The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-11-08
Miscellaneous News Items.
tB- Corn sells in Linn county, Kansas,
at 40 cents per bushel.

at 40 cents per bushel.
tY Sixty-one per cent. of the people of
Mississippi can neither read or write.
GB- The first sleighs of the season were
out on Monday in the mountain districts of
Maine and New Hampshire.
tB- The American surgeons are render
ing valuable service to the sick and wounded
soldiers of both nations.
eB- A young man named John E. Moore
committed suicide at Danville, on Saturday,
by taking two ounces Of laudanum.
e5Y- In a court in Boston, Patrick Kell-
ser has been sentenced to two years i'll
the State Prison for leaving Lawrence to
engage in a prize fight at Salem N. H.
edg- Allen and Gallaher, prize fighters,
were arrested in the vicinity of st. Louis,
on the 1st inst, they having announced to
engage in pugilistic encounter.
nB" A soldiers monument in a design
submitted by Martin Millmore, is to be
erected on Flagstaff Hill, Boston Common,
at an expense of fifteen thousand dollars
EB- Henry Miller, of Taylorstown, N. j.,
died on Wednesday night, from the effects
Of food poisoned by his wife, and during
the post-mortem examination, she took
poison which caused her death on Thurs
day morning.
EB- Weston, the pedestrian, has arranged
to walk 450 miles within five consecutive
days, at the Empire Rink, N. Y, on Mon
day, November 21. During one of the five
days he is to attempt to walk 112 miles
| vvithiY Nv nnncannfivn hnnrc If
successful, the management of the Rink
give him purse of $4,000.
GYy@ In Newark, n. j., at noon on the
31st ult., large frame building in process
of erection in Pennsylvania avenue was
prostrated by the high wind. Two car
penters at work on the scaffolding at the
time were injured. A dwelling at East
Newark was also blown down, but no one
was injured.
SB- At New Orleans, A. B. Long, U. S.
District Attorney, was found dead in his
office, with his throat cut, OH the 31st ult.
1t is thought he committed suicide. He
was born in Greenfield Mass, in 1886,
studied law under Judge Hoar in Boston,
and was admitted to the bar in New Or
leans in 1860.
CB- While the steamer Thompson
Dean was at Cairo recently two men or
board began wrestling in play, and one OF
them fell overheard and was drowned. The
other, while attempting to rescue him, also
fell over and was lost. Soon after deck
hand on the Dean" commenced beating
his wife, when his brother interfered, anC
fight ensued, in which the brother frac
tured the husbands skull.
GB- The starch factory of George Fox, a
Jackland, ten miles north of Cincinnati
caught fire between and o'clock OH thu
1st inst, and was totally destroyed. Los
about $780, OOO insured for $50, 900 all in 10
cal companies, except $4,000 in the Lyco
ming county, ofPennsylvania. of From sixt.
to eighty operatives are thrown out of EN-
ployment.
gE A short time since lad in Ports
mouth, N. H., in attempting to seperat,
two roosters who were fighting, came nea
losing his eyes. The roosters turned OF
him and tore some pieces of flesh from hi
face, and it was with difficulty that the,
could be driven away. The boy says the.
were game.
IY An Italian merchant named Murill
whose daughter had been stolen from New
| York, and sent with the other children t.
the West about seven years since, recentl
6 traced her to reform school in Ohio, an,
secured her release. The girl was origi
nally carried away by wicked nurse VIII
had grudge against the family.
, UB- A wealthy hypochondriac of Ne,
Orleans, who believed that his earthl
house was as brittle as glass, and that h
ran in constant dangerof breaking it, wa
, completely cured of the conceit, a few day
= since, by the kindness of two medica
students who followed him about fror
place to place, and when questioned as t
: their motives stated that they were waitin
: for him to "break HIMSELF" so that the
might have a chance to pick up the piece
, for dissection.
0 GT- At New York, on Monday of las
week while firing cannon in the neighboi
hood of Thirty-fifth street and the Eas
river for the purpose Of notifying voters t.
! register, serious accident occurred. A
t old shell, fired from fiat boat moored i
o the stream, exploded and threw some of tn
q iron into a small vessel anchored in tn
9 river sinking it Immediately. 1t is report
. ed that two men were on the board at tn
= time and were drowned.
tB- Mary A. Stinebaugh, who graduate
from Oberlin college, in 1864, and who ha