The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-07-16
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Miscellaneous News Items.

Miscellaneous News Items.
Cg- John H. varland, for many years edi-
tor of the Lowell Courier, died in the asy-
lum in Taunton, Mass, on Sunday last,
aged 90. ,., 5'r.. ittrr
gB- James Allen, an old man, was found
last week by his grand child hanging to
his bed room door at No. 260 Mulberry
street, New York. "'t .''''i
e5S- Four men who robbed wealthy
lady in Utrecht, of money, diamonds and
jewelry, were arrested in New York on
Tuesday, and $t6O, 900 recovered.
C5S Applicants for admission into the
Treasury Department of the Civil Service
are now compelled to produce a surgeons
certificate of good health. a,, ,.., ..e.l,j
GB-A Party of surveyors found recently
near Astoria, Oregon, a box containing old
Spanish coins toIthe value of $5,700, secreted
near the line of their survey. M Ju
A Flower called the Aaron. Cup, growsin
the vicinity Of Alameda, CAL, which is said
base of the flower to the tip of the cup.
g5y Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan B.
Anthony and Laura de Force Gordon, who
have been in attendance on the Baltimore
Convention, and have failed to obtain from
that body arecognition of woman's right to
vote, declare that they will now use their
influence for Grant and Wilson.
l1y Three men were recently hoisted 100
feet in an elevator in jackson county, ILL.,,
when the machine broke and all were pre-
cipitated the entire distance. One man in
his descent struck wire stretched across,
and was cut completely in two. .,. q. w.
"a" Rev. j. A. McCaulay, D. D., will be
installed President of Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa, at the opening of the next
term, in place of DR.. Dashiel, who was
elected one of the missionary secretaries at
the recent session of the Methodist Confer
ence. ,ltr
In removing the bodies from an old
burying ground to the new cemetery in
lie Roy, N. ", recently, the remains of a
lady about so years of age, who had been
buried nearly 90 years, was found in state
of petrifaction, with the hair perfectly pre-
served. @rH. .if .I'1 -
Ga5- In Detroit a widow lady was about
to marry a sailor, when her son appeared
and forbid the banns, and made disturb
ance. Two sailors, friends of the BRIDE
groom, threw the objector on the ground
and sat upon him until the ceremony was
completed
GB- d. G. Mayo & Co.'s tobacco ware
house, Richmond, Va, has been burned. 1t
was the largest factory in Richmond. Dur
ing the fire a young lady, daughter of Rev.
NJ. w. Staples, late of New York, and
agent of the American Bible Society, drop
ped dead in her chamber from excitement.
GB- At Thayer, Kansas, recently, horse
thief was arrested after a desperate resis-
tance, in which he mortally wounded the
| Sheriff. He was brought to trial, but while
the case was progressing a brother of the
murdered Sheriff entered the court room,
and deliberately blew out the brains of the
prisoner.
t1s- A most heartrending and melancholy
accident occurred recently at the residence
of Joseph Kline, whose house stands close
to the railroad at Mount Wolf Station, on
the Harrisburg road. A child, only two
years old, was playing on the track, when
the accommodation train came along, and
the infant not being seen by the engineer,
it was run over and cut into pieces. The
occurrence is said to have been one of the
most narrowing scenes ever Witnessed and
the distress occasioned can be better mag-
ined than described. uHU
Gy- A few days since two butchers OF
Royalton, Ohio, q small village near Cleve.
land, having grudge against a farmer
named Schwertzer, who lived in Palmer
township, went to Schwertzer's house. and
finding no one at home but his grand.
daughter, little girl nine years old, they
seized the child, and poured coal oil on her
clothes and set them on fire. She was
burned SO badly that she died in a few
hours. Before her death she told the
names of the fends who committed the
terrible act.
eB- A young man named Farmer, attend
ing the Soldiers Orphans School, at Nc
Alisterville, met with a very serious acci
dent on Saturday last, by falling from the
roof of one of the buildings, a distance o.