The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-09-12
Miscellaneous News Items.

large family.
G5y- John Tacher, of Stissing Mountain,
Duchess county, was recently tarred and
feathered on the charge of running away
with another mans wife.
Cg A Michigan youth recently interview
ed rattle snake, and afterwards partook
of compound of whisky lard and gun
powder for his health.
G9" An old colored woman in Albany,
last week, died suddenly from fright at the
choking of child in her charge, who had
swallowed knob from teapot lid.
Gg- A man named johnson, of Guilford
township, Hendricks county, Ind, has hy-
dIo1hobc fits, during which he manifests
all symptoms of rabies. In his lucid inter-
val, he is perfectly well. Years ago he was
bitten by dog supposed to be rabid.
GB" A hardworking but poor German
farmer in Livingston, county, Missouri,
whose farm was advertised for sale for debt.
in spite of all his industry and economy,
still powed and toiled, and few days ago
dug up a box containing over 81, 700 in
gold.
Gsy The Erie, Pa, Republican has this
queer item A couple of gentlemen who
were passing through East Park the other
evening saw woman taking bath in the
fountain. The keeper of the Park was in
formed of the transaction, and put a stop
to it,
NBA little daughter (aged y of Sylvester
Southerland, of Milo, Illinois, distinguished
herself by repelling burglar Sunday or
two since. Her parents were at church, and
she was in charge of the house and of the
other children. A man tried to get in at
window and the little miss beat him off
with a broomstick.
US A long-standing feud between two
lrishmen in N. Y one an Orangeman and the
other a Ribbonman, eliminated recently in
an attempt by the latter to poison the wearer
OF the Orange, with Paris green, which was
surreptitiously placed in his mlk-can. The
injured man, Bennett, is in a critical condi-
tion.
US Mrs. Stanton is called upon to solve
new problem Miss Smith was married to
MIR. Jones, recently, while she held the
Office of postmistress The question is,
Who held the Office after the ceremony
was performed? Certainly not Miss Smith,
for there no longer was Miss Smith and
certainly not Mrs. Jones, for no such post
master was known to the department"
CB- At Rutland, VT, William A. Hall
committed suicide on the 1st inst, by sew
ering the jugular vein with pocket-knife.
lie was the victim of black mailing op-
Grafton, which drove him to the commission
of the rash act One of the black-mailers,
named Patch, has been arrested. The vic
tim being well-known, the affair creates
much excitement.
eB- A lad living near Winona, Mimi, on
Sunday last left his younger brother asleep
in the field He was recalled by his cries, and
found that blue racer snake had crawled
up his pantaloons and coiled itself around
his body. The brave little fellow caught
the snake near its head and held it till his
parents came and relieved his brother, who
was almost in commissions with terror.
CB A woman named Session was found
by the police, in the streets of Pittsburg,
carrying under her shawl dead baby. On
being arrested she said that the mother,
Rose Taylor, had no money to bury the
child, and that she was taking the body
for her to the Sisters Of Charity. Investi-
gatson showed that she had told the truth,
and she was released. The coroner took
charge of the corpse for the interment.
E$- A boy five years old went to a house
in Detroit few days ago, said that he was
from Chicago, that his parents were both
dead and that he would like to have home
He looked neat and intelligent, and the
family decided to adopt him. Three days
after, when he showed himself in the
front yard for the first time, he was seen
and claimed by his mother, who lived few
blocks away, and who had hunted the city
over for the lad. 7ef I.r tr,
eB- Mrs. Van Harmon revived in Mon
tana, the other day, the memories of our
Revolutionary danes. Left alone in her
cabin, she was startled by the approach of
three Cheyennes, and had hardly time to
bolt the door when the Indians flung them
selves against it. Sending her children into
the cellar, the heroic young woman seized
revolver and gun, and confronted the
Indians at the omen window, ULo Ii,