The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06
Miscellaneous News Items.

the arrest of Hermann Wolter, late banker
of Gorlitz accused of forgery.
ICY A minister at Cory, N. Y, married
a couple lately. When he made the usual
proclamation concerning impediments, the
hlnshing bride replied "Go ahead, stran-
ger I'm all right" He went ahead.
r9y" Immense fields of corn have been
planted in Illinois this season by itin-
Grant corn-planters who take jobs at twen-
ty-fve cents an acre. With a man, boy,
and a machine, they plant twenty acres
day.
C3g" The drought in Central Illinois was
ended Saturday night and Sunday morning,
27th and 29th ult., by copious rain. All
vegetation, says Springfield correspond
ent, has been fully revived, and the grain
crops are now safe beyond question.
M" At Cincinnati, on the 31st ult.,
heavy rain storm occurred, accompanied
with lightning. J. F. Forbas, a well-known
citizen, was struck by lightning and killed.
Much damage was done in the city from
water.
e1y The workshops of the Iowa Central
Railroad have been located at Marshaltown,
whose people pay $4,000 and forty acres
of land adjoining the city, near the depot,
for them. The whole is equivalent to
about 100000.
cB~ While attending silver wedding at
the house of the editor of the "New Gov
enant," in Chicago, Edward Ballard, aged
fifty-seven, highly-respected citizen, was
stricken with appoplexy, and died an hour
after.
G5S" A Dutchman, who was in Washing
ton the other day, noticing a number of
Indians passing along the street, exclaimed
in tones of amazement "Mein COtt
Mein Cott! de tobacco signs have all proken
nit demselves looser'
U" Mr.. Collins, of Hartfort, Connecti-
cut, bought ferocious watch dog. Mr..
Collins came home late that night. His
wife says that his trousers can't be mend
ed. The dogs skin is for sale cheap. Mr..
Collins hopes to be able to sit down in q
few weeks.
gT Two pack peddlers from New York,
calling themselves James Carlin and Fran
els Mulligan, quarrelled in a boarding
house in Providence, on the night of the
Goth ult., and the former tried to kill the
latter by stabbing him in the neck and
back.
CY" There was wild scene at fire in
Findlay, Ohio, few nights ago, when it
became known that there were three kegs
of powder in one of the burning buildings;
but young man, Henry Erb by name,
rushed in, brought out two of them, and
then returning, found that the fire was al
ready charring the keg that still remained.
Selling it, nevertheless, he brought it out.
E5S- John Masker went hunting recently,
and while he was descending precipice,
the hammers ofhis gun struck against a
stone and the contents of both barrels were
discharged into his leg He was carried
home, and to stop the blood, bandage was
tied around the leg below, instead of above
the wound. The man bled to death in q
short time.
@" Silas Gordon, perambulating tink-
CT in New York, stole ten dollars from
lady while mending her clock. Before be-
ing sent to the penitentiary from the Spe-
cial Sessions, he was called upon for an
explanation.
"Wall, judge he drawled, "the bill
was lying on the mantelpiece, and couldn't
move the clock without touching ont
so kind took it in my hand to get it out
of the way, and-and | s'pose, Judge, l
forgot to put it down again"
GB" The trial of Joseph Murray, one of
three men arrested on q charge of having
gagged Anthony Ellis, cashier of the Cen
trail Park Savings Bank, on the 3D. of April,
and stealing $3.50 from the money drawer
of the bank, took place at New York last
week. The testimony cOnclusively proved
the guilt of the prisoner, and he was SEN
fenced to State prison, at hard labor for
twenty years. The other two men, arrest
cd on the charge of being implicated, were
discharged.
eB" In Alabama, ON the 2Sth ult, the
Rev. VIM. Bugg, Baptist preacher of
Elmore county, cut his brother-in-law, Mr..
Harper James throat and instantly killed
him. Bugg had been on trial by his breth-
rem that day for seducing James young sis
ter, and had been dismissed from the church
therefor. Shortly after the sentence had
been pronounced, and while yet in the
cburch he assaulted lanes with the result