The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-09-14


the contents Of the cup run into one Of her
shoes. 1t burned the skin of her ankle
and foot and cooked the flesh under It. In
some places 1t was burned TO the bone.
ny A San Francisco paper says: One
of the retail coal dealers who violated the
rule of the trade In selling coal for less than
the combination price, was tried by his fell
low retailers, last week, and found guilty
of the offense. He charged the correct
price In his bills, but accepted fifty cents
per ton less for receipt in full. He was
ordered to pay the secretary $50 fire. For
the second offense the fine is doubled, and
for the third he is denied any more coal.
LOUISVILLE, KY, September o.--To-day
for the first time In Louisville, negro jurors
were chosen on the grand and petit .iuries.
The jury commissioners in accordance with
recent decisions, in making out the list of
names selected the proper proportion Of
colored citizens among the rest. AS a re-
suit two colored men were drawn among
fifteen to serve as grand jurors, while
number we're drawn on the petit jury.
PETERsBURe, Va, Sept. IA violent
storm visited this city and vicinity last
night Several places were struck by
lightning. At the custom house, which
was struck, several persons were severely
stunned. The Tabb Street Presbyterian
church was badly injured, and the wires at
the Western Union telegraph Office were
considerably disarranged and number Of
the employees painfully injured. A num-
Der of houses in the lower part Of the city
are flooded. The rain in adjacent counties
is reported as very heavy, and the roads
badly washed.
FB- The Pittsburgh Leader says Sew
eral members of the medical fraternity in
Lawrenceville are scratching their heads
over case of birth which recently occurred
at an humble home on Forty-third- -and-a-
half street. The mother of the child is
the daughter of hard working German.
She is only ID years and 10 months old
and is considered small in size for her age.
On the 2Sth of last month she became the
mother of large male child, and it is al
legged that the father of the prattling stran-
ger is a locomotive engineer who runs on
the Allegheny Valley Railroad.
tB- A Baltimore segar dealer went out
the other afternoon leaving his segar store
in charge of his wife, who sat working on
sewing machine in the room just in the
rear of the store. You can well imagine
she was rather scared by what occurred.-
She suddenly felt peculiar warmth on her
left cheek, and turning her head to ascer-
tain the cause, saw large Durham bull
holding his nose close to her head. She
gave tremendous scream, and his bull
ship retreated into the segar store, and be-
hind the counter where he got stuck be-
tween the counter and the shelves SO tight
that it took four men to get him out, and
then they had to move the show cases and
counter.
GB- An old German woman, who had
lived in Berrien county, Mich, for many
years in miserly manner, died recently,
after having long deprived herself and
children of the comforts of life. A search
of the premises, made by one of her daugh-
ters, resulted in finding sack containing
81, 800 in gold.
New YORK, September LA human
foot apparently that of a lady, enclosed in
high heeled kid boot, was picked up last
Friday, at Squam Beach, near Barnegat
Bay. The flesh above the ankle appeared
to have been torn or bitten off by fishes
The foot is now in the possession of Mr..
William p. Chadwick, whose hotel is close
to Life Saving station, No. II.