The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-09-19
Miscellaneous News Items.

Ss8 Ebenezer Shaw, of Sheshequin, Brad
ford co., Pa. recently celebrated his Tooth
birthday.
SaFy- The idea of building a ship canal
around Niagara Falls, on the American
side is again revived.
GdY" A Milwaukee paper announces that
Mr.. Still of that city has become "perma-
nently still from sui1ocation superinduced
by rope suspended from BEAM"
%" A cotcmporary thinks that the best
way to improve the lot of woman is to put
a good house on it and good man in the
house.
C5y" The Troy Wig reports neighboring
farmers cutting their cornstalks, curing and
housing them for cattle feed, singing,
"Fodder, o fodder, come home with me
now"
C537 One of the old clergyman of Boston
advised parish committee looking about
for pastor to take young man on the
ground that every church should do its
share of tanning theological colts.
Ezy" An editor in Elizabeth New Jersey,
has just recovered one thousand dollars
damages for an assault made upon him by
person who didn't like something that the
editor ventured to print concerning him.
E5S Central Iowa boasts of brave girl.
The other day dog in the frenzies of hy-
drophobia rushed into her house and on the
dining table, when the girl seized him by
the nape of the neck and carried him out
of doors, where he was shot.
cY The Battlcboro N. c., Advance
says; We learn that few days since dog
was discovered in the yard of Rev. Mr..
Barkley, of Nash county, living near this
place, with the bones Of a human being in
his mouth. We have heard no solution at
tempted of the dark mystery.
G1'" A Somnambulist climbed to the roof
of house in Raleigh on Wednesday night
last, and thence to the top of the chimney,
when he clung to the lightning rod. A
passer on the street saw him, and he man
aged to awaken him, when he descended
from his perilous position in safety.
g53~ A young lady of Harrisburg was re-
Gently on riding excursion. Her horse
commenced kicking, when she, in the most
simple manner, requested her compan ion
to get out and hold the horses leg, or he
might injure the vehicle.
aB- A Charlestown creditor, impatient
Of tla lo,, ,,,,,1o,|no1- 60 =,
small amount by means of gun and knife
from his debtor. The authorities have Sc
cured him leisure TO mediate on the dan
ger of striking out new paths.
On" On an ancient headstone in grave
yard in Winslow, Maine, is inscribed
Here lies the body Of Richard Thomas,
an Englishman by birth, a Wing of '76,
by occupation cooper, now food for worms;
like an old rum puncheon marked, num-
bered and shocked, he will be raised again
and finished by his Creator,
eB- A few days ago Mr.. William Weeks,
of Glen Haven, Wisconsin, while oiling the
knuckle-joint connecting the tumbling rod
to the threshing machine, was caught by
the wristband of his overshirt, and in strug-
Cling to keep from under the rod was en-
tirely divested of clothing leaving nothing
on his person.
nY- A mother and two daughters were
drowned at the reservoir known as the In
dian Spring water tank, on Will1esbarre
mountain, Monday. One Of the daughters
accidentally fell into the water and the
mother, in attempting to save her, lost her
balance, and also fell in. The other daugh-
ter, in her efforts to aid her mother, met
with similar fate. They were the wife
and daughters Of Samuel Bennett, miner.
GB- An enterprising constable of Rock
Island made the following return on the
back Of a subpoena given him to serve on a
witness {" / executed this speeny by try
ing to read ito John Mack, but he was
driyin cattle on horseback, and run faster
than could and kept up such q thundering
hollerin | don't know whether he heard or
not, This is the best could do, and don't
know whether the speeny served according
to law OF not. Attest; Eli Smith, Cont"
cB- Western Cohversation. 1-straneer-
How did he dieP'r ResidentA' Hung" "
s." Hung All, hung himselfP''7 r L''No
he was hung by vigilantes" s." Why?"
R.--"He had been notihed to leave town,
and he came back' S.1'sWhen man