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

E5S A bill making drunkenness in pub
lie officers misdemeanor, and punishable
as such, has been introduced into the Ten
essee Legislature.
C93- Crosby's Opera House had narrow
escape from destruction by fire on Wednes-
day night. A panic ensued, but fortunate
ly 40 one was hurt.
US y bran new sensation was caused at
Pittsburg, recently by young lady leav-
ing line Of bran along the sidewalks as
she was enjoying her afternoon promenade.
G43" o. n. Bostwick, of the firm of Bost
wick " Co., dealers in hats, caps and straw
goods, committed suicide at his residence,
Brooklyn, last week, by taking strychnine.
G53" The public debt statement for Feb.
1st, shows that during the month of Janu-
airy our National Indebtedness was ecreas-
ed by So, 933, G64.
C83 The Louisville papers assert that q
murderer recently hung in that city, was,
after being taken to the operating room of
the surgeons, restored to life by the use of
the galvanic battery and was afterwards
removed from the city. The story is lit
tie hard to believe.
GY" John Dial, recently convicted of
the murder of Richard M. Harlem, was
sentenced to be hanged by Judge Wood
ward. The prisoner received his doom
without any manifestation whatever, and
conducted himself with the same uncon-
Germ that characterized him throughout the
trial.
GS5" John Phillips, a mechanic, aged "a,
living in South Baltimore, committed sui
eide by shooting himself, on the 3rd inst,
because creditor was pressing him for a
claim of sixty dollars, which he was unable
to pay. He leaves a wife and five children
in destitute circumstances.
cB- The trunk of William E. Gray. the
person who, in company with S. II, Pratt,
swindled number of Wall street brokers
by means Of altered bonds, has been found
at the Whitney House. The trunk contain
ed Gray's clothing and large number of
counterfeit dies and implements for altering
Government bonds. 1t is said that Gray
has gone to Europe.
~" At two o. clock, on the Sd inst, a
kerosene lamp exploded in the house of
Nicholas Bliss i'll Phila., setting fire to
the furniture i'll the bedroom occupied by
the family, consisting of Bliss and his wife
and two children. All were burned in Il
dreadful manner. One child died immedi-
ately after the flames were extinguised, and
the other is in a very critical condition.
Bliss and his wife will recover, but they
will be much disfgured.
GSB- A motion has been made by the pros
ecution in the Court of General Sessions to
remove the trial of Daniel Mcfarland for
the murder of A. d. Richardson to the
Court of Oyer and Terminer, ON the ground
that the case would occupy too much of the
time of the rormer court. The motion was
strongly opposed by the defense as prejudi-
cial to the interests of the prisoner. De-
cision reserved
t2 The most intense excitement prevails
in Clark county, Illinois, in consequence of
the discovery of gold on Big Creek. A
lately returned California miher--s miner
of eighteen years experiepce-has been for
some days prospecting in the ravines along
the creek and in every handful of earth he
has found gold in paying quantities The
people of that section are wild with the
gold mania, and are leaving all other bust,
ness to search for the precious metal.