The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-03-29
Miscellaneous News Items.

Williams and the eship-carpenter.
C53- A cobweb wedding was celebrated in
Iowa the other day. Mr.. Joseph Cobb was
united in marriage to Miss Kate Webb.
toy A boiler at n coal breaker near Min
ersville exploded on the god inst. killing
three boys instantly, and wounding ten
other of the hands.
E73" A fire at Yeddo, on the 4th and 9Th
Of February, destroyed from four to five
thousand houses, the American Consulate
narrowly escaping destruction.
CY Great complaint is made in San
Francisco of the delay in trying criminals.
About two hundred prisoners of whom
seventeen are charged with capital offenses,
are awaiting trial.
Tz3 Twenty-four female operatives in
a manufacturing establishment III New
York which took fire last week, had a mar
row escape with life, several having cloth
ing burned from their persons.
I53- In the Superior Court, at Boston,
last week, John Reed was convicted of
snatching package of money from a mer-
chants clerk on the stairway of the First
National Bank, and sentenced to twelve
years in the State Prison.
E4y7 Commissioner Delano persists that
farmers selling their produce from wagons
OF stalls in cities must pay the special tax
as brokers. The Committee of Ways and
Means, it is thought, will strike out this
legal feature from the Internal Revenue
bill.
c1Ey The Chancellor of New Jersey has
decided, in the case of Martins Executors
VS.. Martin, that both the principal and i'll
terest due on the mortgage made and dated
prior to February 20, 1862, the date of the
legal tender act, must be paid in gold and
silver coin if required by the mortgage,
and the decree was made accordingly.
G" A singular phenomenon occurred at
ST. Johns n. B., at the commencement of
the storm on the 18th inst. A rumbling was
heard, and Immediately afterward por-
tion of the bottom of the harbor on the
Carlton side sunk bodily; so where before
at low tide was beach, is now twenty feet
of water. Some of the wharves were de-
stroyed and lumber carried adrift.
g5y" A den of counterfeters has been dis
covered at Snake Hill, N. j. The plates
for a $50 counterfeit bill were seized. A
man named A. Elwon was arrested with
$120 in spurious bank bills, all twentics
on the National Bank Of Utica, n. Y, and
National Bank of the city of New York.
He was held i'll $4,000 bail
~" Mr.. Cornelius Carmacl of Hawkins,
Tenn, died suddenly on Monday. His
wife had prepared some poisoned bread for
rats, and had placed it for few minutes
in the press. The old gentleman was in
the act of starting to Rogersville, and went
to the press and ate the bread He travelled
few miles on his journey, when he was
taken suddenly sick, and returning home
died that night.
S5Y~ A negro woman in Virginia, II years
old recently took it into her head to learn
to read write and cypher; so she entered
a school, and regularly every day brought
ten cents which she paid to the teacher.
She get along very well until near the close
of the second week, when she "missed her
lesson" and was ignominiously kept in
during recess much to her chagrin and
greatly to her disappointment at not being
permitted TO "play wild de rest of the
children"
EI5- Sarah and Laura Haines, mother and
daughter, were recently arrested in Phil
adelphia, on a charge of swindling. Last
January they took board at 1915 Locust
street. lney represented TO Ine EtnClady
that they were wealthy, and that they were
about to inherit a very large fortune.
They run up board bill of $500, and be-
sides this they ordered at several establish
ments large quantities Of embroideries and
under clothing, AT Il store on Chestnut
street, they got measured for thousand
dollars worth of underwear They sue
ceeded in getting twenty-five dollars worth
of it without pay.
gG3- A special dispatch from Manches-
ter, Ohio, says that on Saturday last
while j. c. Rhinehart, school teacher,
and Il. j. Connell, a carpenter, were
walking on the highway, they were met
by drunken man named James Hubb,
who drew pistol and shot Conncll dead.
Rhnehart drew pistol and shot Hub
through the body Before Hubb fell he
returned Rhineharts Fl re, mortally woun-
ding him, Rhinehart and Hubb died in
few minutes.
pea. The Grand Jury have found a
true bill against John Hanlon alias Chas.
Il. Harris, charging him with the murder