The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-13
Miscellaneous News Items.

t9s" Some one says the best way to train
up child in the way he should go, is for
the person to travel that way occasionally
himself
E5- A Wisconsin postmaster has written
to Washington for "som eternal revenu
stamps saying lie has "sovral coils for
them"
ca" Laura d. Fair recently convicted of
murder in California, has been sentenced to
be hung on the 2Sth of July, new trial
being refused
c5y" Mr.. John Furlong and daughter, of
Franklin Borough Cambridge county,
were struck by lighting a few days SINCE
They were seriously but not fatally injured.
CB"B F. Award of Danville, while
eating his breakfast on Wednesday morn
ing last, fell over insensible and expired i'll
few moments The physician pronounced
the disease apoplexy.
C5y- The house of Thomas Gordon, at
Rousetille, Pa, was burned down recently,
with 5000 in money, and young lady was
also scorched severely. 1t was the old, old
story, of Kerosene and wet kindling wood.
CY- Thos. d. Maffatt, convicted of cheat
ing in selling lands in Iowa, has been sem
fenced to Jail four months, and fined $780,
The criminal court denied his motion for
new trial.
rT5" The latest news of DR.. Livingston
seem to indicate that he is not q ljijijijjiji,
but at Yxyxyxyxyxyxy. Moreover, he is
in destitute condition. Since he last wrote
there had been no changes to note and no
notes to change.
Cl5- A few days since, the residence of
F.W. Sloan, at Elizabeth, Nj, was entered
by an unknown man, who, under threat of
death, if she made noise, outraged the la
DIV of the house. The scoundrel then made
his escape, and all efforts to affect his arrest
have proven fruitless.
GsB- The police are endeavoring to arrest
gang of boys who stoned to death an in
offensive Chinaman in San Francisco, last
week. Dozens of people witnessed the as
sault, and did not interfere until the muir
der was complete, and no attempt was then
made to arrest the murderers.
CIy- A negro girl of Pascack, Bergen
county, recently purchased some second
hand clothing in New York, and as re-
suit, eleven inmates of the house into which
she took it, have been seized with the small
pox, three are already dead, but the others,
it is hoped, will survive.
tB- A Connecticut man has hen that
exhibits strong evidences of insanity. For
year past with rare exceptions) she has
"been fooling round" and dropping eggs
no larger than robbins until twenty
one of them are held in "paper-collar
box"-the funniest looking objects you
ever saw That hen is fraud.
e5S- A nice young man at Portland kept
looking into the window of a married lady
until he saw her shake q handkerchief,
when he called at her room. After being
picked up at the bottom of the stairs, and
having his bones set, it was explained that
she was only shaking some apple peelings
from napkin.
GI- A young lady Of Moutonboro, N.
H., was outraged recently by II. V. Smith,
dentist, of Meredith village, while having
her teeth filled under the influence of ether.
An exposure of the case was made, and
Smith fled to the woods. Nearly all the
people in the neighborhood are hunting
him.
GS" A physician Of Springfield, Mass,
was hurriedly called away from the dinner
table recently by messenger who made
the following request: "There has a child
fallen into drain and got drowned; we've
got the water out Of him, and now we want
you to come out and get the mud out of
him."
sB- Rodney s. Church, lawyer, and at
one time prominent local politician, is
dead. lie was 70 years of age He head
cd a crowd which broke up meeting of
the Tammany Democracy in 1884. The
lights were put out, and every man belong
ing to the church faction produced a candle
and box of loco-foco matches. From
this term "loco-foco" was applied to the
extreme Democrats at that time.
eB- Recently while some men were drag
ging for the body of William Bowman, who
was drowned in Pen Horn Creek on Fri
day, two Canadians approached and pro-
posed to try an experiment. Accordingly,
number of bottles were filed with quick