The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-05-10
Miscellaneous News Items.

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G5s- A judge at Muncie, Iowa, recently
fined woman of that place twenty dollars
for thrashing her two grown-up daughters.
G5Y- The number of Mormons who prac-
tice polygamy is said not to exceed two
thousand.
G5sS~ In the city of Boston no person ex-
cept native of the State is allowed to play
a hand organ in the streets of that city.
Gs8- The House joint resolution granting
the widow of the late General Rawlins u
years salary has passed the Senate.
G5y- American Silver continues to arrive
from Canada, and within a few days 81, 000,-
600 have been purchased by foreign bank
ers and is being packed for shipment.
ET3- A. j. Butler is under arrest, at San
Francisco, accused of stealing $4,000 in
bonds, from Alfred Colville, in Wall street,
New York.
G55~ A bill, making the Northwest Ter
ritory province of the Dominion, under
the name of Manitoba, has been introduced
in the Canadian Parliament
cay@ Captain Story, a Deputy United
States Marshal, was shot and killed at Salt
Lake City, on Monday of last week, by
desperate whom he was about to arrest
The murderer was shot by the Mormons.
70 Sioux Indians have made hostile
demonstrations at the Hudson Bay Com
pany's fort at White Horse Plains, and a
general Sioux war is apprchended by the
American settlers over the line.
GSy- In Philadelphia, man on Tuesday
last went to the City Missionary and began
to tell that he was ill with the relapsing fe-
yer. Before he could finish his story, he
fell insensible upon the pavement.
aB- A St. Louis Clerk, in rescuing
pretty girl in the street, from a big dog,
luckily sprained his ankle. The young lady
called a carriage, took her brave preserver
home, nursed the roses back to his cheeks,
and married him, with pas blessing and
greenbacks.
B By a robbery committed on the 4th
inst, at Rockland, Me-, the bank loses
about $1100 and the special depositors
about $40, 500, on which payment has been
stopped to the amount of $4,000. $4,000
collateral is held as security for the notes
loaned.
Gds- Resolutions favoring the construc-
ton of railroad on the thirty-second par
the franchise to the Southern Trans Conti-
mental Railway Company, were passed by
the House Subcommittee on Pacific Rail
roads, last week.
GaY- The Rev. Mr.. Smith, popular and
sensational preacher of New York, is on
his trial before committee or conference
of his brother ministers on the charge Of
having taken gin and milk on Sunday, in q
two or more reporters, who did likewise.
CB A colored man named Miller, a resi-
dent of Frankford, on Tuesday last, was
seized with sudden fit of insanity and
commenced raising a disturbance, finally
threatening to cut his throat. A number of
citizens secured and bound him; he was
then handed over to the police, and they
transferred him to the Almshouse.
Ca5 Molasses is now shipped in the bulk,
vessels being fitted up like large tanks
One containing 5000 gallons was recently
pumped out at Boston in four hours, and
was ready to proceed again to sea. In the
old way of carrying in casks, the same
ship would only have held one-half the
quantity, and would haveta two days to
discharge.
GSy- 1t has lately come to light that some
ingenious person has discovered a method
of extracting kind of yellow grease, re-
sembling butter in appearance, from Lon
don mud. This stuff is mysteriously ship
ped off to Holland, and a horrible suspicion
has arisen among London housekeepers
that it returns to them in the shape of the
Dutch butter largely consumed in their
kitchens.
~ AT Chester, Pa, on the 4th inst, the
extensive cotton mill of Messrs. Brewster,
McCree e. Co., situated in the North Ward,
was destroyed by fire. The factory has not
been in operation for some time, owing to a
strike among the workmen, and the fire is
supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary. The loss is in the neighborhood
of 100000, which is partially covered by
insurance.
EB- At Louisville, KY, John H. Norton
aged 10 years, son of II. G. Morton, a
banker Of that city, shot and killed Dam
Powers, a gambler, at a house of ill-fame,
on Eleventh street, between Main street
and the river, kept by Annie Rayburn, on
Monday afternoon last. Jealousy was the
cause. Young Morton has surrendered
himself and is now in Jail.
GaS- On the morning of the 9th inst,
some burglars effected an entrance into the