The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-04
Miscellaneous News Items.

EB" The potato bugs are badly devastat-
ing the fields in the vicinity Of Urbana,
Ohio.
GE- A daughter of Samuel Began, in San
lilac county, Mich, tried to climb into a
school house through the window. The,
sash fell on her neck, her feet not touching
the GROUND, and she was held there and
slowly strangled to death.
eB" So great and increasing is the out
flow of the population of Sweden, that the
government of that country has offered
prize for an essay on the best means of put
ting a stop to the rapidly augmenting emil
grafton of the rural and laboring classes.
adS" There are 90 saw-mlls at Muskegon,
Mich, most of which have doubled their
capacity this winter, and are now running
day and night, with two gangs of hands.
The daily lumber product of Muskegon will
be about 100000 feet, besides lath.
GaS "A riot occurred in Jersey City on
the Gath ult., between a large body of men
who had struck for eight hours, and men
who were hired to fill their places. Three
men were wounded. The riot was broken
up by the interference of the police.
GB-The "Town Clock Store" in Du-
buque, Iowa fell with terrible crash on
the 25th, killing woman and a baby she
was pushing in carriage, on the sidewalk
and breaking both legs of a woman who
was with her.
G5S- John A. White, a colored man, who
killed two men and wounded seven others
recently, while resisting an arrest on Presi-
dents Island, has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree. He will ap-
peal to the.Supreme Court.
eB- A church of no mean dimensions,
with steeple, etc, was placed upon the cars
of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad
at Dunton, station near Chicago, and con-
veyed, by steam, to another station six
miles distant, when it was disembarked and
set up.
CB In order to get the streets cleaned,
Little Rock paper prints this pleasant para
graph We have laid il an elegant assort-
ment of first-class obituaries, from which
we shall select with pleasure fitting ones
for each of the Alderman, when he dies
from the cholera or other disease, superin-
duced by the filthy condition of our streets
and alleys.
eB- A curious case of combustion is
noted in Reading, Penn. A gentleman,
after oiling some wood, left the piece of
flannel he had used in bowl with small
quantity of linseed-oil, and placed it ON the
second-story balcony in the open air, intend
ing to use them again. The following
morning he found that the flannel had taken
fire and been wholly consumed, the ashes
remaining in the bowl.
GB- The five ladies with the Japanese
embassy, recently consented, at the sugges-
tion of their American hostess, to be laced
ed, bowed and tralled after our most ap-
proved fashion mould. Then they were
powdered up from an orange-peel hue to
delicate lemon and pronounced perfect, as
far as dress goes. Half an hour later, how
ever, their dismayed civilizers found them
smiling and happy in their half-petticoat.
halfpantaloon dress. "Too muchee, " said
the gentle Japanese.
GB-An eccentric New Yorker has in
vented velocipede, consisting Of two wa
ter-tight, tubes about twenty feet long, held
three feet apart by means Of iron braces.
A wooden horse is placed in the centre, a
fore and hind leg resting on each tube.
Under the horse is placed light paddle
wheel, which Is worked like the driving
wheel of velocipede, by the navigator,
who sits on horseback At a trial on the
Harlem river, the other day a very fair
rate fspced was attained. He