The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-02-14
Miscellaneous News Items.

Slz0,UUU III Il single month.
Bay A Norwegian woman, with twen-
ty children, recently arrived in Milwau-
kee. The children were all her own.
Deg~ Henry Hcrschell, of Myrtle ave
nue., Brooklyn warmed his bed into a
blaze with hot brick on Saturday night.
Damage, SO, and two burned feet
DG~ The Young Womens Christian
Association of Cleveland, Ohio, keep a
list and descriptive catalogue of young
men who are known to visit disreputablc
places.
BsB@ 1t has cost Maine physician
$4,000 for bungling in settings boys
broken leg, and now he's almost ready to
wish the boy hadn't broken it.
Bag~ Some villain entered the stable of
man named Group, near Centoryille,
Venango county, a few nights ago, and
cut off the leg of one of the horses.
Bea- A Burlington, Vermont wood
chopper lost his life lastweek by running
against tree with pipe in his mouth.
The stem was driven into his throat, ma
king laceration which resulted fatally.
B47~ A physician named Parsons lee
tured in down-east town the other
night and was introduced to the audience
as one of the few Parsons who preach lit
tie and practice much.
peAr Lake Champlain at present is one
unbroken sheet of ice, which extends as
far as the eye can reach, this being the
fourteenth time the phenomenon has been
seen during the last fifty years.
Bd- A recent English writer states
that, of the workers In the South African
diamond fields, about five in hundred
make their expenses, while the remain
ing ninety-fve do not.
BD~J S. Wisnor, a young man of
twenty-five, was murdered in Titusville
on Friday night. Several gashes were
found on his head, face and neck, made
by knife or poignard. His pockets
were rihed.
Gd5- At last cure is found for cold in
the head Dr. Poillon a French ply
sician, says it can be cured by inhaling
hartshorn. The inhalation by the nose
should be seven or eight times in five
minutes.
DaS- 1t is estimated that the cost of the
present European war for sixty days
would build another Pacific Railroad, and
the metal in the munitions of war de-
stroyed would yield iron enough for the
rails.
B6- The following speech is attributed
to a member of the Legislature of Penn
'sylvania 81 know wimun, Mr. Speaker !;
| say it in no disrespect know UNI; |
had heap to do with um. They're a
useful class, and yet with the best of
um you may have trouble"
bey" Mrs. Mills, widow, and keeper of
"A genteel boarding house in Chicago,
event for" Mr. Knapp, a Methodist
minister because he had asked another
lady to 90 with him to hear Nilsson She
assaulted him in bed with snuff and raw
hide, and being sued for the assault was
fined $50.
Be51 A strange innovation upon ordi-
nary funerals was recently made at Hart
ford, Conn. A young woman had died,
and her relations, instead of following
the usual custom of shrouding and lay
ing her in coffin, dressed her as she
had been dressed in life, aud laid her on
a sofa amid flowers. She lay thus for ten
days, and then was buried
B05" On Monday of last week, the ice
in the North River opposite Pokeepsie,
broke up while one hundred persons were
on it fishing from the edge in the clear
water, and commenced to move rapidly
down stream Most of them succeeded in
getting to shore, but nine of them were
carried ten miles before being rescued,
and were, when taken off, nearly frozen.
For little time quite panic existed
among those on shore who had friends on
the ice
Aa- Mr.. Owen, of Westerly, r. L., two
years since purchased pair of minks, of
species called by fur dealers and trap
pers the American sable for $500 He
has not only got his money back, but has
now 81 minks on hand, one pair of which
he has refused S400 for. The sable
mink is rather smaller in size and of a
darker hue than New England minks.
This minkery is attracting considerable
attention, and doubtless the example Of
MIR. Owen might be followed to advan-