The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-12-04
Miscellaneous News Items.


40, 900 for the same period in 1876.
Esy- The three men recently indicted for
tarring and feathering a woman at Water
ford, Pa, have all been sentenced to the
Penitentary for from one to ten years.
EsE- A tramp who sought to get warm by
sitting on the top of a lime kiln, near Ma
geetown, Montgomery county, was suffoca-
ted and burned to death.
e#- On Wednesday next Georgia votes
on the new Constitution. The prospect
now is that the Constitution will be
adopted, and that Atlanta will be made
the capital of the State
GE~ Wilmington courts have decided
that cider is an Intoxicating liquor, the
sale of which without a license subjects
the persons selling it to the penalties of
the law regulating the sale of liquor.
G5- A Columbia, Tenn, dispatch states
that George Roper, alias Frank McGhee,
the negro who attempted to commit an
assault upon Miss Bette Templeton, was
taken from Jail few mornings since, by a
mob and lynched at the Court House, in
the presence of about 200 persons.
GB- A Liverpool man, after lighting his
cigar on the street, dropped the burning
match through sewer grating. Instantly
dealening explosion eusued, the pave
ment was torn to pieces and flames burst
out He had ignited quantity Of sewer
gas, which continued burning for long
time.
CSy- A Piute recently killed bis squaw,
and the Winnemucca SiIUer State says
Indian custom makes the sqaw property,
as much as pony or blanket, and the
right of the husband to kill his wife is
never disputed. AS the authorities never
interfere with the tribal customs and
regulations of the Piutes no official notice
has been taken of the act"
gSy- Mrs. Sitter washed the shelves in
her husbands Philadelphia drug store, and
did not repla ce the bottles exactly as they
were before. A girl came in to buy a
mixture of castor oil and peppermint. Mr..
Sitter took bottle from the place where
peppermint had been, and mixed the castor
oil with muriatic acid by mistake. The
consequence was the death of child.
sS" A Muscatine, Ia, farmer few days
ageset up heating stove, at the time for
getting to remove powder horn filed with
powder which he had put therein the
summer, and made fire therein. In
few minutes there was q tremendous ex-
plosion, which tore the top of the stove
off, demolished windows, plastering, etc.
The inmates of the room escaped with
few slight burns and bruises.
Gy- There was wedding of the most
public sort at Coventry, Conn, the other
day Of 05-yearsold man and a 25-years-
old widow. The man got his license in
Coventry, but had arranged to be married
in Mansfield. When the knot was about
being tied the mistake was noticed but the
expectant couple, determined to go off on
their wedding trip as planned, took the
parson to the bridge over the river dividing
Coventry and Mansfield, and were married
there in full view of a factory, whose every
window was filed with interested wit
nesses, having just time to ca tch the train.
GB" McParlan, the Mollie Mcguire de-
tective is accompanied by a brother detec-
tive who "shadows" him and acts as a
body guard of one. Before entering rail-
way cars the "shadow" makes recon-
noissance to look out for dangerous char
acters. These precautions are necessary
in order to guard McParan against assas-
sination by those who fear his evidence or
seek revenge for the NJ ollies' deaths Rela-
two to the drama supposed to represent
life among the Mollies, McParlan says
that the piece, as witnessed by him in a
Chicago theatre, is the greatest burlosque
immaginable upon the reality.
eB- Deacon Smith, whose committal for
trial in Middlebury, VT, on charge of
murder, has been announced by telegraph,
was pillar Of the Baptist church in that
village, and for many years was looked up
to as an exemplar of piety. The prelim-
mary examination in the case showed that,
if not a murderer, he is at least a hypo-
critic. His wife died, and poison was found
in her stomach. He tried to hire the
chemist for $3.50 to report to the contrary.
! Long before this the villagers noticed that
he often walked home from religious
meetings with Mrs. Champlin, pretty