The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-02
Miscellaneous News Items.


will probably strike against reduction of
pay
icy Eight thousand miners held a meet
ing on Saturday to consider action to OBJ
tain higher wages in this State.
sW- Lancaster has had q sensation in the
shape of a cowhiding affair. The cowhider
is under bail on charge of assault and
battery.
BosToN, November, CIV A. Heeney
of Cambridge, while intoxicated, fell down
a flight of stairs this evening and broke his
neck dying instantly.
cg- James Woods, of Greenfield, Mass,
while shovelng sand was buried alive by
an embankment giving away above him. 1t
took an hour to dig the body out.
NB- Charles Stevens, bachelor farmer,
of North Pond Mass, aged 40, was found
insensible in his barn with his skull fractur-
ed. 1t is supposed he fell from scaffold.
He died about noon.
cB- A subscriber to southern paper
died recently, leaving four years subscrip-
tion unpaid. The editor appeared at the
grave and deposited on the coffin palm
leaf fan, linen duster and thermometer.
Reader take warning.
GB- For stealing government property
NJ. j. McCann, an Indian supply contract
or, has been sentenced at Cheyenne to pay
$1,000 fine, restore the value of the stolen
property and undergo an imprisonment of
eighteen months.
9B- A stranger of forlorn appearance res
oued boy from drowning at Davenport,
Iowa, the other day, and when asked his
name, replied "No matter what my name
is, it isn't the name go by" and walked
up the levee his clothes dripping.
eB- At Belle Plain, Scott county, Mimi,
]. w. Cottier was shooting at mark put
up OH an clubhouse, not supposing any one
to he therein, and was Mortified to find that
he had shot and instantly killed little girl
about eight years old, who CHANGED to be
in the building.
Gsy- The other night in Des Moines a
burglar visited the house of Mrs. Meeks,
raised her bed room window, seized the
bed clothes and tried to pull them off the
sleeping lady. She awoke, jerked them
back screamed, shut the window and thus
ended the chapter.
g9- Two mites of boys were arrested
while asleep in Fairmount park the other
night and returned to their parents. The
youngsters had with them a couple of con-
demned army muskets, which they had
purchased at junk shop, and said it was
the first night of their career as intended
highwaymen.
az A young daughter of John Drum
mond, of Du Bois Cearfield county, was
run over by the local freight train at that
place on Thursday of last week. She was
standing on the track unconscious of the
approach of train, when the tender struck
her and knocked her down under the wheels
of the train, mutilating her body terribly.
eB- On Friday morning at an early hour
number of large wild ducks we're seen
passing over the residence of the late Rev.
VIM. Davis, of Hepzibah, Ga. One of the
number was caught by hawk, but being
too heavy for his hawkship, both fell in the
yard attached to the premises, when the
duck was caught, the hawk making good
his escape, minus his breakfast
rB- A couple of young children of re-
spectacle families in Fayette, Iowa, made
up their minds to elope last week, and the
male hooked 500 from his father to pay
the expenses of the wedding trip. His en-
deavors to get it changed into smaller de-
nominations led to an exposure of the in
tended elopement, and it was nipped in
the bud. The lad then took laudanum,
but was pumped out.
Ey- A dress made entirely of one material
is never seen nowadays, but the combina
ton of two fabrics in one dress is different
ly arranged from the patchy" make up of
last season. Now, as general rule, the
waist, paniers and part of the train, if not
all, are figured goods, while plain material
is used for the petticoat and apron drapery
and for the very narrow platings that edge
trains and form their only lounces.
rH- A Marcellus, Mich, paper says: A
lady, living in the knobs, called on one of
our jewelers. recently with a clock pendu-
lum which she wanted fixed, remarking
that it would not go. He could not con-
vince her that the trouble lay with her
clock, and she retired with her pendulum
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