The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-05-06
Miscellaneous News items.

died three days afterward, no doubt poison
ed by the dogs saliva.
rB- Mrs. Pearce, wife OF the postmaster
of Bristol, Il. j., who was mysteriously
shot in bed last week, made two attempts
at suicide Wednesday morning. Her hus-
band will recover.
GB- Mrs. M. Il. Baymer, residing at No.
100 Third street, Memphis, Tenn, COM
mitted suicide on Sunday evening by taxi
ing an overdose of morphine. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
RB- That was clever Oakland, Gal,
boy who, when he was given 50 to dig up
his aunt's garden, and hid two-bit piece
init and then told all the boys in the
neighborhood. The next morning the
ground was pulverized two feet deep.
MADRID, April 20. - The death Of
Princess Christina, sister Of the late Qeen
Mercedes and cousin of the present King
of Spain, occurred in Seville at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
LONDON, April 20.-An official report to
the Persian government of the earthquake
at Mioneh ON the 22nd OF March says that
twenty-one villages were totally destroyed,
and 922 persons, 1890 sheep, 1,I25 oxen,
1874 horses and So camels were killed.
PITTsBuRa, April 28th.---A carriage con-
tanning a gentleman and four young ladies,
was thrown over an embankment rs feet
high, on the East End, yesterday. The
occupants made a remarkable escape from
death, the carriage catching in tree
few feet down. All got out uninjured.
tB- The barn of John sener, near Lam
caster, together with seventeen head of
valuable cattle, and five horses, was burned
on Wednesday. Loss, $4,000. A tramp
had slept in the barn the night previous,
while the family were at breakfast. He
was jailed.
MONTREAL, April 30.-Fire is now rag
ing in st. Jean Baptiste in the northeast
ern quarter of this place, which threatens
to destroy the whole village, there being
no water. Forty dwellings have so far
been destroyed. The city fire brigade is
in attendance but its services without
water is of little avail.
MEMPHIS, April ga telegram from
Starkville, Miss, says: A negro named
Nevlin Porter, having set fire to two barns
belonging to Mr.. Jordan Moose, was ar
rested. He confessed and also implicated
johnson Spencer, uegro who had recently
been acquitted of the charge, and others.
To-day about one hundred men heard his
confession and then hung him to tree.
az The Muscatine, Iowa, Journal, says
r. b. Allin, proprietor Of soap factory
near Kecklerville, was poisoned a short
time ago, by tasting some mybrane oil.--
The effect was first to turn both ears
black, then the chin, and by this time Mrs.
Allin became alarmed and sent for ply
sician. The victim was resuscitated, al
though at one time making but two resp-
rations a minute.
t8- Mrs. Polly Ballew, wife of VIM. Bal
lew, of Boone county, Mo-, had quite an
adventure recently with chicken hawk.
The bird of prey had descended in broad
daylight, and attempted to carry off full
grown hen. There was lively tussel be-
tween the two, and in the midst of the
fight, Mrs. Ballew came to the rescue of
the hen and killed the hawk with the
broomstick.
NEW YORK, April 2S.-Arthur G. Jen-
nings, cashier and book-keeper for Emigra-
tion Commissioner James Lynch, who is
also wool broker in Church street, pleaded
guilty to-day in the court of general ses-
sions to two indictments charging him
with embezzlement, and was sentenced to
the State prison for eight years.
EY- The Merchants Bank of Toronto
has received back the whole of the $31, 200
out of which it was defrauded by its former
managers, William Scott, at Owen Sound,
and ]. B. Weller, Bellville lumber mer-
chant A singular coincidence in connec-
tion with this matter is that both Scott and
Weller have recently become insane.
CB- From an Oskaloose, Ia, Herald"
we learn that on Monday last Mrs. Carroll,
wife of John ID. Carroll, had placed their
baby boy Johnny, only trifle over year
old, in baby carriage for a nap, and while
absent a short time in another room, the
little fellow slipped from the pillows on
which he was laid, and the strap which