The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-08-14
Miscellaneous News Items.

g# A little daughter OF William Oxen
rider, of north Heidelberg township, Berks
equity, fell down fight of stairs, dis
locati her neck, causing instant death.
Gsy- The large barn on the property of
Mr.. John McKenna, at ParlSesburg, was
totally destroyed by fire last week, together
with the entire crops of the season and
some agricultural implements.
cs- A girl, named Stone, aged 10 years,
shot and instantly killed a boy, named
Woolsencroft, aged 10, in Boggs township,
Clearfield county, on the 3D. lust. He had
refused to give her drink of water.
V5y- William PETER, aged eight years,
residing in the western portion of the State,
came near bleeding to death few days
since by the sudden issuing of blood from
his nostrils, squirting distance of two
feet.
g5g- A school director of Reading has
been committed to prison in default of
5000 bail to answer the charges of in
citing to riot, furnishing liquor to rioters,
and providing them with firearms. His
name is James Van Stavoren.
CB- Employees on the Pittsburgh dvis-
ion of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad are
receiving threatening letters, adorned with
skulls and cross bones, which in some in
stances have had the effect of frightening
them from their places.
I- Some amusment was caused not long
ago in an English court by a female witness,
who, OH the oath being administered, re-
peatedly kissed the clerk instead of the
book. 1t was some time before she was
made to understand the proper-or, at least
the legal-thing to do.
CZ- An aged couple living near Bowers
station on the East Pennsylvania railroad,
named James and Elizabeth Bower, aged
eighty-one and seventy-one respectively, re-
Gently superintended the digging of their
of their own graves in DeLong churchyard.
They were lined with stone and cost $G00
Gs" On opening the will of the late
T. j. Dunbar, of Boston, few days ago,
it was found that he had remembered all
who were in his employ at the time of his
death. To those who had been with him
seven years he bequeathed $4,000 each,
thre years $1,000, and one year $500.
G5g- A man who could not read was dis:
tributing handbills of a drinking saloon.
He put down his bundle and went to
dinner. In his absence temperance
advocate substituted temper ance tracts for
the handbills, and during the rest of the
day the saloons business was not helped,
if not hurt.
GT5- Alonzo Melner, who is charged with
having opened switch to wreck train of
soldiers, has been arrested at Pittsburgh.
A detachment of troops went to his house
at night and found him sleep. They
awoke him, when he grasped revolver in
each hand to defend himself. He finally
surrendered and is now in jail
G5g- Oscar D. Peterson was arrested in
New York on Tuesday for stealing hand
kerchief from a store. The prisoner re-
sisted, fired at his captor, broke away, and
then emptied revolver down Broadway,
wounding Edward Broomfeld in the breast.
Peterson was rccaptured, and found to
have ball in his leg, the result of shot
from the patrolman's pistol.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 3.--Gustavus 8.
Swickhard, Allen Dangrue, Jacob Cook
and Delorm Baughman, farmers, whose
ages range from twenty-five to forty-one,
have been committed for murder in the
first degree in consequence of the fatal
termination of injuries received at their
hands, it is alleged, of Lewis Schiller,
also farmer, in a fight at a picnic at
Rocky Fort, in this county on Saturday
last. The fight grew out of an old feud.
eHr A sad occurrence has just taken
place at the favorite Clyde watering place,
Helensburgh, Scotland. A short time
since Mrs. Wright, the wife of Glasgow
outftter, took summer lodging for herself
and family. After a weeks residence
small pox broke out among the children,
one daughter dying. This was followed by
the death Of Mrs. Wright, and it is now
alleged that the blankets on the beds in
which the family slept had been used for
small pox patients. The matter has caused
much excitement.
eB- Thomas Placide, the well-known ac-
tor who recently killed himself, at New
Orleans, on account of cancer in the
mouth, from which he was suffering, is re-
ported to have been brought on the disease
| by over indulgence in smoking. He was