The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-19
Miscellaneous News Items.


pupils.
G33 A Norwegian family, consisting of
father and mother and twenty-one children,
landed at Sheboygan, Wis, lately.
C5Y~ In Providence, on the 4th inst, an
old hen attacked a torpedo, and by persist
ent pecking caused it to explode and blow
off her own head.
C55~ Philadelphia has been indulging in
! riots among the firemen to such an extent,
that 1t reminds one of the good old time,
when riots were the daily pastime Of their
| iiremen.
Ia" A Mrs. Connell, in Willimantic, Con-
necticut, enticcd a little girl into her house
lately and forced her to drink liquor until
she was drunk. On reaching home the
! poor child fell down stairs and broke her
arm.
~ The Bank of Louisville that was re-
Gently robbed Of $72,0C0 having offered to
compromise with the thieves for one half
the sum without inducing Il return has sold
out to the Drovers' Bank, the latter assum-
ing all the liabilities.
G537 A lady at fair the other dav. in
Springfield, Ohio, saw what She took to be
a very nice piece of candy, and quietly put
it in her mouth. 1t proved to be a minia-
ture bomb shell, and exploded, lacerating
her mouth and shatteling her teeth in an
exceedingly unpleasant manner.
C5y" On Thursday last two men came to
the house Of Mrs. Jackson De Havenner in
CovingtOn, Ind. in the absence Of her hus-
band, gagged and brutally assaulted her.
When her husband returned he found her
lying IN the yard insensible and still gag
ged. The scoundrels are not arrested.
C33" The Census takers in different parts
of the country are collecting some very GU
riOus information. They find that the high
est age attained hy an unmarried woman is
twenty-siX years. 1t is well to have the
point at which they cease growing older
definitely fixed.
g23- An alarmed bachelor in Milwaukee
recently rushed in great excitement and
speed to his washerwoman, and was just in
time to arrest her hand as she was placing
his pantaloons i'll the suds. He had one
thousand dollars in greenbacks sewed in
the waistband, which he had forgotten at
the time of sending the garment to wash.
C7y7 The bones of about 1900 Chinese
lately reached San Francisco, OH their re-
turn to the Celestial Empire. They had
Central Pacific Railroad, and were all that
was left of a regiment of the laborers on
the great work. They are taken home in
pursuance OF the contract by which they
were originally brought into this country.
G5S Mrs. Vashti Angel and her two sons
were arrested on the 9th inst, in North
Providence, for the murder of William p.
Angel, husband and father of the family,
who disappeared some months since, and
whose body was recently found in pond.
James Pagan, hired laborer on Angelps
farm, was also arrested. All the prisoners
pleaded not guilty and were committed for
examination.
G5sS" In Philadelphia. on Saturday after
noon a merchant left with his bookkeeper n
check signed, but not filed up, for the pay
ment Of a bill which he expected to be pre-
sented. The employer then left his count
ing house to transact some business. Dur
ing his absence the bool1keeper filed up the
check for $2500, presented it to Jay Cooke
Il Co., with which firm his employer did his
banking drew the money, and then disap-
peared. The matter was referred 10 the
Detective police.
GE3" 1t is related of Western Judge,
who alternated his judicial functions with
plying this latter vocation he was derided
by a bidder, whom he thereupon fined $40
for contempt of court. To the bidders
| demurrer that the Judge was not exercising
judicial functions at the time, the Judge
made lofty answer: 81 wish you to under
stand that this Court is always and every
where an object of contempt"
Gay"On the night of the 9th inst, at
North Kingston, Rhode Island, Eliza A.
Smith, wife of jeremiah Smith a farmer,
took from their bed two children, aged re-
| spectively years and II weeks and drown
ed them in a rain water cistern, and then
drowned herself. The Coroner's jury found
that temporary insanity was the cause of
Mrs. Smiths conduct. The father was
sleeping in another bed with a SON years
old and was not awakened.