The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-02-05
Miscellaneous News Items.

GB- Eight prisoners ecaped from the
Jail at Columbus, Ohio, last week by cut
ting the iron floor and tunnelling under the
building.
aB- 1t is computed that for eight years
past $40, 600 worth of petroleum has been
produced and sold on every working day in
the Pennsylvania oil region.
CB-A mischievous boy at Reading closed
a chimney with rags, and at night the fam
lily in the house narrowly escaped suffoca-
tion from smoke
esY- The rioters convicted at Reading on
Saturday aweek have been sentenced to
terms of imprisonment ranging from two
years to nine months and each pay fine Of
81 and COSTS
g7s- At Wells, Me-, ON the night of the
9th ult., five-ye ar-old daughter of Chas.
Penney was probably fatally shot by some
unknown person. The motive of the shoot
ing is mystery.
CY- A young son of d. II. st. Clair, of
Milton, who resided with his grandfather
at Fishers Ferry on the line of the N. G.
r. r., had his leg broken while wrestling
a few days ago.
tE- Squire Moses Arndt, of Jamestown,
Lebanon county, has been arrested upon
the charge of being interested in procur-
ing fraudulent pension papers for Mrs.
Shaud of that town-obtaining $500 and
retaining 800 for his services.
tTs- All the babies born in the coumuni-
ty at Oneida, N. Y, are taken from their
mothers immediately after their birth and
placed in the charge of other women.
Children are owned in common, and the
mother does not know her own child nor
the child its own mother.
An attempt was made to blow up the
Institute Ganadien building at Montreal,
on Tuesday night but the timely discovery
of the explosive package in the main hall
prevented its accomplishment. This is the
institute that Guibord was excommunicated
from for belonging to.
eB- Hyde Park, Vermont school
ma'am is in trouble. She undertook to
break her pupils of using tobacco by steep
ing number of old pipes and giving some
of the resulting matter to the offenders,
which not only made the little boys very
sick, but their parents very mad, and Sc
riously impars the usefulness of the school.
GB- Complaint has been made against
Cyrus Shinn and a son, of Chicago who is
a student in Rush Medical College, that he
has huge cauldron at his residence, on
! West Harrison street, in which he is ac-
customed to boil up human bodies. The
neighbors say that the stencil arising from
the inhuman operation is terrible, and they
! protest against it.
cB- A singular discovery has been made
on board the Irvine, a full-rigged vessel,
recently in dry dock at Rotherhithe, Lon,
don. The ship had recently arrived from
Peru, at which place tie body of woman
was found imbedded in cargo, which con-
sisted of soda. The body is in good state
Of preservation, and it is supposed to DO
that of victim of an earthquake which
occurred many hundred year ago in Peru
Rings are inserted in the ears.
eB- A Chicopee, Mass, item says One
of Wedge s. Co.'s horses died Saturday Of
what is believed without doubt to be hydro
phobia. 1t is thought it was bitten some
time ago, when a mad dog ran into tbs
barn and was killed there. The hors,
showed the first symptoms of the disease