The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-03-23

Somebody in New York has been play
ing an annoying and cowardy game on
Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity
Protestant Episcopal church, on Broadway.
At various times during the past two
months propretors of manufacturing es-
Establishments in st. Louis, Chicago, Gin
pinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Louisville,
Milwaukee and st. Paul have received
postal cards purporting to be from DR..
Dix, asking the fullest Information con-
cerning their wares, which included every
thing from threshing machines and fire.
proofs to shotguus and shoes. Proprietors
of numerous female Summaries were SINH
larly requested to send catalogues to DIR.
Dix; publishers were requested to send
him full particulars Of all'kinds of Bibles,
aud pawnbrokers and Chatham street
clothes dealers were largely invited to
bring secondhand clothing to his residence.
Advertisements telling people out of em-
poyment to call at Mr.. Dix's house were
inserted in the newspapers. Episcopal
cergymen were invited by postal card to
meet the Lord Bishop of Exeter or York
at dinner at Dir. Dix's residence. Promi-
nent mercantile firms like A. T. Stewart
s. Co., and Arnold, Constable n Co. were
notified, apparently by Dr.. Dix, that
their impertinent letter to him had been
placed in the hands Of his counsel to pro-
ceed against them," aud all the cobblers on
Sixth avenue were summoned by mail to
his house to mend children's Shoes Dr.
Dlx's door-bell was nearly rung off by the
numerous and Heterogeneous callers, and In
February he received an anonymous letter,
saying he would no longer be annoyed if
he paid the writer $1,000. He was directed
to insert personal in the New York Her
aid, reading +" Gentleman Jo-All right"
On the gath there were three personals in
the Herald for Gentleman Jo," who had
been answering advertisements for lost and
stolen articles also. Those who answered
" Gentleman JOS offers, which were in
creased, never received any response. All
tho letters which could be collected from
the various parties who had been addressed
in Dir. Dix's name were in the same hand.
At last accounts the man who did it all had
not been caught, but DIR. Dix is having
rest, thanks to the newspaper account of
his experience. II the blackmailer is
caught there is forgery enough to put him
away for the rest of Methuselahs life.
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eB- A few days before the schools were
closed by order of the School Board at
Lansing, Mich, one of the teachers at
noontime espied small boy with a red
flannel scarf around his neck. Visions of
diphtheria Immediately tloated through
her brain, and she ordered the young John
Henry to pack up his books and return no
more until your throat is perfectly WE'LL"
He obeyed the summons, and on his way
home met three of his companions, who
noticed his books and saluted him with -
"What'sup?" John proceeded to explain
that the piece of red flannel had gained
him furlough. The three youths held
short council of war; Clipped in what little
spare change they could muster, went into
a dry-goods store, bought half yard of
red flannel, tore it in strips and placed it
around their necks. In just twenty min
utes from that time three more boys were
ordered out of the school-room, ON the
ground that they were threatened with
diphtheria.
CB- There has arrived at the eastern
penitentiary young man named Chester