The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-04
Miscellaneous News Items.

B6S~ A large number of miners from
Luzerne county have made arrangements
to go to East Tennessee to work in the
mines of that region.
RSsr The Wisconsin legislature must
have improved their time the past winter
as the Governor has already signed nearly
six hundred bills, which they have passed,
and the end is not yet reached
BdS~ Messrs. Leland & Co., SO long
known to the country as the proprietors
of the Metropolitan hotel in n Y, have
become bankrupt and the house. has been
closed by the Sheriff.
Ba~ Mr. Obed Young, Of Elizabeth
township, Lancaster county, lost three
out of four children by scarlet fever last
week. All died within "a hours, and
were buried at one time in the church.
yard at Brickersville.
BGgr On Thursday morning at ball in
Putnam Hall N. Y, John Higgins, aged
%, of 534 East Fourteenth street, was
stabbed in the left side, and it is thought
fatally wounded. He refused to tell who
was his assailant.
D6~ Mr.. Squires, of Kentucky, escor-
ted girl to fair, and the next day she
began $15, 900 breach of promise suit
against him. He now makes the girls
sign a paper releasing him from all re-
sponsibility before he takes them any
where
B9" Joseph Talent, living near Coloma,
Carroll county, Missouri, aged 73 years,
was recently married to Miss Judson, in
her Twelfth year The old mans wife
had been dead less than six weeks, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Judson compelled their
daughter to marry him.
Bagr The Easton Express says: /" We
learn that at party given to a number of
young people recently some person put
oroton oil, or something similar, into the
lemonade, causing severe sickness to
some of those present What punishment
is severe enough for such scoundrel?
B6s~ Solidifed beer" is the latest
thing. 1t is lager concentrated the way
they do it to milk, so that the amount
you can hold on the point of knife, will
make you drunk clean through. A man
can carry enough of it in his vest pocket
to ruin temperance society.
B6y~ A jeweller in Terre Haute placed
his stock inside of safe having a combi-
nation lock, and losing the combination
has been unable to show his goods since.
All the experts in Terre Haute having
tried in vain to open the safe, and he now
thinks of advertising for the services of a
first class burglar
B9- A Providence man, about seven
years ago, was persuaded to take some
stock in fancy corporation for a bad
debt, and recently some of its creditors,
finding his name in the list of stockholders
commenced suits against him and obtained
judgments which have thus far amoun-
ted to $25, 1000, and the end is not yet
sD- Early on Wednesday night of the
22d ult., fine new barn belonging to
Mr. Daniel Krider, about three miles
west Of Lebanon, was destroyed by fire,
with the grain, hay, &C., In it at the time.
The live stock was saved There was an
insurance on the barn in the Annville
Company for $1,000, and on the stock,
in the same company for $1,700.
Da- At noon, Monday, while all hands
were at dinner, some malicious person or
persons opened one Of the doors of the CO.
operative boot and shoe manufactory, Ell
mira, and proceeding to the rooms where
the machinery was, hacked and destroyed
the knives used for cutting and splitting
leather, and also the dies used in cutting
out soles and heels for boots and shoes
B6- A few days ago man named
Coney White wanted to get on passing
train in Webster county, and hailed the
engineer to stop The latter refused,
whereupon White fred three shots at
him, but all missed hitting the engineer.
A rural Squire who knows more about
peanut-vending than law, discharged
White, because his shots did not take
effect. oi n a.a D aaiii i i.Jp
ma Near Fayetteville, Arkansas, a
man named Rowland murdered his wife
and baby, and then blew out his brains.
They had been separated for some time
and he called at her sisters, Ewhere she
was staying and asked her to walk with
him. She took her child along, and in
few minutes her sister heard the report
of pistol. Running to the spot she
found all Of them weltering in their