The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-12
Miscellaneous News Items.

pair OF moccaSinS for CoSh-poppi-apti and
q nice article for murzer-shar-tonka :
cheap, isn't it?
NB The ST. Crispins at North Adams
have shown their meanness by attacking,
with volleys of stones, an American employ
ed to teach the Chinese our language
tB A Michigan farmer annointed his
potato. vines with rat poison to destroy the
bugs, and the next morning found his herd
OF cows dead, having broken into the potato
patch dnring the night.
tB- A Texas couple eloped on horseback
accompanied by a clergyman. They were
pursued by the brides father and the minis
ter performed the marriage ceremony at
full gallop. Nice wasn't it.
az 1t costs $40 for holding the inquest
on each dead body found in New York
city. AS the Coroner has some days sever
al inquests to hold $40 each, pays him
nice sum for fees.
NB- The Mormons of Utah haye turned
their attention to the production of gloves
that rival those of Paris in delicacy and
workmanship. The gloves are made from
genuine kid, raised in the vicinity of Salt
Lake.
GB- At the Charlestown, Mass, State
Prison, the convicts were regaled on
the Fourth with banquet and an Grafton
on Liberty" An aged convict remarked
that the plum pudding was nice, but the
Grafton rather out of place.
EaY- A female suicide in Vicksburg on
June Goth, left behind her a letter direc-
ting that the fact be communicated to her
parents in Warren county, Ohio and that
she be "buried in white dress to be found
in her trunk partly cut out"
"a A. Lillian, residing in Hudson City,
while ramming home cartridge with which
he had been firing salute on the 4th inst,
had both arms blown off by premature
discharge. He was horribly mutilated.-
There are some hopes of his recovery.
GY- A young woman in Boston, named
Nellie Nelson committed suicide on the 9th
inst, by shooting herself with a pistol, in
consequence of an alteration with a young
man named George Jones, to whom she
was engaged to be married.
ga" Mr.. Joshua w. Ballou, an aged citi-
zen of Sullivan Ohio while standing at the
bedside of his sick wife, few days ago
fell suddenly to the floor and died. His
wife hearing him fall, raised herself up,
though very weak, and seeing him lying
dead, sank back and within an hour died.
sY" A Mr.. Thomas died very suddenly
last week, at the American Hotel in Phila-
delphia. He had just sat down to the ta-
ble to eat his supper, and, putting a piece
of cold meat in his mouth it slipped into
his wind pipe, causing his death in less
than five minutes-all attempts to relieve
him proving of no avail.
GSY- On the 9TH inst, in Baltimore, some
policemen entered the second story of q
house on Thames street, where it was sup
posed John COonah, for whom they had q
warrant, was concealed.
Upon hearing the officers, Coonan ran to
the top of the house, and being pursued, he
jumped to the ground, receiving injuries
from which he died in q few hours.
CX- The Waterton (Wis) Republican re-
ports that a young married woman recently
gave birth to child in one of the Luther
an churches, on Sunday, the 9Th ult. This
startling event occurred during the progress
of the morning service, and so little dis
turbance was made, that but few of the
congregation were aware of what happened
until the transaction was all over and
meeting out.
A child of 6 yrs. was found at Newport
KY, almost naked starved and chained in q
hole beneath the floor of the house of his
parents, who are Germans and had been
treated in a like manner some time and
terribly beaten day after day for work not
performed to the satisfaction of the inhu-
man mother and step father. Both were
committed to Jail as much for the fear of
violence as for the fulfillment of justice,
eB- A good deal of excitement was caused
in the vicinity of the Treasury, last
week by daring attempt at theft A lady
a German, named Kritz, entered the office
of Vermilyea & Co., in Nassau street, and
purchasing bonds there, a fellow, who had
followed her in, snatched her pocket book,
containing one thousand dollars, and made
off. An alarm was given, and several per-
sons started in persuit. The thief fled into
the Sub Treasury, where he was caught by
Detective Sampson. On being taken to
the New Street Station-house he refused to
give his name. The money was recovered,
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