The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-09-26
Miscellaneous News Items.

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mother, in Oregon, a few weeks ago. and |
then robbed her house. KIDD
UTg- A steam engine covering space not
so large as three-cent piece, was exhibited |
at the Buffalo International Industrial Ex-
hibition.
eY- A motor engine is placed in the
Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, to
blow the organ. The engine used is the
Forester patent.
eT" A man in New York was so badly
injured by falling over a rope stretched
across the sidewalk by mischievous boys
one evening last week, that he died in an
hour.
ess- General Rice, the Haytien Minister
to France, has been twice hanged by the
neck twice the rope slipped and in three
sieges lived comfortably by eating the soles
of his boots.
ETg- Miss Nellie Thurston, who made a
balloon ascension from Watertown fair
grounds, New York, recently, landed in a
tree where she staid all night, perfectly
serene and happy.
eB" A young woman in Peoria ILL.,, OBJ
iecting to a marriage which her father in
sisted upon, ran away from home and for
two years has earned her living, dressed as
boy. Having got tired she has returned
home.
eY" A we'll at Ohio station, Bureau Co.,
ILL.,, on the Mendoza and Prophetstown
road, is down 1876 feet, with no water. But
fearful kissing roaring sound, comes up
the hole that has frightened off the work
men.
r5y" While gentleman visiting the Gov
ernment works at He'll Gate was inspecting
some specimens which he had obtained
from under Hallet's Reef, he found imbed-
ded in the solid rock, live spider. The
insect on being freed was lively.
C5g- The men attached to O'Bren's cir
Gus and managerie, which was to have per-
formed at Pawli1g, N. Y, on the 10th
inst, created riot, and robbed nearly ev-
cry house in the village. One citizen was
killed, and quite number wounded. The
authorities had to send TO Dover Plains for
assistance.
ey- At Wakefield, Va, on Friday
freight train ran over negro boy, aged
fourteen, completely severing one of his
legs and horribly mangling the other.
The boy had been tied on the track with
ropes by his step-father 70 be whipped, and
while the man was in the woods gathering
switches, the train ran over the boy.
EB" In France woman has no remedy
when man promises to marry her and
doesn't. AT first sight this may seem a
little cruel but practically it has the effect
of doing away with what are called engage
ments and there being no engagement
there is no breach. A man and woman
meaning to be married, marry at once,
and there's an end to diplomancy.
cY- There is now on exhibition at AL
bany most curious object which was re-
Gently found on one of the Chincha Islands,
off the south coast of Peru. The upper
part is the semblance of the human form,
the head, face and arms being very dis
tinct. The lower part has the form of a
fish. In word, it fulfills the idea of a
mermaid.
eB- Much sympathy has naturally been
excited by the death of young medical
man in Jacksonville, ILL.,, from the effect of
poison with which he was experimenting
upon himself. But when doctor uses
somebody else for his experiments, and the
subject dies, we charge the result to Provi-
dence. Thousands every year are the vic
Tins of medical experiments.
gB- The Morris qll.) Adoertiser says =
"a Sycamore man chopped down a giant
hickory tree, over seventy-five feet high,
and bearing ring marks of sixty years.
His surprise may be imagined on finding
under this tree an old cistern in perfect
shape and in splendid state Of preserva-
tion. Indeed, SO strongly were the bricks
and mortar cemented, that picks and crow
bars had to be used to pick them out.
EB- The jury in the case of Thomas Nc
Gehan, indited for the murder of Thomas
Meyers, in Hamilton, Ohio, on trial at Da-
ton, returned verdict of murder in the
first degree. The jury were out twelve
hours.
In previous trial Of this case one Of the
defendants counsel was the late G. l.. Val
landinoham who lost his life in ILLUSTRATING