The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-01-17
Miscellaneous News Items.


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gtS- Prairie chickens are so numerous in
Illinois this season that numbers arc killed
by flying against the telegraph wires.
tE Bristol, town, which is partly in
Tennessee and partly in Virginia, has one
representative in the Legislature at Nash
vile and another in Richmond.
tB- Excellent wooden shoes are manu-
factured by the Swedish colony in Maine.
A pair costs forty cents, and only two hours
is consumed in the manufacture.
t$- 1t is a remarkable fact that the first
name drawn from the jury box in Slough
ton Mass, for the trial Of Moran, the muir
derer, was that of Minot G. Packard his
victim.
t5S- A German jewcller has made q gold
pen in exact imitation of goose-quill,
which he has presented to Count Bismarck,
with which to sign the treaty of peace
when they get to it-Which is hardly yet
apparent.
tSS- An important ease has just been de-
cided in Stamford, CT, by the supreme
court of the State, which endorses the
principles that all lands for which the
holders or claimants have not received
ueeuS revert 10 Jne tOWn'
EB Mrs. Conner, young married
woman of Williams Bridge, n. Y, was
murdered by her husband and brother,
Monday night, in consequence of refusing
to give them money. They beat aud kicked
her till she was inSensible.
tE- An Indiana man wa sent to the
penitentiary about year ago, and his wife
got decree of divorce, for which she owed
the costs. On Friday the husband made
his appearance, saw his ex-wife, made up
with her, and went to get a marriage Ii
cense. He couldn't get it until he paid the
costs of the old divorce.
tW widows are estimated by the square
mile in New Hampshire. Twenty to the
mile is thought to be good ratio" The
Boston advertiser says that, but it seems to
be hardly doing justice to the widows. 1t
has usally been admitted that a Miss is as
good as mile, and the widows may well
object to being counted twenty forene.
tB- Ex-President Andrew johnson com
plains that during the late immortal war,
as he calls it, the rebels carried off nearly
all his books and papers, and even his
tailoi's shears that he priced highly having
used them so long. He says that since the
war many of his books have been returned,
but those shears and his sign ." A. johnson,
Tailor" have never turned up.
f$r BY singular accident in Avon the
other day, Miss Alice e. Roden was badly
wounded. A fox was chased into her
fathers yard where it was attacked by the
dog The gentleman went to the assistance
of his dog, carrying his revolver, but being
afraid of wounding the dog he gave the
pistol to the girl, who discharged it acc-
IDENTIFY. The ball entering above the knee
and came out below, causing very painful
wound.
Post is not only good as q conundrum,
but evinces familiarity with the Scrip
lures that is as rare as it is commendable
in political editor:
Doubtless the reason why the Jews
caught their fish mostly by nets, was be-
cause Moses expressly stated to them be-
fore they crossed the Jordan, that they
could not have any Moabites there"
ES- Some thirty-fve years ago (says the
Norwalk Gdzette,) o"r town board of Select
men consisted of Benjamin Isaacs, John
Grey and Barnabas Marvin. The regular
established annual salary of the Selectmen
was $500, but on account of some extra
expense and service rendered, Marvin
charged 500 one year. This extra dollar
was the political ruin of Marvin. lie was
Immediately and ever afterward dropped.
tTS- Hurrah for Mr. A. j. Davis, of Man
chester, N. ii. He was on his way home,
the other night, and passing wooden ten
ement discovered the house to be on fire.
He burst in the door, rescued two children,
found pitcher of ale on the table and
threw it on the flames, but that not
proving sufficient, and there being no water
at hand, threw on a gallon Of opened
oysters, from pail that he was carrying
home, and saved the building! The fire
had just caught as he happened to be
passing.
tB A Brooklyn lawyer named Dickson,
recently brought suit for his sister against
one McLear, q shoemaker, to recover $40
money loaned, and obtained judgement
against him in Justices CouIt When
Constable Jerry Laut went to levy upon
McLear's property, he could find nothing.
Dickson, however, determined not to be
beaten, so he left an order for $13 pair of
boots with the son Of Crispin. When done,
he went to McLear's shop with the con-
stable and took the boots, which Laut i'm
mediately seized and carried in triumph
to the City Hall
tB- man was cut in the abdomen in "a
light, and learned disciple Of Esculapius
was sent for, who, after looking at the pa
tient delivered himself as follows: "Bad
case incised cut off the perineum mem
branus-through the umbillicus misrotany
TO the lineralbum. Tho yiscue and signum
are incised, and the puleric oriflce of
hopathic ductus is lacerated to the anterior
spimus of the attachment of the fifth rib"
A friend Of the sufferer went out for air.
and ON being asked, How was Sam ?" re-