The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-05-06

age, oho ChdSOe Oianna DelnB JnlrDy-Iour.
Miss Levitt tried for $50, ,OeO damages, but
the unsentimental jury failed 20 see it in
that light, although there was read to them
a letter sent by her to the defendant in
which she avowed that he had "caused
her to shed tears enough to run a small
sized grist-mill." )"
Halifax, May 1.-The steamer Lacka-
wanna arrived to-day at noon from the
scene Of the wreck of the, Atlantic. The
wreck has been almost blown to pieces
with gunpowder. A large quantity of
goods was recovered yesterday. Fourteen
bodies were brought up on Tuesday and
twenty-seven yesterday, mostly women,
being frightfully mutilated. They were
Immediately buried. The total number of
bodies thus far recovered is 349
eB- At Boston on the first inst, in the case
of Timothy Horgan striking horse shoer,
on trial for assaulting Peter Pilkington,
non-society man, thecjury rendered ver-
dict of guilty. His counsel asked that he
might be leniently dealt with, but Judge
Dewey said that he proposed to teach such
persons that they could not interfere with
the employment of others with impunity,
and sentenced Horgan to six months i'm :
prisonment.
tB- At Kingston, New York, on the
3oth ult., the wife Of Louis Heydegger,
while laboring under fit of temporary
insanity, produced by an attack Of puer-
peral fever, took her infant, nine days old,
and went to cistern in the yard, into
which, with the infant, she forced her way
through an narrow opening. Her hus-
band, missing his wife, instituted search
and soon found her body with life extinct.
The infant was found shortly afterwards
dead.
EaB~ A singular explosion occurred in
Chicago in a clothes cleaning and dyeing
establishment. A room in which garments
were cleaned with benzine became SO filed
with gas thati caught fire from stove and
exploded, filling the room with fame. A
little child of the proprietor, L. Harding,
received severe injuries, as did Robert Sim
son, an employee.
eB- In Philadelphia, last week a sad
affair occurred at the residence of VIM.
Gilmore. His two sons-William, fifteen
years old, and George, seven years old
were playing; the first named having a rife.
While pointing it at the head of George
the load was discharged and passed into
the brain at the forehead between the eyes.
Death was instantaneous.
EB-At Albany N. Y. John F. Payne and
wife colored, complained of Aaron Richard
son, proprietor of the Opera House, fol
ejecting them from that place Of amuse.
ment few evenings since, and warrant
was issued for the arrest of Richardson
This is the first case under the Civil Rights
bill passed by the present Legislature.
t59- The Rev. Kenneth II. Campbell
formerly pastor of the Baptist Society al
East Dedham, Massachusetts, is on trial in
the Norfolk County Superior Court on {
charge of immortality. Miss Sarah J. Ho
we'll, young woman of twenty years o.
age, is the plaintiff. Campbell is a married
man and about thirty years of age.
rB~ At Bremen, Ohio, ON the 1st inst.
Mrs. Kellenberger was shot and Instant,
killed by her brother-in-law, John Schemel
zer, while attempting to release some o
her cattle, which the latter had impounded
Mrs. Kellenberger was widow and th
head of large family. Schneider, is il
Jail.
t5B- On the 28th ult., the station-hous
at the crossing of the Louisville, New A.
bany and Chicago, and Lake Shore Raj
ways was burned to the ground and ;
man aged 70, named Klees, his daughte
and five children, living in the station
house, perished in the flames.
tB- A. J. Donahue, hung for murder @
Red Bluff, California, on the 18th, delivere
himself of this jest in his last moments
When the Sheriff adjusted the rope abor
his neck he said 81 say Sleeth, can't yo
put that under my arms? was alway
ticklish about my neck
eB- On the 29th ult., q colored farl
| laborer, named George Burke, Of Collins
vile, Illinois, while drunk chopped off IL
f head and one arm Of Maria Bowman, ear
threw the body into ravine. Jealous
prompted the deed.
: CB- At N. Y, on Friday afternoon a loi
Q of furniture, worth $4,000, was stolen b
: robbers, who knocked the driver off Il
team, and threw boy into the stree
The owner caught one, but while awaitiI
tho arrival of a nnlicennan the other rohh