The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-01-16
Miscellaneous News Items.


t%- A smart fellow says The most |
pleasant kind of husbandry is--the remov-
ing OF widows weeds.
tB- The loss from the food in the Sacre- |
mento Valley has been very great. Thous-
ands of cattle were drowned.
e5g- The revolution in Mexico is advanc-
ing into tho State of Tamaulpas. Tho
western coast is quiet.
EB- A crazy man, styling himself secre-
tary to God, has written a letter to the
Mayor of Brooklyn, threatening to crush
him if he fails to do his bidding.
EE A Chicago German blew out his
brains with a pistol loaded with powder and
water--a terribly effective charge if used at
very short range.
-a5y- Two thousand and seventy dollars
was the price awarded Mrs. Peter Stouffer
by a jury in Westmorland county for her
husband who lost his life by falling through
a defective township bridge.
GB- An excited individual in Indiana
county named Mott, says: will pay $100
reward for the hide and scalp of the person
or persons who have been pilfering from
my premises. mean business.
eB A daughter of Herman Miller, of
Hoboken, died short time since from eat
ing pork infected with trichina. Other
members of the family, who sickened from
the same cause, have recovered.
eB-,A small child in Illinois climbed
upon chair to wipe its face on hanging
towel. The chair slipped, and the child
catching in the towel was hanged by the
neck, and died.
gB- A sneak thief recently stole coat
at Marshaltown, Illinois, which had been
hung across fence to be disinfected of
the small pox, and as a consequence has
gone to his reward.
GB- An ingenious Mississippi negro,
thought he would kill sheep by holding
it in front of an approaching locomotive
The animal escaped with broken leg, but
the ingenious individual was made the sub
ject of funeral Grafton.
az 1t is rumored that one of the post
masters of st Joseph county Michigan, has
got himself into difficulty, by attempting to
suppress the circulation of newspaper.
The United States Grand Jury didn't see
the thing as the postmaster did
gB- A man named Solomon Woodring,
of Groveport, Ohio, has just married his
fourth wife out of the same family, she
being sister of the three former wives.
He is sixty-seven and his wife is forty-seven
years old and it was runaway match at
that.
EB- William Kelly has just been par
doned out of the Ohio state prison, upon the
belief that he was innocent of the crime for
which a life time sentence was passed upon
him. He has been imprisoned twelve years.
snd the state settles the obligation to him
10y giving him pardon and suit of clothes.
tB An old man named Lydle ninety
years of age, was burned to death at Bour-
bon, Marshall county, Ind, last week. The
house took fire about midnight, and while
the rest of the family escaped he refused to
do SO, and next morning only few bones
were found. 1t is said that he fired the
house himself and committed suicide in
that manner.
tB- At Berea Ohio, an internal machine,
in the shape of an iron box containing pow
der with percussion so arranged that the
least tap from hard substance would ex-
plode the concern, was found upon the
mantlepiece Of respectable family of that
place. The family have not the least idea
how the machine came there nor for what
purpose.
gT- On the road between Meriden and
Hartford there is a saloon where decoctions
of benzine are passed overa rickety bar, at
the small price of five cents. Directly op-
posite is country graveyard where the
country for few miles around bury their
dead. The hostess of she saloon has an
unfeeling sign on the door as follows
"Key to the cemetery gate within"
tB- There are in the United States $50
cities and towns which as appears from tho
recent census, have over TO- 900 inhabitants.
OF these cities New York State heads the
list with twenty-one, the greatest number
Pennsylvania comes next in order with
sixteen Massachusetts,, fifteen; Ohio, elev-