The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-04-14
Miscellaneous News Items.

tB Ex-Judge Edmunds, tie well-known
lawyer and spiritualist, is dead.
az A Williamsport boy ran to his grand
mother the other day, and said: "Gran-
ny, run down to our house quick, for dads
drunk as a fool and mann wants to run
around awhile with them crusade folks"
GB- An Oregon Judge recently fined two
men each So and costs, and as the men had
no money he took their notes for the
amount, and thinking the State ought to
have security from its debtors, the Court
signed the notes as security.
R5Y- A French Custom House officer pos
sessed of an inquiring turn of mind, notic-
ing the arrival of a large herd of rocking
horses, thought he would see what those
animals lived on. He opened several, and
found their little stomachs full Of cigars.
eB- A boy in Greenfield, New Hamp-
shire, told his father that he guessed he
could make that hen quit setting and his
father told him to go ahead. The boys
plan was to set fire to the nest, and in car
rying it out he burned the barn and all its
contents.
BB According to the Lawrence Eagle, a
peace-loving husband of that city few
months ago agreed to give his wife three
dollars week to maintain comparative 81
lence, deducting one cent for each superfu-
GUS word she uttered. She now owes him
nearly enough to pay the city debt.
NB- 1t is singular fact that when the
funeral of the late Senator Sumner was
passing through the streets of Boston,
some obstruction in the way compelled the
hearse to remain ten minutes directly IN
front of the residence of the lady who had
once been the dead mans wife.
N. Y, April 5.-During an alteration
which took place last night at their resi-
dence, No. 81 Thompson street, Richard
Hickton, aged 10, was stabbed in the left
side by his brother John, and mortally
wounded. The wounded man states to the
Coroner, who was called, that his brother
was blameless, as he himself had been the
aggressor.
eB- A clergyman at Clarinda, Ohio, was
away from home when the crusade began.
He returned in the evening, and saw his
wife standing at the bar of saloon, sing
ing as loud as she could yell, He suppos-
ed she was drunk, and entering the saloon,
the tears rolling down his face, he said Z"
Come home. wife, you have ruined me-
nk-drunk-drunk."
Cg- At the Bebee Chemical Roofing
Works, at Hunters Point, on last Monday,
four men named Cation, Flynn, Hennessy
and O'Brien, entered one of the stills for
the purpose of repairing it. They soon
became overpowered with gas and went
into commissions. After being taken out
Cation, Flynn and O'Brien died.
EsB" Emil Lowenstein, under sentence of
death in Albany, has been puzzled in his
choice of religion. Ministers of various
denominations have visited him, and he
has been very solicitous about the matter.
At last he has decided to become Roman
Catholic, and will be baptized and prepar-
ed to die by priest of that communion, to
whom he is greatly attached.
E5y- The late Edwin Forrest and his wife
were legally separated twenty or twenty
five years ago. He died a short time since,
wealthy and childless. Recently his di-
vorced wife, who survives him, effected a
settlement with his executors who agree to
give her $95OO0, provided that she relin-
quishes all further claims against the estate.
The sum will more than keep the wolf
from her door as long as she lives.
EB-A generous, noble spirited man had
sick wife not long ago, and the doctor
said a sleigh-ride would do her good. Did
the fond husband hire a two-horse sleigh
and dash out over the breezy plains? No
he borrowed sleigh of the boy next door,
placed his wife on it, and made his hired
girl draw the sled up and down the side.
walk for an hour. But the wife failed to
thrive on the treatment.