The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-04
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Miscellaneous News Items.

mess is affected accordingly.
GE- News has been received from Hayti
up to Friday, the 21st ult. A revolution
was momentarily expected to break out,
and Port-au-Prince had already been placed
in state of siege.
rY- The spotted fever is prevailing to
such an alarming extent at Thorntown,
Ind. that the schools and churches have
been closed to prevent the spread of the
contagion.
Gd5- The State Industrial Home for Girls
at White Sulphur Springs, Delaware Co.,
Ohio was burned on the gath ult. There
were in the institution at the time 1876
persons. No lives were lost
CB- A man at Watson, Clark county,
Ind, has brought suit against the railroad
company for damages resulting from the
death of his dog, which attacked the loco
motive and was run over.
uB- A family has been poisoned in Kill
dare, Ireland, by eating cake with arsenic
instead of soda, the poison having been sold
by mistake. The father is dead and three
children are in precarious condition.
rB- Much of the timber which was felled
in Huron county, Mich, by the fires in
1871, has been found to be free from the
operations of the borer, and in good con-
dition, and is being hauled to the mills to
be sawed into lumber.
lB- While Mr.. Davis, of Muscatine, Ia,
took short trip to Davenport his bloom
ing young wife ratified of all his effects and
departed. When he returned the Sheriff
locked him up in Jail for permitting gam
bling on his premises.
e55 Jason Weeks of Bangor, Me-, has
had returned to him Bangor bond for
$1,000, of which he was robbed with $16, 900
of other bonds and money, in New York,
over year ago, being knocked down at the
same time. The bond could not be sold,
hence the considerate thieves returned it.
eB- The severity of the winter in New
England may be inferred from the fact that
residents on the back roads in Washington,
Mass, have been unable to get out with
their teams since Thanksgiving, all on &C
count of the immense snow-banks in that
section.
cB- George Dorsey, special mail carrier
between Dunkirk and Huntingdon, in Cal
vert county, Nd, arrested on charge of
embezzling letters, had a hearing before U.
s. Commissioner Rogers and was COM
mitted to jail When arrested Dorsey con-
fessed the theft, and portion Of the money
stolen was recovered.
GY- Hasson Lynch and John T. Abrams,
citizens of Cecil county, were killed by the
$50 a. m. train from Philadelphia on the
26th ult. While walking the track two
trains passed in opposite directions, and
they stepped out of the way of one in front
of another. An inquest was held, and a
verdict rendered exonerating the company.
Gsg- The method adopted for obtaining
was ingenious. A man would go from the
house to the wood-pile with rope tied to
him, to make sure of his not getting lost
even in that circumscribed space, and by
the time he had reached the house, so great
was the penetrating force of the snow and
wind, he would be found wet to the skin.
, CB- The first conductor on the Pennsyl-
, vania railroad was Colonel Morton Garrett,
who now resides at East Brandywine,
Chester county. Prior to opening of the
road, in 1S49, he was conductor on the
r Columbia railroad for eight years. When
/ he entered the service of the Pennsylvania
Central the rolling stock consisted of one
4 locomotive, the "Mifilin," three passen-
s gers and one baggage car.
"a Four colored men bought tickets Of
Q admission to the dress circle of the Acad
:: emy of Music in Cleveland, but were re-
!, fused admission. One of them forced his
: way in and was elected by the police.
t meeting of the colored citizens was held, Al
Q which it was resolved to bring suit fol
J. damages under the civil rights law, and a
s committee appointed to raise money anc
Q push the matter in the courts.
eas- A few days agoMrs. Sarah Allcutt
u of Marcus Hook, Pa, received a letter
which was written on the 9th of April, anG
sent from Elk Dale, Chester county, Pa,
: on the 9th of April, 1852 1t iuclosed o
: two dollar note, on the Wilmington
. Brandywine Bank. The letter was nearl,
, fourteen years in reaching its destination
u and has doubles been lying in an obscur
o corner or drawer in some post Office, all thi
= time.
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