The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-04-05
Miscellaneous News Items.
egs imprisonment for debt has at length
been abolished in Rhode Island,

Russia, last year by railway accidents.
tF" An American minstrel troupe has
made "Shoo Fly popular in Hamburg.
G55- 1t isnoticed that all the severe storms
this year, have come on Sundays.
Us Immigration from Ireland to the
United States has largely increased lately.
G5g' An old gentleman of ninety, in
Maine, is now in mourning for his fifth
wife.
CFy- The largest shoes for women made
in the Philadelphia market go to Utah
the smallest are ordered for Havana.
sdg~ The latest about the composer
Wagner, is that he intends to write two
more operas and then turn his attention to
politics.
CT3- The coffin at recent New Hamp-
shire funeral was drawn to the grave on
hand sled, and the mourners followed on
snow shoes.
G9y' Commissioner Delano has issued
circular to revenue officers enioining tlrem
to discharge their duties prudently courte-
ously and III conciliatory spirit.
GI5 Reuben B. Russell, well known live
stock dealer, accidentally shot and killed
himself while hunting, near Belleview,
Ohio, one day lastw week.
s8y" A Registry act supplement- was pass
ed Ill the House at Harrisburg, with the
addition of Il clause providing lor the regis
tration of all without distinction of color.
w An argument was made i'll the Uni
ted States Supreme Court, last week, by
the Attorney General, i'll favor of Il reopen
ing OF the legal tender decision.
r-E}7 A man named Thomas p. Williams
was found dead in the chamber where he
worked, at the Continental mines on the
9th ult. lie went to work apparently
well.
u5i3 A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature, at the request of the Water
Department, to regulate the manner III
which the water is to be used in Philadel-
phia.
SzfY" Owing to the sudden rise in the river
the embankment at the lower lock of the
canal at Keokuk, Iowa, gave way on the
2Sth ult, and the Government works at
that place were flooded, causing much dam
age.
Say a bill passed the State Senate Ell,
ablmg the Treasurer to draw on the Sink
ing Fund when otherwise unable to meet
current expenses, and requiring the pay
ment i'll gold Of interest on the debt con-
tr&cted prior to 1862.
Us In Williamsburg, young lady, Miss
Eliza Creed, aged nineteen years, was re-
Gently dashed TO the sidewalk by the wind
with such force as to cause injuries result
ing III her death about two hours after the
accident.
Us Accounts have been received at Des
MONIES, Iowa, of the freezing of two men
III the north western part of that State du-
ring the severe storm Of the 18th ult. Six
Others are missing in the same county, and
it is feared they have met the same fate
s58 William Dean, alias Dick, has been
arrested by detectives Elder and McDougall
at No 130 Broadway, the $50, 600 worth Of
bonds lately stolen from the Ocean and
Norwalk banks having been traced to his
possession Dean is Il resident of Yonkers,
and has heretofore held a good position in
society.
GBr On the 30th ult., barn in Avondale
Ohio was destroyed by fire, together with
all its contents, including two valuable hor-
ses, at one o'clock yesterday. 1t was the
work of an inccndiary, who barricaded all
the doors Of the residence and set that on
fire also. Fortunately the latter went out,
else the entire family would have been de-
stroyed
Us" On the Both ult., as the night train
from New York was about four miles from
Bristol, the engineer, discovered an OBJ
struction of some kind on the track. He
was then very close upon it, but he sue
ceeded in slowing the train in considera-
bic degree before he was forced npon it,
The engine struck the obstruction, but
owing to the good management of the en-
gineer but little or no damage was effected.
e8S Thomas Higan, Philadelphia ped
dler, supposed to reside in Pine street, was
decoyed, robbed and murdered in Kent Co.,
Del, on the 10Th inst. Two colored men
have been arrested, named Lober and
Young, on suspicion, and it is said one of
them has confessed their crime. The body
was found on Saturday by some fishermen
hauling their net i'll a mill pond.
GaS~ Some years ago. Milwaukee gentle
man was robbed of a 800 bond. The thief