the west, lay shown us a specimen of apples which ho brought fluui t'ultoii couuryj Indiaoai I is perfectly and fair, weighs one-and and five olhrr children piled upon ter, all -uu in Lving apparently clung to tbe 8 1t FtRE IN ing, at ftbonteteveo o'clock, a fiTM broke ontinT. S.8tlQker's It ot until it wns too late tosfcve flf the or btifcg'its in' the stable at the time. lost foar hersw, one trotting, horse, also angthor valnnble horse belonging to a gentlemRn-dn together several bugpes- and an loss is'estimated at about JiSjOOO. Insured for $300, and this-insurance is on the stable. 'k HOUSE fritm the Luminary that eorftl horse belonging to Mr pVoprietorof the.U.S.

Hotel, in Muncy, and also a sonol hoiso, and two sets of pamess, belonging to Mr. were on Tupsday night Mi. Green's horse broke his halter strap i possession; of tie-thief and returned home on i Wednesday ng. (Notwithstanding pursuit was given by Mr, Waiver, the tWerhas not yet been overtA'ten. THE Northumberland tjon, which composed of "h-nrches in Northumberland, Montonr, Bnl- Evira, tyco-ving, fiHritoB Bnyder and Cameron counties, reports the-nnmber Mtart.

a Safo yon 'or tw all flre cavet H. SZ Motion Avenue. TO Bit.iv. On uUi 11- street. Eriqnlroof FOB A nSw improved wiKXslor, 'and Wilson Sowing been A Good bargain QTJ be obtained "by enquiring at this IT ID thtttUftpnffof nlr into vein of an wonld fellow, beraffie cif voald bo Philipsburg on- Of November T-tifc School DirecGn of MOton hate lad A far ff to enlnrge the.

CenUal School llouso in We on to Fell the site of nnd csntre -settlement. Here nothing is left but of Btork. people saved themselves here at a little stream 4ut are Dufnfcd. At bridge this stream, by, we found a lao-ge giavc whcro cis or nine were boned. Tlrey were aU of circanSerenee.

It is not a coarse- grainec apple but of fine good flavor of Vtaree eating apple. Mr. F. says be gnw bnnhols of theui in that conntyr like to sec a few bushels here. Si We tus anmin body saven minutes, and Whenever this ctrcnlWIonlilrftpftacaoiTsy of lUCMnnels 5 ty To gul at the sonrce.of Blood p.itifler, DB.

"irr V'Jinain IwdAw THE nntt sevion Baptist ciatiob will be held in the Watsontown chnrth, in gcptcmbdr, 1872. 1 A lady of thin rfly, of a hone collar ig for rhllflrBri ftfonp, THE for by fire in the vcctt, if Obrist church (Episcopal) of this C'ty, amount thni far to $858. A ntriped thwwl, pinked up on Third' strfrt fflOiuing is awaiting an owner at this office, tbonsiijd of boo" And a a W. boot and jn the water is back in with all their other end of ABOUND flTcept'tbe hifed girl 8ify, thefltftcr; a burnt log him two of child clothes.burL.TM^-,^ bridgp Mrs. K.

and two more with i AEM3 l.Asi'EP TIOJJT all dead. The servant girl and miiri laid in the'toftd, not having been able to reach loo bridge, ill uf people Irj- ing to mnlre their way to the About, slitj frou on a pieve of elevated ground, with no timber on it, we -taw the still unburicd leaiuins of CHTJHCB FAMILY. ibe rftinffhtsr lay (he gardebswiih the THE first volume of Ward Beoch er's T3fe of Christ now out. Mr. Gtt- more, Market Square, is the sole for the citv, where copies in iftyles of bindiriR beseeiv We notice thpf large number "of our citizens arc subscrU- ers fof'thls elegant booV.

churches at 39, members, 8,098. Baptisms during the past year, 202. C. KIJ.BOTJJIN, one of the late Commissioners of Potter county, ww, thrown from his wagon a few days, ago and sustained' that may -for, life. HB was inseosible for two days.

the few erected two public costing 816,000 and it is pioposed BOW tu eictt s-iolhei, of bo betwten and -twjit, whi' coma off on Friday ea- ing, rsn beha4 at Dnhle on I 9 O'clock. FOR rn SrjhT EBEBS, The Ond fresbytcrian c.ity,shippd recently fodr large boles of clothing of rious for the wester njbpflerew. boxes were addiwed to "Winslow Oconto, THE social meeting of the Fourth street LutheraTrehmch iCifl be heW this lluee- day) cvculflp; it oi. Mrs. StejiLt Mst Third stjeet, near the furnaO.

THE Y. M. Lyceum will meet this evening at UHJ place. Subject, tion "Saolved, That wars retard civilization." A full dttcjndanco, desired. now another Snyder county man lias produced a turnip es'in drmniference and weighing 6 pounds and 2 ounces.

It-must be a nood season -for turnifs trr that 81BSOIT On Oct. Wh at nmri, i WuV 1 1 GlbsOD and Amnj)da by Rev. Jr B. wiUJvn of Nortnrirnbcriftrjd cotraly, Love, of MontouP coonty. BwFNJi IHLAHlJ.

tta tne ta Dr. Watson. Mr. Rawy Tt ton, to DavldjL. Ir- F.HQ., ofTorliiit twWMsMp.

ARE GROK 1 On tie IDth by Bcv- J. B. PolngrovK WlllliTM E. of porl, to Miss Henrietta L. Groo, of 20 OF AT- Kim onejinndred ifeotof'he'.

lay in the road on bis tick aod a knife with which. HE uut HTO 1MKO4T, 7 ide. HA to -have ptefenid I ft quirt to lingering Other. Of the! HP PhiUHplphia thinks 4hgt Jilt- Bebcr, of Lewlsbnrg, who WWtJiis Democratic baHotat the last election, is old enough to know better. THE Ridgway and St.

Maiy's post offices arc trying to see which can cAnCftl greatest numOer of stamps per week. Ridgi way rancelpd Isst CTOWB I luatity. -k 1 As Scranton'toVfrr Marly one half of connty, they are compelled to have three potf offices in the city limits in-order to accommodate the is MR. OEOBOB Eict who WM go badly peppered in Harflsbotg one pigni week, and $16,000 taken from htrn.belongs to Po'ttstown. wbcre.

church wedding Jfl ton- of -ieceivcd, dom tf vi inlte ty. fi.ri enerlock. oflw-phin on the-chnige of pol- Hre BAtHtlg WKA-r oor atorfc tsflon liojlngelic A AND MACHINISTS, So. Kl, street. Of "vV.

NEXT TO root AND wolnvltesp'ftA 1 to From-8o IftfO i ff (it. SALfc'OF'ME i ONLY. MtU ri A B05T, BOND, and Sign All CAK1S, wl" iNEWSPA'PERf NE WSFAPEEl.

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