The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-12-17
Miscellaneous News Items.

THE Buffalo, New York and Philadel-
phia Railway will be opened for travel and
freight to it's terminus, Emporium, Pa, on
January 1st. -
GB Mr.. Leppel, aged seventy, an inven-
tor, was found dead in a cellar on Green
wch street, ON Saturday night. His body
had been partly eaten by rats.
eB- Mrs. Catharine Burns was burned to
death at her house in Rockville Centre,
Long Island, on Saturday night, by kero-
sene lamp exploding.
G5y-N. II. Brainard, Postmaster in Iowa
city, is charged on afidavits of his clerks,
with perjury, theft and embezzlement.
He has held Office since June last.
eB-At Lebanon, on Sunday evening o
week little child of Mr.. Titus Hartman,
aged about Is months, was choked to death
while eating piece of apple.
EE-A resolution in the Board of Alder
men at N. Y. developed the fact that the
Erie Railroad Company have occupied
whole block on Duane and Washington
streets, without paying rent, since 1868.
r5B- Mr.. Perkins, mail carrier between
Fond du Lac and Brandon, Wis, his horse
being powerless through epizootic, recent
ly made his daily trip ON foot with mail
bag on his back-a distance of forty-four
miles.
EB-The dry goods store of Blum g. Arnen
was robbed of $25, 600, in currency at Cairo
ILL.,, on the 9Th inst. Mr.. Blum states that
he brought it from Paducah, and arriving
after the banks had closed on Saturday, he
placed the money in his desk in the store.
| CB At New York on the 18th inst,
William Wolf and Valentine Baum, both
butchers quarreled when the former plum
ged butcher knife through the heart of
the latter Wolf coolly walked to the bar,
took drink of whisky, walked off, and
was not arrested
I'd The aspirant. for the title of "meanest
man." this time, is a Boston merchant.
He invited neighbor whose goods were in
peril at the late fire to store them in his
establishment. The offer was accepted,
and now the good Samaritan presents his
neighbor a bin of $10O for storage.
GB-The new Methodist church at Tide
QUITE and Judge Harlans residence ad-
joining were entirely burned on the 9th
inst. Loss on church, $4,000 no insu-
rance. Judge Harlan's residence was in
sured for $4,000. Two tanks full of oil
in close proximity were saved.
Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 12.-At dinner in
the penitentiary yesterday, John Walker,
convict, quarreled with negro convict,
and, seizing knife, ran out of the hall
followed by the keeper, who shot him twice,
when he surrendered. During the trouble
all the convicts in the hall, numbering
eight hundred, sprang to their feet, but
order was restored when Walker was shot
down.
EB-At Norfolk on the 10th inst, fire
was discovered issuing from the cabin of
small sloop named b. +. Rodman, lying at
the dock foot of Roanoke street. John
French, captain of the sloop, was found
dead on the cabin floor, with his face and
hands horribly burned, and in his right
breast deep wound, supposed to have
been made with dirk knife. 1t is thought
the captain was murdered for his money,
and that the vessel was fired to cover the
crime.
tB-At Cincinnati on the 9th inst, the
scaffolding on the new addition, building
to the water works fell, carrying down
eight workmen, killing four instantly and
injuring four. The scaffolding had been
erected for the purpose of putting up some
trusses for the roof of the building, and
gave way under the weight of three iron
trusses, weighing many tons, precipitating
the men to the ground and water beneath,
distance of about eighty feet. 1t is
thought that none of the wounded are Sc
riously injured.
CB- An aged and eccentric man named
Asahel Horton, was taken from Meriden,
Ct, day or two ago to Wallingford, and
buried there at the expense of the town.
According to his story, he once resided in
the moon, where he grated apple trees. Be-
coming tired of his residence there, he slid
down on the equinoctial line, with rain
bow, and rubbed all the blue ON his clothes,
and landed on flint rock near Paugh
Pond, sinking up to his knees. This is but
one of his exaggerated stories which he
always told with a seeming belief in its
truth. - .ffU ~,
eB- A woman mysteriously disappeared