The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-20

riddling his clothes. He paid q fine and
costs for disturbing the peace and not being
q better shot.
tB- Joseph r. Brown, secretary of the
Fourth and Eighth-streets Passenger Rail
way Company, fell dead at four o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, in the depot at Eighth
and Dauphin streets, from heart disease,
as 1t is supposed.
EsB Some seven weeks since, young
man named Adelbert Gates, of Albany, q
consumptive, was seized with q flt Of
hiccoughs, which lasted more or less severe
till last Thursday, when they resulted 10
death.
~ The wealthy young Bostonian, MIR.
Sears, was charged, 1t is said, $4,000 by
his lawyers for their services In obtaining
an Interpretation of his fathers will. The
bill was compromised by the payment of
$25,000
t#- Fifty thousand Russian Mennonites
have determined to immigrate to the United
States. They have the alternative of taking
up arms or leaving the Empire, and prefer
to cross the sea. Fourteen thousand of
them will settle in Kansas early in the
spring.
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near Freedom last week. Cause: while
pairing his toe-nails the knife slipped and
cut slightly one of his toes. "Dry gangrene"
set in and half the foot turned black, and,
when struck, gave back metallic sound,
as of iron or glass.
tB- Captain Timblin, a former we'll.
known Butler-county oil operator. who
went to Custer city, in the Black Hills,
about year ago. to practice law, was shot
there the other day by the defendant in o
case, while he was engaged in an argument
in behalf of the plaintiff.
eY- On Saturday a week George Sipperly
and companion, of Tuscarora, went
hunting, and in the course of their wander
ings came across the body of an unknown
man, which had been lying under the.tnow
for month or more and was in state of
good preservation.
G William Mclaughlin, Pennsylva-
MIA railroad brakeman, was caught between
two cars Friday, at Altoona, while attend
ing to his duties. After he had been
squeezed he walked q short distance and
expired A wife and child survive him.
GE- On Saturday evening week, Walker
r. Mcdowell, of Wayne twp, Mifflin
county, whilst engaged 10 changing wagon
from tongue to shafts, suddenly fell to the
ground unconscious, stricken with apoplexy.
He was conveyed into the house, where he
fingered until Sunday night, most of the
time unconscious, when death ensued.
eB- A stranger stopped at the Jefferson
Heuse," in Pbenixville, on Tuesday
evening of last week, and engaged lodg-
ings for the night. Not appearing in the
morning, his room was visited when he was
found corpse. He had blown out the
flame az the gas burner, and eft the gas
escaping, and was suffocated by it.
eB- The Erie Dispatch says: A party
of young men went sailing on an ice-b boat
on the bay yesterday. Tho wind carried
them along at the rate of sixty miles per
hour, while bowling at this rate the boat
struck a flaw, and all hands were shot as
it were off the frail structure, and sent
sliding and sprawling for fifty or sixty feet
on the ice.
EB- A Boston lawyer named Robinson
thinks it needful to SOW seed by all waters,
and SO has his note paper branded with
occasion to write for favor from Chief
Justice Gray, and he unluckily used sheet
headed, "Ye are all brought with price"
He didn't get it,
A citizen of Indiana having occasion to
go home rather unexpectedly few nights
since caught gentleman acquaintance in
the act of kissing his wife. On relating
the circumstance to q friend he was asked
if he punished the guilty couple, and re-.
piled mo, not exactly, but they must
have seen from the way slammed the door
that / was not satisfied"