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

loose, Saturday week, and assembled TO a
great height and disappeared.
A son of Mrs. Eisenhower of Lebanon
was SO much injured by the kick of horse
that it is thought he will not recover. The
blow produced concussion OF the braiu.
eB-A teller of Bradford bank paid out
by mistake 5000 in excess of draft the
other day, but the party who received it
was honest and returned the money.
tB- There are two lakes at Omaha City
which were recently blown nearly dry by
high wind, and the ground to the leeward
of them was strewn with dead fish blown
from the water.
tB- Just as Mrs. Smith, of Springfield,
Ohio, was about to step up to her telephone
a day or two ago aud ask Mrs. Jones to
come over to tea, "a fash of lightning danced
in on the wire and tore the machine into
fragments. Mrs. Jones took tea at home.
eB The Huntingdon journal recites
the case Of farmers wife living near that
place, who gathered berries all one after
noon, gave birth to bouncing boy that
night and attended market the next morn
ing.
GB Goldsmith Maids oldest colt killed
herself last week in trying to jump fence
near Trenton, N. ]. She fractured her
shoulder blade. Mr.. II. N. Smith, the
owner, refused an offer of $4,000 for her
some time ago.
eB- There is nothing like squaring an
account to make a woman feel good. There
was a widow in Ohio who owed her hired
man $3.50, and to get rio of the debt she
married him, then immediately spent 500
for divorce and fired her new husband
out. She was $3.50 in by the operation.
Ra A man named Delill, who was lost
in the woods, near Long Lake, Mimi, has
been found. When found his face was ter
ribly lacerated, and was supposed to have
been picked by ravens. He was in a semi
unconscious condition, aud will probably
| die.
| G8- At Cutter, ILL.,, seven months ago
straw shed belonging to John Patterson,
fell down on some hogs, turkeys and chick
ems. A short time since Mr.. Patterson
was removing some of the straw, when to
his astonishment, one of the hogs was
found to be still alive, but as may be sup
posed very thin in flesh. The above is
true.
gB- A butcher at Port Washington
Wis, discovered fine SOW, that had dis
appeared on the evening Of July A, in the
cellar of deserted house, the poor animal
having been prisoner on a-diet of air and
nothing for twenty days. While in soli-
tary confinement litter of six fine pigs
first saw daylight, and they were all well
and healthy looking when found, being ap-
parently ten days old.
GB Mrs. Elizabeth Steward, of SteeltoD,
aged 60 years, died very suddenly of heart
disease on Monday q week, prior to nine
o'clock. She prepared her husbands
lunch to take with him when he went to
work at the blasting furnace, and as she
had not been in very good health for some
time, she retired leaving the house in
charge of a colored woman. The latter had
occasion to come to Harrisburg aud when
she returned about o'clock, she found
Mrs. Steward dead in bed
PHILADELPHIA, August 3.--Tbis after
noon, between and O'clock Robert
Acheson conductor of construction train
on the Pennsylvania railroad, was almost
instantly killed in the company's yards,
West Philadelphia. Acheson was walking
on the track and his train while backing
struck him on the back, knocked him
down and ran over him, cutting off both
his legs and manglirg him so severely that
he died soon afterwards. He was a native
of Lancaster county. ~
E#-A New York doctor sailed for Eu-
rope the other day, and wishing to mail
several letters that he hadn't time to write
before going on board, wrote them hurried
ly as the vessel went down the bay, intend
ing to give them to the pilot when they got
to Sandy Hook. When he finished the
letters the pilot was gone, so he got large
bottle from the steward, stuffed the letters
into it, wrote note asking the finder to
mail them, and threw the bottle overheard.
The bottle was washed ashore at Long
Branch several days afterward, and the
letters were mailed in Brooklyn.
LANCASTER, August 3.-Last evening q