The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-01-02
Miscellaneous News Items.

eT- One of the famed Siamese twins,
who has for some time been in i'll health,
is reported to be rapidly approaching death.
eB- Mrs. Sturdevant, wife of the Super
ntendent of the Blind Asylum, at Nash
vile was burned to death on Sunday night
by the explosion of coal oil lamp.
E#- A boy at Hudson, man at New
burg and man at Cornwall were drowned
while skating on the Hudson river on Sun
day.
gB- At New York, James Carroll was
murdered by James NJ Cartney on the Goth
nit, while the latter was quieting row in
his rum shop.
EB- Over the door of a cobbler's shop in
Savannah, Ga, appears this legend Boots
and shoes is made here-ladies and chem
tlemens repaired. Kun in hear"
GB" William Wilson, of Howard county,
Ind, slaughtered hog, which wei ghed,
dressed, one thousand and ninety-two
pounds three ounces, and wants to know
who can beat it.
gB- A Sioux City swell was on the point
of saluting some ladies when to his Rtmost
chagrin dirty sock fell from his hat at
their feet. Their surprise and his confu-
sion may well be imagined.
GB- A disgraceful prize fight took place
in Hyde Park, on the day before Christmas.
At the close of the first round one of the
combatants, named Michael Quinn, stabbed
his adversary in the right eye, ending the
fight in a general row.
Sg- AT East Arlington, Vt, on Christ
mas day, fight took place in a drinking
saloon, and the two proprietors, Farwell
and Lawrence, shot five persons, two of
whom hrve since died. Two others are
not expected to recover.
sT" VIM. Dennis, was arrested recently
in New York, for forcibly abducting, chic
reforming and otherwise abusing a young
school girl. One Madame Florence was
also arrested as an accessory. Both were
held in $4,000 bail for trial.
EB A phenomenon has occurred in Indi-
annapolis. A well, the water in which has
been of remarkable coldness, has been
growing warmer, and is now almost hot.
The inference is that the city is rapidly
growing worse and worse, and consequent
ly the internal regions are approaching.
eB~ Milton Lee of Cobum Station, Ind,
who died last week, was buried ten feet
deep in triple coffin, the outer one being
Of two-inch oak, securely spiked. These
precautions were taken to insure quiet
rest and immunity from artificial resur-
rection.
GB- A mouse in Belfast, Maine, was
found the other day frozen stiff upon a
hammer. Investigation showed that in
picking up something that lay upon the
iron head of the hammer, the tong of the
mouse had frozen to it, and being unable
to get away, it had died.
eB- The Supreme Court Of Massachusetts,
has finally decided that suicide is not a
crime known to the laws of the Common
wealth. This opinion is given in the case
of The State VS.. Dennis. Persons wishing
to commit suicide will of course govern
themselves accordingly, and need have no
fear of the law.
GB- On Sunday evening last, at Atlantic
city a large bloodhound, keptin the stable
of Mr.. Charles II. Rogers of the Alaska
hotel, was kicked by one of the horses.
The dog turned upon the horse, killed him
and then proceeded lcisurly to eat him up.
In the morning these was very little left of
the horse, and the dog had to be shot.
eB~ Nh. Samuel Gordon, of Tuftonbor-
ough, N. H., found fine two-year old
colt dead in the pasture, and supposed that
some natural cause brought its life to an
end. His wife dreamed that she saw a man
shoot it, but the husband pooh-poohed the
idea as the result of indigestion. The wife
finally had to be satisfied by having the
animal examined, and it really proved that
some one had shot it.
w DIR. G. j. Smith, of Philadelphia
was burned to death ON Sunday night about
O'Clock at hotel at Mount Carbon,
where he had gone on Saturday. The SER
want girl while going to the cellar to draw
some coal oil, tripped and fell, setting fire
to her dress.
While DIR. s. was extinguishing herdress
the oil ignited and exploded, injuring him
so severely that he died on (,h,isto,o. J.. -.