The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-09-27
Miscellaneous News Items.

Myerstown, Lebanon county, was about to
hand a visitor in his house cushion on
which to be seated, a copperhead snake
eighteen inches long, crawled from under
the cushion. 1t was quickly dispatched
but how it got there is the mystery.
esB-A young woman threw her arms
around Judge Henry N. Ward as he was
walking down a street at Newport, r.. l.,
recently, and asked him if his name wasn't
Thompson. The Judge after enjoying the
hug, kindly explained that she was mistak-
en-. There was $50 in his missing purse
LANCASTER, Sept 22.-Ye yesterday while
Jacob Foutz was picking apples in his or
chard from an extension ladder it gave way,
percipitating bTr. Foutz to the ground and
breaking his neck. He lived about ten
highly respected farmer of Conestago town
ship.
GB~ "A singular accident occurred at al
party at Williamsport, on Saturday even
ing. While the dance was going on, one
of the gentlemen engaged received kick
from his lady partner, which fractured one
of the bones of his leg. The accident
caused a suspension of the festivities, and
a physician was summoned, who reduced
the fracture.
8-The physician of the Kentucky
penitentiary said that Joe Josh, the negro
who deliberately chopped off his own hand
\ Il h. .-:t
torture of suspension by the thumbs, and
not to escape work. The warden said that
the physician was liar. They have had a
fist fight without satisfactorily settling the
question.
ca Mr.. Carnes missed his wallet in
Cincinnati theatre, and accused a young
man sitting near him of'stealing it, This
stranger was greatly excited by the pros
pect of arrest, and asked how much was in
( the book. "Thirty dollars" was the re-
ply. He hastily handed Carnes that sum
and left the house. Carnes subsequently
found the supposed stolen money where
he had mislaid it at home, and now is adj
vertising for the sensitive fellow who, rath-
er than be arrested for crime of which he
was innocent, paid $50 of his own.
UE-A Chinese witness in Philadelphia
court, after taking an oath with a particu-
larly loud kiss of the Bible, was asked if
he considered himself bound thereby to-
tell the truth. He complacenty answered
that the Bible was no more to him than the
4 lawyers old white hat. The only form of
oath that he would respect, he said, was to
cut off a chickens head while repeating
certain words in Chinese. A chicken and
knife were provided by the opposing coun-
sci, but the Judge said that, though incln-
ed to permit the ceremony, he would ad-
ourned the trial for week to consider
\ the question.
Eg Cummings engaged himself to marry
a Pennsylvania widow, Mrs. Kennedy; but
he was disturbed by the fact that her first
husband had been dead only year, and on
the day set for the wedding sent her note
saying that he would go into the solitude
of the woods to pray for Divine guidance.
The enraged widow read the message to
the guests when they assembled, and de-
clared that she would not become Cum
ming's wife, no matter what light he
might obtain from above. Williams an
old and previously discarded suitor, saw
his opportunity and offered to act as bride
groom. lie was accepted, and when Cum
mings arrived, with his conscience quieted,
there was no widow
EE-A daring robbefy,was committed on
the road between the Glen House and
Glen Station, N. II. on Tuesday. Mr..
Frank w. Andrews, of Boston, was driv-
ing with his family ahead of the regular
coach, which contained several passengers.
A highwayman wearing veil stopped
MIR. Andrews and took from him $500 and
his watch, also a pin belonging to Mrs.
Andrews. He then attacked the driver of
the stage and fired several shots at him,
but was run down by the horses, and after
being shot at by passenger, retreated to,
the woods. When the stage reached Glen
Station watch was instituted on all the
roads in the effort to capture the robber
and two other men said to have been con-
cealed on the roadside.
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