The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06
Miscellaneous News Items.

Gy- The Paris papers have accounts of
an American railway accident ION the
wooden bridge near Ash Sabula on Salt
Lake"
e.B~ John Dig, of Colorado, has married
no less than six wives during the last two
years, and in each case Dig has dug out
and left them.
GB- Mrs. Rudolph Fritsche fell OH the
ice at Bainbridge, Lancaster county, and
fractured her skull. She died few hours
afterward.
uSg- A car load of hogs that had died
from cholera arrived at Maysvlle Friday
week for reshipment to Cincinnati to be
manufactured into soap, and yet soap will
be no cheaper.
tSS Eleven merchants on Penn street,
Reading, and all in one square, have an
nounced their intention to move in the
spring on account of the high rents de-
manded by their landlords.
GB- The other day gentleman perform
ed tho astonishing feat of driving four-in-
hand with double. seated sleigh containing
four persons, from bloomsbury to Danville,
distance of ten miles, in 39t minutes.
EE A'Newark child tumbled out of the
second story window, and the mother, run
ming to gather it up, pitched beadlong
down stairs and was knocked into a state
of Inconsistencies. The youngster was
unhurt.
GB- A prominent common pleas Judge,
up the country, recently mistoOk him self in
large mirror for his brother William, and
rushing up to shake hands shattered the
reflector" to atoms. Probably he was
better acquainted with glass-of Bour-
bon.
eB- Early on Saturday evening of the
9th ult., two masked burglars attempted to
rob the house of Mr.. Danfortb, at Buskirk's
Bridge, near Troy, N. Y. Mr.. Danforth
resisted, and the burglars attempted to
murder him, but they were overpowered
and arrested by neighbors.
eT A Hazleton landlord, whose tenant
was utterly unable to pay his rent, went
on Friday week and took the outer door
away, leaving the family, of whom several
are very young, to suffer from the blasts of
winter, says the Miners Journal. Why
was not the name of the inhuman monster
given that all might know and shun him
tT Pope's couplet-that all know.
mo goose so gray but soon or late.
She'll find some honest gander for her mate"
Proved true last week at Marietta, Pa,.
when Mrs. Girl, widow of seventy,
married youth of twenty. Her parents
opposed the match, but the girl thought
she was old enough to decide for herself.
We should think 80.
gB- At st. Louis, Tuesday morning, at
the Comique Theatre, William Wiener,
the night watchman, accused A. N. Law
renee, assistant barkeeper of making some
disparaging remark about him to the head
barkeeper, which Lawrence denied, where
upon Wiener shot him in the neck, killing
him almost instantly. Wiener is under
bonds for attempting to kill his wife few
weeks ago.
EB- A gang of alleged fire insurance
policy swindlers has been broken up in
New York by the arrest of VIM. s. Hale,
of Plainfeld, N. j. The swindling firm, of
which the accused was a member, was
that of Hale, Whitney, Potter s. Co.,
having offices at No. 176 Broadway.
eB- Henrietta Grinnell, servant in the
employ of John o. Magic, at Elizabeth, N.
/ j., attempted to murder the whole family
on Monday week by putting arsenic in
their milk. Five persons were made very
! sick, and one is still very low, but there
| have been no fatal consequences as yet.
! Henrietta was arrested
tT- A crazy man, named Harrison Tur-
ner, at Sorrel Hill, Crawford county,
deliberately fred upon Milton Anderson,
tenant upon his mothers farm, with a
loaded musket killing him almost instantly.
Shortly afterward he reloaded the musket
and putting the muzzle under his chin
pressed the trigger and blew the whole top
I of his head off.
! PHILADELPHIA, January 30.-This eve
ming as John Pye and John Keegan were
returning from work they encountered
Samuel Ewing and James keenan, at Eigh.
teenth and Wharton streets, both drunk
A dispute arose which ended in Pye draw
ing chisel from his pocket and running il
into the head of Ewing, producing wound
which resulted in instant death. Keenan,
was also cut with chisel but his injuries
are not dangerous. Pye and Keenan, were
arrested.
EB- Nicholas Keyck, who was assaulted
with an axe in New York on Saturday
night, January IS, by his son George, died
few evenings since in Bellevue Hospital
from fractured skull, the result of the
blows. The father was drunk and beating