The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-07-04
Miscellaneous News Items.

being reduced from 5000 to $500.
CY- At Memphis, Henry Mccarthy re-
Gently from New York, who was engaged
inteachng school, dropped dead from the
effects of heat and heart disease.
tB- The men at the Lehigh colliery, near
Shenandoah, suspended work last week,
three men having gone to work who were
not members of the w. A. B.
e8- A young married woman drowned
herself and child at Cleveland, Ohio, a few
days since. She had her child in car
riage, and walked with it deliberately into
the lake. When discovered it was too late
to save either of them.
TB- At Philadelphia, Lieutenant James
Flaherty, of the Eighth police district, was
shot, and it is thought fatally injured, by
notorious rough named James Monaghan,
at Eleventh and Spruce streets, on the 9th
ult, while assisting his officers to make an
arrest.
eB- An Elmira, N Y, shoemaker is i'm
mensely amused at the way an old rat on
his premises has been fooled. The thrifty
rodent has gone through a box of shoe
pegs, and put away quart of them for
winter use, under the belief that they are
oats.
tB- Mr.. Robert Lantz recently shot and
killed a "queer bird" in Shenandoah Co.,
1t was about the size of a goose, speckled
like guinea, and had a very long bill. 1t
is supposed to have been penguin. How
it came there and where it came from, is
what is puzzling the people of that vicinity.
cB-In Connecticut "corner loating,"
with the use of abusive, indecent, or in
sulting language, whether addressed to any
person passing upon any highway, to any
other person, or to no person in particu-
lar, has been made statutory offence, pun
ishable by q fine not exceeding seven dol
lars.
B- DR.. Ryeman who was clipping from
Utica, N. Y, last week, with another mans
wife, was brought up with round tune at
Albany, by telegraphic instructions by the
husband of the woman. Not that he cared
for her, but he wanted the child sent back
that they had taken with them.
EB A dog belonging to the baggage
master at the Illinois Central Railroad De-
pot at La Sale, leaped from the draw of
the Central Railroad bridge into the river,
on Wednesday of last week. Although
the distance must be some eighty feet, the
animal received no injury, and swan brave
ly for the shore as soon as he struck the
water.
cB- In North East, Pa. the other day, a
young woman threw Scotch snuff into the
sof man who, as she charges, had
slandered her, and while he was blinded by
the pungent powder, belabored him severe
ly with a cowhide. The man who receiv-
ed the castigation occupied a prominent
position in the society of the village.
eB- While the elephant presented to the
Duke of Edinburg in India, and brought
by him in the Galatea, was being conveyed
to London by the mail train from Ply
mouth, it attempting to get out of the
horse box in which it was placed. Itskeep-
CT, a corporal Of the Royal Marines. while
endeavoring to prevent its doing so, was
knelt upon by the animal and crushed to
death.
cB- On Wednesday week the wife OF
Walter II. M'Pherson, of Oil City, shot
her husband with revolver, and for time
his life was considered in imminent danger,
but it is now thought that he will recover.
The woman claims that her husband threat
ened her life with an axe during fit of in
toxication, and that the shooting was done
in self-defense.
tB- A few evenings since, as Mr.. Clark
was riding along road skirted by woods
near Halifax, Va, during the prevalence ol
thunder storm, himself and horse were
violently thrown to the ground, by the
shock of an electric stroke, which smote q
tree near by. Mr.. Clark was unconscious
of everything until he found himself tan
gled up with his horse and bride reins, an6
a considerable distance away.
EB- A young man named Lock, having
made arrangements, for marrying lady il
Dunksburg, against the wishes of her rela
tions, was last week taken from his bed al
midnight, by gang of masked men, car
ried to the woods, and being tied to a tree,
naked, was beaten with heavy whips unit
nearly dead. Two of the perpetrators o.
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