The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-02-08

V''H"BVVh OOuhbJ, Ns W. WAS dltnObb ou-
tirely destroyed by fire last night, the
freight warehouse Of tho steamer Chowan
and one store being the only houses left
standing. The fire originated from kero-
sene explosion. Four hundred bales of
cotton we're burned. The loss foots up
$127, 500. Thirty three buildings were de-
stroyed, among which were the court
house, Grace Episcopal church. and twen-
ty-three stores, 250 bales of Gotten, besides
quantities of shingles, lumber, etc., were
also destroyed. The losses on stores and
goods were heavy. Only two of the parties
burned out held any insurance.
GB-The town of Malone New York, is
agitated over case of supposed poisoning
which has recently occurred there. A young
woman named Miss Davis has been arrest
ed charged with poisoning Miss Manning
the niece Of an old gentleman aged 81, for
whom Miss Davis kept house, his niece,
the victim alluded to, being one of the
family.
ROCHESTER, January 81 An appalling
accident occurred at Freedom to-day that
cost the lives of two little boys. Thomas
Rogers and William Blatt, years old,
were coasting this morning and were on
the railway track when train passed, cut
ting them in such a horrible manner as to
cause their death in an hour. The ac-
cident was deemed unavoidable ON the en-
gineer's part.
MILWAUKEE, January 31.-The propell-
er st. Albans belonging to the Ludington
line Northern Transportation Company
was wrecked sixteen miles out on the lake.
The passengers who have been out ia small
boats since yesterday, are being picked up
by tugs. At 8 o'clock this morning George
W. Amey of this city, who resides near
the lake shore, saw far out on the lake to
the northeaM four black specks that attract
ed his attention. He looked carefully, and
through the snow that was driving from
the northeast, thought he could discern
boats with people in them. Help was sent
out as above stated and all were saved.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, February 2-Small-
pox is raging in Jefferson, Union county,
Dakota. Every place squarantined against
it and there has been no communication
with the place for a month-the railroad
company even forbidding trains to stop
there. The settlement consists principally
of French and Canadians, and they not
knowing the contagious nature of the dis
ease allowed public burials which were
more or less attended by the whole popu-
lation. There have been over ninety cases
-thirty-two have died and at present there
are sixty cases under treatment but it is
thought many of them will recover. :
E9T A Philadelphia anecdote, forty years
old, but possibly new to cold type, is told
by correspondent of the Boston Com
monwealth. The subject was the venera-
BILE Cromwell Barnard, member of the
Society of Friends, and skipper of the
soop Union of Nantucket, then lying at
Philadephian wharf. Barnard was prome-
nading the quarterback when schooner,
hauling out of the dock, fell afoul of the
Union, the schooner's captain began to swear
vociferously. OF course it didn't do any
good, and as Barnard took NO notice of it
the captain yelled in perfectly audible
voice that he was an old shadbelly, pre-
fixing a participlo that is usually consider
ed to be eminently profane. Mr.. Barnard
couldn't stand this, so he called down the
main hatchway to the mate, "Zimri
Zimri come on deck and talk some of thy
language to this man alongside"