The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-08-22
Miscellaneous News Items.

E9g- In one week after the purifying Of
the Chicago river by the diversion of its
waters into the Illinois, the deaths in Chica-
90 decreased 119.
cY" A Lynchburg colored woman fell
thirty feet out of a third story, striking the
ground head foremost. They are filling up
the hole. She wasn't hurt any.
S9S" At a golden wedding, in Decatur,
Illinois, few days ago, twenty-seven chill
dren were present, each of whom was pre-
sented with eighty acres of land, the land
thus distributed being in one body.
NB-A Claremount N. H., man fell off the
stage and was reported dead. He proved
to be only dead drunk, and while his friends
were "walzing' him he walked himself, scat
tering the mourners.
C9y" Several persons in Clarion county
were last week poisoned by eating cheese.
One died from the effects of the poison the
next day, and several others at the last ac-
counts were in dangerous condition.
JdllCS llSlnOllOI Ndo lllluCICN VII
the 14th inst, at Titusville by John M'Don-
aid. The men were both intoxicated, and
becoming engaged in quarrel, they clnch-
ed, when M'Donald drew q knife and
plunged it in the abdomen of Helherton five
times, killing him instatly,
C5y- 1t takes three OF four men to watch
:.
continually on the lookout for chance to
cheat the gallows. They compel him to
eat against his will, and leave him no pos
sble material or opportunity for suicide
The affair is getting to be ridiculous in the
extreme.
g5Y@ The Grand Jury of Sonoma, Cal,
recommend in a recent report that, "for
the safety and comfort of bald-headed men,
the loose plastering be removed from the
ceiling, or that the sheriff be instructe to
furnish parties having business in the court
with pillows or suitable shields to cover
their heads with"
G5S One morning last week, at Philadel-
phia, young colored girl gave birth to
child whilst seated on the door step of
house at Ninth and Buttonwood streets.
She says she was employed as domestic
ON Spring Garden street, above Twelfth,
and her employer finding that she was
about to be confined, turned her into the
street. She was removed to the Almshouse
EE" Things don't run very smoothly in
Wyoming. Recently six married ladies'
and as many gentleman were empanneled
upon murder case there, and it became
necessary to lock them up all night Three
of the husbands stormed and raved at the
judge, and half dozen children made the
court house ring with their cries. The
uproar continued until the jury was placed
under lock and key.
G8- Chautauque Lake, New York, has
lately been infested with great plague of
flies. For some days they have gathered
around the shores at Mayville in such
quantities as to darken the landscape They
are very short-lived, and one morning two
and a half baskets of dead flies were swept
from the front verandah of the chief hotel
of that village. On the opposite side of the
street. where fresh coating of green paint
had been applied the little pests lay to the
depth of six inches.
eB- A gentleman who had taken the
horse cars at the r. r. Depot in w. Phil
adelphia, encountered with manifold bags
and parcels, reached the bell-rope with an
effort when he wished to get off, gave a
vigorous pull, the result was a sharp ring
from both bells. What are you ringing
both ends for?' was the discourteous and
surly inquiry of the conductor "Because
wish the car to stop at both ends" was
the quiet reply that left convulsed car
load and discounted conductor.
GS- In Marine City, Mich, the other day
young man was walking out with some
young ladies, when he found small frog,
and holding it in the palm of his hand
brought it near his mouth, which he open
ed wide. The juvenile croaker seeing what
appeared to be place of refuge, gave a
jump into the cave. The young man look
ed very red in the face, and the ladies look
ed down the mouth, but the frog has never
been seen from that day to this.
e4- A terrible disaster occurred in an
old coal shaft near Eddyville, Iowa, on Fri
day. William Briggs, intending to reopen
the shaft, sent his son and daughter down
TO dip out water. Both were suffocated by