The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-08-02
Miscellaneous News Items.

s5sy' A correspondent puts the French
force now on the frontier down at SOO,O eco.
e3 Nearly all the business part Of Con-
cord, N. H., was recently destroyed 10y fire.
C1y Nineteen persons were killed and
many injured 10y an explosion in Welsh
cOliery ON Tuesday last
Ez}- No purchases in this country of YES
sells on war materials, by France OF Prussia,
will be permitted by the Government
C5y@ Six hundred Chicago Germans have
signihed to the German Consul their readi-
ness TO enlist Immediately i'll the Prussian
army.
C5Y@ England has passed a law abolishing
all the toll gates on all the tunpikes in the
realm, which goes into effect on the lst OF
October next.
CO. Three human skeletons, Of very un-
usual proportions were unearthed III the
process of digging a well in Union county,
Ind, few days since.
C13@ Mr.. Geo. c. Francscus, General
Agent of the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany at Philadelphia, died suddenly at
Uresson Springs, on Friday, the 22nd inst
Cay"A A quarrel between the Georgia House
of Representatives and a member of that
body, both colored, resulted i'll the former
shooting and killing the latter.
gz3@ An analyzing damereports that she
heard of but one Old woman who kissed
her cow, but she knows Of many thousands
of Young ones who have kissed very great
calves.
C5g" 1t is stated that recently on opening,
at Windsor, Canada, a box Car loaded with
one hundred and twenty-five lambs, intend
ed to be conveyed to the Boston market,
only four were alive.
~" AT a recent railway accident in Eng
land the dead and wounded were plundeled
indiscrminately The tempting display OF
rings, watches, Nc, overcamc all humanity,
and even policeman lent the wreckeIs their
aid in dCspolng the corpses.
GE3" A few nights since, in New Castle,
Pa, four monGlis' Old child was so badly
bitten by Il rat, while in bed with its pa
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. Belle that it died a
few days after from poisonous effects of
the bite. One of the chiId's fingers had
been entirely bitten through. 8.
g13~ On Tuesday evening last, the Penn
sylvania Steam Sugar Refinery, very large
building situated on Grown and Race sts.,
was totally destroyed, with all its contents
and machinery, in Philadelphia. The build
inc was seven stories high, and was well
stocked with raw and refined sugars. The
loss will probably be a million of dollars
C5y@ At West Lebanon on the 9th ult.,
Conductors Shattucll and Barnes, and En-
gineer Grant were anaigned for mansaugh-
ter in the second degree, by causing the
late collision on tie Northern Railroad
They pleaded not guilty, and were held in
$1,000 each, to appear before the Supreme
Judicial Court next week.
"a" A recent writer says that i'll passing
through Salt Lake City he saw people at
work in the gardens, attached to nearly ev-
cry homestead, driving the grasshoppers in
swarms out Of the enclosures, using green
boughs to whip them WITH and Smudges'
to discourage them from coming back a
person walking along the street would have
o cloud rising before him at every step.
gg@ A cat belonging to lady at Halifax
Court House, Virginia, a few weeks ago
discharged from it's stomach moccasin
shade 20 inches long. The snake was alive
and killed by persons present. From It's
appearance, being thoroughly bleached, 1t
is supposed that when quite young and
small it was swallowed by the cat, and had
grown and been nourished for long time
within the stomach. The owner of the cat
had noticed for some time its voracious ap-
petite, which it was almost impossible to
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