The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-08-15
Miscellaneous News Items.

I3$ Brooklyn has Nottingham lace
factory.
eB- The best time to cut corn-when it
aches. That is the time we cut it.
Gy- An artesian we'll has been sunk two
thousand eight hundred feet in Cohoes,
New York.
NE@ Persons wounded at the Westfield
explosion continue to die. The deaths so
far have reached ninety y-eight.
EB~ The citizens of Erie county arc trying
to make their school directors refuse to
employ any teachers who uses spirituous OF
malt liquor.
GB A narrow gauge railroad is to be
built from Media to Chester. The whole
of the stock for the work has already been
taken.
cB A lady in Halifax county, Virginia,
who, year before last, was the mother of
three boys at time, none of them living,
was, week before last the mother Of four
boy babies, all hearty and kicking.
Ey" MissiLydia Nye wears the honors of
"champion female pedestrian" Of Ben
nngton, Vermont, having walked thirty
miles within hours, overrough and noun
famous road.
cB" The State of Michigan contains five
thousand one hundred and eleven inland
lakes, covering an area of eleven hundred
and fourteen miles, besides water front on
thegreat lakes of more than eighteen hun
dred miles.
sB@A Paris letter declares that Mr.. Hya-
cinthe, by way of protesting against what
he conceives to be the monnastic supersti-
tions of the Roman Catholic church, intends
to marry, believing his example will be
theologically salutary.
eB- The San Francisco Chronicle says
right or wrong, polite or impolitic, the
people of California and the Pacific coast,
irrespective of party, have determined to
prevent Chinese immigration by every legal
means.
CS Potter Christ is the name of luna
tic at Council Bluffs Iowa, who claims to
bO NhS IiSSoiti dii MSdlo llC
on his fore head 81 am the only living
Son of God" He walks the streets calling
on all to come to him and be saved, or let
him alone and be-the other thing.
gB- The Bedford Mercury says Charles
ID. Wrightington, a mechanical genius of
Fairhaven, has recently completed minia-
ture steam engine, pc rfect in every detail,
of about one mouse power. The boiler is
three inches long, and the machine contains
over 800 pieces, some of which are of gold.
II runs finely.
Gsy Miss Wolcott, the young lady who
was injured in the recent railroad accident
i'll Charlstown, N. H., had a most marvel
GUS escape. When the train struck the
carriage she was hurled above the top of
the telegraph pole, her fall being broken by
the wires.
GB- The discovery of an ancient outlet
to Lake Superior is mentioned by Professor
Mitchell, the Director Of the State Geologi-
cal Survey of Michigan, in his last report
1t isa deer. valley, bordered with high bluffs,
and runs from Lake Superior to Green
Bay, in Lake Michigan, suggesting the
practicability of a ship canal along the same
rout with aview Of shortening the voyage
between the ports of the two lakes.
~ A lady died two years ago in Troy,
and left her property to her nephew, with
the provisO that if he ever offered the farm
for sale, the property should be forfeited
to certain church. The place was offered
for sale few months ago, and the church
instituted suit, but the courts have decided
that the conditions of the will were against
"public policy" and have declared the
provisions null and void.
~ A few days since the sexton of a
cemetry in New Jersey had some difficulty
as to pay with person who had recently
buried child in the cemetery, whereupon
he took up the body Of the child and placed
it outside the fence. Through the inter
cession of the overseer the body was again
buried in the cemetery. The sexton was
discharged, and is understood will be prose-
cuted for his action.
gB- very curious phenomenon was wit
messed on Lake Winnapisseoge, N. H., on
Sunday afternoon, by two men anchored off
Rattlesnake Island in small boat. There