The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-09-15

along Devoe street. Suddenly George
Lutz, friend of the family, ran out of
saloon kept by Frank Morehead, in which
he had been drinking a large quantity of
lager beer, and after giving three cheers
for the newly christened infant, drew re-
volver from his pocket and began firing
salute in honor of the event.
All stood aghast when they saw him
point the weapon toward the middle of the
group, heard report, and saw Miss Lena
Chremark sink to the ground and blood
ooze from the head of a child 10 months
old, named Mary Bettinger, which she was
carrying in her arms. Examination show
ed that bullet had passed through one of
her arms and one of her hips, and then en-
tered the head of the infant, where it had
logded. The services of physician were
Immediately sought for, and Dr. Riedel
attended them both. He pronounced them
both fatally wounded. Officer Wildevoder
arrested Lutz.
GsB- Somebody ingeniously calculates that
in planting and garnering twenty acres of
corn farmer must travel at least nearly
nine hundred miles in the cornfelds alone.
81 have" he says, ga twenty acre field
forty by eighty rods. To break this up
would take one hundred and sixty-six miles;
narrowing it, about forty miles furrowing
out, ninety miles planting, about forty
five miles, if with planter and if drop
ped and then covered, ninety miles and
for each plowine of two furrows in a row,
ninety miles or, five plowings, four hun
drod and fifty miles. Thus you will see it
takes about eight or nine hundred miles of
travel to raise twenty acres of corn, not
counting going to and from the field. Be-
sides, there is some replanting, thinning,
rolling" sc,
e5g" Mr.. Combs, of Harper's Ferry, al
luded to Rev. John j. Kain as a sort of
Beecher. This raised Kahn. The reverend
gentleman did not sit down on the ragged
edge of despair, mortgage his house for
$1,000, wish he was dead, and go forth
while the clouds were flying. He only
wrote one letter. and Mr.. Combs replied to
it by the first mail, as follows:
"In reporting such infamous tales have
done an incalculable injury to the charac-
ter of this reverend gentleman, whose
reputation is pure and blameless."
G5B" A plague has broken out in Barbary.
Its chief stronghold is the village of Marsh,
and it is caused by the Arabian habit of
digging wells close to cemeteries, the graves
being so lightly covered with earth that
the rains wash off their coverings and con-
vey the impure matter beneath to the wells.
The animals, also, who had died in the win
ter in large numbers, had been left unbu-
ried, poisoning the air around the village.
The plague first appeared in March, and in
June, DIR. Laval, who has since fallen a
victim to it, declared it to be the veritable
plague.
GsS- The Notifications of Marsal, in Ger
man Lorraine, have been blown up in ac-
cordance with the announcement made
few months ago. Both gunpowder and
dynamite were used, and the former was
considered the most effective. The de-
struction of the classmates of Fort Orleans
was the most formidable part Of the work
they were charged with powder and dyna-
mite, an electric current igniting them,
and thick cloud of smoke Immediately
enveloped the fort. On its clearing off,
nothing but shapeless mass of ruins was
to be seen.
Gg- A Mr.. Burnham threw bombshell
into town-meeting at Revere, Mass, on
Thursday, by declaring that the peace
officers Of the town appointed by the Sc
lectmen were acting as g stool pigeons" in
the matter of selling rum. They are men,
bers of the Knights of Pythias, who have
lodge in Chelsea, he says, and notify the
brethren in Revere when the State consta-
bles are about to make search.
rB- The Bethlehem, Pa, Progress says
Mrs. Carol and Mrs. Ford, twin sisters,
living in South Bethlehem each gave birth
to twins on Saturday night. The attending
physician says that these cousins are almost
of an age-within an hour. These sisters
were married on the same day their first
children were born in the same month
their second in the same week, and their
third in the same hour.
EB- Recently swimming match was ar
ranged to take place at Eastbourne, Eng
land, between a fisherman and a nIastiff
dog. But there was no race, because the