The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-05-13

been confined in jail for drunkenness,
attempted to escape by setting fire to the
building. The flames spread rapidly, and
being unable to extinguish them the men
we're both burned TO death.
car An apprentice at the Harrisburg
Telegraph Office named Marcellus Miller,
had three Of the fingers of his right hand
badly smashed, last week, by having them
accidentally caught in the machinery of a
Gordon job press.
eB- After lapse of fourteen years
wealthy merchant.of Rushford, Alleghany
county, N. Y, has recovered bond stolen
at that remote time, with others TO the
amount of $4,000. He expects to secure
tho balance of his property IL the proper
steps are taken.
eY- Last week two young men, while
intoxicated, drove a carriage at break
neck pace through the principal streets Of
Edenburg, Cambria county. The carriage
contained one hundred and fifty pounds of
nitro glycerine, and the wonder of the
people is that they were not blown to
atoms.
GEE A three year old boy named Schwab,
residing with his parents in Harrisburg,
strayed into neighbours yard, on Tuesday
last,t play with large dog chained there
in. The dog, being vicious, sprang upon
the child, tore off the upper lid of his right
eye, lacerated his face and body terribly,
and would have killed him had he not been
rescued.
SAN Francisco, May A. A dispatch
from Victoria, b. c., states that the farm
house of Thomas Pool, at Pemberton
Meadows, near Silooet, was destroyed by
fire to-day. Pool and his two children
perished in the flames. Indians are sus-
pected of numbering the parties and firing
the premises to cover the deed.
ST.. LOUIS, May g. Advices from south
gone into the Indian territory within the
past week also that rich silver mines have
been discovered just south of the Kansas
line, and claims in large numbers are being
registered daily in the squatters' registry
office, two miles from Baxter Springs,
Kansas.
eY A discharged workman, formerly in
the employ of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad, set fire to bridge
near Woodburn, Clark county, Ia, and
had it not been for the bravery and
presence of mind of lad working In an
adjoining field, and who gave the alarm,
an approaching passenger train would have
met terrible fate. The bridge burner was
arrested.
gE- Marshal Frederick Douglass, in a
lecture at Staunton, Va, last week, advised
his colored hearers not to trust altogether
on prayer, but to 60 to work honestly,
systematically and conscentiously. He
himself, he said, had prayed for three long
years that freedom might come to him,
but it never came until the prayers got
down into his legs and carried him away.
GB- Forty-fve years ago Paul Dillingham;,
Ex-Governor of Vermont, took a boy into
his service to do chores for his board, and
allowed him TO use his library and to at
tend the district school. He is now fifty
five years old ; his head is covered with a
great mass of sturdy iron-gray hair, and
he occupies seat in the United States
Senate. His name is Matthew HI. Carpen-
ter.
cY- A good deal of counterfeit money is
in circulation at Clinton, III. The other
day boy came into the railroad Office at
that place and asked to have a fifty cent
piece changed, which was about to be done,
when it was discovered to be bogus. The
boy, on being interrogated as to how he
came by it, said: ''Every person has a right
to make money, SO it is silver; my father
used to make 1t, and one day he left home
and just thought would make little
for myself"
eB Mrs. Sarah Underwood, a woman
who has heretofore moved in the first circles
of Milwaukee society, was arrested on
Tuesday on charge Of forgery. She had
been engaged in speculation, and at one
time realized $25, 900 in wheat transac-
tion, but subsequently met with reverses
which led to the commission of crime. The
forgeries are said to reach $1,000
eB- The young daughter of Mr.. Henry
Hill, of Holk county, Fla, went with her
brother into the cornfield to keep the birds
from the planted corn, and as it was cold
they built fire. and while standing around
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