The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-30
Miscellaneous News Items.

tE- Boston has Chinese Sunday-school
of fifty pupils.
eE- Fifteen thousand loyal whites have
emigrated west from North Carolina in ten
years past.
G$- A New York woman makes spe-
cialty of attending to finger nails for liv-
ing. She calls herself manicure.
GB- Captain Eads, who visited Szegedin,
the inundated Hungarian city, says that
only GOO houses remain of 5000.
rB- A freight train on Monday last, fell
through burning bridge on the Kansas,
Pacific and Missouri railroad. One man
killed.
GB- A negro burglar clubbed an old do
mestic nearly to death in private dwell
ling in New York early Tuesday morning
The burglar was afterward arrested.
eB- The Jeffersonville, Madison and In
dianapolis railroad has sent in claim for
$24 600 to the secretary of war for trans
portation of troops during the railroad
riots.
AYERsTowN, N. j., Dec. 23.-The resi-
dence of James Gleason, situated near
here, was entirely consumed by fire yester-
day morning and three of his children,
two boys and a girl, the eldest being ten
of age, perished in the flames.
READING, Pa, December 23. - The
warehouse, machine shop and part of the
foundry of the extensive hardware works
of Rick Brothers we're destroyed by fire at
O'Clock this morning. The loss is $45,-
600, and the total insurance on the build
ing $4,000
EgT Calvin Williams, a colored preacher
at Stonington, Conn.,, was arrested the 9TH
er day for keeping an unlicensed dog. He
had no counsel in court and when told to
plead his own case, said he would open
court with prayer, and did SO.
CINCINNATI, Dec. go. : Grave robbers
broke open vault in the colored cemetery,
on Tuesday night, and carried away the
bodies of Henry Jones, Silas Edmunds and
Maria Burnside. The trustees searched
the medical college of this city, to-day, but
without success.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 90. - Detectives of
this city have arrested two men, and have
others under surveillance, who had formed
conspiracy to steal Gen. Grants Arabian
horses, now on Gen. Beale's farm, near
here. Their object was to hold the ami
mails in the hope of obtaining large re-
ward for their return.
eg- The confederate brigadier turns up
in new role. His name is Daniel Rug
giles, of Fredericksburg, Va, and he petit
tions Congress to appoint special COM
mittee to consider his plan for producing
rain by sending up balloons charged with
dynamite, and exploding them in mid-air
GB- Now, then, who is the plaintiff in
this case|' asked his Honor, as case
was called. 81 don't know anything about
plain tiffs," replied man in the corner as
he slowly arose, "but if You are asking for
the chap who was chased q mile and half
and then mopped all over his own barn
yard by two desperadoes, I'm your man."
GB- George Richardson, an employee of
the Sweet torpedo company, was driving
wagon loaded with glycerine near Knox
City, M'Kean county. In turning out of
the way to let another team pass, his wagon
was thrown over an embankment Strange
to say the glycerine did not explode but
the teamster was the most frightened man
in the county.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Dec. 18.-Wil-
liam Fredericks and John Sayers, who
were yesterday sentenced to fifteen years.
Imprisonment for robbery and incendiar
ism in Sussex county, were being convey
ed to Trenton by the Sheriff this morning,
shackled together, jumped from the train
and were terribly injured. They were re-
captured, and begged to be killed.
gH- DIR. Gilbert of Chestnut Hill, re-
Gently relieved lady of snake which she
swallowed fifteen years ago. For several
years she has suffered intensely, the reptile