The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-08-12
Miscellaneous News Items.

nrst SIX months OF 1878.
EB- Rosa Christian, little girl bitten
by Newfoundland dog July 2, died on
Tuesday at New Orleans of hydrophobia.
c%- The loss ratio of the New York fire
companies for the six months ending June
80 was ~ per cent. of their premium
receipts.
EY- 1t is now known that the wheat
yield of Minnesota will be better than
that of last year, and will aggregate 40,-
000, 900 bushels.
eE- The iron-rail trade has fallen off
from three hundred and twenty-four thou
sand tons in 1878 to two hundred and
twenty-one thousand tons in 1878.
r%- Prisoners in the Northampton Co.
prison are employed at cutting rags,
making brooms, carpet and other light
labor.
e%- One of the legs of Michael Ryan,
who was killed by the explosion in stone
quarry at Huntingdon some days ago, has
been found two miles from the place of tho
accident.
eE- The increase of Touring mills in the
four States Of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota from 1850 to 1878 was from
1,13S to 5000.
t$- In quarter of an hour, Tuesday af-
aternoon nearly one and a-half inches of
rain fell in Cincinnati, the heaviest rainfall
ever known in that city in the same
time.
tB- John Gross, Richmond negro, got
up lottery in which every purchaser of
ticket at 50 was promised hog, cow or
horse, but no pri zes were really given,
and Gross has been officially whipped.
GB- Mrs. Dennis Mccarthy, of Pitts
burgh, during storm last week was stand
ing in hor door holding an infant when
she was struck by lightning and instantly
killed, while the child was unhurt.
@E- A Sunday school superintendents'
association has been formed in Altoona
which has resolved that Sunday school pic
MICS are .'deleterious to the interests of our
citizens and the cause of christianity"
ALTOONA, Pa, August g. Mrs. George
Newton was burned to death this morning
by the explosion of coal oil, with which
she was lighting fire. Her body was
burned to crisp
EB Tho hair Of James Gordon Bennett,
like Stokes and others who have formed
the habit of drinking champagne instead
Of water, has turned comparatively white.
Mr.. Bcnnett's eyes, also, are very singu-
lar. He has what a horseman calls
''watch-eyes"- is, the iris of the eye
is light gray, while the pupil or central
dot is white.
g During thunderstorm at New
Orleans Wednesday several houses were
struck by lightning. The topmast of the
schooner Martha was demolished. Light
ming struck chimney of the residence of
Mrs. Grunewald, and demolished the man.
telpiece, clock, sc. The inmates of the
room were uninjured.
Hon. Leonard Sweet the prominent
criminal lawyer of Chicago, has acknowl-
edged that be presented bogus surety re-
Gently to Judge Drummond, whereby the
Revenue Department was defrauded out
of large number of stamps. 1t is prob
able that he will be disbarred and prose-
cuted.
H- Mrs. Edward A. Bessom, of Lynn,
sent out to the apothecary store the other
afternoon for some rhubarb. The boy in
attendance at the store made a mistake and
put up half an ounce of laudanum instead.
Mrs. Bessom took the whole dose, and it
was only owing to the fact that she had
taken an overdose that her life was saved.
eY- Like their fellow laborers all over
Great Britain, the Warwickshire miners
have been called upon to accept less pay
for work done. AS they protested, the
matter was submitted to arbitration, and
it has now been decided that the men
must submit to a reduction of ten per
cent. AS they declare that this means
starvation, it seems as though a deadlock
had been reached.
CINCINNATI, o., August A. late
hour last night Mrs. John Howe, the wife
of prominent business man of Cincinnati,
and servant named Anna Brown, fell
through the floor of vault at their sum-
mer residence at Covington, and before
they could be rescued both were suffocated.
Mr.. Howe, hearing cries, ran out and
jumped into the vanlt to attempt their
rescue, but was overcome, and only by