The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-01-03
Miscellaneous News Items.


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lTS- Gloves are now made in England
with q pocket on the inside OF the palm,
TO suit the habit INDUCED in by the fair
sex of carrying money in that position
tE- The choir sang "Come ye Discon-
solate," at q recent wedding in Lafayette,
Ind. The bride, who is thirty-two, says
she isn't near SO disconsOlate as she was.
sf3- On the 12th ult., the Southern Ex-
press Company was robbed near Pensacola
Of $13, 200 in currency, including $4,000
rom the Navy Department, probably in
tended for the Pensacola navy yard.
eY- Wisconsin has dog, which will take
money to the market and bring home meat
in exchange. Being recently unable to
get money and very hungry,he stole sash,
and pawned it for meat.
LT3~ Two years each in the State Prison,
or $500 fine with two weeks grace to raise
The money, was the sentence imposed by
the California Court upon four Cinnamon
who had beaten Chinese woman
nearly to death, and then built fire about
her.
tT- The State of New Hampshire bor-
forty miles, and yet there is not road of
any kind across the line. II is a wild re-
gion on both sides, little frequentcd except
by hunters.
tS A facetious young gentleman from
Cincinnati, received the charge Of n shot
gun in return for his courtesy in caling'am
Indiana farmer up i'll the night, to advise
him to take in his chimney as it was frcez-
ing weather.
cSS In Michigan in case against an ac-
cident insurance company, the plaintiff lost
his suit because the Judge decided that
mans feet were not a private conveyance.
Well, if mans feet are public, what can
be called a private conveyance?
E53- The Central Pacific Railroad rob
bers, tried at Washoe City, were sentenced
as follows Chapman to eighteen years
Imprisonment, Parsons to twenty CoclIerell
twenty-five, and Squires twenty y-three years
and six months.
Ea5- A Cincinnati paper states that sever
al thousand barrels of swine's blood is used
in that city every year for the manufacture
of sweet wine. "S,oeet 7Cine," forsooth
may it not more properly be called soW-
or wine-or, if you please, what Dutch
man would call hOck (hog.)
eTg- W. II. Wisner, son of the late Radi-
cal candidate for Congress in Tennessee,
shot and killed Mr.. Stahlman, agent of the
Southern Express Company i'll Shelbyville,
recently in quarrel over Stahlman's
refusal to give Wisner a receipt for money
paid on a G. o. D. package.
s-Mr. Isaac Nance, an old resident of
Princes Bay Staten Island, set fire to his
.lN,v., ..y.lN
to death in the flames. Mr.. Nance, who
was n years of age, was an eccentric
butcher, and lived alone. At times he was
partially deranged, and had previously at
tempted both arson and suicide.
cTS- A man was recently engaged in
planking Il sidewalk in a certain city, when
woman in gorgeous apparel stopped near
the scene of his labors to chat with friend.
Her train hung over the edge of the last
plank he had put in position, and he qui-
city slid another one alongside of it, and
securely spiked it down. The iiend then
went away to dinner.
aE- They tell good story III Milwaukee
of a lawyer who came back, after some
years absence from the city, and went al
most Immediately into the trial of Jury
case. g believe" said he to his opponent,
as he glanced ut the occupants of the jury
box, 81 know more than half these fei-
lows if hag0 been away so long" 81
should think it strange" was the encour;-
ging reply, "if you didn't ktoD mare Maa
all Of MeH."
CTS- The steamer "Aries' went ashore
at Henford Bar at a. m, on the 23d ult
A boat which was launched to take sound
ings was upset at short distance from the
ofn lao
men were lost. Three were drowned, and
the other two got on the bottom of the
boat, where they were frozen to death
Two of the bodies iloated ashore at Cane
May, next day
tdS fine-ooking couple who bad been
spending their honeymoon" TO I'LL ap- !
pearance at Jersey City hotel were about |
to part a few days ago, when q strange wo- !
man, in an elegant attire, appeared, and |
pretty nearly stripped the clothes from the |
supposed bride. The man quietly looked !
on, and when the performance had ended, !
turned to the strange woman, with the |
words, "Come, Amy, let's go home" The |
couple in this charming scene were Il well !
known New York merchant and "A blonde
of the n Y. stage, and the interloper WAS ,
the merchants wife.
LS SOlnC lnlclthl mas DtcH IibdlCu W !
Sussex county, New Jersey, during the ex-
.cayation of the Midland railroad, by the !
discovery Of some relics of former times i'll |
the GeIm Of two silver Masonic badges, or
nasnented with square and compass, moon !
aud sun, in accordance with the masonic |
emblems of the present day, which were
found five feet below the hard earth eXCava
lions of the Midland railroad. How the
badges ever got there is u mystery, as no
human remains were connected with them,