The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-01-21
Miscellaneous News Items.

G5s- Foreign merchants ship eggs to Lon
don in cheap coflius, there being more pro.
fit in selling the coffins than in disposing of
other wooden packages.
CB A tramp with certificate of deposit
in the First National Bank, Holldaysburg,
for $1,000, was found nearly frozen to
death at Bedford.
B-If Mrs. Julia Roberts, of Phoenix
vile, should live until the Goth of this
month, she will have reached the ripe old
aye of one hundred and three years.
g5g- At Middletown, .. "a colored tramp.
sleeping il the engineroom of the paper
works. was suffocated by the fumes of a
mixture of chlorate of potash and nitric acid,
kettle containing it having been placed
near him as a practical joke.
G$ Miss Epperson young lady who
was shot in the knee in "family fight"
in Hancock county, Tenn, has just died.
Her father aud mother were killed in the
melee in question, and her sister and two
brothers we're seriously wounded.
G%- With the opening of the New Year
an ancient colonial custom was abandoned
in Boston. This was the ringing of the pub
lie bells in some twenty or thirty different
localities in the city at o'clock in the NOR
ming, at noon, and at O'Clock in the eve
ming.
EB South Carolina, with it's two one
legged Senators, is outdone by Hillsdale
county, Mich, which has lifelong cripple
for Register, one-legged man for Treas
urer and q one-a med man for Judge of Pro-
bate, while the City Tax Collector of Hills
dale has but one arm.
rB- General Butler has written a letter
to Governor Talbot, OF Massach usetts,
warmly approving the latter's message,
aud declaring that if the reforms therein
recommended are secured, be will be as
well satisfied as if he had himself been
made Governor
eB- In Pottsyille, John Candy, little
fellow, was arrested, charged with stealing
sled from the front of store. He ex-
planned that he saw piece of string on the
sidewalk and picked it up. When he got
home he was very much surprised to find
that there was sled at the one end of it.
tsg-A battle between an eagle and a boy
took place on the Delaware, near Trenton,
few days ago. The boy was skating and
came upon the bird, the wing of which had
been broken by gun shot. The fight was
hot and long, but the lad triumphed, get
ting off with lacerated hand.
GY- Mr.. Joseph Neu, proprietor Of the
Academy of Music at Newark, has been
severely afflicted lately. About week
ago five-year old daughter died of diph-
liberia, on Thursday another died, and on
Friday the third died of the same disease.
A fourth is not expected to recover.
coach rode throughout a very cold day in
thin clothes. and was taken out stiff and un-
conscious. He was thought TO have frozen
to death, and grave was dug for him; but
the warmth of the room 10 which he was
laid thawed him out just in time to save
him from being buried alive.
eg-A severe shock Of earthquake was felt
at Jacksonville, Fla, about II As on Sun
day night week, which lasted about thirty
seconds, and appeared to move from SOUTH
east to northwest. Buildings were violent
ly shaken, and doors thrown open. The
shock was felt at St. Augustine, and down
the Gulf coast from Punta Rossa TO St.
Marke, as we'll as over the interior of the
State. ft.I