The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-03-12
Miscellaneous News Items.


tB- Rev. Dr. Huston has presented HIM
self for trial before the Baltimore Confer
ence, in session at Warrenton.
tB- James McClosky was killed in
bar-room fight Mt Yorkvile, New York,
last week, by Thomas Murray a politician.
The murderer was arrested.
tB~ An oil tank belonging to p. N. Wat
son, President of the South Improvement
Company, at Franklin, was tapped Satur-
day night, and the oil lest.
tB- A negro in Kentucky has recovered
SO, 700 damages from four men who hung
him up several times to make him confess
that he burned barn.
EB- Walter Rolf was killed by the cap
sizing Of the ice boat at Albany. John
Hurley and another were severely injured.
-Four others on the boat escaped injury.
eY- Eleven business house and dwellings
at Mason station, on the Murfreesborough
and Louisville Railroad, were destroyed by
fire on the 9TH inst. The loss will reach
$4,000. Insurance light.
ETS- Hon. Thomas NJ Brown, a promi-
nent lawyer of Louisville, while returning
from his Office on the evening of the 9th in
slant, fell to the pavement and expired al
most Immediately.
tB Three Justices of Castleton, Staten
Island, were fined $3.50 each last week, for
crimes in office; other Justices $100 each;
and the Town Clerk was fined $40 for being
drunk at the town election.
sB- A Michigan paper thus delicately
announces death from a "non-explosve;"
"Mrs Maria Framley gave up the bad
habit of using kerosene for kindling fires,
on Thursday last" Funeral on Saturday.
cB- A Pittsburg special reports the hor-
ribe mutilation at Franklin, Pa, of youth
named Amos Mckinley by Patrick Tracey,
who had been discarded by a young lady to
whom he had been married. The lynchers
are after Tracey.
tB- The stage between Milton and San
Andrews was stopped on the 9TH, inst, by
highwayman. The treasure box was
given to him, when the stage drove on.
Discovering that the box was empty, he
fired several shots at the stage without
effect.
tB- A man narrowly escaped being bur-
led alive at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, near
Tarytown, New York. AS the coffin was
about to be lowered into the grave, noise
proceeded from it, causing the interment
to be delayed long enough to discover that
the man was alive.
EB- Henry II. Willis and wife have been
arrested at Hunters Point, for brutally
beating Mrs. Taylor during drunken
quarrel and throwing her overheard. Her
body has not yet been found. Mrs. Taylor
was the wife of the captain of n canal boat !;
which was alongside the boat of Willis.
GB- A cOuntryman in Savannah observed
gang of darkeys laboring on the streets,
each wearing ball and chain. He asked
one why that ball was chained to his leg.
"To keep people from stealing it," said
the darkey: cheap of thieves about here"
tB- The Pitsfeld Eagle says that n
South Berkshire father, whose child re-
Gently died of the small pox, being anxious
to bury il in Ptsfield cemetery, and
knowing the authorizes would not allow it,
packed the body in trunk, checked it to
the town as baggage by the midnight train,
and had the funeral next day.
t8- The people of Pleasantville, Venan-
go county, have been greatly excited the
past few days over the suicide of Miss Hat
tie Lewis, which occurred on Sunday last
The young girl had been employed as n do
mestic in private family at Fagundus. A
ed as an engineer, lived in the same house.
He there formed the acquaintance of the
unsuspecting girl, and an intimacy grew
up between them, when he succeeded in
accomplishing her ruin.
t9- John L. Norman has filed a suit at
st. Louis against the st. Louis, VanGaia
and Terre Haute Railroad Company, claim
ing $25, 900 in consequence of having been
poisoned and physically ruined for life,
while assisting In building the depot for the
company in East st. Louis, last summer.
The timber used in the construction of the
depot was saturated with arsenic and other
poisons to prevent decay. Five or six
workmen died from the effects of the alb
sorptioh of poison into their system.