The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-08
Miscellaneous News Items.

Miscellaneous News Items.
ESs- Father McNamara, deposed Cath
olic priest, was mobbed in New York on
Sunday, but escaped injury by the assist
ance of the police.
Css- In tho Superior Court of Fairfield
county, Conn, Edwin Hoyt, convicted
of the murder of his father was sentenced
to be hanged on the Gath inst.
e5s- Francis barley, well-to-do farmer
was found dead in the road near Coaticook
Post office, VT, on Saturday, presenting
every appearances of having been murdered.
Two men are under arrest.
e5g- A destructive cyclone visited the
South coast of Hayti on the Bird and 4th
ult, causing the loss of many lives and
the destruction of great amount of prop
erty. Two or three towns were almost OBJ
liberated.
e5S- The Grand Jury has found true bills
of indictment against Robert King, Isaac
X. Creamer, James ii. Watson, Isaac r.
Mullock, George Kearney and George Bell,
charging them with embezzlement, &c.,
while clerks in the Water Department at
Philadelphia.
eg- A special from Newark, Ohio says
that two tramps entered the house of Mr..
McMillen, widow lady, on Tuesday
evening, and committed brutal outrage.
A vigilance committee had started in
pursuit of the villains, and they will
doubtless be dealt with in summary
manner if caught.
NEWPORT, r. l., October Hon. Geo.
Bancroft, the historian, while out riding
this afternoon in company with lady was
throw from his carriage, his horses having
become frightened. He was seriously
injured about the head. The lady and
coachman were somewhat injured. Fears
are entertained that Mr. Bancroft's legs
are broken.
New LONDON, Conn.,, October lit has
transpired that in the matter of Wesley
W. Bishop, of Norwich, charged with
poisoning his wife, Harriet Bishop, Chas.
M. Cobb, Jr., has made confession i'm
plicating Kate M. Cobb, his paramour in
guilt. Bishop confesses criminal intimacy
with Mrs. Cobb, the procuring of poison
for Mrs. Cobb with which to destroy the
life of her husband and his knowledge that
she administered it. He denies he poison
ed Mrs. Bishop and imputes the crime to
the woman.
GSS- A woman of South Bend, Indiana,
who by hard work and economy had
become independent, had daughter slow
ly dying of consumption. As her mother
would not even give her child the neces-
sstries of life the invalid requested the
authorities to admit her to the poor house.
While she was there the mother learned
that the child's expenses would be assessed
upon her property, and so sent to have
her brought home in a-wheelbarrow.
Strangers interfered and hired carriage
but when the poor girl died it was with
great difficulty that her miser mother
conld be induced to bury her decently.
eB- A special dispatch says that last
Monday night about seven o'clock, at
Akron, Ohio, two policemen proceeded to
an old forge within the city limits to arrest
a tramp, on suspicion of being concerned
in the Orville post Office robbery.
When they reached the forge they were
met by gang of thirty tramps, who chased
them to the city at tho point of the revol-
yer. At this incident great excitement
prevailed in the streets, and the mayor has
issued a call to Col. d. A. Thomas to get
company of the Eighth regiment in order
to arrest the tramps.
CB- The Gold Hill " News of Septem-
ber 14th says There is copper colored,
almond-eyed son of Tartary in Gold Hill
who must obey Kearney's injunction
About six months ago he bought 500
shares of Bodie stock at forty cents q