The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-01-18
Miscellaneous News Items.

miscellaneous News items.
Us The English Crown has seized land
belonging to George Peabody on the ground
of alienage.
C5S- Gustave Fisher, High Sheriff of Cook
county, Illinois, has absconded with a large
amount OF money
EEY- Highwaymen in the streets of San
Francisco now lassO their victims. Their
object is to conhne his arms while they
ego through him."
EaY- A womon at Mansfield, Ohio brought
suit against a saloon keeper for damage
done by selling he husband liquor, and Oh
tanned verdict Of $3.50.
C-FY A woman in Cincinnati recently ad-
ded Is pound baby to the population of
that city and cooked her husbands break
fast on time the next morning. Queer place
that.
C5;s" Last Tuesday the wife of an English
man named Robert Wainwright was found
dead in her bed at No. 1S Thames street,
New York, and he himself was found dead
the other morning in his bed.
eB- Two colored men being refused ad-
mittance to the dress circle of an Academ y
Of music, Charleston, have taken out war
rants against the manager for violating the
provisions of the Civil Rights bill
s5yF Last week. Thomas Bradshaw, an
aged man, living near Sharpsburg, Tennes-
see, struck his wife on the back of the head
with an axe, and believing her dead, hung
himself.
GIy-At Chicago ILL.,, last week the jury in
the case of DR.. Shatlord, on trial for MUIR
der, by malpractice on'a girl named Patter-
son, brought in a verdict of not guilty, the
spectators breaking out i'll loud applause.
G5y- A few days ago pair of twin girls
were left in a house in New Bedford, and
the recipient has ascertained that their
mother is fifteen years old, and their ia ther
seventeen-both belonging to high social
circles.
G15- Frank Phelps, young Gentle,
living at Salt Lake city, won the consent of
a young Mormon lady to change her name
to Phelps, which so enraged the elders that
they set five "destroying angels on the
track Of the GENTLE. But the track got
"too fresh, for, though only a boy, Phelps
succeeded i'll killing one ''angel' and put
ting the rest to flight
tag The CastetOn, VT, National Bank
was entered on Monday night, the safe
blown open by nitro 9lycerine, and one com
partment exposed, from which $4,000 was
taken. The lower compartment contain
ing about fifty or sixty thousand dollars,
was not reached. The burglars escaped
Castleton is fifty miles from Glen Falls and
seventy from North Adams. A reward OF
So, 600 is offered for their apprehension.
EY- A boy in New York, named James
Martin, aged nine years, who has twice been
arrested for burglary, was found lying in
the street, in a beastly state of intoxica-
ton. The officer who arrested him took
him to the station house in his arms as he
would have carried the merest baby. The
young hopeless was given into the care OF
the Commissioner Of Charities and Correc-
tions.
t5s- The lower floor of a two-story wood
en- building built on piles over the river, at
No. 90 Dyer street, Providence, gave wa,
abo ut two o'clock A. NJ, on the Bird inst.
and about 2400 bushels of salt in bags
were precipitated into the water. The
building and salt belonged to S. ID. An
drews. His loss will probably not be under
$2500 The piles over which the hoorg gave
way are missing
B-A Republican demonstration wa
made in Paris on the occasion of the funer
al of Victor Noir, shot by Prince Bonaparte
Large bodies Of police and military were OF
duty, and one crowd was dispersed by tht
latter, while some arrest were made by th'
former
M. de Fouville, one of the two gentlemen
who bore NJ. Grussett's challenge to Prince
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ment of the affair, in which he alleges tha
it was the Priace who slapped Noir in thu
face, and not Noir who struck the Prince
also, that Bonaparte Immediately followed
up the blow with the fatal shot.