The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-09-20
Miscellaneous News Items.

ship, Wells county, Ind, was fatally bitten
the other day by rattlesnake which had
crawled up in hole in the floor aud upon
the bed where she was lying.
oB-A Lebanon county youth married a
girl and a week after the marriage her
mother sent her three children, which she
had been raising for her, each of whom had
a different father. California has increased
one in population by emigration from Leb
anon county.
Nsg- Among the special premiums offered
Mt the union fair to be held at Orvid, Mich,
will be one for the handsomest dressed
young lady under eighteen years of age,
whose dress, collar and hat shall be made
by herself, and the cost of material for the
same not to exceed $15.
gB-A ragged tramp, who was trying TO
sell jewelry on the streets of Chicago, was
arrested because the articles offered were
OF real value, and it was surmised that
they had been stolen. The prisoner proved
to be girl in disguise, and the jewery
was her own.
EB-"The handspring of Italian music
in the eighteenth century" says recent
writer, "was the exclusive and passionate
worship of the human voice." But Ital-
ian music has experienced change Its
handspring now is in box, and is worked
with handle.
ST LOUIS, September 14.-A special
dispatch to the Post from Pierce City says:
Charles L. Harris was passing the house of
Ward Hubbard, last evening, when the
latter came out with shotgun and dealt
Harris terrible blow over the right eye,
crushing his skull and causing instant
DEATH No cause is assigned for the deed.
Hubbard gave himself up to the authori-
ties.
Ga The Saranac Local declares that Ionia
county, Mich, can boast of one young lady
that is no milk and water article. She is
the daughter of A. Bowen. Her father
offered her ten dollars if she would climb
to the top of the steeple Of the Keene
church and stand on the top of the same
and 'rah for Bob Ingersoll. She accom-
plshed the feat and received the ten dol
lars.
gSs- Miss Schaffer, the young lady resid-
ing in Elmira who took the 5000 prize at
Brockport recently for being the handsom-
est woman in the State, has gone crazy
Her insanity is the result of too much
notoriety on a weak mind. She is to be
AL
next for the trouble of the brain, which
the physicians assert is due in no small
degree to the use of certain acids to stain
or color her hair.
LONDON, Sept.14 The Daiy NeUs
says Z" A committee of the Templar Mis-
sion, in concert with the Anti ti-Slavery Soc-
ETY., has arranged to give public breakfast
on Thursday in honor of the colored Bish-
ops and other representatives of the Afri-
can Methodist Churches of America now
attending the Ecumenical Conference
The object of the promoters of the break
fast is to make demonstra tion in favor of
white and colored races.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Sept. 14.-A duel
was fought yesterday morning at sunrise
at Terene Miss, between Hon. Leland
Leatherman, Mayor of Arkansas City, and
James Sucker, a prominent attorney of
the same city. Both combatants were
wounded at the first fire. Leatherman
received slight flesh wound in the arm.
| Suclxar WAC hit in the laft sida and IL is
supposed his wound is fatal.
LONDON, Sept.-14.-The Daily News
states that the Russian journals publishes
liberal details of the diphtheria, now cpl
fernic in Russia. 1t is reported that in
certain communities and parishes all the
children under fifteen years have died.
! The origin of the attack dates from 1872,
when the disease first appeared in Bessara-
bia. Since then it has spread far and wide
over the south Of the Empire, whence it
lately began to make rapid progress toward
the east and northwest. In Pultowa, a
province of considerably less than 1000, 900
inhabitants, there have been 45,54S cases
IS, 765 were fatal.
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, Sept. .13.-George
Bannester was arrested yesterday for dis
turbing public worship at a. church in the
vicinity of the recent Blue Cut train
robbery. While the minister was preach
ing be jumped up and hurrahed for the
train robbers and began firing off his pistol.
He escaped at the time, but was arrested
| ,,as4ardav From his actions II is believed