The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-05-31

of the New England States, on the night of
the 22d inst, doing much damage.
sB- A family of five persons were MUIR
dered at Uxbridge, near London, on Mon
day night.
Gy Seven men were struck by lightning
near Cairo, Illinois, on Monday. One was
instantly killed, and another it is thought
will die from his injuries.
E5y- Mrs. Stewart, residing in Rochester,
N. Y, was fatally burned on the morning
of the 21st inst, by an explosion of coal
gas from cooking stove.
Eg- Charles Dafieldecher, well-known
builder, of Bergen, N. j., and who was
supposed to have been murdered on Tues
day last, proves to be q defaulter and sui
eide.
G9y- At Dover, N. H., on May 21st, a
promising lad, named Gardner Brown,
aged 10 years, pupil at the High School,
was killed while playing base ball, by the
ball striking his head.
E7g- The ship Mdrtane was sighted in
distress on May 7, in the Indian Ocean, and
on boarding her it was found that twenty
one of the crew had died from starvation,
and that the remainder were in dying
condition.
E9y The loss by the great fire last week
at Quebec foots up half a million dollars
half of which is covered by insurance.
Four hundred and nineteen houses toun-
dry, potash factory, two ships and large
quantity oflumber were destroyed.
ETy- Quite q number of deaths from
lightning have occurred this season. A few
days since at Scranton, man sitting at an
open window by the side of his wife, was
instantly killed, while she was uninjured.
About the same time in the same town,
man walking on the street was struck, lly-
ing only two hours afterwards.
icy A Minnesota farmer, a Bohemian,
while plowing out corn last fall finding that
one OK stepped on the corn, took out the OK
and put in his wife, she knowing enough
to step over the hills. Some of the time
she carried the yoke in her arms or on her
shoulder, but most Of the time she put her
head through the bow like an OK, while
the stout, burlY farmer held the plow
gB A sick man in Michigan was found
in the morning with his throat cut from ear
to ear He had once had brother buried
alive, and his wife explained that the last
request of the dying man was, that she
should, Immediately after his death, cut his
throat to make sure of his decease. The
neighbors accepted the story, and attempt
ed no investigation.
USY Mrs. Nancy Latourette, aged 38,a
native of New Jersey, who resided at No.
"A Christopher street, was taken to Belle
vue few days since by her husband, who
stated that she had attempted to kill herself
by swallowing Paris green. The proper
remedies were applied by the medical at
tendants, but they proved Intellectual, and
the woman died shortly after being ad-
mitted
EB- An accident occurred on the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad, on the gath inst,
about forty miles from Philadelphia by
which the brakcsman of the train, Thomas
Swayne, was killed, while a passenger had
his leg broken. DR.. Crane of Meadville,
who was in the train, attended to the woun-
| ded man, and subscription of $175 was
| raised for the widow of the brakesman, by
the efforts of Rev. M. B. Sloan and Hon.
II. White.
EB A New Hamshire man, who has a
nice sort of wife to have about the premi,
ses, was rudely made aware the other morn
ing of an attempt by her to strangle him.
She had tied one end of the rope, made of
twisted cotton cloth, around the bed-post,
and by putting the other around his neck
got a good ''hold." This rough treatment,
however, awoke him, and the wife insists
that she was fast asleep all the time.
tB- In Philadelphia chap claiming the
name of Isaac Reed, patterning after Dick
Turpin, undertook to waylay gentleman
at Second and Race streets, on Sunday eve
ming. The assailed party had no idea of
parting with his watch or his pocket book
at the mere suggestion of his assailant, and
being endowed with both muscle and cour-
age, retained his valuables intact, and had
the scamp secured and landed in quod,
where he can mediate upon the vicisstudes
of waking up the wrong customer at the
wrong hour Of the night
E5Y- A young man who carried collec-
tion plate in service, before starting took
from his pocket five-cent piece, as he sup
posed, put it on the plate, and then passed
it around among the congregation, which
included many young girls. The girls, as
they looked at the plate, all seemed aston
tonished and amused and the young man,
taking glance at the plate, found that,
instead of nickel five-cent piece, he had
put conversation-lozenge on the plate,
with these words. "Will you marry me ?''
in red letters, staring every body right in
the face.