The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-12-20
CHE Gintes, Netp BLOOMFIELD, 1Da.


a5S" On Monday last while little child
of Mr.. Willis A. Garret, Westtown, was
playing in the yard, it was set upon by
turkey gobbler and severely hurt before it
was rescued The bird was excited by
red scarf worn by the child, and flew at
it, inhicting long and deep gashes.upon its
face, dangerously near to the very bright
pair of eyes of the child. Dr. Massey at
tends to the little sufferer--some of the
gashes requiring to be sewed up West
Chester Record.
GB- In Muskingum county, Ohio q man
named Dutton had been out coon hunting,
and after returning home and retiring, he
dreamed i'll his uneasy slumber that he had
caught the coon and struck it against tree,
killing it. He was awakened by the fran
tic screams of his wife, and to his horror
found that he had picked up his little in
FAINT daughter, and dashed her against the
bed-post, killing her almost instantly
GSy~ George S. Coutant, of Rosendale, N.
Y, who had been robbed of s, 1, 400 about
fourteen years ago, while asleep, was re-
Gently notified by an anonymous letter that
he would find the amount in package at
the Kingston Express Office. He went there
on the following day and received it. 1t
was directed in such way that it would
be impossible to trace out the thief through
it.
G5Y' AT the inquest over the body of Mr.
| Penzer, found dead in the canal at Syracuse
on Thursday last, his wife, who at first
denied all knowledge of her husband death
made full confession. She says that Penzer
was first knocked insensible by young
Iuffian named Dean, who is her paramour
and that they together carried the body to
the canal and threw it in. Dean is only
II years old.
ezy@ 1t seems to be true enough that a
woman named Mrs. Mary Ann Morrison
was murdered near Broad Top city, Hun
tingdon county, on the night of the 25th
ult., her lifeless body having been found
shockingly mutilating on the following
morning. A man named VIM. Griffith, for
whom she acted as hOusekeeper, has been
arrested and lodged in jail on suspicion OF
being the murderer.
G5g- A novel horse car is being built in
the car shop of the California Pacific Rail
road Company, at South Vallejo, California
1t is intended TO be placed upon the track
of the branch railroad from Vaca station tC
Vacaville, and it is 20 run by horse power,
the horse being inside of the car, which is
divided into two compartments, the real
one being fitted up for passengers and the
forward one for freight.
G3Y" The source of the wonderful rain.
shower on single grave at Mobile, Ala,
has been traced TO q wild-cherry tree in al
adjoining yard. The gentleman who un.
ravelled the mystery says it is common at
this season to see the sap falling in showers
from the wild-cherry, crape-myrtle and
unpopular trees.
rSB The Rev. S. A Holt Universalist
clergyman residing in Belvidere, H., was
arrested at the railroad depot in Aurora Oh
Saturday, for making an outrageous ex
posure in the ladies waiting rooms. He
was taken before a city magistrate anC
fined $50.
Gd5 John NJ. Wickham, a Greenvillt
farmer, after receiving from Port Jervis
man $4,000, got his wife to sew the money
into the lining of his waistcoat While OF
the Erie Railroad train, on the way tc
Middletown, he fell asleep and was robbed
Us" The Rev. Horace Cooke, of elope
ment fame, got drunk on Saturday night
Twelve o'clock found him slumbering il
the gutter of aristocraJic Twenty-third
street n. Y. The revercned gentleman wa'
lectured by Justice Cox, and sent tc
Blackwells Island.
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