The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

few miles north of Ada, o., drove into that
town Saturday evening week with a
splendid horse and hitched on Main street.
Some unknown party took the horse out OF
the buggy and put in its place an old horse
one hundred dollars inferior TO the one
taken.
G8- The following is literal copy of an
address upon letter recently mailed in
New York I" For mister patrick Davy
Crarston, rhode inland in the state of neu
york to be Handed to bridget flaherty teu
be handed for her sister ann madigan pau
tucket rhodd land ten remain in the post
offis till called for monday week"
GB- d. M Bride an Allegheny county
grand juror, has been arrested on charge
OF participating in the recent Pittsburgh
riots. 1t is alleged that he was on Cliff
street with a gun in his hand on the Sun
day on which the trouble occurred, and
that he endeavored to ncite people to the
commission of unlawful acts.
eS Judge Hall, of the Bedford and
Somerset districts, was taken suddenly i'll
last week with congestion of the lungs,
and is at present lying in precarious con-
dition. His serious sickness makes it nee
essary for some other presiding judge to
take his place at the opening day of the
regular Bedford county term of court
GB -Four prisoners, named Spencer,
McKuhn, Waltenbaugh, and Woods, es-
capped from the Armstrong county Jail on
Thursday. The prisoners crowded behind
the door at the hour the sheriff usually
entered the Jail with ice for use in the
culinary department The minute he
opened it they showed him roughly in and
he fell down, while the men broke out,
closing the door behind them, and before
the official could recover himself they were
out of sight.
Vg- The ground of acquittal from mur-
der upon which young oolored man es-
capped at Rockport, Ind, recently, was that
he believed his victim to be ghost. He
was passing through the woods at night
with gun, when suddenly a white object
appeared in his pathway. Terror-stricken,
he mechanically raised his weapon, and
fired, bringing the ghost down mortally
wounded, which turned out to be a colored
neighbor walking home with white sheet
wrapped about him.
GB- A Rhode Island woman who died
recently expressed dying wish that she
should not be buried or placed in tomb.
Her husband consequently built stone
cottage on the shore of the bay, exactly
like an ordinary dwelling externally, in the
cellar of which her body is kept. The
building has but one room, which is fitted
up with furniture they had in their parlor
when first married, and the surviving men,
bers of the family spend an hour or SO
there in devotions every Sunday.
GEE The Philadelphia and Erie mail
train north, due at Muncy Pa, at a quarter
before eight O'Clock, collided with afreight
train near that place on Saturday morning
a week. The baggage and express cars,
with their contents, were totally destroyed
by fire. Express messenger Jacob Stein
man and Engineer William Attick were
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of wheat and several coal oil tanks were
burned.
gB About two months ago George
Duncan, living at Seney station, on the
Sioux City and st. Paul road, went to-
England to secure $25, 900 which deceas-
ed relative left for him. While he was.
there brother turned up his toes, and
left him another fortune. A few days be-
fore he started for home an aunt died.
leaving his name in her will for another
big sum. He hurried away. fearing the,
whole family would die.
G5B- Samuel Crotzer residing in the
lower end of Harrisburg, while playfully
throwing some water over one of his com
rades, from glass tumbler, started to run
with the empty glass in his hand. He
stumbled and fell, breaking the glass to
pieces, when portions of fragments cut a
deep cash into his wrist, which severed
several of the tendons and one of the arteries,
causing the young man to bleed freely
The loss Of blood rendered him quite i'll,
and he is not considered entirely out Of
danger yet.
HoUsToN, Sept. ia storm similar to
that of September, 1875, struck Galveston
at an early hour this morning, prostrating
the wires and covering the bridges with
water, thus cutting off all communication.
An engine left here at 10 A. NJ, to learn
the extent of the damage, and found the
track under water for mile in the vicini-.