The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-01-09
Miscellaneous News Items.


B- West of the Mississippi river the
United States still own 973 472 533 acres.
eB On Sunday afternoon the Both a riot
occurred in Philadelphia. Several men
were badly wounded, but none were killed.
az The residence of Mr.. Joseph Ritner,
editor of the Mechanicsburg journal, was
destroyed by fire ON Thursday, of last
week.
~ Miss Amanda Miller, aged eighteen,
was probably fatally burned last week at
Baltimore while attempting to fill lighted
coal oil lamp.
tB At Fairview Cumberland Co., on the
4th inst, little boy son of George Brown
broke his arm and otherwise injured him
selfby fall.
eBr Several families in and about Clin-
ton, I'LL, have been poisoned recently by
eating buckwheat cakes. It is supposed
that the seed of the jimson weed had been
mixed with the buckwheat.
tB- John Houck, charged with an at
tempt to outrage an old lady, escaped re-
Gently from the Huntingdon Jail. This is
the third time he has escaped from the
same place,
GB- The snow blockade on the Union
Pacific Railroad, and the temporary refusal
of the Central Pacific Road to receive
freights have caused an almost total sus-
pension of business at Salt Lake City.
rB- A Pittsfleld, Mass. woman makes a
regular assessment of $25 upon each of the
liquor dealers of that town who sell the ar
dent to her husband, and they ''come
down" rather than stand prosecution.
edS- In removing the post office at Knox
vile Tenn, to new quarters on Tuesday
week, package of two hundred letters
were found. The letters, were written
three years ago, and several of them con
tanned drafts and other valuables.
CT In town in Michigan, week or two |
since, an old lady of ninety years, who had
been rescued from the flames of burning
house at the cost of considerable trouble. |
erawled back again after her money, and
perished in the flames.
e8- An eloped-from western women re-
Gently got on the same train with her
eloped husband and his elopcd-with, and |
presented a revolver at her faithless |
spouse's head, walked him ont of the car
and proceeded to scratch his eyes out on
the depot platform.
CB- AT Trenton N. j., a few weeks
since woman, disguised in male attire,
shot man named Snowell in saloon, and |
then escaped. Snowel is seriously, but |
perhaps not fatally injured. The cause of
the shooting is said to have been jealousy,
because Snowell took another woman to |
ball.
t5- In Danville ILL.,, lives man and wife, |
named Davidson, who are the parents of |
child now over five weeks old, which weighs
but two pounds. Its length is seven inches, |
and its face about the size of watch crys- |
tai. Its tiny arms are so slender that a |
small finger ring can be slipped on either
OF them to the shoulder. The little crea-
lure Is already making quite noise in its |
part of the world, and hundreds have called |
to see it. The parents are of standard size
tB- An ancient receptacle or vase was
ploughed up near Columbus, Ohio, recently
1t is of baked clay, and contained the
bones of small child. The vase is about
seven inches in diameter, and about twen-
ty inches in circumference. 1t was evi- |
IDENTIFY intended to be suspended from cords
rs it's sides are pierced. Casts of the relic |
have been taken for the State.
FOREIGN NEWS.