The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-02
Miscellaneous News Items.

we're obliged to quit work on last Friday
afternoon aweek.
eB- According to the decision of the So
licitor of the International Postal Union
at Berne, merchants can send samples,
printed matter, and anything of the sort,
through the mails, by pre-paying the same
at letter-postage rates.
eBr The naphtha lamp used by stove
polish peddler at Danielsonville, Connecti-
cut tolight his stand, exploded last week,
setting the clothes of three children, who
stood below, on fire. One of them, Wal
ter Bowman, is dead, and another named
Lucien is not expected TO recover.
GB- Mr. Kalloch is likely to recover and
will run for Mayor of San Francisco. 1t is
stated that the "Republican and Demo-
cratic nominee for mayor will be with
drawn, and Judge Blake will receive the
joint nomination of both parties and the
support of all law and order citizens in
opposition to Kalloch and the sand lots"
GB Forty years ago man in Bucks
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sion of his wedding. He wore the tile
continuously until the other day when he
bought new one of considerable style and
meandered home. His wife failed to recog-
nize him when he entered the house, and
taking him for tramp whacked him un-
mercifully over the head with broomstick.
esS- Charles Smith of Pennsylvania an
itinerant vender of lottery tickets, was
arrested in Baltimore Tuesday and held
for action of the Grand Jury. A number
of Kentucky Lottery tickets were found on
his person and several parties were discov-
cred to whom he had sold tickets. The
penalty is 81, 900 fine or one years impris-
onment, or both in the discretion of the
Court.
ST. Louis, August 27.-Samuel II. Penn
berton and William Roberts, while return
ing from Gallatin, ILL.,, to their homes near
Walpole, were waylaid yesterday and as
sassinated. Pemberton had been to Gal
latin to take charge of a law suit, and while
there had a difficulty with parties inter-
ested in the suit, but nothing serious oc-
Cured. The theory seems to be that the
persons with whom he had trouble commit
ted the murder
g5B- After child's funeral at Milwaukee
the other day, the sections had not filled
up the grave when second funeral ar
rived. 1t was also that of a child, but the
grave prepared for it was too short. The
men therefore deposited the second child in
the first grave, and when its friends were
gone, actually transported the coffins to
suit the size of the excavations. They
were detected, and compelled to remedy
the difficulty in more decent way.
E3y- In the town of Hartford, Wiscon-
sin, two strangers, named Cook and
Owens, laid claim to the same wife,
Owens and the woman came there some
time ago together. Cook followed, and on
Saturday entered the house to get his wife
to return home. He was driven out and
beaten with stones and brickbats, where
upon he drew revolver and shot Owens.
Cook was arrested. Owens is not expected
to recover.
GB- Mrs. Haley returning with her babe
from a picnic near Altoona was suddenly
precipitated to the bottom of a pit shaft
falling eighty feet. Her screams brought
assistance, and she was found up to the
neck in mud, and the babe, which she had
dropped in her fall, was struggling in the
water a short distance away. Both were
quickly taken up, and although seriously
injured, will recover.
GB- During the storm of last Saturday, at
about p. NJ, the large barn of Eli Emig,
in Hellam township, York county, was
struck by lightning and was destroyed
with all its Notwithstanding machine, a
large supply of hay, grain, etc. Mr.. Emig's
hands were employed at threshing at the
time, and so rapid was the destruction of
the large building that some of the live
stock could not be got out of the way of
danger soon enough and was destroyed by
the flames.
eB- Here is fact in connection with
Potter CO., Pa, very little known, that it is
the highest land east of the Rocky Noun
tains and that there are located in one town.
ship in that county three springs, the wa
ters of one of which forms the head of the
Allegheny river, and empties into the Gulf
of Mexico; of another, the head of the Gen.
isee river, emptying into the Gulf of st.
Lawrence; and of the third, the headwaters
of Pine Creek, which empties into the