The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-11-14
Miscellaneous News Items.


eY- There are only eight male teachers
employed in the public schools of Delaware
county.
eB- The rearing and keeping of bees is
an extensive and profitable business in
Crawford county.
tB- Regular passenger trains are now
running over the Sunbury and Lewistown
railroad
tB A North Carolina colored revival
meeting was disbanded by the freaks of a
belligerent bull dog.
CY- The floor of New Hampshire
stable fell out, and three cows that were
hitched to the stalls were hanged.
tT- The Board of Public Works at Chi
cago will issue no permits for the purpose
of building or repairing wooden structures
within the new fire limits
tB- Cincinnati has an apparatus for con-
suming her own smoke. What q god
send it would be to the country if she would
only consume her own whisky.
az" The Chinese companies have made
arrangements for commencing suits against
the city of Los Angeles for the murder of
their countrymen and the robbery of their
families by the rioters.
CB- On Thursday night mob collected
about the Jail in Jeffersonville Indiana, to
lynch negro, but the prisoner was taken
out secretly by a back-way, and is now in
the Jail at Charlestown, Indiana.
GB" In Hamilton Ohio, few days since,
fee of twenty-five cents was collected from
all persons who entered church for the
purpose of witnessing marriage. The
money was given to the young couple to
start them in life.
GB- At Montgomery Ala, on the 9th
inst, at political gathering in Court
square, an anvil being used as n cannon ex-
ploded, killing two men, and mortally
wounding two or three Others. Several
more were also badly injured. This un-
fortunate accident ended the meeting
GB~ Among the curious social facts de-
veloped by the census statistics is the ap-
pearance on the rolls of Pennsylvania of
one family with seven pairs of twins one
family with six pairs and another family
with four pairs. The mother of the last
group had six other children, and was only
thirty-eight years old.
GS AT st. Louis, on Saturday night a
week, negro man went to the house of
Mrs. Bass living near Windsor Missouri,
and demanded money. She refused it, where
upon he choked her until she was nearly in
sensible, and attempted to outrage her
person. The negro was arrested next day,
taken to Windsor, and hanged by mob
"a" A deformed chicken of common
breed, the deformity resulting from bro
ken back, was entered at the Muskingum
county Ohio Fair as Hungarian cock
of the "Selavi Magyar breed" just import
ed, and the sapient Judges, after gravely
inspecting it, awarded it the first premium
over one of the finest poultry shows ever
seen in the country.
10 A young girl about fourteen years
of age, daughter of Mr. Freed, in Har-
mony, Butler county, having done some
thing amiss, some one jokingly told her she
would have to go to Jail for it; whereupon
she thought she would thwart them as far
as the Jail was concerned, and having bor-
rowed spoonful of arsenic, TO kill the
rats she said), she swallowed it all, but she
overshot the mark, and SO failed in doing
what she designed -howevershe is still in a
critical situation.
FOREIGN NEWS.