The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-12-16
Miscellaneous News Items.


GB- A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed against Howes & Macy, New York
who failed during the panic, but recently
resumed.
tY- Seth Adams, well-known business
man Of Boston, and, with his brother, the
first manufacturer of the Adams printing
press, died on the 7th, in Boston.
EB- An Augusta, Ca, farmer recently
discovered that dog belonging to neigh
Dor was in the habit of milking one of his
cows for his own benefit. The COW did
not seem to object
CB- Last Monday night young women
jumped into the East river, from tho ferry
boat Farragut and was drowned before as
sistance could reach her. The tide was
running rapidly. Her name is unknown.
eB- A Washington dispatch says, to save
himself from impeachment, United States
Judge M. w. Delahay, of Kansas, tender
ed his resignation to the President, which
was promptly accepted.
ZEE The Supreme Court of Massachu-
sets has decided that a bar-keeper selling
liquor in the absence of the proprietor is
liable to penalty for aiding and abetting
a nuisance.
eY- The New York authorities have vir-
tually abandoned all search after Sharkey.
He is believed to have been we'll supplied
with money and to have quilted the city
shortly after escaping.
EB- 1t is said that Woodward, one of the
"Ring' thieves, is ON his way home, hav-
ing secured immunity by turning States
evidence, and that his testimony will inn
plicate large number of persons in the
"Rng" robberies heretofore unsuspected.
eB- The latest dodge of Boston till
Taper was to buy half gallon Of molasses
at a grocery, get the grocer to pour it in
his hat for want of a jug, and then clap
the hat with its contents on the grocer's
head, while the buyer ran off with the con-
tents of the money drawer.
tB- While escorting prisoners to the
Station-house 1T Philadelphia, last week,
Officer e. L. Burns was struck on the
head by one of them with a brick and kill
ed. The murderer, Isaac II. Hatch, has
been arrested. John Christopher was
fatally stabbed by "Fatty White" the
same day. Both are roughs.
W. The New York board of aldermen
has appointed a committee to give as me-
mento to the family OF the late Horace
Greeley an illuminated album, containing
the action of the city authorities on the
occasion of his death. Also, an excellent
portrait of Horace Greeley. The album is
volume about two feet long by one foot
broad bound in black velvet.
EE- A man named Jim Lennox, who
lived in Detroit, left his family about six
months ago and did not return until Satur-
day week, when he walked in and an
nounced that he had came home to die,
being in poor health. On Sunday, while
his wife was absent, Lennox stole $51 from
the house and disappeared, having con-
cluded not to die just yet.
ey- Engineers say it will take twenty
days to raise the sunken coal barge now
lying before the Spanish steamer Arapiles
in dock at New York, preventing that YES
sci from going to sea. 1t was little sim
gular that the barge should sink just there,
about the time the steamer was ready for
sea. And the Spaniards are unreasonable
enough to insinuate, that the "accident"
was intended to keep the steamer safe until
the war question was settled.
GB- At last we have sensible decision
from the head Of the Post Office Depart
ment. Here it is ~
"If a postmaster knows that letter ad-
dressed to his office Is intended for per-
son living within the delivery of another
! office, it is his duty to forward such letter,
Gf it has been properly prepaid) without
waiting for request to do so, and without
additional charge of postage.'
t8- The steamboat j. s. Lee, belonging
to the Rio Grande Railway, struck a snag
near Rio Grande City, Texas, and sunk in
twenty minutes. The boat and cargo are a
total loss. She was bound for Ringold
barracks, with a general cargo and govern
ment stores and supplies for the upper
|, military posts. No lives were lost
/ EB- Passengers from the West report
very deep SHOWS on portions of the Central
[ Pacific Railroad. In the Sierra Nevada
4 section five engines are required TO move
a single train. AS yet, however, there has
been no delay in connection with the Union
: Pacific Railroad at Ogden. Six feet OF
: snow has fallen in the Wasatch mining
K canons.
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