The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-03-05
Miscellaneous News Items.

eB South Bend rejoices in youth the
initials of whose name are Joseph Urias
Hickenbottom John Bell Jones. He is get
ting along as well rs could be expected.
tT5- The whole of Col. Jas. Fisks horses
and carriages were recently sold at auction
and brought $50, 900, which is only half
what they were expected to bring.
tB" A celebrated clergyman recently said
that he had found more good in bad people,
and more bad in good people than he ever
expected to-
C3 A st. Louis woman, over six feet in
height, recently married a man who is but
four feet nine. When she wishes to kiss
him she has to stand him on q chair.
GTS- The body of Clement McCausland,
Deputy United States Marshal, has been
found 1S miles from Frog Point, Dakota
He perished in the recent storm while pur-
suing an escaped prisoner.
ES- The wife of George Winant, depot
master at Hampstead, L. l., who was sick,
beat him with a beef steak FOUNDER so
brutally, in Sunday, that oe died on
Tuesday. The virago was arrested.
GB- The convcts of Rhode Island, last
year, made 81, 794 more than the cost of
maintaining the State prison. Good enough!
This surplus probably covered all the
State expenses.
CB John A. Cooper, of San Francisco
owed Sarah Pagan, proposed to her, and
was just getting married, when Michael
Riley came in and spoiled it all by declar-
ing that Cooper had one wife living already.
Cooper says he is respectable single man,
and has brought suit against Riley for
SANDER, laying his damages at $4,000.
s5g- A st. Johns (Newfoundland) lover
recently married girl whom he supposed
was as poor as a church mousse and not
being Crnsus himself, love in cottage
was duly tied, however, the girl informed
him that she possessed one million sterling
in her own right, and one of the handsom-
est residence in Canada is to be the future
domicile of the happy pair.
C55" a woman in Marysville, Cal, whose
canary had left her, hung the empty cage
outside the window and soon had the salts
faction of seeing it occupied by II beautiful
brown stranger about the size of her lost
pet. A San Francisco woman, whose hus-
band had abandoned her, took the hint,
| On hnr OIL al; II,o1
soon she had safe in her arms better, big
ger, browner fellow than he who ran away.
s25- Recently n little child, 19 months
old, son of Samuel Soudels, was drowned
in the mill-race at Schocl1 mill, three miles
above Marietta, Pa. Mr.. Souders lives
close by the MILL and, the weather being
pleasant, the door of the house was left
open, and the child strayed out Suppos-
ing that it had gone to the mill to it's faith
er, Mrs. Souder went after it, and, not find
ing it, made further search, when its dead
body was found floating in the mill-race.
EB- A Virginia paper has the following
announcement ofa marriage: I" On Wednes-
day, the Gath ult., on horseback, in front
of the Tavern House of VIM. ]. McGraugh-
lin, in Pocahontas county, when the ther-
mometer stood eight degrees below zero,
by the Rev. G. /. Brown, Daniel McCarty,
a pensioner for service in the war of 1912,
aged IS years, to Miss Ann Gabert, aged
28 years, all of Pocahontas county"
~ Rats have an unaccountable fondness
for the taste of phosphorous, and to this
fact may be attributed the origin of many
mysterious fires. They build their nests
of infammablc materials, and take to
them any stray matches they can find lying
around loose. This accomplished, they
undertake to crafty their appetites by
nibbling the coated ends of the matches,
which are at once ignited, when the nest
is set in a blaze, and the destruction of the
house follows.