The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-08-01
Miscellaneous News Items.


GB-A French barber's sign reads thus
Tomorrow the public will be shaved
gratuitously." OF course tomorrow never
comes.
NB- Some one, describing bad dinner to
which he had been invited, said that "the
meat was cold, the wine was hot, and
everything was sour but tho vinegar.
CE- No clue has been obtained to the
identity of the young woman who was ruth
lessly wounded by a party of brutal rustics
in Baltimore county, Nd, few weeks ago.
EB- A Connecticut farmer sprinlSles his
ourrant bushes with whiskey the worms
get drunk, drop off, and either break their
necks Or cripple themselves SO that life is a
burden.
EB- A student who was asked at col
lege examination "If man should come
to you TO get you to survey lot Of land
what would you doP" replied, after some
consideration, "I should advise him to get
somebody else."
eB- A set of paper car-wheels on one of
the Pullman cars running to Jersey City
have run over 160 900 miles of track, and
worn out entirely one set Of steel tires,
which have been replaced. The ordinary
wheels will only run 10000 miles.
TEE A gentleman living in Tionesta was
recently put through the honeymoon by a
swarm of bees that took his nose for a
patent hive, and swarmed up the tiues. He
finally hived the insects. but his proboscis
would not fit in quart cup for week after
the swarming.
nBr On Sunday, both rails on the Ohio
and Mississippi railroad were moved seven
and half inches towards the centre of the
track, for distance of three hundred and
forty miles, in seUen hours! Something
wonderful, indeed. Thus the wide guage
roads are passing away.
EB- Five horses were recently killed by
lightning near jackson, Tenn. They had
all gathered under a sugar tree during
storm. When found they were all lying
together, but it could not be found that the
lightning had struck the tree.
tB- A Kentucky congregation was some
what upheaved on recent Sunday by the
sudden apparition of negro closely follow
cd by constable. The officer fired three
shots at the fugitive, and the congregation
hurriedly departed through the windows
without the formality of a benediction.
tB Quite an amusing episode occurred
in Bangor on Tuesday, while the Odd Eel
lows procession was moving up State street.
A huge goat ran out and would have Joined
the line, had it not been for the strenuous
efforts Of some Of the bystanders. The goat
did not escape from Odd Fellows Hall.
tB- A Maryland paper says that since
the establishment Of a baptist church in
that neighborhood the negroes refuse to-
eat fish taken from the stream in which the
converts are baptized, for fear the evil
spirits, which they suppose to be removed
from the baptized persons, have entered in
to the fish and thereby possessed them.
GB- On Tuesday afternoon two laborers
on the Southern Central railroad, in the vi
clnity of Weedsport became involved in
quarrel, when one of them, Michael Burke,
struck the other, Michael Cologan, over the
head with spade, killing him instantly.
The murderer fled and at last accounts had
not been arrested, though officers were in
quick pursuit.
eB- Mr.. Geo. Campbell, a Canadian farm
or, of Thorndale, was murdered on the 18th
ult., by two robbers, who afterwards ran
sacked the house for money, but obtained
only ten cents. a h uIH ns
Several persons have been arrested for
the crime, but more recent developments
point to his wife as being concerned in the
affair. She has been arrested and is now
in Jail waiting an examination. gui
eB- A Haverhill, Massachusetts,, man,
who lately lost his pocket book with 800 in
1t, has to console himself with this anony-
nous note from the finder "I am poor
man and my health Is poor, and it seems to
me that you lost that money to benefit me.
Isend you back "a and the change. You
are rich and profess TO DO a christian.
claim to belong to the same family. If the
Lord blesses me, I will repay you if can !;
if not, you must look to the Lord for it. /
ES- Almost every journal in the country
has republished the item about man at
Findley, Ohio, who brayely rushed into q
burning grocery and brought out three kegs
of gunpowder, the explosion of which
,unuld have daatroved much nronertv D IL