The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-09-29
Miscellaneous News Items.


az While Chicago family were alb
sent on a summer tour, thieves entered the
house, sold out all The effects at auction
and pocketed the cash. afra'
tB- About 1000 Icelanders will soon
emigrate to Wisconsin and settle on tract
of land purchased by agents whom they
sent in advance few months ago.
Sunbury, September 92.-Hon John b.
Packer was unanimously re-nominated for
congress by the republican convention of
Northumberland county to-day.
Westchester, Pa, September 22,-The
body of man was found this morning on
the Pennsylvania railroad at Malvern sta
tion. The body was greatly mangled, and
nothing found on the body to show his
name, but the name of J. II. Hensel was
marked on his shirt and the same initials
on his stockings.
Esg- DR.. Dixon, of Portage station, was
arrested on Saturday week, and commit
ted to Jail at Ebensburg on the charge of
attempting to outrage the person of one
Mrs. Brady, who resides in the vicinity of
the same village. The parties are alleged
to be very respectable, and the affair has
created considerable excitement up at
Portage.
Wilmington, Del, September 22.-Big
Frank, one of the noted bank robbers,
made his escape from the New Castle Jail
at one a. m. An escape from the cell was
effected while the night watchman was in
the weaving room. On returning to the
corridor he saw Frank making his exit by
the door. The watchman fired at him
twice without effect.
Esg- The meeting of the Grand Lodge of
l. o. of o. +. was held last week at At
lanta, Ga. The election of grand officers
took place resulting in the election of
Deputy Grand Sire M. J. Durham, of Ken
lucky, as grand sire j. w. Stokes, of
Pennsylvania, as deputy grand sire; James
s. Ridgeley, of Baltimore, grand secretary
Joshua Vansant, mayor of Baltimore,
grand treasurer.
c5y" A terrible fire occurred at Fall River,
Mass, on Saturday morning week. The
Granite Mills, just after the operatives had
gone to work, were discovered to be on
fire and in short time were consumed
About thirty were killed, and the injured
and dying number as many more. The
fire originated from the heating of the ma
chinery in the sixth story, and cut off the
access to the stairway before the inmates
of the room could escape
Ey- One of the hard things to bring
home to the imagination is the extreme
youth of the men who made this country an
independent power. Looking at the years
against the names on Lexington and other
Revolutionary monuments and tablets, it
is difficult matter to think of the men
who fell as veterans. Gen. Warren was
not thirty at Bunker Hill. In Washing
toms Cabinet at the startIHamilton was
but thirty three, the Postmaster General
thirty-seven, the Secretary of War forty,
and Jefferson himself at forty-six was the
patriarch of the whole ministry.
tB- A distressing accident occurred in
Franklin township, near Mendenhall's
mills, in Columbia county, on Wednesday
of last week. AS Mr.. George Bucher, ac-
companied by his two little sons, was driv-
ing homo with a load of cider, the traces
broke as the team was. ascending a slope,
and the wagon ran backward over an en-
bankment and upset. By some fatal mis-
chance barrel of cider fell on one of the
little boys, killing him instantly ; the other
boy was badly cut and bruised about the
face and head, and Mr.. Bucher had leg
broken.
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