The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-10-22
Miscellaneous News Items.

ILL.,, recently. f-s
GB Three barrels containing human re-
mains were found on vacant lot in Louis
vile, KY, recently. ,tu.5 r
tsB A large window was blown complete
ly out of Methodist church in Indianapo-
lis, lately, during storm.
tB~ A Washington boy that defes clas-
siication has white neck and body, a mu-
latto face and black ears all surmounted
with a crown Of pure white nappy wool.
EB- At Lebanon on the 10Th inst, two
men fell from scaffold at the Colman
Furnace distance of As feet, killing one
instantly and badly wounded the other.
GSg- Miss Hattie Reynolds, of Orristown,
while alighting from buggy at Middle
Spring Church, on Sunday, the 2sih ult.,
became entangled in her rappings and fell,
breaking one of her legs below the knee.
EB- Shippensburg wants town clio ok.
If sufficient sum can be raised to pur-
chase one, it will be placed upon the tower
of the new M. E. church, now being erect
ed. ..
eg-A Wilmington (Delaware) paper an
nounces that gentleman in that city, 90
years old, who within the past year or two
has proposed marriage to over fifty ladies,
has been advised by the Mayor to take
rest.
rSg In South Providence, r. l. recently
twenty-one ladies, led by their pastor, visi-
ted beer saloon, and with the consent of
the barkeeper who treated them (courte-
ously) held a prayer meeting and protested
against the sale of lager.
GEM. Idiot, a Frenchman, has inver led
machine for stopping runaway horses in
stantly. Electricity, at the control of the
driver, is the means employed. The horse
is violently shocked and so much surprised
that he instantly comes to halt.
CSS"" Love-letter ink" is advertised, the
invention, apparently, of some ingenious
American. 1t fades away completely i'll
about four weeks, making it impossible to
use the letters as evidence in trial for
DredOu VI PROMISE.
c5y- At Boston the 18th inst, as James
Woods, clerk in the Old Colony Railroad
Office, was passing from the Paymaster's
room TO the Treasurers Office, on the same
floor but a few yards distant, he was
knocked down and robbed of $4,000. The
robber escaped. ut
B~The Hon. Henry LOTUS, Of the En-
glish nobility, got separated ON his wife
and daughter through q divorce, and some
years afterward married his daughter
through mistake. A divorce followed the
discovery of tho mistake, and now Mr..
Lotus and his first wife have become re-
conciled, and are living together happily.
GB-A New York orator, in rhapsody
about Columbus, spoke of him as ga dia-
mond in oasis, who scared above all his
contemporaries This deserves to stand
side by side with the famous exclamation
of Sir Boyle Roche" smell a rat. see
it floating in the air But l will nip it 10
the bud -
~
hour of the night recently discovered the
body of an unknown man lying dead in a
batch of woods. Upon examination it was
discovered that the body had $1600in mon
ey on il. 1t was taken in charge by the
county authorities. .arl Irt
eB"At Republican demonstration at
Fort Scott, Kansas, ON Saturday Charles
Stone, boy ten years old, was killed by
the premature discharge of cannon, and
Nelson Riggs and Nat. Margrave were
shockingly burned and lacerated about the
neck and arms.
CB-Two sample trunks filled with watch
es, valued at $4,000 belonging to M. n.
Strauss, travelling agent for Reichbelg &
Co., Of New York, were taken from the
Office of the Hess House, Chicago some time
between one and six o'clock ON Saturday
morning, of the 18th inst.
aY"A little daughter of Mrs. S. Brayton,
of Providence, r. l., fell before horse in
the street ON Friday, and would have been
seriously, if not fatally, injured had not a
young lady, Miss Minnie jackson, sprang
forward, and seizing the horse by the bri-
die and throwing him upon his launches,
rescued the child from its peril.
GY-An unnatural German mother ap-
piled TO the recorder of Patterson, N. j.,
on Saturday, for an order 70 send her two
boys to the state efoim school. She said
the boys we've good enough, but she wan
ted them out of the way, as she had mar
lied a second husband whe DOES not like