The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-08-06
Miscellaneous News Items.

eB- A terrible fire occurred at Hunters
Point opposite N. Y, on last Wednesday
night. '''" '''I'4'
eB At Evansville, on the 30th ult,, dur
ing heavy storm the German M. e.
Church was blown down, and two houses
unroofed. One man was injured.
G8~ Miss Jane Barsack, of Crete, Me-,
recently awoke in the morning and found
a three-foot rattlesnake in her bed. She
got up with alacrity. m alu ea
CB- At Savannah, the attempt of negroes
to ride OH the street cars eliminated in
riot on the Goth ult. Two whites and
several negroes were wounded, and there is
much excitement.
GB A Westport, Mass, dog attacked
circus elephant in the street the other day.
An eye witness says that the dog in about
one minute was spread out over seven yards
of ground about the thickness of sheet iron.
GB- Rev. Kenneth II. Campbell, pastor
of the Baptist church in Dedham, Mass,
was last week held for trial. in the Supe
rior Court on the charge of bastardy.
The victim is Sarah j. Howell one of the
members of his congregation.
IB- A woman near Dayton stepped on
barrel hoop which flew up and struck her
on the limb causing her to believe that
she was bitten by rattlesnake, whereupon
she drank large quantity of spirits to
counteract the effects. r-. A..
GB- At Terre Haute on the 31st ult.,
while circus procession was passing Pra-
rie City Bank, attracting the attention of
the officers Of the institution, thief slip
ped in the back way and stole $3,937 in
money, and escaped.
Us A valuable young horse belonging
to Mr.. George Keebaugh, of Dublin twp,
Juniatia county, took fright few days ago,
and while running.over fiat, smooth stone,
fell and broke its leg in two places. The
poor animal was shot to relieve its suffer
ing.
GB Between nine and ten o'clock on
Friday morning, an embankment caved in
at the Lebanon Valley ore bank, near
Swatara station, instantly killing John
Meackloy, who was at work there. Mr..
Meackloy was young man, and leaves a
wife and two children to mourn his sud
den demise.
GB- On the 30th ult., terrible steam
boat explosion occurred on the Mississippi
river, two miles above McGregor, Iowa.
The raft boat James Melburn, bound up
exploded her boiler with fearful effect. OF
twenty-five persons on board only ten were
saved as far as could be ascertained, and
several of these are badly scalded.
GB st. Timothy Hall, recently well
known as the Academic and Military
Schools of Rev. Mr.. Van Bokklein, at
Catonsville, seven miles from Baltimore,
used at the present as summer boarding
resort, was burned on the Goth ult. Part
of the furniture was saved. There was
about one hundred and fifty boarders in
the building, all of whom escaped unhurt.
GB Thomas Carroll, while riding near
San Jose on Saturday night, saw two men
who he supposed to be highwaymen. He
shot one of them and captured the other
one. An investigation shows the victim to
be Henri Pattell an inoffensive French
florist, who, with companion in the same
business, was going to the woods to gather
flowers. Carroll has been committed for
trial on charge of manslaughter.
CB- The Lebanon (Ky) Standard says:
SIN cutting into his counter the other day,
in making an elevator, Mr.. George Graves
discovered rats nest which contained
about quart of fragments of bills and
$3.50 of unmutilated currency. The frag-
ments comprise portions of S., So, aud 81
bills, and different denominations of frac-
tional currency. Thus are accounted for
number of losses incurred years ago, which
the loser was at the time wholly unable to
explain"
tB- The women of Carthage, Indiana,
have abolished all liquor saloons in that
town, and the thirsty Carthaginians will
hereafter be compelled to resort to the pri-
vate bottle. Some sixty indignant matrons
visited the dramshops and besought their
owners to abandon their vile business, and,
failing in their mission, they formed in
solid phalanx, marched to the misery
mills, one after the other, smashing the
furniture and leaving havoc behind them
in every case.
eB-A Wonderful escape is reported from
Bilston, South Stafiordshire, England. A
miner was shut up in pit, when there was
q tremendous fall Of coal. and soon after