The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-10-04
Miscellaneous News Items.


publishing the official Isis of the killed in
the recent battles.
GB- An Oregon man has just died from
the effects of an operation on his foot by
professional corn doctor.
G9y- Nine young ladies are learning to SOW
in the Michigan Agricultural College. A
good way to learn husbandry and obtain
husbands.
GH A New Orleans woman resented the
boxing Of her boys ears by whipping the
offender, and he ungallantly broke her head
with hammer
EB- At New York, Dennis O'Neil, for
highway robbery, was sentenced to twenty
two years and six months in Sing Sing, by
Judge Bedford, last week.
G5y Theodore Davis, at Jericho, i. l., a
jealous lover, shot himself on Wednesday
last. He was 10 have been married on
Wednesday next.
G1S" "The Fireplace is The name of
drinking saloon in Chicago. Any one can
get warm by it for ten cents or red-hot for
a quarter.
Us The largest bar of gold in the world
was lecently on exhibition at Denver City.
1t weighs over three thousand ounces, and
is valued at $4,000.
sSss The Prussian lads into The countiy
southwest of Paris are terribly destructive.
Even Solomon in all his glo.y was not a
raid like one of these.
U.s. Some women are very strong and
can do as much work as a man. In New
York there are several strong-minded wo-
men who get living by shoplifting, and it
is said they can lift as much as man.
GS- A London firm has contracted to
supply a house in Paris with six thousand
mourning bonnets and sixty thousand yards
of Grape within the next fortnight, and at
Berlin the orders given are far greater.
eS- The population of Kansas has in-
creased more than two hundred per cent
during the past ten years. In 1860 it con-
tained 107, 904 people, and the present pop
lat;on is, according TO the census, $50, 340
cB- Amos Campbell, of Hampshire,
Kane county, was run over by the cars the
other night and killed at Clinton, Iowa.
The same night his house in Hampshire
was struck by lightning, and two of his
family killed.
9B- A certain Boston Clergyman who
last week had an overcOat and umbrella
stolen from his hall, thinks that the man
who took them is likely to bring up in a
world where neither overcoat nor umbrella
will be essential 70 comfort.
eB A French colony al The Gown of
Franklin, in Kansas, has started a velvet
factory, the only one in the United States.
Operations were begun last summer on
the cooperative plan, and already the colo
ny has comfortable dwellings, sto es, shops
and farms, besides its factory.
GB- The Holy Comforter Church, in
Poughliepsie, was far from comforter to
the ladies OF the congregation last Sunday.
1t had been newly y~painted, and the esult
was damage to shawls, scaifs, and rib
bOns TO the amount Of five hundred dol
lars or more.
GB Near Lancaster, on the 9Th ult,
two boys, named James Reese and Samuel
| Kyle, while out hunting, met with an acci-
dent, by which the latter was killed.
Reese, while loading his gun, was struck
on the hand by a piece Of clay, thrown by
Kyle in play, causing premature dis
charge, killing Kyle instantly.
Gay- Among The foremost and largest
subscriptions 20 the fund for the relief OF
the widows and families of ohe crew that
perished in the English iron-clad, "Cap-
tain" is The contributions of the officers
and ships company of the U. S. steam
frigate Franklin" now lying OF Ports
mouth.
G5B- The latest romaniic wedding is re-
ported from Erie, Pennsylvania. A couple
were married recently on board pleasure
yacht while sailing on The lake there. The
ceremony was a surprise 10 the company
| composed Of about thirty ladies and gem
tiemen) OH the boat, but all took it pleas
antly, and a;terward joined in a wedding
dance On The decls.
g5g- Near New York, an unknown pro-
peller recently upset a boat containing Miss
Dunlap, of Rossmore Cottage, Astoria,
and her Two brothers, in the East River
opposite One e-hundred-and- -twen ieth street,
and left them struggling in the water The
steamer did not stop, but fortunately Jo-
seph McEvoy, Of No. 1877 Foify-ninth ST.,
who witnessed the accident, swan to their
assistance, ana rescued first the girl and
then the two boys.
n6~ The ease with which the Chinese