The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-05
Miscellaneous News Items.

Sunday night week. doing great damage
to fruit and other trees.
N#- A special from Concord, Mass, says
rumor is in circulation to the effect that
wholesale release of prisoners from the
State prison is to bo attempted.
New York, Oct 20.-The Market nation
al bank will reduce its capital stock from
$1,000, 600 to $500, 900 on the 1st of Janua-
ry next.
asB- A Wisconsin cider reservoir broke
loose the other day and nearly drowned a
girl who was sucking straw stuck in one
of the cracks.
GB- About an inch of snow fell at ST.
Paul, Mimi, last week. A special from
Grand Forks, Red river of the North, says
slush is running, and navigation is about
to close.
GB Thomas Gordon, a carpenter, while
repairing roof Thursday at Waterford
Ct., stepped backward off the staging, and
fell twenty feet to the ground, breaking
his neck He died in a few minutes.
GB- A young fellow of 1G and girl
year or two younger slipped down to
GAINESVILLE from Green county, Wis, the
other day to get married, but were over
taken and carried back home and spanked.
"a" A man in Marksville N. Y. don't
smoke as much as formerly and this is the
reason lie took a smoke while riding on
n l,n1 T.c ot, Al
saved, and the horses were badly burned.
Boston, October 20.--Charles Z. Colburn
employed for ten years in the Charlestown
post office, was arrested to-day having
been detected in the act of robbing letters.
1t is surmised that he has taken u large
amount.
GB The intelligent Mr.. James Wilson,
of Bruce, Ontario, went to shoot crows
and placed his left hand over the muzzle of
his gun so as ''to keep the crows from
smelling the powder" till the last moment.
He has more sense now, but less hands.
CB- Treat Andrews, of Orange, Conn.,,
his wife and two children, and three other
persons in the family, have been badly
poisoned, it is supposed by well water con-
taminated by bad drainage. A little boy
of five has died, and the others are in
critical condition.
eB- A middle-aged lady, Mrs. Mehan, of
Fort Edward, N. Y, was kidnapped by two
ruffians on Sunday night. One of them
has been arrested, and confesses his guilt.
The woman has not been found, and it is
supposed she was murdered and thrown
into swamp.
New HAVEN, Conn, October 3d. An
attempt was made to wreck freight
train on the Shore Line railroad, near
Guilford, at two o'clock this morning, by
ties placed in cattle guard The engine
left tho track. 1t is supposed to have been
done by three tramps who were elected
from the depot at Guilford last night
They were subsequently arrested.
Gy A special dispatch says, 400 pounds
of nitro -glycerine in a magazine at Pc
trolia, Pa, exploded on the Goth ult., kill
ing the owner, S. o. Gotham, and an en-
ployee, John Fowler and dangerously
wounding Henry French. Mr.. Gotham
was picked up dead, without mark on
his body Fowler was blown to atoms,
only finger being found, and that was
200 yards from the scene of the explosion.
eB-A special to the Omaha Herald from
Columbus, Nebraska, says that the mail
carrier between Madison Scotia, Just ar
rived there. He found two men dead in
North Loup, between Dublin and Scotia,
with paper pinned to their clothes stating
that they were shot for setting fire to the
prairie. A dead team of mules and a
wagon were near them. They were stran-
gers in the section.
New York, Oct. STANDARDIZATION at
the Custom-house has led to the discovery
that the importing clerk of the dry goods
house of Bernhard & Hutton has been for
some time past appropriating to his own
use large sums of money obtained from
the firm for the purpose of paying duties.
The amount involved is about $3.50, 900.
The clerk is missing, and all efforts to
ascertain his whereabouts have so far been
unsuccessful
GB- A mysterious woman is causing
much excitement among the dwellers on
Frye's Island in Sebago Lake, Me. She
is well dressed, and wears her hair loose
over her shoulders, her head being uncover
ed, Occasionally she comes from the woods
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