The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-11-21
Miscellaneous News Items.

killed two persons.
rB- A clerk in the Sixth Auditors office of
Washington, lost his wife and five children
by the Chicago fire.
GB" The First National Bank of Rich
mond, Va, recently paid check for $3,-
600 altered from $3G.
ty- In Virginia town ball was recent
ly held in furniture wareroom, and the
orchestra was perched on a pile of coffins.
tB- An old woman named Mary Sullivan,
was burned to death in Cherry street., New
York last Sunday a week. She was bedrid-
den, and accidentally upset lamp
tB- A Missouri lady advertises for the
person who is in the habit of serenading
her to stand nearer the house SO that she
can scald him.
eB- Thomas Boyle, aged % years, a
resident of Montgomery county, fell from
the tall bridge into the Schuylkill, at Man
ayunk Wednesday morning. and was in
stantly killed.
cB- Gov. FaiIchild of Wisconsin has au-
thorized the furnishing of 5000 feet of
lumber, free of expense, to every family who
will rebuild on their lot recently devastated
by the fire.
cy" The right to vote of the veterans of
of the National Soldiers Home, at Dayton,
about 300 of whose votes were rejected at
the October election, is to be tested in
contested election case.
e5g~ They believe in witches out in Titus
vile. A lot of men employed in machine
shop there, quit work the other day because
they had been informed by a witch that
the boiler would explode at a certain hour.
E5y- Many farmers throughout Nemaha
county, Wisconsin, have been compelled to
sell their stock, on account of prairie fires
burning up their winter supply of hay.
CY" A Newfoundland dog swan out to
wreck off the English coast, seized line
thrown by the captain and swan back with
it 20 the shore, and by this means saved
the whole crew.
eY- A guild of ladies is proposed in Eng
land, under the leadership of Miss Harrison
Swang, Dorsetshire "to promote modesty
of dress, to do way with extravaganza, and
substitute the neatness and sObriety suita-
BILE to Christian women"
tsy- Governor Hoffman of New York has
pardoned Benjamin Teachout, sentenced
to be hung for poisoning his wife, circum-
stances having come to light which tended
to throw great doubt upon his really being
guilty.
EB- Tuesday morning about 3 o'clock
two empty passenger cars, belonging to the
Pennsylvania Railroad, standing on the
switch at Mantua Junction, West Phila-
delphia, took fire from the stove, and were
destroyed. Loss, $4,000
eB- The jury in the case of Joseph
League, on trial at Towsontown, Nd, for the
murder of an unknown woman, near
Chase's station, on the 23d day of June last
after being out 80 hours failed to agree and
was discharged.
eI- A son of Samuel Miller. aged four
teen years, residing near Beech creek, re-
tired to bed the other night and COM
menced eating chestnuts, but unfortunate
ly got a part of one in his windpipe, which
caused his death the next day.
re- "Indiana Joe," a Piute medicine
man, we'll known among the whites, was
stoned to death by his tribe, having failed
to restore to health two sick Indians. The
practice of medicine among Indians evident
ly has its unpleasant features.
g5y- No liquors were furnished at the
recent railway banquet in Maine. The
officers of the North American railway
exact Temperance habits from the men they
employ, and it was not consistent for them
to set the example of furnishing wine to
their guests.
tB- A clergyman, at Council Bluff, Iowa
has swept away the old established rules OF
marrying for fee, and announces that he
shall hereafter marry by weight, charging
four cents per pound for the happy man,
and two cents for the bride. The idea is
novel one.
tB- Since the second of October, 1871, al
which date the international money order
system with the United Kingdom went
into operation, up to the 31st ult., inclu
sive, the amount of money sent by money or
ders from the United States for payment
in England was S45, ,2S450 The amount
received from England was 81 ,604.50.