The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-05-03
Miscellaneous News Items.

CHARLESTON, S. c., April 2G.-Hen.
M. P. O'Connor congressman from the
Charleston district, died this morning of
tumor in the stomach.
eB- Nine deaths occurred at Whining
ton, Del, from smallpox during the past
week, and six new cases we're sent to the
almshouse ON Monday.
gB- The post. office at Fredericton, N.
j., was broken into on Monday night and
all the letters except those in the safe
were stolen; also $40 worth of stamps.
RYThe coopers of Boston and Cam
bridge have given notice through their
secretary that they will demand from
Monday next twenty-five per cent advance
on present prices, and strike if refused.
GB-The post-office at Norristown was
entered by burglars early on Monday morn
ing. They blew open the safe and left
with the money and postage stamps,
amounting to about $500.
e8 Secretary Blaine has instructed the
American Consul at Victoria, B. c., to
investigate and report upon the circum-
stances connected with the alleged impris-
onment of two American citizens at Yale
last winter.
gB- A horse of William Strader fell into
mine hole forty-feet deep, near Washing
ton, Warren county, last week. A der
rick was rugged and he was extricated
few hours afterward apparently but little
hurt.
GEE The post office at Pittston was en-
tered at an early hour on Tuesday morn
ing last, by burglars who broke open the
safe and robbed it of small amount of
money, postage stamps and registered let
ters. There is no clue to the perpetrators.
tB-In his sermon on Sunday, Henry
Ward Beecher expressed the hope that
editors might become thoroughly Chris
tianized-not after the pattern of the
religious press, however, God forbid he
said, but after the pattern of the New
Testament of Jesus Christ.
9B- The dwelling of Mrs. Elizabeth
Hoffman, in East Coventry, Chester ceun-
ty was broken open and robbed of over $50
in money and suit of clothes, while the
family were at church, on Sunday morning.
Some tramps who were seen in the neigh
borhood are suspected of having commit
ted the robbery.
EY- On Sunday James Oderbach shot
and instantly killed a pretty Bohemian
girl named Mary Brooks at Des Moines,
Iowa. Olderbach was under the influence
of liquor, and had just had some CONVEX
sation with the girl. He asserts that he
did the deed in fun, merely pointing the
pistol playfully without any intent to fire
it. He is in Jail.
EB- Frederick Hartman died near Cen
treville, Ind, about month ago, and the
old gentleman's friends suspected that he
had large sum of money that could not
be found among his papers, or in any bank
with which he did business. A search was
made about the old homestead, and $4,000
in small amounts have been fished out of
chinks and crannes about the house.
uY-The Huntington Journal says:
GA two year old heifer belonging to Jack
MeCahan was found dead in mire ON the
north side of the Broad Top railroad track,
a short distance above the 'cut." The
animal had been missed for several days
and when found was mired to its knees in
a blue, tough clay, from which it was
impossible for it to extricate itself"
CB- A Cincinnati dispatch states that on
Sunday night the wife Of ex-Representa-
tive ]. d. Thompson, of Lewis county,
Ky.,w drowned by the upsetting of
row boat in swollen stream. Mr.. Thomp-
son, delicate man, supported his wife for
nearly half an hour, but when help arriv-
ed and they were brought ashore, the lady
was dead and Mr.. Thompson SO much OK
hausted that his recovery is deemed doubt
full.
pT' -Four boys playing on the meadows
near Newark, N. j., on Monday last, dis
covered number of glass preserving jfrs,