The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-08-12
Miscellaneous News Items.

Gsg- Very little difference between pen
knife and Congressman. One has
steal back and the other "a back steal,"
that's all.
GB- A shaker basket maker at West
Pittsfield, Mass, has inherited $24, 900
from a relative in Ireland. He proposes
to shake the basket business Immediately.
st. Louis, August GA gentleman from
Carlinville, Illinois, says man, who re-
fused to give his name or antecedents, was
arrested in that city on Monday last, on
suspicion of being one of the party who
recently robbed the railroad train in Iowa.
New York, August 6.-The investigation
into the tax list Of the city, which have
been going on some time. show such scan
dalous frauds on the people that the AL
dermanic Committee refuse to sign the list
until it is revised.
London, August 5.-A terrible collision
occurred last night on the Lancashire and
Yorkshire railroad.
Two passenger trains, while running be-
tween the towns of Leeds and Manchester,
collided with great force, throwing both
trains from the track. Twenty of the pas
sengers were killed and seriously injured.
Gas- Two horses belonging to s. Andrews
of Greenwood, Clark county, Wis, were
stung by hornets recently. They tipped
over a load of hay, broke the wagon into
fragments, and dashed across the field at a
fearful rate. Finally, one Of the horses
ran against stump, and was killed almost
instantly from the bursting of blood YES
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GB Scientific men tell us that if pianos
stand north and south the tone of the in
strument is much improved. This is true
especially when the piano is thumped by
a learner. About one hundred and fifty
miles north and south of you is the proper
position for the instrument to stand when
being maneuvred by young thing taking
her first lessons. 1t improves the tone
wonderfully.
GB- On Friday week, an aged man
named William j. Reed, of Sinking Valley,
was arrested and lodged in Jail, charged
with committing an outrage upon his daugh-
ter, girl of 16 years. 1t is thought pretty
generally that the charge was "put up
job by the girl, she having had difficult
ty with her father some time before the
commission Of the alleged offence, and had
left her home.
GB- A special dispatch from San Anto-
MO, Texas, reports threatened riot grow
ing out of severe chastisement given to a
negro soldier by Captain Flynn, whose
daughter the negro had insulted. The
officers commanding the negro troops sent
word to the city officials that they could
not control their men, and the citizens i'm
mediately turned out in force. The mill
tary authorities then ordered the negro
soldiers out of town, and by their influence
quiet was restored.
g5B- Peter Zimmerman and son Of Au-
gustaville, Snyder county, in coming to
Sunbury, on Friday, met with an accident
that resulted in serious injury. In coming
over the hill at Purdytown, the shaft be-
came partly detached from the vehicle
when the horse ran away and upset the
wagon, throwing out its occupants. The
son became entangled in the lines, and
dragged some distance. Mr.. Zimmerman
received severe cash on the forehead, and
the boy serious bruises about the head and
body Their injuries were such that they
could not be removed to their homes for
several days. Free0urg CouTer. f''a !