The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-09-01
Miscellaneous News Items.

Gs8 A wag walked into saloon where
three men were sitting around the freless
stove. AS he entered all eyes were turned
toward him. Apparently taking mental
inventory of the number of people in the
room the newcomer stepped up to the bar
and blandly ordered four glasses of beer.--
The boots that had adorned the top of the
stove now sought the floor, the three men
cleared their mouths of tobacco, and all
looked at the bartender as he filed the
glasses and placed them in row on the
bar. When everything was ready, the
three loungers rose and the stranger paid
for the beer, and then starting with the
glass furthest from the door, he emptied
all that the bartender had filled and quick
ly left the saloon. The three chairs were
resumed.
GB A correspondent writes as follows of
a celebrated place in Colorado Canon, called
Echo Park; "When gun is discharged,
total silence follows the report for a moment;
then, with startling suddenness, the echo
is heard, seeming at great distance-say
five miles to the south-whence it comes
back in separate distinct reverberations, as
if leaping from glen to glen. Louder and
quicker grows the sound, until apparently
directly opposite, when full volume is re-
turned then once more the echo is heard,
like the swapping of a cap far to the east
ward"
fNr1er 10 nl GVnsf .
"Whiskey is what ails you, sir, and if some
good kicker would get hold of you and boot
you from Hamtramck to Springwells it
would do you more good than run of the
fever. When I see young man like you
loafng around, clothes in rags eyes red,
nose red, pockets emtpy, and feathers in
his hair, wonder why the lightning ever
strikes any one else. Take him back, BIZ
jah, and when the Maria starts make him
waltz up lively"
GB- On the 10th of September, 1945, a
ball of lightning presented itself at the door
of a kitchen, in the valley of La Courieze.
Three women experienced no fear in the
presence of the strange visitor. They
shouted to a young man near whose feet
the ball was rolling, to step upon it and
extinguish it. But he had learned to re-
spect the mysteries of the fluid, and allow
ed the ball to pass by. 1t entered stable
near to, and killed pig who dared to scent
it in most rude and unbecoming manner
Nay- On Monday last two sons of Henry
Myers, Of New York, and another lad
named Hopke, crossed the Hudson river
in boat near Hastings, and attempted to
climb the palisades. After reaching
height of $50 feet the elder of Myers sons
fell, carrying his brother with him to the
bottom of the ravine. The Oldest was kill
ed instantly, and the younger boy fatally
injured
GsS A workman in shop at Newport, RI.
the other day, was caught by a revolving
shaft which took off every bit tof his clothes,
except his shirt collar, wristbands and
boots, and flung him into heap of shavings
ten feet of, without hurting him. The job
was done in about the four-hundredth part
of q minute.
ssB- A Concord, N. H., man has been
very much annoyed by SCOT and cinders
thrown from the windows of manufactory
close to his dwelling, but the proprietor de-
clining to put a stop to the nuisance the
householder has built brick wall up with
in an inch of the windows from which the
manufactory formerly got air and light.
GB- The attorney general has received
dispatch from jefferson City, NO., setting
forth that Deputy United States Marshal
Metcalf was shot and killed in Wright
county, Missouri, yesterday, while arrest
ing one Wynn, an Illicit distiller. The de-
partment of justice has been asked to
furnish detectives to pursue the murderer
London, August 26.-A member of the
Merchants club at Manchester, while in
the club-room yesterday, shot Alexander
MacLean, killing him instantly. The
murderer then killed himself. Both were
prominent merchants. The cause OF the
tragedy is mystery.
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