The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-09-27
Miscellaneous News Items.
aB Chicago's population is put down at
34S, 709-a gain of 203, 755 in ten years.

was nearly all destroyed by supposed in I
cendiary fire on last Saturday night.
nds- An incendiary, on Sunday evening !
exploded magazine at Fairport, Ohio, !
containing about three tons of nitro-gly- !
cerine.
a5Y~ A curiosity in the shape of a time-ta- |
BILE of the Pacific Railroad rendered in the
Chinese language, has made its appearance
in the West.
C75@ A trout was caught from Otsego lake
q few days ago, which weighed 81 pounds,
measuring G7 inches in length and 81 in
girth. 1t was sold for ten dollars.
e5y" On Thursday last, while Mr.. Thomas
Wescott, of Sterling, was chopping wood,
he had his leg so badly jammed by fall
ing tree that he died on Friday from the
loss of blood.
G5Y- There is a general cry made by rail
way passengers against the eXtortionate
prices demanded for sleeping car berths on
most of the lines-and with good reason,
too.
"a" Some mean thief at Laynesborough,
Mimi, recently took advantage OF the alb
sence of family at the funeral of one of
it's members to steal the sheets and pillows
from all the beds.
aIf' The people of Harrison county, Ind,
were excited q few days since by the dis
covery of vein of gold by laborers who
were engaged in sinking well. The ex-
cavation will be continued.
IY@ Thirteen cotton factories, located in
the vicinity of East Haddam, have been
compelled to entirely suspend operations,
on account of having no water to turn their
wheels. They were employing about 700
men.
n5y" The Internal Revenue Department
has decided to prohibit the use of beer bar
rels in all cases where they have in them
two holes for spigots, as it is calculated to
offer inducements for defrauding the Teve-
nue..
ETy" Kezah Hinton, colored domestic,
who had lived thirty-five years in the fam
ity of DR.. McDowell's family, at Bloom
field, N. j., has confessed that she fired his
barn, poisoned the well, and stole the fam
lily silver.
C8S~ An Irish woman living near Jack
son, Mich, while engaged i'll hanging out
her washing, recently, was bitten in the
face by potato bug which she brushed off
the line. Her face Immediately commen-
ced to SWELL and she rapidly grew worse,
and died after three days Of agony.
e5y" In the Pension office the cases for
communication of lost limbs are being dis
posed of as fast as they come from the
Surgeon General. During the past ten
days the work has averaged one hundred
and twenty cases per day. Up to date, Is
627 cases have been allowed,
"a" At Colorado, recently, Wm Heany
was detected in the act OF committing as
sault on a little girl six years of age, a
daughter of Judge Hughes. While being
conveyed to the Jail he was forcibly taken
from the officers by a crowd of citizens and
tarred and feathered and driven out of the
town.
sT5- A well of water in the town of Re d.
ding, Ct, on premises in possession of one
family nearly 200 years, and neye,
failed in its supply is now dry, as a Ie many
others in different parts of the c',untry. <
gentleman in Hartford, DISCUS ,ced with the
quality of the city water, resorted to his
well, which had been for cen years closed,
GS Our Consul at Sheffield writes here
that there will 90 several emigrants from
tliaI portloh of England to this country
VIII VIII we ~ to settling in the West, princi
Pa,i,y, Il Minnesota. Among them there
VIII ne q member of the English Parlia
II .ent, who will be accompanied by several
young men anxious to experience life il
! our country
eI Mr. Summer Clark, of Cornville, Me.
, a few days since was digging ditcl
through piece of low ground and wher
! at depth of thfee or four feet he struck
|, , vein of pure water that gushed out two o.
more inches in diameter. AS he stood look
t ing at it a fish five or six inches long ,ap
l peared, and at length another, until HE haC
E gathered thirty. The fish reselnble6 wha
are usually known as chubs.
| eas- The development of THE Illinois Goa
fields is claimed to be due TO a farmer nea
Springfield, who thought tAat such coun
try could not be destined by Providence t,
e be without fuel. "qYGe wood is nearl,
4 gone" said he to himself, "and there mus
be coal.' In this almost whimsical faitl
he sank shaft one hundred feet, and thei
q struck a vein OF bituminous coal, which III
is now mining to the amount of ~, 700 pc
week.
EB- The Whisky Ring is coming to lif
again in some sections of the country, and il
threatening to use its power against th'
Republican party if the Internal Revenu,
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