The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-02-07
Miscellaneous News Items.

MlSCbIldHOOuS NEWS lUeUS.
Bay- An orphan in Virginia has Just
smoked himself to death at the age of
100
Bag- During the year 1870 the revenue
collected in the 22nd district, from all
sources, amounted to $3.50, ,534S9; and
in the 23rd to S671 ,416. 26.
B6S- Mr.. Jonathan Cass, of Deerfield,
N. H. aged 80, lately went down his well,
twenty feet deep, and cleaned it out; his
wife, aged 81, drawing up the dirt in a
bucket.
RSs- A good woman in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, is very much annoyed
because, unaccountably, one of her twins,
just born, proves to be mulatto, while
the other is white.
Bas- An Ohio farmer saw a stranger
tearing down his rail fence, and hailed
him to know the reason. The reply was
that he was suddenly seized with the
shakes, and was holding on to the fence
for support
Dar A few days since at New Orleans
while workmen were engaged removing
large broken glass from a Canal street
store, the glass fell, a piece cutting the
throat ofBenj. Levy, who was passing by
killing him almost instantly.
ma The strongest vegetable fibre
known is the New Zealand fax. 1t has
long, sword-like leaves, 10 or twelve feet
IN length. 1t is used by the settlers for
binding their shcaves, fastening their
gates, tying up their horses, and in al
most every possible way.
pa" In an orangery at Los Angeles,
Cal, there is lemon tree planted in the
midst of an orange grove. The fruit of
this tree is neither lemon nor orange,
but in shape and flavor it partakes of the
peculiarities of both orange and lemon
1t is a complete hybrid.
nen. Thos. Jones, of New York has
brought suit against the Brooklyn Life
Insurance Company to recovery policy
of $4,000 by Isaac Newing in favor of
Jones. The defence contended that
Newing was confirmed drunkard, and
died from the effects Of liquor. The jury
rendered verdict of $2472 with interest,
in favor of the plaintiff.
BGS~ A farmer near Rock Grove, H.
linois, sold his farm to man last week,
and when he was returning home was
met on the way by the purchaser, who
demanded back the money he had paid.
The farmer drew pistol and shot his as
sailant dead He was afterwards accost-
ed by two other men, whom he killed
When he got home he found his wife and
daughter murdered in their house.
n6~ King William of Prussia is a
practical printer. All that family are
obliged to have some trade. He chose to
be printer and worked at the case three
years. From the way he has knocked
the enemy's forms into pi, locked up
Paris, and justified his own porh, we con-
clude he was a smart devH and it is GER
tain he makes first rate foreman in the
Prussian office.
Ba5- Some Cincinnati ladies thought
to increase their beauty when wearing
low-necked dresses, by painting blue veins
on the exposed skin, but were disgusted
at the remark of physician, who looked
at them too closely, that they hadn't got
those veins painted within four inches of
where they should be naturally.
nsS~ They have cold weather up in the
northern part of New York. On Monday,
Jan. 90, the thermometer stood as follows
at the places named Plattsburg, Kees-
vile, and Ausable Forks, 25 degrees
below zero; Rouse's Point and Elizabeth
town, 80 degrees below; Clintonville and
Westport, % degrees below; Essex, 20
degrees below.
Da- At dance in private house in
a small town in Illinois, on Thursday
evening, Russ Parsons, one of the guests,
requested young lady, who was sitting
beside Riley Mace, to move, as he wished
to speak to the latter. The lady COM
piled, and Parsons drew his revolver and
fired two shots at Mace, fatally wounding
him. The murderer fed, and has not yet
been arrested. There had long been
quarrel between the men.
De3~ A young man in Easton found
pocket book containing $50, and upon re-
turning it to the owner was presented
with 25 cents. This was not as bad as
our own experience once upon time.
When boy of niue years we found
poeket-book containing upwards of 5000,
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