The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-21
Miscellaneous News Items.


had taken shelter under tree in Lancaster
county on Saturday week. Two cows
were killed at another point.
Gsg- A joker in Dansvlle slyly put paw
ing stone into the cannon with which a
salute was being fired, and SO the side of
Squire Bagley's house was knocked in.
C5y- The American Bible Society is going
to supply all the railroad cars with Bibles.
Is it their idea that railroad travellers es-
pecially need preparation for death?
Gsg- A fire at Streator, ILL.,, on Sunday,
destroyed an entire block. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000 to $4,000 with but
little insurance.
CSg-A hurricane at Lowell Mass, did great
damage on the afternoon of Thursday last.
Church steeples were blown down, build
ings were unroofed, trees twisted off and
things were mixed up promiscuously.
esg~ David Martin, who took a little boy,
loaded his pants with brickbats, and threw
him into Cape Fear river, punching him
with pole until he was drowned, is only
twelve years old, and under sentence of
death in New Hanover county, North Car
olina.
Atlanta, Ca, July ia lumber train
this morning fell through a trestle work Of
the Peach Tree Creek bridge, on the Air
line Railroad. One colored man was kill
ed outright and six seriously injured. The
bridge and trestle was torn up. The badly
wounded were brought to this city.
GS- An intelligent shepherd dog did a
good thing, over in Lancaster county, the
other day. He was in grass field with
his owner, who was driving two horses to
a moving machine. The gentleman leav-
ing his horses for a moment, they started
off on a run, but the dog quickly followed,
seized the lines in his mouth and stopped
them.
CB- In Columbia county, Ga, on Friday
morning, colored man, named Dogett,
and his three sons, were arrested by a
deputy sheriff and his posse, for alleged
riotous conduct Soon afterwards the pris-
oners attempted to run away, when they
were all shot dead by their captors. A cor
oner's jury gave a verdict Of justifiable
homicide"
e5y- Jack Johnson colored, has been ar
rested in Savannah on the charge of cruel
ly beating and mangling little negro girl,
and finally breaking her neck. The
charge is against him and his wife, but the
woman has fled. johnson says the most
of the beating was done by his wife. The
little girl lived with them, but was mol
their child.
! az" On the 18th inst, Mrs. John Moatz,
residing about ten miles south of McCon'
nesburg while laboring under a state Of
mental alteration, seized gun, and while
her husband was sleeping shot and killed
him instantly. She then with a razor in
flicted horrible wound upon the head and
face of one of the children, and with q pitch.
fork almost killed another. The children
are in a critical condition.
"a The Aurora, ILL.,. Herald says A
gentleman came into this Office the other
day with one side of his face badly swoller
and one eye greatly infiamed, caused by
the poison of potato bug He struck Z
bug with piece of lath, and some of the
Juice struck MS iace near MS eyeiid'-
Physicians consider the bug more powerful
as bllsterlng agent than the Spanish
flies.
tB- While New York has been swelter
ing under 100 degrees Newfoundlanderl
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