The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-07-24
Miscellaneous News Items.

D3$- A North cumberland county farmer
has been jailed for severely cutting his son
with u sickle, which he threw at the boy.
Gay Joshua Noble, an Ohio farmer, was
knocked down by q train at Pittsburg on
Sunday, and received fatal injuries.
GB- Seven persons have lost their lives by
the boiler explosion in Lehigh county on
Saturday. The death Of another is ex-
pected.
ey- A sharp shock of earthquake oc-
Cured at River du Loup, Quebec, at three
on Wednesday morning, and lasted about
thirty seconds.
cB- A young man in Cambria county
was recently sentenced to the penintentiary
for one year for simply carryinga revolver
in his pocket.
eB- The Baston Grays, who were at
Mauch Chunk during the execution excite
ment, are in camp at Stroudsburg for eight
days.
G5S- A colored man, who came TO Reading
from Columbia, appealed to the police
authorities on Saturday night to arrest his
white wife, who he said had run away
from him.
GTS- During heavy thunderstorm
Tuesday afternoon at North Bergen, N.
j., Mrs. Augustus Sardow and her babe
and Frederick Muller were instantly killed
by lightning.
EY- The house of w. Ryan, at Black
Rock, Conn, was struck by lightning and
demolished on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
Ryan was instantly killed, and child in
her arms severely injured.
csy- The Commissioner of Savings Banks
has enjoned the Haverhill, (Mass.) Saw
ings Bank from doing further business
This was precautionary step, and intend
ed to protect the depostors.
cSy- A large burial plot in Mount Hope
cemetery, near Boston, is completely cov-
cred with flowers so arranged as to repre-
sent a book lying open on the ground, with
an inscription referring to scriptural text.
eB- At Constantinople the Softas have
demanded that the Standard of the Proph-
ct be raised for holy war, but the Palace
has decided to postpone this extreme step
till the Russians are nearer Adrianople.
G5g- AS a women at Lexington, Ca, was
about to prepare dinner, she discovered
snake coiled up in an oven of the stove.
Fearful that it might escape, she closed the
door, built fire, and baked the reptile.
cB- Farmers in the neighborhood of
Philadelphia every summer invite sick
poor children to come out and spend fe W
days in the country. Kindly women in the
city superintend the excursions, and much
good is accomplished.
ey- A sudden draught of hot air is re-
ported to have passed through a cotton
field and peach orchard in western Texas,
a few days ago, scorching and killing every
green thing ittouched for space 140 yards
wide and 400 yards long.
CB While Hugh Flynn, employed in
Edward Holden's file maDufactory, Brook
lyn, was at work among the machinery
recently, he was caught in the betting,
whirled around drum and instantly killed.
He leaves wife and two children.
eB- Fifty thousand dollars have been
paid over to the secretary of the National
Historical Society of Cincinnati. in accord
ance with the bequest of the late Charles
f. Bodmann, for many years prominent
business man Of that city.
GB- On Sunday evening three young men
committed violent assault on wealthy
lady named Sarah j. Dicks, aged 60 years
in the woods near Upland, Delaware coun-
ty. Joseph Clownley, one of the peIpe-
traitors, was arrested, and a crowd attempt
ed to get possession of him to lynch him.
EB- For some time there has been Sc
ries of frauds in the segar business in parts
of York county and on Friday Colonel
Grimmerson accompanied by Col. Stable,
of the York Office made descent upon
William G. Meade, segar manufacturer, of
Windsor township and captured and con-
flscated from him twenty thousand segars
and one hundred pounds of tobacco for
violation of the stamp laws.
ELIZABETH, N. j., July IL George
Owens, an Orangeman, stabbed Patrick
Haggerty here to-day, in quarrel about
the Montreal riot. Haggerty had been
teasing Owens and the latter. got a knife
and waited for Haggerty to come from the
workshop. The two men then began to
quarrel and Owens stabbed Haggerty sew
eral times IN the head, face and arms. The
wounded mans injuries are dangerous.
CY- The N. Y. Sun says: Mrs. Brewer,
a beautiful widow, aged 20, employed as
seamstress in the mandatory of Marley,
Eunson g. Co., on Market street, Newark,
received communication yesterday from
her grandmother's solicitors in England
informing her that her grandmother was
dead and left her splendid estate valued
at $100, 600. Her marriage was love
match. Her husband died two years ago
in Newark, and since that time she has
earned her living by her needle. She will
soon sail for England.
ST A New York paper says: For
several weeks past large quantities of linen
| goods have mysteriously disappeared from
the Scott & Ralston wholesale store, at 81
White street. Detective Handy, while
watching the store Sunday, saw man