The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-08-21
Miscellaneous News Items.

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Revenue receipts during July were reduced
$1,OOO,OOO, by means of the railway
strike.
cB- The corporations in Fall River are
said to have on hand 1000 pieces Of
printing cloth, which they are holding for
better prices
Gsg- A little daughter of Daniel Bowen, of
Jersey Shore. was burned to death on Sun
day week while attempting to kindle a
fire with coal oil.
u%- John Welsh, of Lycomng county,
while unhitching his horses was almost in
stantly killed, one of the animals kicking
him in the stomach.
eB- The village of Garnsee, near Marien-
werder, Prussia, has been destroyed by fire
and 800 persons rendered homeless. The
town of Sundsvall, Sweden, has been al
most totally burned.
eB- Three young white men named
Farmer, Fitzpatrick and Storey, were muir
dered on Saturday, at Pickensville, Ala,
by John Cotton and several other coored
men. Further trouble is apprehended.
eg- The Rev. j. P. Miller, of the Metho-
dist church at Clifton Heights, Delaware
county, had his pocket picked of SIC, gold
watch and a note for $3.50 by thief at
Vine street ferry, Philadelphia, on Satur-
day week.
tB- Early Monday morning man was
found dead in one of the Washington
through sleeping cars of the Pennsylvania
r.. r. at the West Philadelphia depot
From papers found his name is believed to
be Benjamin Kipp.
Gsg- A disease attended with great NOR
tality has broken out among the horses in
Jersey City. Charles Somers, Warren
street stableman, last week lost six horses
from the disease, and three more are suf-
fering beyond recovery.
eB- Charles Becker one of the parties
arrested with Maxwell, Herring and others
in New York for completely in the forgery
of check of the New York Life Insur-
ance Company for $64,O on the Union
Trust Company, has been discharged.
I5Y- A Paterson undertaken, after put
ting the corpse on ice, demanded payment
in advance. AS the ready money could
not be procured a mortgage was offered
him, but this the undertaken refused to
accept, and took the corpse out of the
casket and removed everything, even the
ice.
GB" A son of Edward Woolly, of Cen
treville, Monmouth county, N. j., aged
four years, was drowned in a singular
manner. The child was missed from the
house, and the mother, on going to look
for him, found him head foremost in large
iron kettle filled with rain water, and when
she extricated him he was quite dead.
GB- A daughter of Joseph Foose, of
Berks county, was alone in the house one
day last week when man, whose face was
covered with handkerchief, entered and of
fered to shake hands. Thinking it was a
neighbor disposed to play joke, Miss
Foose took the extended hand, when she
was seized and bound, after which the
thieves ransacked the house.
eB- The decision of Judge Hoffman, of
the Hudson county, New Jersey Court, de-
claring pool selling in New Jersey illegal,
has been confirmed by Judges Dixon and
Scudder of the Supreme Court, before
whom the cases of the Hoboken pool sellers
were taken upon certiorari. The effect of
this will be to Danish these gambling shops
from Hoboken.
ENGLEwooD, N. j., August 13.-The
house of A. A. Floyd, on Floyd street,
Palisades, in this place, was entered by
thieves on Saturday night, who after bind
ing the cook and coachman, the only occu-
pants, proceeded to help themselves to
everything of value in the house, including
silverware, jewelry, camels' hair shawls,
etc. The thieves also took from the barn a
horse and phaeton and an extra set of har-
ness. The coachman is believed to know
more than he is willing to tell, and is un-
der arrest.
GB- A sharp dodge was successfully
played upon citizen of York at Indian
apolis the other day. While changing cars
he was addressed by business-,ike gentle
man as follows: "Where are you going p''
"To Kansas City, No." he replied. "Have
you ticketP If 80 let me see it," said
the other fellow. The passenger promptly
handed the ticket over to the business-like
man, who examined it carefully and then
turned and hurried off, 1t was but few