The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-12-13
Miscellaneous News Items.

tB An Ohio chiropodist travels in a
wagon built and painted like human foot
with corns and bunions all over it.
tB- A mail bag, containing letters for
the Washington and Philadelphia distribu-
ton Offices, was recently stolen from the
mail wagon at New Haven.
tB A wild moman has been discovered
on West Mountain, near Keene, N. II.
She takes to the thick woods when pur-
sued
tB A couple of farmers in Hardin county
Iowa, went to law five years ago over 1876.
The suit has just ended, and both farmers
had to sell their farms to pay the costs.
CT A man who was lost on the Plains,
and who has lived on raw fish, desiring to
vary his bill of fare, says he pursued toad
for two days, but without success.
tB A boy in Franklin county, Indiana
lighted match for the purpose of burning
a bug. He succeeded in burning his fathers
barn. The fate of the bug has not been as
certained.
W A physician in Toronto has sued a
newspaper Of that place for asserting that
he was "formerly cOachman." The sum
of 100000 damages, he thinks, will heal
his wounded reputation.
F Miss Adde Miller, of Washington
Mich, has sued her brother-in-law, the
Rev. J. L. Wicker, for breach of promise
to marry, estimating her anguish at $10,-
Geo.
W Judge Fisher of Missouri, has de-
cided that white man who had been liv-
ing with q negro woman before emancipa-
ton and after, was under the laws-and
Constitution of the State of Mississippi, her
lawful husband.
ETy Messrs. Willis g. Wilson, fai mels
in North Hampstead, raised this season
2, 400 barrels of squashes on eighteen acres
of land, for which thep received over $10,-
600. They also cultivated eighty-ffve acres
of cabbages, and received over $4,000.
tE A girl of fifteen years, daughter of
David Myers, a well to-do farmer, of Field
township, Jefferson county, Illinois, COM
mtted suicide, recently by stabbing herself
through the abdomen, because her parents
objected to her receiving the attention of
young man of the neighborhood.
eE- Samuel H. Ross, wealthy farmer
of Knox county, o., sent letter and four
papers in one envelope, not long ago, put
ting four cents in stamps thereon. Last
week he settled for the rest of the postage
due with the United States Court in Cleve-
land, and it cost him $3.50 80.
gB A man by the name Of Farley, at
Rockport near Cleve land, sold his property
for $40, 900, put the money in belt about
his person, and started for Tennessee to
buy l. nd, on the night express train. He
fell asleep near New London, and on
waking at Crestlne, found himself divested
of the belt and money.
eS- Mrs John Miller, of Oakland, Ale
cheney county, Md, recently presented her
husband with four children at one birth.
At last accounts the mother and children
were all doing well. The neighbors have
presented the mother with purse of
$500.
EB Benjamin Howard aged 80 years,
was found murdered on Saturday morning
near his dwelling, three miles from West
port. Mass. He was shot through the body
and his head and right leg had been cut off
with an axe. He lived alone. An attempt
had been made apparently, to bury the
body, which was found in the woods.
tB- The hunters of Siberia, when hard
pressed by hunger take two thin pieces of
board, we are told, and placing one on the
pit of the stomach, and the other ON the
Dack, gradually draw IoSeCner Une exCfem-
tiles and thus allay, in some degree, the
cravings ofappetite. A similar practice is
known among the South Sea Islanders.
This is supposed to be very economical
kind of board.
EB- A man entered house at Lake
View, Illinois, the other night, and made
a stirring impromtu discourse, in which he
exhorted the inmates to fly to heaven with
all possible haste, in order to save them
selves from impending doom. He then pro-
ceeded to assist them out of the world, and
had injured several very seriously before
he was driven from the premises.
icy AS citizen of Long Island, was re-
Gently leaving the midnight feTyboat at
Hunters Point well dressed and hand
some young lady took his arm, and uttering
terms of endearment such as are used by
newly married people only begged him to
go in an opposite direction. The gentle
man is bachelor, and the familiarity of
the lady astonished him. When they
stepped under a street lamp, the lady
looked up in the face of her protector ut
tered Shrek, and rushed back toward the
ferry. She had mistaken the bachelor for
her husband, who unknown to her, had
stopped at the ticket Office to pay his fare.
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