The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-03-01
Miscellaneous News Items.

eY- Lewisburg has lost since last Au-
gust upwards Of sixty children from that
fell destroyer, diphtheria.
eB- A Pike county weatherprophet says
we are to have seven SHOWS before the win
ter will be over.
rB- A short distance from Greensburg
resides an old lady eighty years of age, who,
as soon as o'clock in the afternoon ar
rives each day, puts out every vestige of
fire in the house and retres to bed, where
she remains until O'Clock the next morn
ing.
WILKEsBARRE, Feb. 20.-At Nanticoke
last night Hungarian named Lafschuslki
broke bottle of alcohol in his pocket and
the contents saturated his clothing. He
afterwards lit match, when his clothes
caught fire aud he was SO terribly burned
that he will probably die.
tg- DIR. T. A. Ward of Dundee, Fond
du Lac county, Wis, was visiting a pa
tient about two miles from Dundee, one
day last week, and while at that place was
taken with malignant scarlatina, expiring
the same day, in the same room with the
patient he was attending.
tB- BY the rise in the Tulpehocken
creek it was estimated that 80, 900 cords of
wood were swept down the stream, while
fences have been obliterated and bateaux
lost. Some person at the outlet of that
creek can open a wood yard.
WEST CHESTER, Feb. 21.-0n Saturday,
Newlin twp, was the scene of an accident
whereby Courtland Michener, prominent
farmer, aged about 55 years, was almost
instantly killed. About noon on Saturday
word reached our borough that he had
been killed while engaged in threshing near
Unionville. His death was caused by the
bursting of the ily-wheel.
GB- Mr.. Jas. McIlvaine, who died at
wagon yard at Eufaula, Ala, applied at
the branch probate office in that city the
day before the night of his death for
marriage license. On his first application
he forgot the name of his intended bride
and had to go off and learn it, when he
returned and procured the license. That
night he became corpse.
GB- When the congregation Of the Ames
M. E. church, New Orleans assembled
on Sunday morning last, it was found that
the flooring Of the church had all been re-
moved and the furniture taken away. On
inquiry it was ascertained that the work
had been done by order of Rev. Mr.. Bris-
tor, the former pastor, who had been re-
moved for alleged intimacy with female
members.
uE- James Tate, well-known citizen of
Warren county, Mo-, had harmless OK
crescence on his nose. During the fall a
travelling fellow stopped at Mr.. T's farm,
and, seeing the pimple on his nose, per-
suaded him that it was a cancer and that
he could cure it, He was to receive $50 il
he succeed. He gave Mr.. Tate some sort
of acid ointment and made him apply it
several times. In short time the whole
of the fleshy and cartilaginous portions of
his nose were destroyed and eaten down
level with his face.
eE- The residents of Sussex county, N.
| j., have become greatly excited over the
number of incendiary fires which have oc-
| CURED recently, and are taking steps to
| fathom the mysteries attending the circum-
stances. There have been some twenty
three incendiary fires in the county within
the past two years, with an aggregate loss
of over 100000. Detectives have been
employed to work up the case and bring
the offenders to justice.
c@- The tragic death of Lottie Merrill,
the young huntress of Wayne county, is
reported. A party of hunters few days
since came across her cabin, which was
still burning, and within was found the
charred remains of the girl and six bears.
She had dragged the carcase of deer to
her cabin, and the hungry bears had fol-
lowed the trail. After eating the deer the
bears had attacked and overpowered her
after she had killed two of the number. -
Her remains were buried near the site of
her burned cabin.
eB- On Monday last week, a three-year
old child of a farmer named Slough in
Manchester township, six miles from York,
died from burns. The mother had tied the
little one with rope to keep it from the
fire while she went out to attend to her
evenings milking. The rope proved too
long and the little one, in it's mothers alb
sence, crawled over to the stove and began
playing with the GOALS It's clothes caught