The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-06-26
Miscellaneous News Items.


Miscellaneous News Items.
ESs- John Chappel, MINER while at
work at the Lyken's Valley Mines, Tues
day, was struck by piece of top slate and
killed.
C5y- A dispatch says the Rockland Saw
ings Bank, $. w. Garfield, President, sus-
pended payment on Friday morning. 1t is
said to be bad failure.
C9y~ Father Fitzharris priest, was stab
bed in his arm at the front door of his resi-
dence in New York, on Monday night,
by James Brennan, supposed to be in
sane.
eEg- A train of cars on a Florida rail-
road passed a man on horseback, and there
was great hurrahing among the passen-
gers until they discovered that the horse
was tied to the fence.
G3- The hands employed at Lights
rolling mill at Lebanon, struck ON Mon
day, on account of their employers pro-
posing reduction of wages, and the
works are now idle.
G5S- BY the laws of Florida no man who
has lost an arm or leg, no matter how or
when, or from what cause, can be taxed
for any business he may enter into, always
excepting the liquor business.
GS- One night recently man at Union
City found tramp in his barn smoking
He asked him to desist, and got an insult
for an answer. The proprietor collared
him, but he got loose and kicked the pro-
prietor out of the barn.
G5 An animated controversy is going on
through the newspapers between the
Lutheran clergyman of Warren and Rev.
Mr.. Merchant, Methodist minister of
Tidioute. The subject is whether Christ
drank fermented or unfermented wine.
p, G5'- A Paris Snowman, whose daughter
was recently married, presented to his SON
in-law, as her fortune, an elephant that
danced a fandango, a camel that went
down on its knees with it's head to the east
at sunset, dog that reckoned up accounts
and two canaries that played cards.
C A man in prison stretched his hand
through the grating of the Jail door in
Liberty, Mo-, recently, and married young
lady on the steps of the building. He had
been imprisoned a year for obtaining money
under false pretenses. The bride returned
to her home and the groom to his cell.
Gag- Two laborers named Gallagher and
on Monday evening aweek, and Gallagher
threw Lanigan from high bluff killing
him instantly. Some of the murdered
mans friends subsequently caught Gal
ligher, and beat him so severely that his
recovery is not expected.
GS- The two-story brick building, occu-
pied by Harrison & Redford, grocers, at
Warrensburg, Mo-, fell last week, carry
ing to the cellar, with the debris, A. B. Har-
rison, one of the firm, who was killed, and
George Kane, who was mortally wounded.
Several other persons were more or less in-
jured, but none seriously.
e5S- A couple applied to a clergyman in
Quincy, ILL.,, to get married, got him to
take So out of a $40 counterfeit bill for his
fee, and then departed, and some of the
household who watched them were aston
ished to see the bride remove her dress
in the alley and come forth young man.
Gg- r. G.. Mosby, mail carrier, was
arrested at Richmond, Va, recently, for
purloining sundry amounts from registered
letters. Mosby was entrapped by decoy
letter containing five dollars, two of which,
marked, were found on his person at the
time of his arrest. Mosby was committed
in default of $4,000 bail.
GTS- The mysterious and almost deadly
poisoning of DR.. j. o. Whitney and wife
of Pawtucket, r. l., with bottle of ale
the other day is explained by the confession
of VIM. Burbanks, lately the DOCTORS
Office boy, who got angry because the doctor
wouldn't give him $15 which wasn't due
him, and so put strychnine in the ale.
MEMPHIS, June 1S.-A storm last even
ing broke loose from their mooIings all the
steamboats, at the levee, and blew down
the smoke stacks of the Osceola Bell,
damaging the boat to the extent of about
| $1,000. The other boats were uninjured.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church, on
Court street, and several residences were
unroofed,
eg- They have good way of attending
to burglars down in Nashville. The other
night fellow was discovered trying to
break into a store. In his alarm he ran
into the arms off two policemen. Pretty
soon thirty or forty men assembled, took
the burglar from the officers, and soon his
dead body was in the Cumberland river.
CE- This is vouched for by the Boston
Traveller as being as true as most of the
dog stories A mastiff in that city, un-
muzzled by his master, resolved to comply
with the law on his own account. He
knew that to preserve his life he must
have muzzle. Early one morning he
stole twenty newspapers from doorsteps,
| Rtood on n cornar and sold thenn went