The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-29

nine report very small margins of
profit, and twenty report losses, some of
which are OF serious magnitude. Fur
ther reductions of wages are threatened
at Balton, Oldham, and In the neighbor-
hood.
rBThe indianapolis Sentinel says In
the eastern part of franklin county
there has, for number of years past,
lived man by the name Of Applegate,
who had considerable property, but be-
ing of weak mind was under guardian
ship. lie Is about so years of age.
Some two weeks since, through the In
iluence of some parties, he was taken
over into OHIO, and o license procured,
and married to woman aged about
twenty-three years. Soon after the mar
riage the bride procured some strychnlne
to kill rats, and gave n dose to her hus-
band, but fortunately he did not get
enough to have the desired effect. She
was arrested and lodged in jail.
Ga" 1t was in Barry CO., Mich, where
hale young fellow broke double
barreled gun over the head of u decrepit
old man of 20, and was fined only $40.
II Is thought that If the old man had
been killed It would not have cost more
than $50.
u7B' A Mr. Murphy, of Dubuque,
found pocket book containing over
$1,000 last week, and advertised and
discovered its owner, to whom IL was
returned. The latter, a saloon keeper of
Dubuque, offered $500 as reward for
his honesty, but Murphy would only
take $40.
Elay An old gentleman med Charles
Davis, living on farm in Union town
ship, Plymouth county, Ia., was so bad
ly burned by a prairie fire, Saturday last,
that he died the following day.
LONDON, Oct. "a Messrs. Mathew,
Buchanan & Co., merchants of Glasgow,
have failed. Liabilities, $50, 600 pounds.
The Drumpelier Coal Company has also
failed. Assets $4,000 pounds.
CY- James Miller started from Ohio
with his family for the far West, travel
ling in an emigrant wagon drawn by two
horses. In Missouri one of the horses
died, and he stole another to replace it,
He was arrested, convicted, and sentenced
to eight years imprisonment. Lately his
term expired, and he resumed his Journey,
his family having lived in the neighbor-
hood of the prison while waiting for him
to be released.
e5y- Wait year," said Aunie Johns
of Franklin county, Ind, to tho young
man who proposed marriage, "and then 1
will have money enough for us both to
live on" Then she married "a weak
minded, wealthy old man named Apple
gate, and within month, as charged, gave
him dose of stryohnine but the poison
did not kill, and the lover will have to wait
more than year for Annie, without ever
getting the money.
GTs- One night last week about dozen
intoxicated tramps lay down to sleep on
one of the coke ovens near Fountain Mills,
Fayette county, Pa. Some time during
the night the arched roof broke in with the
heavy weight, and the unfortunate men
were precipitated into the raging fires be-
low. or course they were Immediately
burned to DEATH Saturday morning the
charred and unrecognizable bones were
drawn out with the coke from the oven.
CHICAGO, Oct. GA dispatch from
Omaha says destructive prairie fires are rag
ing near Kearney, along the line of the
Omaha and Republican Valley in Polk
county and other sections of Nebraska, the
northeast portion of the State suffering
the most severely. The losses to property
will be immense. Seven persons have been
burned to death and considerable number
of others severely injured. Particulars
cannot as yet be learned.
eaB- Prince Bismarck is said to take
much better care of his life since it was
attempted by Kullmann. When in Berlin
he confines himself almost absolutely to
his house and garden, which are carefully
watched at all times by policemen in plain
clothes if compelled by his official duties
to visit the Palace, he drives thither and
back in close carriage with the windows
up, sitting well back, SO as to be invisible
to passers-by. Varzin is as carefully guard
ed and as difficult to penetrate as Mecca
itself; and at Lauenburg his park has just
been surrounded with high wall, shut
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