The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-06-17
Miscellaneous News Items.

Miscellaneous News Items.
gB- About three weeks ago two men in
Baltimore were slightly bitten by a dog
which they were leading. A few days
since they both died of hydrophobia.
eB- OF the 1874 young men who presen-
ted themselves as candidates for admission
as cadets to West Point, forty-nine have
been rejected, and the remainder, eighty
six, passed their examination creditably.
Among the latter is Frank P. Blair, Jr.
GB- A foolish young man in Savannah,
Georgia, fired his revolver in the bung hole
of an empty kerosene barrel. The barrel
burst, breaking his nose, gashing his fore
head, and knocking him more senseless
than he was at first.
eB- During recent fire in Boston a
steamer which was located at hydrant
on Mason street, sucked an eel from the
pipe three feet long, seven inches in cir
cumference, which weighed three and one
half pounds.
az A Memphis jury, having convicted
a man of murder, now finds that the sup
posed murdered man is living. The ques-
ton is whether the verdict shall be rescin-
ded, or the man allowed to murder his
victim.
rB-A few mornings since the Pacific Ex-
press eastward ran through trio of calves
near Upton, but, as the engineer thought,
without injuring any of them. On arriving
at Huntingdon, in oiling his engine, the en-
gineer discovered one of them dead, on the
platform above the pilot
EY- AT Cohoes, N. Y, June 18th, four
men named Patrick Carney, John Maher,
Jos. Brown, and John M'Mahon, were
buried alive, while excavating for new
gas holder ON Mohawk street. Brown and
M'Mahon were rescued. Maher and Car
ney were smothered to death.
tB- All the Esquimaux who have been
brought to st. Johns from the Polaris are
said to be suffering with severe coughs
their own climate being more congenial to
them. One would think that coughs and
colds would be more common with people
living six months ON cake of ice. -
eB- Among the effects of James, Warden,
of Albany, New York, who recently died
in London, were loaded revolver a box
of cartridges, three full bottles of morphia,
some partly full and some empty ones, a
bottle of chloroform and quantity OF
prussic acid. The jury rendered verdict
of suicide.
gB- The house Of Joseph Dalrymple,
near Goshen, Ind, was totally consumed on
last Wednesday, and Mrs. Dalrymple, her
daughter, aged 10, and son of 10, per-
ished in the flames. The little boy had
taken lighted candle up stairs and left ii
burning beside his bed.
eB- Lincoln Mum, lad about fourteen
years of age, son of Mr.. A. Mum, of Hi
opolis, ILL.,, had his foot caught in corn
shelter day or two since, and before the
horses attached to the machine could be
stopped the foot and ankle were literally
ground to pieces. The same lad had three
fingers chopped off a year or two since.
EY- Miss Alice johnson, an attractive
young woman, started a barber-shop in a
Kansas town the other day. All the wives
in town seemed moved by common i'm
pulse TO present their husbands with some
little love-token. BY remarkable coinci-
dence thcy all selected razors and brushes
and mugs.
GB- At Steubenville, Ohio, on the 10th
inst, at the house of miner named
George Edmones, can Of gunpowder,
weighing 25 pounds, exploded, killing
three children and fatally wounding an
other. The can had been placed in cup
board, and in the absence Of their parents
J the children set fire to it.