The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-07-17

economists that the teachers could stand It;
and be voted for the cent notion"
tB- Mr. J. II. Stein, druggist, Penn
street. Reading, has vial which contains
snake about two and a half inches in
length, and ten smaller snakes The largest
snake came through his hydrant while he
was drawing water, and upon having
secured 1t, and placed it in vial, it gave
birth shortly thereafter to the ten small
snakes. The maternal is striped, while
the young are of a brownish color.
GB- Being annoyed by friends who de-
sired q small loan for a few DAYS" an
old joker got hold of several counterfeit
five dollar bills, and at the first call passed
one of them out. He was chuckling over
the good joke, when in came warrant for
his arrest for passing bogus money, the
charge being preferred by the borrower
The joker had to hand over good bill in
place of the bad one, and pay $3.50 costs,
and the man who borrowed of him is
famous for evading his debts.
eB- A special dispatch from Lansing,
Iowa, gives particulars of the murder of
Joseph Enos and his wife, an old couple
living on farm near Brownsville, Iowa.
The house was discovered in flames, and
after the fire was extinguished the dead
bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Enos were found
in the cellar Two reports of a gun were
heard a short time before the fire was dis
covered. The murder is supposed to have
been committed by hired man. Officers
and citizens are in pursuit of him.
cB- A Chicago mans young wife enter
tained him with selection from Wagner.
after which he expressed himself as re-
cinUpH tn mr. bnd xub ba o1a
ly. Toward midnight cats assembled in
the back yard and yowled frightfully. The
sleeper did not get mp and throw bootjacks
at them, but turned on one elbow and whis-
pered in his dreams "Sing it once more,
Elvira sing it once more" She sings it
no more, neither anything else, but thinks
of beating her piano into kindling wood
and turning her music book into curl paper.
GB- The marriage of Miss Lilias Ash
worth, niece of John Bright, to Thomas
Hallet, was solemnized, she being a
Quaker, in Friends Westinghouse, a
meeting for worship" having been called
for the purpose. John Bright, who con-
Quoted the bride, was greeted with loud
cheers by great assembly in the neigh
borhood of the Westinghouse. The SER
vice was in the manner observed among
the members of the Society of Friends
Inc contracting parties rose during the
meeting for worship" and announced
their desire to become man and wife,"
tB A woman aged 40, living in Thomp-
sonville, Conn.,, urged man aged 10 to
keep his promise of marriage. He acceed-
ed on condition that she should give him
$50 for wedding suit, which she gladly
paid, only to be abandoned at the very
sanctuary door by the ungrateful lover, who
went off on spree with the remnant of
the bridal gift. She did not pine away,
but had the deceiver arrested for theft, and
he was bound over for trial. He, however,
preferred the bonds of matrimony to those
of the iailor, and the curtain was about to
fall to the accompaniment of wedding
bells, when the priest refused to unite the
twain on account of irregularity in the
proceedings, and the woman seems doomed
to further singleness and the man to a So
journ in Jail.