The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-08-11


failed in Washington there was general
belief that the President was largely its
creditor. His salary had always been drawn
by the bank, and it was supposed that he
must lose something considerable by the
failure. When the statement Of the bank
receiver came to be made, however, it was
found that the bank owed him nothing
and then came report that he had been
privately notified before the failure in time
to draw out his deposits. This again was
contradicted, and it appears that the case
was quite different. During the recent ex-
animation of members of the bankrupt
firm of Jay Cooke & Co. before the United
States Court in Philadelphia, Henry d.
Cooke swore that at the time of the sus-
! pension the individual account Of Ulysses S.
Grant was overdrawn to the amount of
! $2,506,7 78. So that instead of the bank ow-
ing him he was actually in debt to the
bank. 1t is funny circumstance and
shows how much public rumor may some-
times err in figures.
cS~ A party in this county are engaged
in the,business of selling Chromos, which
they purchase in Boston. They travel all
over this State as we'll as other States,
and when they run out of any kind they
write home and request the wife to order.
Last week they ran out of an interesting
picture called "The Twins" One of them
wrote to his wife to telegraph at once to
/ Nha NJ HO rIt H.
twins in Boston," The dispatch was sent
by way of another place, where it happens
there is female operator. thread "Send
all the twins in Boston, She was nom
| plussed, and at once asked the other opera
tor whether he telegraphed "twins." He
answered "twins." Not satisfied with an
order that asked for call the twins in Bos-
ton," she repeated her question whether he
meant twins-and to be sure, she spelt out
the word twins. He answered that was
what he meant. She asked no more ques-
tions, but has no doubt been in quandary,
ever since, why any one should order all
the twins in Boston
eB- There was an old couple at the CEN
trail depot the other day waiting to go
through to the West, and they seemed low
ing enough until the old man went out and
returned smoking hve-cent cigar and his
hat slanting over his left ear. The wife
looked at him twice before she could re-
cognize him, and then opened her mouth
and said "What'd l tell ye, Philetus
Remington, before we left New Jersey
Didn't say you'd go and make fool of
yourself the first chance you got?" He
tried to pacify her by saying that the cigar
only cost five-cents, but she shouted 'You
teased and teased till let you git your
boots blacked then you wanted some soda
water; then you bought apples on the
train, and here's another five-cents thrown
away 1t all counts up, and if you don't
die in the poor-house then my name hain't
Sary ''-Detroit Free Press
GB- A western paper tells of a
man who sat down to one of the eating
stands in the market and called for sew
enty-five cents worth of "the best in the
/ house, 1t was handed to him, and it
made peoples eyes hang out to see him
eat. He was about half an hour at it, and
when he got up remarked that he had for
gotten his pocket book. The woman grab
bed butcher knife and started for him,
but instead of running away he laid his
hand on her shoulder and whispered -
''Be calm, and above ALL don't excite me.
My fit comes on regularly every day at this
hour, and then get wild, kick, bite, yell,
and tip over things. feel it coming now.
If there's policeman in the market go and
get him, and let him take me to the station
right away b9tore kill some one !" She
ran to get On officer, and the man ran the
other way.
GsY- How the farmers of Wright county,
Iowa, drove away the grasshoppers is re-
vealed by the local paper. The crops of
the county were abundant, and anxious
husbandmen we're in hopes that these de-
structive pests would not appear till after
harvest. At once they came, in clouds
that darkened the sun. By preooncerted
plan the farmers set fire to piles of dry
straw on the borders Of the wheat fields,
and smothered the blaze with green hay.
That caused volumes of smoke to roll over
the fields. The grasshoppers didn't relish
the procedure at all. They rose with such
a multudinous hum of wings as to deepen
into roar like distant thunder and fed
the county. In thatway the Wright coun-
ty farmers have fair prospect of saving
the crops.