The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-03-29
Miscellaneous News Items.

around" He was satisfied, for they had
violent and almost fatal commissions.
EB-A young widower of Painesville, o.,
corresponded with Wisconsin young lady
with view to matrimony. A day or two
ago his intended whom he had never seen
arrived He was sadly Disappointed
She was mere girl.
1t has been discovered that the sup
ports of the bell of one of the schoolhouses
in st. Clair was almost ready to tum-
BILE down. The bell weighs about 1000
pounds, and was hung directly over the
stairway by which the scholars enter and
leave the school,
CHICAGO, March 21.-A party of Cana
dian emigrants, filling with their stock and
baggage ninety cars and numbering near
ly 900 persons, have been snow bound on
the outskirts of this city since Saturday
night. They appear to be superior class
of farmers, ane are bound for Manitoba.
A burglar entered private house at
Montgomery, Alabama, and refreshed
himself with few slices of nicely favored
cake that happened to be handy. He
stood behind the lady of the house and
blew out matches as she ignited them, so
softly as to make her believe it was caused
by the wind.
EB-A dog in a Cincinnati theatre smelt
room, barked an alarm, and thus saved q
large audience from catastrophe. His
food has been changed from hard crackers
to sponge cake, and his name from Bum
to Hero.
aB The San Antonio and Corpus Christi
stage which left San Antonio ON Monday
morning was stopped fifteen miles north
of Oakville at night by four armed men,
who robbed the passengers of $40O and
several watches and jewelry, and rified the
mail bag of valuable packages. One pas
senger secreted $400
GB- Workmen engaged in repairing an
old frame building in the southern part of
Shelbyville, Ind, found slowed away be-
meath the rubbish, andwhere from appear
ance they had remained number of years,
set of dies for making counterfeit dimes,
half dimes and nickels. They had never
been used, apparently, and how they came
to be placed there is quite mystery.
eB Some Nihilistic school boys at Bre-
men, near Lancaster, Ohio. weary of going
to school, put keg Of gunpowder and a
slow match under the school house the 9th
er night after school hours. AS yet moth
ing has been found either of the gunpow-
der plotters or the school house, save few
footprints, door-latch and nail or two.
CINCINNATI, O., March 21.-About eight
o'clock last night, at Riverside, in the sub
urbs of this city, Adam Boyer, the keeper
of boarding house and saloon, had quar-
rel with Chris. Meyer. During the strug-
gle both men fell, breaking Beyer's neck,
and of course killing him. Meyer wander
ed about the streets until eleven o'clock,
when he gave himself up.
SAN Francisco, March I5.-Brevet
Major, General Emory Upton, of Che
U. S. army, was found dead in his room
self through the head some time during
the night. General Upton retired at
about his usual hour, having spent the
evening in social conversation. The first
intimation Of the tragedy was obtained
this morning between s and o'clock,
when his orderly went to call the General.
H%- Mrs Charles Clemmens who re
sides at Tatesville, Bedford county, loaded
gun for the purpose of shooting dog.
She discovered, however, that she had
overdone the thing and warned her chill
dren not to touch the gun. Her young
son, Harry II. Harper, however, under.
took to do little shooting, when the
weapon exploded, fracturing his skull and
burning his face. 1t is believed that his in.
juries are not fatal.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y March 2l.-A three
story brick building, one hundred feet
square, on Water street, this city, owned
by the Rochester Hydraulic Company, anC
occupied for manufacturing purposes, fel
in ruins at Gas o'clock this morning.
The caute is believed to have been The ex
plosion of forty horse power steam boil
er, used for heating the building. JOSEPH
Scheel, aged twenty years, was killed in
stantly on the sidewalk by falling wall
Four or five other men were injured, bu
none fatally. After o'clock there woul'
have been twenty men in the building
| The total lcaa Z. ast;,oatad ~ 600 ooO