The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-10-17
Miscellaneous News Items.


800 900 pounds of butter.
cSg- The laws of Mississippi permit man
to chastise his wife within reasonable
bounds"
EB After two years experimenting, the
cultivation of poppy in California has been
pronounced success.
EB- "How to put money in your purse"
Open your pocket-book and take green
back between your thumb and finger, and
lay it right in.
ey- An Irishman who was run over
by whole train of cars got up and asked
for his cap, and said he "would not run
another such risk as that for tin dollars"
GB- Mrs. Ellen Connolly, the wife of
DR.. Connolly, who killed his two children
and then himself in June last, has been
committed to Biackwells Island asylum
for the insane.
sTy- The discovery has been made that
grape leaves make yeast in some respects
superior to hops, as the bread rises sooner
and has not the peculiar taste which many
object to in that made from hops.
GIS- A young lady named Lee, of Castle
town, Vermont, was so seriously stung a
few days since by honey bee in tho back
of the neck, that her life was despaired of
for several hours.
cy- The carpets in the new courthouse
in New York, for which vast sums were
paid, were of the cheapest and meanest
quality when new, and are now worn out
and very shabby.
Gs@ An Iowa man hearing her drunken
husband come driving home furiously the
other night, supposing the horses were rum
ming away, rushed out and caught them by
the bits to save his life. She was run over
and killed.
cB- On the arrival Of a railroad train at
an Illinois town recently a man was OBJ
served to crawl out from under the tender
with his legs crushed in terri BILE manner.
He had fallen from the engine, and al
though wheel passed over his limb, he
clung to the tender and was saved. He
was drunk or he never could have accom-
plished the feat.
"a" New Jersey is proverbial for low
taxes. The value of its land is more per
acre, and the average wealth of each in
habitant exceeds that of any other state in
the Union. 1t has population of Is more
persons to the square mile than Pennsyl-
vania.
eB" Jerry Dixey, colored man who has
been in prison in Philadelphia during
period of II years for murder committed
in 1857, died in prison on the 3rd He has
been all this time under sentence of death,
with the warrant for his execution un-
signed.
GB- A college student has devised new
way Of telling bad news. He writes home
to his father, 81 came near losing thirty
seven dollars last week" Anxious parent
writes back "that he is thankful the
money was not lost, and wants to know
now near" BY return mail, "Came with
in one Of it---lost thirty-six.''
eB- The mail continues to inform us of
the dreadful ravages of the great fire in the
woods of Wisconsin. Mills, houses, barns,
hay, &C., are swallowed up by the advan-
cling flames. Families are driven from
their homes crops destroyed, creeks wells
and springs dried up, The loss can hardly
be estimated
eB- An enormous woman, one Caroline
Heenan, is on exhibition in London Her
age is said to be twenty-five years, and
weighs 500 pounds. She measures seven
feet around the body, twenty-six inches
across the shoulders. 1t is added that, un-
like most fat people, this large body is able
TO sustain great physical exertion, is hand
some, pleasing ana highly Intelligent
EB- A Chicago girl last week had a young
fellow before Justice of the Peace fol-
imposing upon her, and the official, by way
of improving the occasion in the interest OF
good morals, remarked to the afflicted
damsel that she should remember the
maxim. Familiarity breeds contempt"
'Alas, sir, she replied, "if that was al
that it had bred should not be here"
GB- A Meriden, Conn, citizen, Mr.
James Munson, met with singular acciden
ON Sunday. AS he stepped from his bacl
door he received violent blow on his fore
head, which fairly staggered him. He anx
iously peered for his assailent, and in 81
doing cast his eyes to the ground, when Ii,
noticed an old rake, the teeth of which h,
had :rodden upon as he stepped from tn,