The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-11-08
Miscellaneous News items.

mB A few days ago three. year-old
child was missed at Niles, Mich, and after
q search was found In an upper room fast
asleep in trunk with the lid closed. 1t
could not possibly have lived there much
longer
RTThe enormous amount of business
done In postal money orders is indicated by
the fact that the New York Office holds n
million and three quarters of dollars unpaid
on such orders, aud presumably, unclam-
ed.
EaFA remaik by Revivalist Harrison, in
a San Fransisco meeting Sometimes l
think shall not die. But when my time
comes angels will come and place me under
their wings and bear me gently away"
ca JEFF Davis, convicted at Abbeyville,
S. O., of the murderer of George Franklin
and his sister, has just been acquitted on a
new trial. The day for his execution was
respited, twice on the scaifold with the
rope around his neck.
eY-AIrs. Ada Roberts, who shot and
killed Theodore Weber in 1879 in Chicago
and was acquitted of murder on the ground
of insanity, but subsequently sent to the
insane asylum at Elgin, ILL.,, has been re-
leased on the ground that she had recover
ed.
GE-A ten. year-old resident of Bratton
township, AIilfln county, Charles Bratton
Graham by name, went out the other day
and shot large wild turkey. Elated with
his success he returned to the woods, en-
countered flock of turkeys and succeeded
in killing two of them.
NE Samuel Morningstar, foreman of
gang of trackmen on the Huntingdon and
Broad Top railroad. dropped dead in Rich
ey's store, Tatesvile Bedford county, ON
Tuesday morning. Apoplexy is supposed
to have caused his death. A wife and six
children survive him.
NEWARK, N. j., Nov. - Nehemiah
Perry, former member of congress from
this city, and his wife, both died to-day
from pneumonia Perry has been mayor Of
Newark and a prominent manager in
financial institutions. He was about sixty
five years of age.
eB-J. r. Murry and wife have brought
suit at indianapolis, against the Bloom
ipgton and Western Railway company,
claiming $4,000 damages beoa use the train
on which Mrs. Murry wanted to ride to
Clermont on did not stop there but went a
mile further, so that she had to walk back
to Clermont.
Gag- While little daughter of Samuel
Tanning, of North Manchester, Ind, was
carrying an infant child across the floor
she stumbled and fell, throwing the baby
into tub of hot water. Tho baby was
horribly scalded and died soon after.
stB-A 13year- old girl in Rushford, Allie
gheny county, N. Y, agreed to elope with
hoster. She hid in an old chest in the
dooryard, and when her lover drove up she
was ready to go. But her ancient grand
mother, who saw her hide, stepped in and
the elopement was indefinitely postponed.
gB-The will of Gerhart Bechtel, late of
Washington township, Berks county, which
was filed in Reading on Monday, contains
the following curious provision "And
further disinherit and prohibit from antici-
patton in the distribution of my estate,
such of my male descendants as persist in
wearing moustaches."
C5S- Henry Funok, II years of age, met
with horrible death in Reading, on Tues
day. lie was caught by the steel prongs
of picker machine cylinder in Miners
wool hat factory and drawn in head first.
His face was ground to pieces and his
right arm torn off. His death was instan-
taneous. The cylinder made 800 revolu-
tions per minute and was running at full
speed
EB The town Of Edgefeld, S. c., was
almost totally destroyed by fire on Tues
day. The leading citizens are of the opin-
ion that one Malloy, white man, who
some time ago was suspected of burning
his own store for the purpose of obtaining
the insurance money, kindled the fire. A
suspicious circumstance is that as soon as
the alarm of fire was first sounded he hast
lily left the village and has not been seen
since.
CHESTNUT HILL, Pa, Nov. "a party
of five or six young men left this place
yesterday morning on cunning expedition
and had proceeded as for as Montgomery
vile, when one of the party, named Harry
Lightcap, twenty-five years of age, while in
the act of picking up rabbit which he had
| shot was ACCIDENTALLY shot hv comnan