The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-05-03


proved.
U5s thief recently robbed a corn-crib |
in Galloway county, KY, but dropped his
pocket-book, which contained $2j. The |
owner has not applied for the money.
Gy1 A Cincinnati druggist declares that |
there are no less than thousand arsenic
eaters i'll that city and immediate vicinity
mostly young women, who take the drug
for the complexion.
IB- A "Jam'' of logs has heen formed
just above Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin,
which is four or five miles long. 1t already
contains from forty to sixty million feet,
and is constantly accumulating.
G5y" Andrew j. Bauder, clerk at the Cleve-
land and Pittsburg Railroad Office at Gin
cinnati, killed his wife in that city on
the 2Sth inst, Mis- sconduct on the part of
the wife was the alleged cause. Bauder
surrendered himself.
A Woman's Rights advocate insists that
divorced women have a right to vote under
the 10th amendment, which provides that
the right of suffrage shall not be denied or
abridged on account of race, color, or ''pre-
vious condition of servitude."
G55~ McFarland's trial was continued on
Friday further testimony being offered by
the prosecution to prove that the prisoner
had threatenedto shoot Richardson. After
the adjournment Of the Court an unseemly
quarrel occurred between Mr.. Graham and
Judge Davis.
G5iS 4 young lady in Monson, Mass, was
recently offered $500 for her hair which
lacks but half an inch of being six feet long.
On her refusing the offer the would-be-
purchaser asked if $1,000 would be any in
ducement, to which she replied. No, nor
$2000."
"a G. A. Pickering, secretary of the
Saratoga Pavilion Spring Company, occupy
ing a room in the fremont House on Broad
way, was found lying dead in the yard of
the hotel about one O. clock on the morning
of the 2Sth dressed in his night clothing.
He is supposed to have fallen from the Win
dow OF his room.
az" In Charlottesville, Va, the other
day, upon the return home Of a party
of young ladies and gentlemen who had
been practicing at a target with pistols, one
of them, Miss Eveline Goodloe, laughingly
pointed pistol at herself and was making
some playful remark, when the pistol eX-
ploded accidentally, the ball passing directly
through her heart, causing instant death.
G2y- In village in Southern Missouri,
a few days ago, a nice young man put a
sheet around him to scare u Dutchman.
The Teutonic gentleman says - just
jump Off my wagon and vip der ghost all
the time. | would vip him if he was a
whole graveyard" Some one asked the
young man what allied his black eye, and
he sad he. had received bad news from
Germany.
gTy" Commodore Vanderbilt was arrested
for fast driving, Wednesday night and con-
fined in the Manhattan police station for
two hours before Justic McQuade found out
who his distinguished prisoner was, when
the gallant commodore was released, and
went his way rejoicing.
We copy the above from a N. Y. paper
and as we read it wOnded if the law eXem-
ted certain prominent persons from liability
toits penalties.
Ca5@ Frederick Rutland, the Patterson
butcher, who was hit over the head in a
melee, and was supposed to have died IN
consequence thereof, has been cut open by
the doctors, who found that his lungs were
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his decease. The man was gradually turn
ing hard, and had he lived might have Ii
vailed the Cardiff Giant. Kohoe, the mar
who was arrested for assaulting him, was
released, with a reprimand
EX- John Handrahan, a switchman on
the Erie Railway at the Hackensack river
was found lying on the track with his heac
decapitated, about half half a mile east
of the river. Handrahan was discharged
and paid Off on the Goth ult., the day pre-
vious but when found there was no money
on his person. The impression is that h'
had been robbed and murdered, and thel
placed upon the track so as not to excite
suspicion
EE- On the 25th inst, the Auburn City
National Bank was robbed between th'
hours of ten and twelve O'clock Of $31, ,00I
in greenbacks. Three persons, strangers il
town, are engaged the in transaction, ant
accomplished their purpose by the following
means -
Two of them went in at the front doc
and engaged the only two bank officers il
attendance at the time, one of the robber
negotiating for revenue stamps and tn
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