The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-11
Miscellaneous News Items.

w A iandlady said that she did not
know how TO make both ends meet. irWell,,,
said q boarder, ''why don't you make one
end vegetablesp''
rB- A Lewistown idiot, tailor by occu-
patton, is so strong temperance man that
he refuses to make any man suit of clothes
who is engaged in the liquor traffic.
lB A boy seventeen years old died in
Charlestown, Mass, Of hemorrhage re-
sultlng from the extraction of tooth six
days before, and the Boston Post SAYS that
nine Of his relatives "died from similar
causes" q
CB An infant daughter OF Rev. j. f.
Oil, of Quakertown, Bucks county, fell
out of the third-story window. She alight-
ed upon the roof of kitchen, rolled off
to the ground and escaped with slight in
juries.
~ just before leaving Boston for
Europe, Prof. Graham Bell, of telephone
fame, married the daughter of Gardiner
G. Hubbard, a deaf mute. He had SO.
carefully instructed her that she uttered
distinctly all the responses of the wedding
service
GB The Pope is said to be in tolerably
good health, considering his adva need age,
but he is fast losing his memory, and is
subject to frequent attacks of syncope.
His legs have become stiff, and the doctors
do not think he can last long in his present
condition.
GB The Lorillards, Pierre and George)
of New York, are the richest tobacconists
in the world, and form the Oldest house
in America. They are worth three millions,
and have business which brings them
annually fortune. Their ancestors ound-
ed this trade.
eg- On Monday week, Mr.. Jeremiah
Light, of Cornwall township, Lebanon CO.,
employed man as farm hand and be-
fore night he was missing, and a dark
brown horse, with the two hind feet white,
about six years old; and sixteen hands
high, was missing also.
CINCINNATI, September 3.-An excava-
tion under dwelling on Longworth street
undermined its walls and the building fell
with crash. Four women were buried in
the wreck, but only one, Mrs. Keam, was
killed. Five men were. injured, two it is
thought fatally. 1t is stated that four per-
sons are still in the ruins.
GB A lady in Cincinnati sent descrip.
tion of child she wanted to a foundling
hospital in New Orleans. A day or two ago
she received a reply that child was on its
way to Cincinnati, and few days after,
the messenger of the Adams Express rang
the bell and announced package for Mrs.
-, at the same time presenting little
girl of tender years wi tn an express label
tied to one arm.
cB- Two boys named bingham, residing
in the township Of Elk, Michigan, met
with remarkably close escape from death
by lightning recently. They were both in
bed and the fluid came down the stove pipe,
setting the bed clothes on fire and giving
both boys severe shock. One of them
was burned from his head to his feet and
the blood flowed out of his ear for some
time afterward. He has since recovered.
eB- Three weeks ago marriage took
place in Liverpool church, when an up
holsterer put down, by order ofone of the
parties, some crimson baize. When he
was about to carry it home, the sexton
claimed it on the ground that, as it had
been brought into church, it had become
holy, and it would be sacrilege to remove
it. In vain the upholsterer protested. The
sexton, full of pious zeal, would not yield
an inch, and the cloth was left under pro-
test.
CB- Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Wilson, of
Bridgewater, Beaver county, concluded to
separate. Mrs. Wilson retained the two
children and obtained divorce. Mr.. w.
removed from that city, and for seventeen
years no communication passed between
them, A few months since the daughter,
learning of the whereabouts of her father
wrote to him. A correspondents ensusd,
the result Of which was that the former
husband and wife were reunited a couple
of weeks since.
GB- The body of young won an, about
1syears of age, the daughter of Davis
Exline, of Caldwell, in Appanoose county,
Iowa, was found in stable near that place
on Monday last. There were marks upon
her throat as if she had been choked. There
was also mark on the side of her head.
which had the appearance of having been
produced by blow. The theory is that
she had been taken into the stable and