The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-05-25


Cumberland COunty.--we copy the fol-
lowing from the Cumberland papers
Of last week
Disastrous fires have been prevailing
In the mountain for the last ten days.
Q. w. Ahl q Son have lost heavily In
corded wood. 1t has been with one
exception, set on fire, and should the lad
ever be discovered, woe be to him.
John Minich, the Loysville, Perry Co.,
horse drover, will be at Swartz's hotel
by the latter part of the week with lot
Of fine horses. Mr.. Minich has shipped
over two hundred horses through this
place since last February.
Andrew M. Brown, of MifIlin twp, Is
the sufferer this time. On Tuesday
night an entrance was effected into the
granary by forcing off the lock, and
eight hams and shoulders and three
bushels of corn stolen therefrom. On
the Sunday night before five chickens
were stolen from old Mrs. Salisbury
Upon coming down stairs one morn
ing recently Mr.. VIM. Ruth found one
of his rooms filled with smoke This he
found arose from q fire In spittoon
containing some saw dust where IL must
have been slumbering all night Had 1t
gotten air there would no doubt have
been conflagration. How the fire got
there no one knows.
Mrs. Gill bought four months old
Alderney calf, several weeks ago. The
calf Is of a mouse color, and In the CEN
ter of its forehead has q tuft of perfectly
white hair, as big as fist which appears
for all the world like full developed set
of bovine bangs. This proves pretty
conclusively that bangs are not yet out
of style, as some editors have been
claiming.
On Monday last Mr.. John Shriner, of
Mechanicsburg, visited our town on
business which detained him over night.
During his absence from home his house
was broken into and robbed of eighty
dollars IN money and some valuable pa
pers. Mr.. 5. was sent for when the rob-
berry was discovered on Tuesday morn
ing. Our latest information reports
that up to that time there was no clue to
the robber, and no trace of the missing
papers or money.
On Saturday evening last, four year
old son of Mr.. Emanuel Vert, of North
Middleton, was playing in the yard near
a dog kennel, to which large, feroclous
dog had been tied for some ten days.
hN ilbliC lNlAOW III Ills DldJ MGnb lOO
near the kennel, when the dog sprang
at him, seizlng him by the cheek and
inhicting very ugly wound. Fortu-
nately the boy fell outside of the dogs
reach, and escaped further injury. The
little sufferer was brought to DIR. A. /.
Mlller's Office, in this place, where his
wound was properly dressed. No further
trouble is anticipated from the bite
Mirror.
A Shippensburg butcher, Mr.. Ed
Farley, made a narrow escape from
being gored to death recently. He en-
tered pen in which steer was con-
| fined, and by some means the door was
| closed, SO that he could not get out.
| The animal attacked him with great
| ferocity, and threw him to the ground,
| but the man kept cool and preserved
himself from fatal injury by keeping his
| body between the wide spread horns.
He finally regained his feet, only to be
again attacked and thrown down, escap-
ing as before. The butcher escaped a
second time, and tried to climb out of
the pen. While doing this the sharp
horns of the animal were at work, and
! by the time Mr.. Farley had forced a
| board from the pen near the roof, thus
securing an avenue of escape, every
| particle of clothing except his boots was
torn from his body. AS it was the
escape from death was miraculous.
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