The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-21
0be Cimts, Mem BloOnt6elo, l1a.


were playing in the haymow Of Mr. John
Tate, in Hunterstown, Adams county, one
of them, a little son of Mr. Boreus Deaf
rich, slid down the side of some hay, and
alighted astride Of a scythe that had been
used as knife to cut through the hay in
the NOW aud left sticking there, making
terrible cash some six inches long and into
the bone through the muscles Of the right
hip.
GsB- The traveller will find a novelty at
the Seat of Justice Kossiusko CO., Ind. 1t
is a bung factory. 1t is novelty, for moth
ing of the kind can be found elsewhere in
the United States west of Pittsburg. Nor
is mate to these shops needed, for two
bungs are made in second, with one ma
chine. One end of the bung is made little
smaller than the other by compression, and
on being dipped in the water the smaller
end rapidly swells, and that is the reason
why bungs are so tight
GB- Bottle Hill, once rich mining
region of California, was located in a way
sad for temperance man to reflect upon.
A party on prospecting tour reached the
elevation while one of them was finishing
the contents of the last whiskey bottle
The absorber expressed determination
not to go any further. The ground pros
pected rich, and the party had no reason to
regret the giving out of the whiskey.
G5s~ Folks who deposit corpses in Balti-
more Potter's field have an ingenious way
of making money out Of coffins. One day
this week wagon with coffin and a
corpse visited one of these burial places.
The grave was completed, the coffin opened,
the corpse rolled into the hole and the coffin
replaced in the wagon. 1t might be a
piece of interesting information to know
how many unfortunates this coffin has bur
led. Baltimore County Union.
GB- Gov. Bard, who has just taken to
stumping in Georgia, remarks of an enemy,
"Why my dear fellow, if you were to
throw an emetic into hell, you couldn'i
bring forth blacker villain !" That his
platform talk will be even more peppery
than his conversation may be inferred, be.
cause he says, If anybody interrupts me,
I'll call him up in the presence of all the
people, will write liar upon his forehead
and burn it in with the red-hot iron o.
eternal truth"
GB- The italian city of Milan was visited
on the afternoon nf Juna 18th hv n tarrif fif
hail storm, which did an enormous amount
of damage, and wounded thirty PERSONS
Some of the hailstones were as large al
hens eggs, and the birds, unable to fine
SHELTER. owing to the suddenness of the
storm, basketsful of dead birds, from
pigeons downward, were picked up.
great number of persons crowed for shelter
into the immense arcade or covered stree
known as the Victor Emanuel Gallery, bu
the glass roof gave way at all points, anC
a rush was made for the shops. In tht
rush several persons were injured. Ever!
pane of glass was broken in the arcade
and the iron frames were bent and broken
Skylights and windows all over the cit,
were destroyed, and roofs were broken in
The surrounding country for some distanct
suffered much, and the rice and grain crop
were damaged. In the Brera, the picture
gallery all the skylights and windows wert
smashed save one, and in the cathedral tn
great stained glass windows of Bertini wer
seriously injured.