The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-11-29
Miscellaneous News Items.

Miscellaneous News Items.
CY- Forty of the Baton Rouge rioters
have been discharged.
E5g- Postmaster General Creswell is now
"the oldest inhabitant" in the Cabinet
the only original member left.
EB Mr.. Perry, of Michigan, traded his
wife for an old shotgun and $5 to boot.
He's S Perry-pathetic fraud
NIy" "Never mind the obituary, judge"
said Montana culprit when the court be-
came pathetic in pronouncing the sentence.
"Let's fix the time for the funeral"
CY- Twelve men under the sentence of
death in Cuba were pardoned by De Rodas
at the Havana celebration of the election
of the Duke of Aosta to the Spanish throne.
UE5- The largest criminal list ever known
before court is being tried by the criminal
court at Louisville Ky. No less than six
teen cases of murder have been returned by
the grand jury and several yet to be investi-
gated.
G95 John Mcclellan, Johnstown timer,
while engaged in clipping tin from the bot
tom of wash boiler, was struck in the eye
by piece which flew up suddenly, and SO
badly injured that it is feared he will lose
his sight.
CS5- The Conestoga Cork Factory, owned
by Caldwell & Co., was burned at ten o'clock
on the 10Th inst. During the progress of
the flames wall fell burying five firemen,
two of whom it is feared will die. The loss
is estimated at 100000. 1t is insured for
$500 The fire is supposed to have been
kindled by an incendiary.
CY A poor but honest youth at Will
mington, N. c., was recently encouraged
to be good and virtuous by reward of ten
cents for finding and restoring to the own
er a pocket-book containing $435. The In
dividual whose liberality was thus striking
ly tested is said to be exceedingly wealthy.
G5 Womans ability to protect herself
was again demonstrated in Kansas short
time since. A woman at Baxter Springs
in that State, whose house had been attack
ed by crowd Of drunken Texan droyers,
suddenly appeared in the hallway with a
revolver, and kept up steady fire on the
ruffians until the arrival of the police.
rB- At New York on the 10Th inst,
James Kelly, wealthy and respectfully con-
nected man, was held in $4,000 on charge
of burglariously entering the residence of
William l.. Peck, adjoining Kelly's, in July
last, while the family were absent, and
stealing clothing valued at $1,000. Part of
the stolen property was found in bed
room in Kelly's house.
Mrs. Plank, of Killingly, Conn, claims
to be the oldest woman in the United States
who retains complete possession of her fac
ulties. She was born on the Goth of Octo-
Der, 1755, and has vivid recollection of
very important events in the history of the
Republic. Her father, John Graves, was
a soldier of the Revolution. Mrs. Plank is
probably the only centenarian in the country
who does not claim the honor of having
been on terms of intimacy with George
Washington.
The Peck-Wilson divorce case, now on
trial in New York, is nice family story to
come before the public. Peck wanted
money and his mother agreed to let him
have $50, 900 if he would get rid of his wife.
Then his wife, in order that he might get
the $50, 900 agreed to make no plea against
a divorce, provided he would marry her
again. So as it stood it was nice conspi-
racy to cheat the elderly Mrs. Peck, who
deserved to be cheated. But Peck being
free, did not feel like resuming his chains
again, and hence the litigation.
eB- Annie Miller, aged IA years, in the
employ of Henry Geoble, No. 1923 Mascher
street Philadelphia, was so badly burned
last Wednesday morning that her life is
despaired of. She had lighted the fire in
the stove, and to make it burn more rapid
ly, poured oil on it from a can. The flames
communicated with the contents of the can,
and, as matter of course, there was an
explosion. The scattering oil, in addition
Annie was removed to st. Mary's Hospital.