The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-07-17
Miscellaneous News Items.

even allow the Grand Union Hotel to
receive any guest who Jews tobacco
eB-A blind beggar, arrested as vagrant
at Newburyport, Mass, was found to have
about 49, 500 in money and valuables on
his person, accumulated by the industrious
pursuit of his profession.
CB- A young man and girl in trousers
were arrested in Davenport, Iowa. They
were an eloping couple, and she had put on
boys clothes so as to elude the vigilance
of her mother.
eB- Mr.. James Turker, of Grayson CO.,
KY, was recently killed by hogshead of
tobacco falling on him, and yet there are
people who say tobacco isn't injurious to the
system.
GE- Two hundred horses have been dis
abled by their feet being badly burned by
lime in the burnt district at St. John, N. b.
Ten thousand dollars additional have been
received from Chicago for the sufferers.
Rebuilding is going on briskly.
cB- 1t is said that jefferson Davis, in
his forthcoming book, will assail Gen. Joe
Johnson with severity, and hold him re-
sponsible for the failure of the Confederates
to seize Washington after their victory at
Bull Run.
GB An enormous lode of copper, lead,
gold and silver, twenty feet in width and
extending for miles has recently been dis
covered in Milan, N. H. The load crosses
the Grand Trunk Railway one hundred
miles west Of Portland.
H5S- Nine Cinnamon were arrested in
Winters, Oregon, for catching fish by using
poison. Poisonous red berries were cover
or with a nd ;,,tk IL Ao.
The fish rose Immediately to the surface
as though they were dead, and were easily
captured.
GB- At three o'clock Monday afternoon
the steamboat j. N. Camden, en- route
from Parkersburg to Pittsburg, exploded
both her boilers and sank at the head of
Fish Creek Ripple. William Barnard, the
pilot, and three colored men of the crew
were instantly killed.
cB Something scorched a space hun
dred yards wide and six times as long in
Western Texas, in recent storm. The
residents generally think remarkably
broad flash of lightning may have done it,
but there are superstitious persons who
are sure that the devil did it with his hot
feet.
GB- There is wonder in Blair county,
Pa. AT the formal occupation of a new
court house there, a citizen-one whose
word is usually taken for trr sh--alluded to
the structure as "built without even a
complaint of malversation in office, or
other dereliction of duty upon the part of
those connected with it,"
tB- Last week Mrs. Nancy Root, of
Chester county, while engaged in milking
COW was attacked by a bull. She was
thrown to the ground and gored in the
most frightful manner in the abdomen and
sides and would doubtless have been killed
but for the appearance on the scene of a
woman who attacked the infuriated animal
with pitchfork.
GB- George Larison, young lad living
at Stockton, N. j., while at work in field
few days ago, noticed fight going on
between his dog and some feathered object.
He went to the scene of action and found
his dog in conflict with big eagle. The
lad threw stone which struck the bird on
the head and stunned it. He then carried
it to safe place. The bird, which turned
out to be bald eagle, soon recovered.
tg- Jacob Levin was committed for trial
in Boston, on charge of shooting at his
son, from whom he had been estranged.
with companions to have his father impris-
oned. The pistol was fired by one of the
plotters in way that would lead witnesses
to suppose that Mr.. Levin did it, and at a
time when the son had Intentionally started
quarrel.
% A train on the South Coast Railway,
in England, was stopped by the engineer,
owing to the sudden appearance on the
franlx Of a iro n h11 about 10
locomotive. The beast was driven off but
he returned to the charge, and the train
was stopped a second time. Finally the
fireman, armed with long poker, and
aided by the engineer, drove him into a
field, and the train was enabled to proceed.
e58- Lafayette p. Thompson, who owns
a farm in Huntington county, Ind, near
Antioch, walked into the Home of the
Friendless, at Fort Wayne, on Sunday
week, and said he wanted to look at the
girls there, with the view of choosing a
wife. The girls were trotted out, but the
first chosen wouldn't have Thompson. He
then selected Annie Lysher, and she gladly
accepted him.
cSB- Mrs. Leiss of Womelsdorf saw
lying on the carpet in her parlor what she
supposed to be piece of rope, and stopped
to pick it up, when the object commenced
to move, and felt to her touch as cold as ice.
Upon examination it proved to be a copper
head snake, three feet long. The snake
was carried into the house with the carpet,
which had laid on. the grass in the rear
yard during the house cleaning.
Esy- The Bethlehem Times says "It
is reported as a fact that one of the Beth
lehem School Directors, ON being upbraid-
ed for voting for the per centum reduction
of teachers wages, excused himself by