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Nearly Mobbed.
--Thursday, a man from Hanover exposed for sale in the Second Market a barrel of flour and three bushels of meal.
For the barrel of flour he asked five hundred dollars. For the meal one hundred dollars a bushel, and refused to sell a less quantity than a bushel.
The extravagant prices asked by him for these necessaries of life being poised around, a crowd soon gathered around him, and there being manifested an increasing disposition to mob him, he bundled his flour and methan a bushel.
The extravagant prices asked by him for these necessaries of life being poised around, a crowd soon gathered around him, and there being manifested an increasing disposition to mob him, he bundled his flour and meal into his cart in a hurry.
Some one cried, "hang him," and the cry was caught up and repeated; but the extortioner was off. He is said to have sold his meal at sixty dollars a bushel to a merchant on the upper and of Broad street. The flour he took back to Hanover.