The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-01-25
Miscellaneous News Items.

ES- A lawyer named F. A Wallace, has
been arrested i'm Cleveland, charged with
extensive forgeries.
G5Y- The House Banking Committee have
examined number of witnesses regarding
the late New York gold swindle.
az A sharp shock of earthquake oc-
CURED at San Bernardino, California, on
the 14th inst.
c5B The Chinese quarter in the town of
San jose was burned, rendering homeless
about Thousand Chinese.
a5Y A Massachusetts farmer has been
sent to jail for two months for cruelty
beating his horse.
G5S The thermometer marked eighteen
degrees below zero at Burlington, VT, on
Friday morning last.
EY- Mr.. Morrill, has been declared duly
elected as United States Senator from
Maine.
G3B- Robert Thorn, Dutchess county
farmer, whose house was attacked by
burglars on the night of January 9th when
he was badly beaten, died on the Goth inst.
GS Two prisoners, industriously inclined,
dug a hole under the Jail at Decorah, Iowa,
and went into it to see where it terminated,
and have not yet returned.
G5g- A brutal fellow, aged twenty years,
tried to kill his aged mother, at Elizabeth,
few days ago, but was arrested before he
could cOnsummate the tiendish deed.
g5s- The Rhode Island House of Repre-
sentatives have ratified the Fifteenth
Amendment. The Senate adopted it in
June last.
tB The ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment by the Mississippi Legislature
was almost unanimous, only one vote in
the House being given against it,
B- At Elkhart, Indiana, on the 18th
inst, Edward Russell, being melted by
jealousy, shot and killed William A. Will
liams.
rB- Last Monday tornado tore down
numerous buildings at Cave City Station,
Ky. Seven or eight persons were instantly
killed and about eighteen more OF less in
jured.
G3S- On the 1st instant, man in Kansas
made application for $1,000 insurance on his
life; on the Bird instant he committed sui
eide, supposing he had secured that amount
for his family.
eB- John Hayes and John Long, dis
charged from the Massachusetts, Peniten-
tiary after four years imprisonment, being
found innocent, have asked the Legislature
to compensate them for their suffering.
CB- The West Virginia Legislature met
and organized on the 18th inst. The Sem
ate is largely Republican, while in the
House there were 32 Republicans to "a
Democrats.
B Every house between Glasgow juno
tion and Cave City, Kentucky, distance of
six miles, was blown down by the gale on
Monday Of last week, and twenty lives
were lost
sB- The family of Mr.. Cook, consisting
of himself, wife, two children and SER
want, residing at Chicago, were dangerously
poisoned by eating biscuits made from
some new baking powder prepared in New
York.
B A bill has been introduced in the
New York Senate, providing for the con-
solidation of the American and Foreign BIZ
BILE Society. and the Baptist Publication
Society of Philadelphia.
eB- They are having some cold weather
out west. AT chicago last tuesday, the
mercury was fifteen degrees below zero !;
at Oshkosh, Wis, sixteen degrees below !;
and at st. Pauls twenty-five degrees below
zero.
GY- General Terry having proposed to
remove certain members of the Georgia
Legislature, who, he alleges, perjured
themselves to obtain their seats, the Presi-
dent has advised the General against their
removal. This, it is said, gives the con-
troll of the Legislature to the Rebel element.
EB- An obese French lady, complaining
of her frightful tendency to enbOnpoint,
says: 81 am so fat that pray for a disap-
pointment to make me thin. No sooner
does the disappointment come than the
mere expectation of growing thinner gives
me such joy that become fatter than ever"
tB- In New Sharon, Maine, on the 18th
instant, John Fletcher, constable, with
posse attempted to arrest Ezekiel Tolman
for debt, when an affray occurred between
the posse and number of persons aiding
Tolman.
Several were wounded on both sides in
the affray. John s. Tolman, brother of
Ezekiel, attacked Fletcher with a fire shov-
el, when Fletcher fired pistol, the ball
taking effect in Tolman's groin. He died
in twenty minutes.