The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-05-15
Miscellaneous News Items.


are in the dead-letter offices. That is what
became of yours. Don't think she refused
you.
tSs- At paxtonville, one day last week,
we are informed, sick child was given
wrong medicine, which proved fatal in
short time,
eg- Twenty years ago II. N. Walton, of
Washington county lost a watch which he
supposed had been stolen. The other day
he ploughed it up in one of his fields which
he cleared in 1857.
GS- Horse thieves out West build hollow
haystacks provided with hidden door,
into which the animal is driven. Much
space in Ohio papers is occupied by adver-
tisements offering rewards for horse thieves.
G5g- Oregon has new expedient for
keeping her citizens sober. Every man
who drinks is obliged to take out license
costing So. 1t is penal offence for any
liquor dealer to sell a drink to an unlicensed
person.
Gss A New Hampshire paper relates that
at Newton, in that State, mad dog, after
having been wounded, took refuge in
barn, where some of the hay became soak
ed with his blood. The hay was fed to
horse, which went mad.
GSg- John McKeever, a non-union moulder
at the Clinton Foundry, Troy, N. Y, was
attacked by three men recently, each of
whom fired on him, all the shots taking
effect. He cannot recover. His assailants
escaped.
G Cavalry take part in the hos-tilities
and tread down the infant-rye," said
Samuel so he went and bought grain
margin in Chicago. Two days later, he
remarked, with face as long as an arm of
the Danube, cts me that's been ravag-
ed"
cB- The exports of "oleomargarine," Oh
"butterine," from New York during the
seven months ended March 81 amounted
to 3,549, 629 pounds, of the value of $751;
747,of which 2, 1852, $50 pounds were shipped
to France and 991, ,399 pounds to Great
Britain.
GE- In the Philadelphia permanent ex-
hibition building a large gallery for vocal
and instrumental concerts has been put up
capable of holding $500 persons opposite
the gallery an area has been left open for
accommodating 5000 spectators at a single
pop, if they should come.
GsY- Allen Hannah of Jersey City was
recently married to Miss Hannah Allen.
The late Miss Hannah Allen is now Mrs
Hannah Hannah, and it is probably the
only woman in the world who can spell her
entire name backward and forward with
the same letters.
0SS A mocking- bird entered Methodist
church at Jackson, Tenn, the other Sun
day, and after circling around the room lit
on the railing of the alter, where it sat in
attentive silence till the close of the SER
mon, when it warbled some of it's sweetest
notes and sailed away.
gY- An English woman, who was born
without arms, has just had twins. She
wears her wedding ring on her toe, and
does all the housework with her feet with
a dexterity that is surprising. How she
will manage to nurse her twin babies is a
problem yet to be solved.
esS- Professor of Chemistry-"S "Suppose
you were called to patient who had
swallowed heavy dose of oxalic acid,
what would you administer ?" Jones, who
is preparing for the pulpit, and who only
takes chemistry because it is obligatory
81 would administer the sacrament
cB- While walking with his father Will
liam Morgan, of Erie, was shot in the head
on Friday evening. The ball entered above
the eye and emerged at the back of the
head, causing fatal injuries. The shot is
supposed to have been fired by some one
hunting in the vicinity.
gB- Frank Dunn, of Conneautville, was
out cunning the other day, and becoming
tired sat upon fence to rest. The riff Q
slipped backward out of his hand, and
when the butt struck the ground the charge
was exploded, and the ball in its fight cut
the extreme point of Mr.. Dunns nose off.
VB- The Lebanon Times says: "The
willow tree ON the lot of MIR. A. H. EN-
bich, on north Eighth street, is said to be
the largest of that kind in the State. 1t is
fifteen feet in circumference at its base.-
Its age is not definitely known, but it GER
tainly is over hundred years"
EB- Tom and Ike Reynolds, Illicit dis
tillers were wounded, the former mortally,
while resisting the attempt of four United
States Marshals to arrest them near Glas-
gov, Kentucky, on Monday week. The
officers at first refused to be arrested, but
subsequently surrendered. They refused
to give up their arms for awhile, but at
last surrendered them in the Court when
the Judge had cleared the room.
Eg- Fred. Spiegel fired at mark in Erie
on Saturday aweek, with a long-ranged
rife. The ball whistled through the air a
quarter Of mile, went through board
fence and the side of o shed, and then
struck Charles Justice, wounding him
mortally it is feared. Spiegel has been
held to await the result Of the injuries in
flioted. iae9 rln ii 'l da
eH A Partisan manufacturer has receiy-
ed an order from Turkey for a large num-
Der OF white shirts, upon which extracts
from the Koran are TO be printed in sky
blue letters. Upon a number Of white