The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-10-01
Miscellaneous News Items.

EB The steamer st. Louis has lett Du-
luth for Buffalo with ten thousand five
hundred bushels of wheat, this being the
third cargo shipped from Duluth this season.
G1y- John Jones, of Ind, dropped dead
while cutting corn ON the 18th ult. He had
part of bundle of corn-stalks in his arm
when found, and had apparently not stir
red after falling.
esg-On Saturday night negro horse
thief named Liggins was taken from the
party in charge of him, near Orleans, In
diana, by number of masked men citizens
and hanged on tree until he was dead.
eB" In the Brooklyn Court, NJ. T. Tom
linson pleaded guilty to an assault on his
daughter last June, with intent to kill, and
was sentenced to seven years in the
State prison.
cB- A Reading dispatch says there is
great excitement there, owing to tho war
fare now going on between the Philadel-
phia and Reading and Wilmington and
Reading railroads. .
o." Mr.. Benjamin Worthington, of Car
michaels, Greene county, committed sui
eide by hanging himself in the stable of
the Mansion house Of that place on Monday
night, the 10th ult. .fH
n5y- The second trial of Mrs. Fair for the
murder of Colonel Crittenden, in San Fran
cisco, excites but little public interest. The
testimony is concluded. 1t differs in no
material point from that submitted on the
first trial.
eB-A Vermont pensioner has written to
the pension Office as follows; Have my
name dropped from the pension rolls, as 1
can do nearly as much work as ever, and
feel in my heart that can do without it
better than the government can pay it,"
Gdg@ Julia Scheck Meyers, Of st. Louis,
was married to her first husband s years
ago, and last Monday followed her fourth
to the grave. She has buried each one and
being still young and blooming, is ready
for the next conner. lo la..'.
eT- Chicago, September 25.-A terrible
storm Of wind and rain swept over the
eastern portion of Iowa yesterday P. NJ.
In the town of Monona, thirteen houses
were blown down. At Dubuque property
was damaged to the amount of $4,000 to
$4,000, and at Dunleith, ILL.,, from "a, 900
to $4,000.
G1y"A despatch from Milwaukee dated
the Esd ult., says The heaviest rain storm
ever known in this vicinity commenced last
night, and continued until noon to-day.
Streets and cellars were flooded and con-
siderable damage done. Several barns in
the country were struck by lightning and
consumed. A girl at Palmyra, a young
man at Hebron, and two men in Greenfield
were killed by lightning last night. Light
ming was continuous during the storm.
GB-At Columbia, S. C., on the 22d ult., a
| personal alteration occurred in restaurant
between Montgomery, President of the
State Senate, and Samuel Melton, the reg
ular Republican candidate for Attorney
| General. In the melee John d. Caldwell
and Major J. M. Morgan, two friends of
Melton, who interfered to separate the
combatants, were shot, Caldwell was in
stantly killed. Morgan was but slightly
wounded The verdict of the coroner's
jury charges George Upper, friend Of
Montgomery's, with the willful and ma
licious shooting of Caldwell. The affair,
owing to the social position of the par
ticipants, causes much excitement
eB-One of the old citizens of Louisville,
narrates that many years ago,a well-known
citizen, fell in love, and repaired to old
George ID. Prentice, the editor of the Lou
isville Journal, to help him out. He went
off to the plains, and the report came back
that he had been killed by the Indians.
Prentice at once rushed in, and wrote a
whole column upon the virtues, graces and
promise of this martyr to his invincible
disposition, and there was good deal of
sympathy made in the State, and some
regretted his suit had not been encouraged.
Suddenly the absent one came back again
resumed his suit under cover of the sym
pathy that had been aroused for him, and
was married without opposition.
eB- Fifteen years ago the daughter Of a
well-known and highly respected citizen
of Haitstown, Crawford county, now dead,
suddenly disappeared The girl was but
fourteen years of age, and there was much
conjecture over her mysterious disappear
ance. Every search was made for her, but
without success and every effort to obtain
anv cline TO her whereabouts proyed nm