The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-09-06

retorted that he was drunk, and threw
him into the street.
RTA pretty woman was dangerously III
at Rising Sun, Ind, and the physician
promised TO cure her il she would desert
her husband and elope with him The bar
gain has been carried out on both sides.
AT the elections In Kentucky recent.
ly, Mrs. Minerva Brashears was chosen
Clerk Of Letcher Co., and Mrs. Emma
Smith, Clerk of Laurel Go. They were
the widows of Clerks who had died In
office.
ScRANToN, Aug. 31.--S. @. Collins, sup
posed to be saeman from Wickersham e.
Co., OF Race street, Philadelphia, commit.
ted suicide at an early hour yesterday
morning by throwing himself in front Of
freight train at a point one mile west of
Bloomsburg, on the Lackawanna and
Bloomsbury railroad. His body was found
at Espy this morning
G55- Daniel Jones, an aged bank Presi-
dent at Watertown, Wis, and Charles
Wood, an equally aged manufacturer, have
both been regarded in their community as
pattern men. Nevertheless they had
desperate fight over the discounting of
note, and Mr.. Jones was so badly whipped
that it was doubtful for a time whether he
would recover.
gB-A farmer at Dayton, Wis, discovered
and attacked seven wolves while out look
ing up flock of sheep the other day AT
ter desperate fight, in which all his cloth
ing was torn off, his hands and legs we're
badly bitten and the lower half of one ear
was snapped off, he killed them. He receiv-
ed $77 in bountes from the State and sold
the skins for fair price.
GB-A brave deed was recently accom-
plished by lady residing near the Baptist
church in Burns, Henry county, III. Dis
covering her child ih the well she descended
by means Of "a clothes-line to a distance of
sixty feet, laceratiug her hands so terribly
that the bones were exposed, rescued the
child from sixteen feet of water, and slowly
and painfully made her ascent wish the
precious burden, which in her bruised
condition required half an hour.
aS-A Bridgeport, Conn, paper says A
curious specimen Of fish was captured by
Captain j. w. Lewis recently, while dredg-
ing for oysters, which may be seen swim
ming around in glass jar in Ed. Smiths
window on Wall Street. 1t has been nam
ed "sea horse," from the fact that the
head resembles that of horse. 1t is about
four inches in length, fiat and of dark
color. 1t is quite "a curiosity, and has been
viewed by scores of people to-day.
MONTREAL Aug. 20.-Early this morn.
ing the guardian of the draw bridge over
the Lachue Canal at Saint Henri was led
by hearing groans to discovered a German
immigrant standing up to his chin in water
near the immigrant sheds, and suffering
from severe stab wound near the heart
He was deirious. He could only speak
German. He said his name was Otto
Wick, and that he came from Pfoffendorf
Germany. He talked excitedly OF his wife
and children. In his pockets were IS and
the following "Castle Garden, 129, Troy
N. Y"
tB Recently two bald eagles engaged in
combat in mid-ar, just above the heads of
some young men who we're camping out in
Bayhundred, Talbot county, Md. The
birds fought fiercely aloft for several min
utes, the feathers flying and drops of blood
pattering down upon the leaves. When at
last both combatants fell to the ground
Augustus Krauser and Mr.. Molyneaux
tried to capture them. The eagles turned
upon the men and in the struggle Mr..
Molyneaux's coat was torn by the claws of
the birds One was captured and the other
escaped.
New YORK, Aug. 20.-The steamboat
State of New York, plying between Hart
ford and New York, left Hartford at four
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, struck on a
rock near Goodspeed's Landing, half way
between Saybrook Point and Hartford,
about @ o'clock lost night. She was imme-
diately run ashore and lies there with her
stern under water. No panic ensued and
no lives were lost. Her passenger list
could not be ascertained. The vice presi-
dent of the Hartford line telegraphed this
morning to this city for pumps and divers
to be sent Immediately to Goodspeed's
Landing to raise the steamboat.
have little girl, said Mr.. Henry Dole,
of this city, in a conversation, who was
troubled with a severe lameness in her legs,
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