The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-12-18
Miscellaneous News Items.

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tT- Two firms of Western Yankees are
engaged in the business of manufacturing
paper bags to hold liquids.
VB- A gang of boy burglars, led by a
twelve-year-old girl, has been broken up
by the San Francisco police. Toys and pis-
tolls were the chief articles constituting their
plunder.
NSy- Three colored men threw pepper into
the eyes of W. Evans on the road from
Lumbertown to M cunt Holly, one recent
night, and robbed him of one hundred
dollars.
G%- A Louisville COW saved the Cathe-
dral from destruction by fire. She gave
the alarm by rattling around on an ash
barrel, and thus atoned for the mischief ac-
complished by that Chicago COW.
eB- Another prop has been knocked
from boyhood's realm of mystery. The
Maryland Academy of Sciences has posi-
lively settled the fact that horse hairs
when placed in water do not turn to
snakes.
eB Owing to the stoppage of manufac-
tories at Boonton, five hundred of her
residents have left in the last four years.
Application will be made to the Legisla-
ture to repeal the act Incorporating the
place.
UY- Well-bred Parisians never "treat."
In public resorts, cafes, buffets, etc., the
French system of every man paying for
his own drinks is strictly observed save in
the case of beggars, who are treated some
times to cup of Coffee but never to
whisl1ey.
CB- While returning from Orwigsburg to
Mahoney, Schuylkill county, William
Schoene, leading dry goods merchant, on
Monday was halted and fired at by two
men. Schoene returned the fire and ap-
piled the whip to his horse and escaped
further interruption.
CE- At Archibald, nine miles North of
! Scranton, the house of Daniel Atkinson
was broken into Sunday evening during the
absence of the family at church and robbed
Of 800 in bonds and $500 in currency. The
thieves made good their escape, and despite
the most diligent search have thus far
evaded capture.
GTy A gentleman who visited a public
school taught by young lady in Oswego,
the other day, at her request made an ad-
dress to the scholars, and astounded them
and overwhelmed the teacher at the end OF
his remarks by saying that he was very
glad to see them doing so well, and hoped
that they would all prize and love their
teacher as he loved her.
rE- A man in Venango contracted with
adoctor to remove some of the bodies OF
the latter's relatives to new cemetery and
claimed short time subsequently to have
performed the task. 1t has since been dis
covered that the bodies have not been dis
turbed, but that the head stones of the old
graves have been removed to the cemetery
where the bodies were to have been
taken.
e5y- A young man named Jacob Shank,
a school teacher, of near Chambersburg,
was hunting on Thanksgiving day, and as
he fired his gun, it blew the breech out,
striking him in the forehead, crashing
through the skull and imbedding itself in
his brain. Medical aid was procured and
the breech extracted. The young man is
doing well and hopes are entertained OF
his recovery.
eB- A few days ago, while Morris
county, New Jersey lady was engaged in
preparing some cabbage for dinner, she
came across a spotted snake, nicely curled
up under the leaves, where he had taken
up winters quarters. On being disturbed,
he at once asserted his rights, by showing
his forked tongue. 1t is needless to say
that he was soon compelled to surrender
aud submit to the fate pronounced ON his
kind in Scripture.
rY- 1t cannot always with safety be as,
sumed that rich people who ask for credit
are those who pay most promptly. The
experience Of business men have long since
exploded this idea. The fact is, that in a
great many cases the most undesirable