The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-07-18
Miscellaneous News Items.

G5y" An Illinois farmer has one hundred
acres set out with onions.
EB~ The largest thing about lady's
bonnet is its price.
B An Osceola county correspondent of
the Iowa Sioux City Journal says there is
not tree in the county.
cB~ The Laporte, Ind, Argus says !:
Nearly all the cornfields between this city
and indianapolis, on the line of the l. B. &
G. Railroad, show the effects of the frost
on the 9th inst.
az" A Springfield, Mass, man was going
home one night, when he was assailed by
couple of rowdies, who asked him if he
had any money. eyes, lots of it, " said,
he, and at once knocked them down, and
gave each a good beating.
Ey- A Wise onsin boy wanted some fun
with calf in pasture, and he had it.
He tied a rope around the calfs neck,
and then around his waist, and then the
fun began. The rope was removed from
the boys waist before the funeral took
place.
cSg@ Mr.. Pinchback, a colored State
Senator of Louisiana, has sued the jackson
railroad company for $4,000 damages,
because the officer of that company refused
him passage in a sleeping car of their
line.
GE" Seven persons lost their lives on
Saturday week in a railroad collision near
Newark n. J. The accident was caused
by two trains trying to pass each other on
the same track, through the carelessness of
a switch tender. Quite number were also
injured
N5Y- On Saturday morning week a
grain barrack on the farm of DIR. Jacob
Shamberger, in Baltimore county, about
two miles east of Beckleysville, was struck
by lightning, and, with its contents-about
600 dozen sheaves of wheat, totally destroy
ed. The loss is supposed to be 5000 or $500.
gB- A child was born at Manchester, VT,
a few days ago, which weighed only twen-
ty-four ounces, but was perfectly formed,
and hopes are entertained of its living
Its face can almost be covered by an old
fashioned cent, and a lady's finger ring
can be slipped on the arm.
tB- One hundred men passed through
McGregor, Iowa, recently in route to
mountain of gold, professed to have been
discovered some years ago by man named
G. A. Robson, while on his way home from
California. Each man had paid Robson
5000 in consideration of his plotting the
company to the new Eldorado.
EB- Hon. Daniel ]. Morrell was thrown
from his carriage on the 7th inst, about
three miles from Johnstown, and very seri-
ously injured-his skull being fractured
and his back very seriously sprained. His
physicians entertain strong hopes of his re-
comfortable condition.
GB- On Monday last week an unknown
man laid his head on the track of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, at Thirty-fifth
street. A whole train of cars passed over
him, severing the head from the body.
Before he was killed he had written in the
sand near wher his body was found, the
following /: "James Davis, born 1886 ;
without friends destitute and tired of liv-
ing.
az The young son Of prominent In
dianapolis banker was sent to the clearing
house, just before noon the other day, with
$4,000 in checks. He forgot all about his
errand and on his way home lost the bundle.
Fortunately about $1,000 of them was
found by the messenger of another bank,
but the remaining $1,000 had gone. BY
stopping payment loss was prevented, but
that young mans memory has improved.
eB- Near Shabbona Grove, De Kali
CO., H., on the evening of the Sd inst, Miss
Joanna Mccormick, aged II, the beauti.
full daughter of Mrs. Mccormick, a wealthy
farmers widow, was shot dead while sit
ting at the supper table. John Reed, a farm
had, had invited her to accompany him tc
Fourth-ofJuly celebration, and on heI
refusal he went to neighbor's and borrow.
cd double barelled shotgun. With this
he shot the girl through the window, kill.
ing her instantly. He then fed.
1Y- Anna Brown, the notorious snake
woman, who has been puzzling the doctors
for years, has at last turned out to be g
fraud. She has lately been at the Wayne
county N. Y, inirmary, and the physi-
clan, seeing the snakes head protrude from