The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-27
Brief Items.

Brief Itcms.
The Concert in the aid of the band will
be held on Tuesday evening of this week.
The ladies have it in hand,
y Mr.. George B. Arnold came into town
this Monday morning, with live fox
which he had just captured.
= Mr.. w. w. Wright of Howe twp,
was kicked by horse on Monday of
last week. His injuries were not seri-
Gus.
Now crooks, jugs, &C., will have to
come right up to the mark, as our friend
Michael Miller, of the Pottery firm, was
elected last week as q Justice of the
Peace.
Mrs. David Seiders of Miller twp, fell
and broke her arm on Friday evening
aweek. DIR, Orris set the broken limb
and the patient is improving rapidly,
y Some hoggish thief made heavy
draw on the smokehouse belonging to
Mr.. Abram Good, in Buffalo twp, a few
nights since. He carried away about
800 pounds of meat.
A young man named Snyder, resi-
dent of New Franklin, Franklin coun-
ty, recently committed suicide by shoot
ing. No cause for the deed is known.
MI. JOnn Duul has SOlu OUT Ills luGeT-
est in the White Hall Soldiers Orphans
School to Major ]. A, Moore the former
principal of that school, The change
is to take effect on the 1st of March.
About inches of snow fell on Satur-
day preceded and followed by rain,
which puts the roads into bad condition.
We shall not believe in any ground hog
theory after this except the kind of
ground hog" called sausage.
A lecture will be delivered in the Pres
byterian church in Duncannon Wednes-
day evening, Feb, 2Sth by Wallace
Bruce of Poughkeepsie, n. Y, for the
benefit of the Y. NJ. G. A., of Duncan
non.
x Going West.-Quite number of young
men from this county are about leaving
for the west. A party of about dozen
started from Newport Station on Mon
day morming.
X Fire in MilIerstown.-On Sunday night
fire was discovered in the Jupiata Vaa-
ley Hogse at Millerstown. Before the
flames were extinguished hole had
been burned from cellar to roof up the
stairway. Much of the furniture was
damaged by removal. Unfortunately a
barrel of whiskey was saved from the
fire oaly to be put to worse use.
Lecture.--Rev. T. S. johnson, d. d.,
Of Lebanon, will deliver his celebrated
lecture on Love, Courtship, and Mar
riage,'' in the Court House, in Bloom
field, on Tuesday evening, the 9th of
March. The proceeds to go towards
liquidating debt resting upon the Re
formed Sunday School. The lecture is
highly spoken of by Press and Clergy
men. Admission 20 cents, children half
price. Tickets to be had at the stores
and Post Office.
Better than Wheat.-Mr. James Whit
merof Liverpool twp, had crop last
year of l, 800 bushels of potatoes, for
which he received about 81 200. This
crop was raised from between ten and
eleven acres. Had he put the same
quantity of ground into wheat he would
have realized perhaps S225, bat proba-
bly, not as much, making a clear gain of
nearly thousand dollars over and
above what a crop of wheat would have
brought him.
School Accounts. it is approaching
the time when school accounts shall be
made public we make the following
quotations from the law approved May
lst, 1875. The law will be found on
page 81 general laws of that year.
The statement shall be "spread on the
minutes of the board Of directors, andin
condensed but fully classified form
published by said board in not less than
ten written or printed hand bills to be
put up in the most public places in the
district, or if deemed preferable in the
tsoo netaspopers Of The county havtng the
largest cis,estLation among the citizens
interested; and for any neglect or
failure to perform the duties enjoined by
this act, the officers named therein,
shall be considered guilty of nstsdepean-
or, punishable by a fne not ercccding
$500, to be paid into the school fund Of
the district in which the offence was
com mitted."