The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-06-03

with "patent hold-back" whatever that
may be.
We know an editor who ought to be pre-
sented with patent ego ahead" as he
holds back too much now.
The axe mandatory in East Towanda,
made their first axe on Wednesday last.
There is three-legged SOW in Pine
Brook, Luzerne county, which recently
gave birth to litter of three pigs, having
each but three legs
A man of eighty-nine, at Rushfield, N
Y, was going to marry a girl of fifteen,
when his friends soused him in the river
and brought about change of mind.
fDuncannon is improving quite rapidly.
While on visit there last week, we noticed
q number of new buildings going up.
NDr. Jos. Swartz and VIM. King are put
Ting up very fine residences and should the
ID. b. 81 l.. Road terminate in the upper
portion of the town, it would be only a
short time before that section of the place
would be the most populous.
A man at the Lewistown end of the riv-
er bridge manages gate at the Station
side of the bridge, to keep teams from en-
tering about car-time. His machine is a
bridge, from the gate, along the roof, to the
town side, where it is brought down and
fastened to cylinder with crank, which
the man winds and unwinds just as it is
needed to close or open the gate.
The Juniata Republican says 81 there are
no less than twenty-one candidates for
Sheriff in the Democratic ranks in this
county, and the contest for that nomi-
nation is getting fast and furious. AS
many as five are candidates in one town.
ship"
Persons living in that county must be
careful how they throw stones then or they
might hit the future sheriff.
Espy s. Miller, whose arrest for robbing
the mails on the Southern Penn railroad
we noticed some time ago, had a trial last
week, was found guilty and sentenced to
three years imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary.
Quite number of shad were caught last
week in the Juniata, between Duncannon
and the Acqueduct.
SCut In n Fight.-On Saturday last, dur
ing dispute, which originated about some
cigars in the store of David Mccoy at
Roseburg, John Wesley Reed was so Sc
riously cut by butcher knife in the hands
of Tom Mccoy, that there are small hopes
of his recovery. Our informant says
that Reed first made an attack upon young
Mccoy, and that the injury was inflicted
in self defense. Reed received severe cash
in the throat and another on the side of
the face.
e55- The ALDINE for June shows what the
landscape painters of America can do, when
they have mind to work, in black and white.
They paint pictures which are seen for a short
time in their studios, and then are seen no
more, except by their purchasers; being, in fact
as much removed from the actual world of art
as If they did not exist. 1t is otherwise with
them when they are drawn on wood, and seen
by the thousands of readers of THE ALDINE,
in every section of the country, who constitute
a powerful art constituency, and in q certain
sense represents Posterity. Mr.. Kruseman
Van Elten's oil pictures are well known to con-
noisseurs of art; his "View near CRANKY,
Conn.," in the June ALDINE, makes his talent
known throughout the United States. 1t is
delicious drawing-as picturesque as Nature
herself, when she tries to be-full of light and
life and beauty-"a song without words" Mr..
r. W. Hubbard's "Distant View of Mount
Mansfield" is one of the most delightful land
scapes we have ever seen. 1t possesses all the
Of his old paintings, th cir grace,
tenderness, and subtle beauty, and SO thorough
ly, that we have no wish to have 1t translated
into color. These two drawings are the gems
Of the number, as regards landscapes. There
are also igure-pecs of beautiful design and the
usual quantity of interesting and instructive
reading matter, with some choice poetical con-
.ributions. Subscription price S., including
Chromos " Village Belle" and "Crossing the
Moor" James Sutton g. Co., publishers, So
Maiden Lane, New York