The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-11-24
Miscellaneous News Items.


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eB- A farmer named Walz was set upon
on Wednesday evening a week in the su-
burbs of Allegheny city, robbed and muir
dered by two unknown men.
UB- A man named John Klee, aged 90
years, fell dead at Scranton on Saturday
while running to overtake train which
was starting from the railroad depot He
was subject to heart disease.
t5y- Gen. Jacob Mumma, of Fulton county,
was killed by falling from passenger train
on Thursday week. He was on his way
to visit brother in Illinois, in company
with his son, at the time Of the fatal acci-
dent.
C5y~ Judge Acheson has decided that
school directors cannot change the text
books to be used in the schools under their
charge during the session of the schools, it
must be done before the school year COM
mences, in conformity with the act of
1854.
ca An unknown tramp was recently
found hanging, head downward, on the
fence of cemetery in Uxbridge, Mass.
His foot had caught between the pickets
and he had been unable to extricate him
self. The horrors of such death, at such
a time and place, are unpleasant to con-
template.
tg- The dog of Cap. Williams Of North
Mosa r..
his masters funeral that he had to be
chained in the barn, When released he
searched the premises for his master, and
tracked the body to the graveyard, whittier
he goes daily and mourns for his lost
owner.
GB- A young girl in Boston accused of
receiving a stolen shawl worth $25, fort
night, ago, deposited $50 with a man who
became her bail, and on Thursday she was
proved innocent, but her bondsman return
ed her but $50, charging twenty for the
use of his name for two weeks, and her
lawyer brought in bill of $40.
EY- Patrick Devor, of Vienna, Rush
county, Indiana, was exasperated because
his pistol wouldn't go off, and threw it ON
the floor with such force as to explode one
of the cartridges, and the ball struck his
daughter who was sitting at the table sew
ing, hitting her just below the right eye,
and passing upward into her head, almost
instantly killing her. 1t is reported that
her mother nearly died with grief, and her
father almost became insane.
rB- A strange potato was found at Nun
da, N. Y, recently, which the Dansville
AdpertiScr' describes as follows: 1t was
dug in that town, weighed about three
pounds, and contained within itself very
singular thing. A stem like something
protruding from one and was seen to move
as if it had life. The potato was cut open,
and the stem was found to be the tail of a
something inside which seemed to be half
potato aud half animal. 1t was about as
large as a mouse, with a brown color, was
shaped like potato, with indentations
like potato eyes, and yet seemed to be COM
posed of animal flesh, and had life and mo-
tion. No one had seen anything at all re-
sembling it. 1t was to be taken to Roches-
ter and shown to scientists.
GEE An exchange vouches for the fol-
lowing A farmers boy in Ohio observing
a small flock of quaiIs in his fathers corn
field, resolved to watch their motions. They
pursued very regular course in their for
aging, commencing on one side ofth field,
taking about five rows, and following them
uniformly to the opposite end, returning
in the same manner over the next five rows.
They continued in this course until they
had explored the greater portion Of the
field. The lad suspicious that they were
pulling up the corn, fired into the flock,
killing but one of them, and proceeded to
examine the ground. In the whole space
over which they had travelled he found but
one stalk of corn disturbed. This was
nearly scratched out Of the ground, but the
ground still adhered to it. In the craw of
the quail he found ono cut-worm, twenty-
one striped vine-buga and one hundred
chintz bugs, but not single grain of
cOFn.