The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-07-08
Miscellaneous News Items.

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GB Since the postal cards were intro
duced, the post-mistresses are not getting
an average Of more than three hours sleep
day.
G4- The farmers around East st. Louis.
Ill, put Paris green on their potatoes for
the bugs, but the rain washed it into the
surrounding creeks, killing all the fish.
"a The first white woman hung in
Georgia, was named Eberhart, and she
was executed in 1885, The last one also
bore the same name.
EB- A woman in Chicago was recently
married to her seventh husband. The
other ex-lords are all alive and doing we'll
much better than the last victim
tB- AT New Albany, Ind, on the 2sth
ult., justice of the peace, named w. II.
Thompson, shot and instantly killed Peter
Reyboch.
GB An exchange says Charles Math-
ews is acting "The LIAR at the Gayety
theatre, London. This is nothing strange,
for we know lots of folks who are doing
that, who think it wrong even to go into a
theatre.
eB- Thomas Gordon, of Horsham twp,
Montgomery county, informed his wife one
day last week that he was going to feed
the chickens Becoming alarmed at his
protracted absence she went to the barn
and found him suspended by the neck and
dead.
GB- New Hampshire is the only one of
the northern States which has anything
like religious test in its constitution. BY
it the Governor, members of the Governors
Council Senators and Representatives,,
must be "of the Protestant religion
eB- On Sunday night week, near Top
ton, field of new mown hay along the
East Pennsylvania railroad caught fire from
the sparks of a locomotive and before the
flames could be extinguished nearly two
acres of the provender was destroyed. The
people of Topton with the neighbors re-
siding in the vicinity of the fire went in
body and put the fire out.
GB- Two passengers on an outgoing ex-
cursion train, named Charles Ford and
Anthony Dean, on Iron Mountain Railroad,
last Sunday, near st. Louis, were elected
for not paying their fare. They then put
distractions on the track, with the inten-
tion of wrecking the returning train, but
were discovered, arrested, and nearly
lynched.
eBr Massachusetts has nineteen cities,
the Hoosac Tunnel, and General Butler,
and still she isn't satisfied, but wants a
ship canal through the shoulder of Cape
Cod. 1t will shorten navigation to New
York, diminish dangers and the rates Of
insurance, and make the old Bay State as
happy as a boy with a jews-harp, or girl
with a rag-doll. 1t is astonishing how lit
tie will satisfy some people.
eE At Baltimore on the goth .ult.,
Charles Baker, aged fourteen years, was
shot dead at the residence of Henry Schell-
haus, No. 40. Leadenhell street. Schell-
haus and his son George, aged fourteen
years, has been arrested. The two boys
had been playing together, and it is prob
able that Baker was accidentally shot, A
pistol was found in the cellar of the house.
GB-At the inquest held at Newark, New
Jersey City, the body of the young man
named Nader, who, with cousin named
Edward Buehler, was found suffering from
the effects of poison, it was discovered that
both were in love with the same woman
young widow--and as two could not
marry her, and one did not wish to deprive
the other Of possession, both agreed to
commit suicide, and Nader succeeded.
ZEE Clem Farr, of Burke county, N. c., lis
so years old, and has one hundred and
forty descendants living. During the war
he was hung by Kirk, and his friends, sup
posing him dead, were in the act of inter-
ring the body, when evidence of life we're
discovered, and he was resuscitated. Four
years ago, he climbed Seymour and Blair
flag pole, ninety feet high, and at the top
drank the health of the Democratic can
didates.
tB- The lightning on last Saturday
evening struck barge containing passen-
gers from picnic, near Flushing, fatally
injuring one young lady and seriously in
juring another.
A number Of houses were struck in diff
ferent parts of Long Island, burning two
| harms at Jamaica and the rasidanca Of Pater