The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-02-17
Miscellaneous News Items.


G5g- Benoni Howard, the millionaire
match manufacturer of New York, con-
victed of having counterfeited United
States Internal Revenue stamps, was on
Saturday sentenced to five years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary.
az John A. Bopple, wealthy brewer
of Newark, New Jersey, in 1869 erected a
magnificent brewery. A few weeks ago
he discharged his employees and closed his
brewery, having become convinced that in
temperance is the great curse of the world.
Allentown, Pa, February 9.-Alfred
| Tilly and William Finger, employed at the
Allentown rolling mills, were both smoth-
cred to death this afternoon while at work
fixing valve at the bottom of we'll con-
nected with the mills.
GB- The heavy gale which prevailed last
Thursday, on the Baltic Sea caused it to
overflow along the entire eastern coast of
Schleswig Holsten. The dilkes protecting
the lowlands were burst in many places,
and great tracts of country were flooded.
The damage to property is immense, and
serious loss of life is feared.
GB- The people of Gilroy, Cal. are enjoy
ing the luxury of fresh strawberries Many
ofthe vines in the vicinity are in full bloom,
while others contain berries in varions
stages of growth, from those just in the in
ception to those waiting for the warm rays
of the sun to ripen them, while still others
are ready to be picked.
Ga5" Nellie Weeman has killed herself in
Springfield, Mass, at the age of seventeen,
because she believed she could not become
a christian. She had attended revival meet
ing in Methodist Church, and the dread
Of eternal punishment there aroused had af-
fected her mind. She was bright intellec-
tual girl but very sensitive and impossible.
Cg- A boy living at Slopertown Iowa,
was fatally injured on Saturday of last
week. He had made gun of piece of
gas pipe by pounding piece of iron into
one end of it for breach, and when he
fired this piece of metal was blown out,
entering his forehead and burying itself in
his brain.
GaS- Last week the body of f. b. Hester,
of Berks county, was discovered 10 field
near Newark, Ohio, perforated with two
bullets. In one hand the young man
grasped new revolver. 1t is supposed he
committed suicide. Hester had left his
home but few weeks before, and the
probability is that he committed the deed
while under great mental distress caused
by failure to get work.
G8- In Philadelphia, on Sunday night
horse attached to an empty sleigh dashed
down Gray's Ferry road until he came to
the railroad bridge and ran over the trestle
work for forty feet, when he become fast
The police had followed him, and used all
efforts to extricate him, but failed, and, as
a last resort, had to push him through the
trestles. He fell distance of twenty feet
and all thought he would be killed, but to
their astonishment he got up and walked,
and was only bruised about the body.
GB- A few days ago gentleman in Con-
cord, N. H., purchased black horse and
took him to livery stable for keeping.
The proprietor has white eat which
strays about the stable, but the other night
nothing was seen of her. On going to the
stall of the black horse the next morning
the cat was found cuddled upon the horse's
back sound asleep. She was taken off, and
made persistent efforts to get back again,
but was prevented from doing So The
horse became restless, and the cat was per-
mitted to 60 back again, when she imme-
diately went to sleep and the horse became
quiet.