The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-01-14
Miscellaneous News Items.

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B- In Baltimore all the Catholic
churches are making concerted effort in
the temperance cause, which promises
great good Their meetings are largely
attended.
tB- In Clearfeld county, on Friday a
week, vote was taken, as provided for in
the Local Option bill, on the question of
license or no license. The prohibitionists
carried the day from 800 to 1000 majority.
GY As Mrs. John Kelsea, of Lisbon, N.
H., was attending to domestic duties, the
other morning, she suddenly exclaimed,
CAN is dark cannot sce," and, falling
unconscious into her husbands arms, died
in a few moments.
A Kentucky man set out to husk eighty
bushels of corn the other day, but right
in the busiest part of the task he was called
off to shoot man who had proposed
elopement with his wife. He therefore fell
short two bushels.
GB-At Springfield, Ohio, on Tuesday
night, Nancy Northington was murdered
by her husband, and her son terribly mu-
tilated, his skull being crushed with an
axe. 1t is supposed the husband was in
toxicated.
az" A very strange and fatal disease is
spreading among the cattle in Franklin
township, Ohio, the symptoms of which are
spasms and G eneral weakness. No cattle
thus attacked have yet recovered, gener-
ally dying in a very few hours from the
first attack.
Washington, Jan. 0.-Yesterday after
noon, while Edward Farrow, an old soldier,
at the Soldiers Home was herdiug cattle,
he was attacked by bull and gored in the
neck. The larynx being completely sew
cred. Farrow lived a few hours only.
GB- Last week VIM. e. Deegan, while
going through the woods in the neghbor-
hood of Thorndale, Sullivan county, came
upon drove of five deer. He had a'mark-
hammer in his hand which he threw and
knocked one of the deer down, and then
ran up and caught it alive.
g55- A clear case of conscience comes from
Providence, where woman, who lost her
purse some months ago, recently found it
hanging to the door bell with So, and a
note from the thief asking that " may be
forgiven, as it is my first real sin, and |
will promise to make amends in the
future"
CB~ AT a fight among quarrymen in
near Saugerties, New York. ON New Years
night, Miss Hillyer had the top of her
head beaten off Mrs. Stewart had several
ribs broken and was fatally injured an
other woman was also brutally beaten, and
some twenty men, the combatants, were
also more or less wounded.
G7y- James L. Watson, native OF Sa-
vannah, Georgia, and Benjamin Crowder,
an Englishman, have been tried at De-
bruckin, Hungary, and the former SEN
fenced to six months imprisonment, for
remarks not considered complimentary to
the Emperor of Austria, and the latter to
three months imprisonment for resisting
arrest on the same occasion.
Chilicothe, Jan. 9.-There is rumor
prevailing here that an explosion occurred
in the burning mountain near Bainbridge,
in this county, on Tuesday evening. This
mountain has contained internal fires since
October last, and so far no person has ad-
vanced any plausible theory to account for
| their existence
Cairo, January 10.-This morning q
small boat containing two dead men drifted
past Columbus, Ky. One of the bodies
was in a sitting position, with the head
dropping The other was lying in the bot
tom of the boat, which was surrounded by
field Of ice, rendering it impossible to
reach the boat from the shore. 1t is sup
posed that in attempting to cross the river
the boat was caught in the ice and the men
were frozen to death.
eB-The Baldwin Locomotive Works
have closed contract for supplying Rus
sian house with nine engines, to be used in
Finland, on the Hungo road. The locomo-
tives are to be of five feet gauge, of the
ordinary American pattern, with 15x25
inch cylinders, 90 inch driving wheels, and
will burn wood. This is a high compli-
ment paid to American skill and enterprise.
Indeed, such compliments are becoming
quite common, and the day is not far dis
tant, under proper encouragement, when
the products of our manufacturers will be
in all the principal markets of the world.