The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-01-20
Miscellaneous News Items.

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GB- Lancaster has pedestrian who
walked five miles an hour recently and has
gone over distance of sixty miles on
stretch.
~ Mrs. William Hall, an aged widow
of Kittanning was fatally burned a few
days ago by her clothes taking fire at the
CRATE.
GB A Clergyman at Hazleton recently
appended note to a wedding notice in a
local paper announcing that it was the
099th couple he had married.
tsy- Out of one hundred jurors drawn
for the last term of the Mayors Court in
Scranton but twenty-one were capable of
writing their names.
Gsg- The idiotic Tom Morton, arrested
some time since on the charge of incendiar-
rism at Sunbury Pa, and subsequently,
has been placed in the Danville lunatic asy-
lum.
New York, January 13.-Ex-Senator
Graham, defaulting president of the Wall
kill national bank, was sentenced to-day to
ten years imprisonment in the Albany pen
itentiary.
GB- A we'll dressed, able bodied man
astonished people in State street, Boston,
New Years day by walking up and down
with large placard on his hat bearing the
inscription, " / want work.
GB A feather-bed was thrown out of the
window of the burning house of Henry
Myers, at Cambridge City, Ind. After the
excitement had subsidized, it was found that
a sleeping babe had been thrown out with
the bed, and was thus saved from death.
eBr A couple in Colebrook, Mass, tied
their sick child to the bed and went to
church. They were gone four hours, and
when they returned the neighbors attract
ed by the prisoners cries. had broken in
the door. The parents were arrested.
GB- An enthusiastic st. Louis sportsman
went out with his gun to secure a pot-pie
for dinner, and being very intent ON getting
a good shot he stepped off to the edge of
the roof and went down forty feet, amid
the explosion of fire arms and tapping of
wings. The pigeons escaped unhurt.
eB Mike Ilannegan, rough and des-
perate prisoner in Winona, Minnesota,
kindled fire ON the floor of his cell, and
trusted to the chance Of % hole being burn
ed through before he was burned up. The
latter result had been nearly accomplished
when the keepers discovered and quenched
the flames.
EsY- A young lady in Jeffersonville was
recently made the victim of a heartless
practical joke. She was almost overwhelm-
ed with confusion by the discovery that
she had been walking she street with a
placard pinned to the back of her dress
upon which was printed, $4,000 children
wanted"
EsB- Mrs. David Cleveland, of Pawlet,
Vermont, tried to burn camphor over
kerosene lamp, and it will never be known
whether 1t was the camphor or the keTo-
sene that first exploded. Mrs. Cleveland
thinks it was the camphor that burned her
neck, and the kerosene that set fire to her
dress.
EB- They have caught a Chicago preach
er in tho act of stealing his sermons. A
thrilling discourse delivered by him ON the
occasion of the loss of the Vile du Havre
was ascertained to be transcript Of a
sermon preached by DR.. Chaplin Of New
York when the Arctic was shipwrecked
some years ago.
Brooklyn January 13.-Special police
man r. NJ. Murdoch, employed at Green
wood cemetery, residing in Twenty-second
street, shot his wife, Emma L. Murdock,
through the head, killing her instantly,
last night. She was entering the house by
the rear at o p. NJ, aud he mistook her
for thief.
gB- A family residing in Beaver avenue,
Allegheny, were thrown into intense ex-
citement on Thursday night, by the noise
made by skillful burglar. A strong force
of policemen were hastily summoned, and
thorough investigation instituted, which
resulted in the discovery of huge black
cat, masculine gender, frOliclring around the
garret. No arrest.
CB- A German farmer in Wisconsin hav-
ing missed some grain from his barn, set
fox trap so as to catch the arm of any
one who should attempt to open the door
of that edifice. About midnight the thief
was taken in the trap, and howled Justify
in his anguish, but he was not released by
the farmer until morning, when he was