The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-12-24
Miscellaneous News Items.
tB- The largest dairy in California con-
tains 1900 COWS, the milk Of which is
churned into butter by steam.

tains 200 COWS, the milk Of which is
churned into butter by steam.
EB-At Sharptown, New Jersey, on the
afternoon of the 18th, two colored boys,
named Henry D. Smith and Thomas James
aged respectively eighteen and sixteen
years, while skating on a mill pond, broke
through the ice and were drowned.
Cy- William johnson has been arrested
at Manchester, New Hampshire, for pas
sing spurious bank notes of the denomina-
ton of $780, and which purport to be the
issue of the New York City National
Bank. Ir..
tE-In New York, on Monday evening
John Simmons and Nicholas II. Duryea,
lottery dealers, got into a fight on the street
and Simmons stabbed Duryea with dirk
knife, causing almost instant death. The
murderer was arrested Duryea was 30 yrs.
of age, and leaves a wife and two children.
Both are supposed to have acquired great
wealth.
ET- An ambitious Atlanta boy challenged
a man for some trifling occurrence and was
taught pretty serious lesson. The man
accepted the challenge and fell dead at the
first fire. The young man left in double
quick and has not since been heard from.
The dead party got up when the other dis
appeared and everybody had hearty
laugh. The ordinance was charged with
powder only.
CB- At Lafayette, Ind, on the 10Th inst,
the switch engine on louisville, New AL
bany and Chicago Railroad, exploded while
standing at street corner. David Nc
Nary, engineer, was instantly killed, and a
boy named Kilgore badly wounded. The
houses on either side of tho street were
completely riddled. Numerous hair-breadth
escapes occurred. ..t't
eB- A runaway couple in Lee county,
Illinois, was a runaway couple indeed. The
wagon was smashed to flinders, and the
couple after sundry revolutions landed in a
fence corner in no condition to begin life.
A surgeon splintered the fractures and a
minister adjusted the wedding articulation.
tY- Mrs. Kendall, wife of First Lieuten-
ant Kendall, Twenty-flfth infantry, now
stationed at Fort Davis, Texas, was awak-
ened one night by the noise of one breaking
in at window of her quarters. She was
alone, and after ordering the brutal intrud-
er to desist, in vain, she seized revolver,
and aiming at the window over the bed of
her sleeping children, fired one shot. Some
thing was heard to fall. This something
proved to be huge negro, one Corporal
Taliferro, of the Ninth United States cav
airy.
EB- Bridgeport, Ct, tells curious story
of an unclaimed trunk. Fourteen years
ago regular checked trunk arrived by
one of the trains, and no one calling for it,
it was placed in the baggage room, where
it lay for II years. At the expiration Of
that time gentleman appeared with the
duplicate check and arranged to pay 80 fol
storage, promising to call for his trunk the
following day. Three years have since
paSSeu, DuJ tiie Jrunh still dWditS Ills reJnIu
cB-The rats in the barn on the farm Of
Mr.. Anthony Battinger, in Green township
Mercer county, were eflectually cleared oul
on Sunday week, by the children, left al
home while the old folks went to church
A few matches lit and dropped in hay
NOW did it. The hinges to one of the
doors, falling outside, were saved in good
condition, but the balance of the barn,
with over three hundred bushels of oats, 6
quantity of hay, farming utensils, ETC., wat
consumed.