The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-17

man who got the snakes lives somewhere
In the lower end OF the county. Just
what he wanted with so many snakes
we have not learned.
On Saturday morning last q six-year-
old son of our townsman Geo. Freder-
lex, blacksmith, met with an accident
which will probably cripple him for
life. The little fellow was playing on
West North street shortly after market
hours. At the same time Mr.. Henry
Swigert, farmer Of Frankfort twp, was
driving home In wagon at q brisk rate
and the child unobserved by the driver,
was struck and run over by the wagon.
The little one was at once taken up, and
carried to his grandfather's residence on
Pitt street, and DIR. s. B.. Kieffer sent
for. Upon examining the child, the
Doctor discovered that It's left arm was
broken above the elbow and the shoul-
der cap had sustained two very serious
fractures. All was done that surgical
skill could do to reduce the fractures and
relieve the sufferer, but fears are enter
tanned that the little one may perma-
nently lose the use of its arm.
On Sunday morning Officer Best, Of
Newville, brought to town a colored
man named Tom Williams, of Mechan-
icsburg, who was captured on the Kcrs-
Vile. campmeetlng grounds, selling
whiskey. Williams was brought to
town, and held to answer for court.
A bass, caught by G. b. Longnecker,
on being opened was found to contain
part of house snake about foot long.
Another contained whole water snake
one and a-half feet in length. Theappe-
tite for this fish is not nearly so great,
as 1t was some time ago.
At the Reformed church picnic held
at Pine Grove on last Tuesday, Annie, q
little son of Mr.. johnson Wareham, of
Carlisle narrowly escaped drowning.
She was walking near the boating pond,
when she stumbled and fell into the
water. The prompt action of Mr..
Tomlinson, alone saved her life.
One day last week officer Rippey, of
Shippensburg, brought James Martin
and DIR. Hatten to this place and COM
mitted them to prison on a charge of
arson. 1t seems that Shippensburg is
infested with desperate set of men,
who seem to take delight in burning
property. There are now three in prison
from that place to be tried for burning
at the approaching August Sessions.
On Monday evening last, while Mrs.
Jane Mclaughlin, wife of Robert Nc
I-W
and when opposite Mr.. G. Bowermas-
ter's house, she felfto the ground, ap.
parently in spasm. She was carried
into the house, and a physician sum-
mOned, who pronounced 1t a paralytic
stroke. She fingered in an unconscious
condition for about half an hour, when
she died. .-NeUville Star.
Eleven Pueblo children, seven boys
MI f,,t.r fyfrIu or af fhn Indian
school on Saturday evening, from New
Mexico, in charge of Rev. Sheldon Jack
son. They are representatives of tribe
which came under the Spanish yoke
when the Southwest was conquered,
and as rule speak the Spanish Ian
guage and observe Spanish customs.
They are not as shy of white people as
their northern brethren, and appear
exceptionally bright.
A cat belonging to Mr.. Jesse Brindle,
In Monroe twp, has nest of young of
queer mixture. The young consist of
three kittens and two rabbits of tender
age, all of which it is said, suckle the
old cat, and come in for an equal share
of her attention. The nest, when first
discovered, was upon spring wagon,
four feet or so from the ground, and just
how the rabbits got there is not known,
Dut III is supposed that the cat found
them somewhere in the fields and
prompted by her irresistible motherly
instinct adopted them and conveyed
them to her home.
A most painful accident occurred in
the neighborhood of Plainfield, in this
county, on Monday last, which should
teach persons In the habit of handling
guns carelesssly In their houses, or any
where else, when others are near them,
the extreme danger of the practice. A
Mr.. Absalom Shaw, who had returned
home from parade with loaded gun,
which he had, as we learn, made several
fruitless attempts to discharge, fearing,
we presume, to let it stand loaded at
home, was picking his flint in order to
make another effort to remove the loads,
when, just as his wife was passing before
the muzzle, spark ignited the priming,
and the gun going off theentire contents
passed through her head, killing her
upon the spot. The unfortunate hus-
band, stone mason, who has been
working at the new college building,
has, we learn, been in state bordering
on insanity ever since"
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