The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-30
Miscellaneous News Items.
ADAMS.

GsB- 1t is estimated that turbine water
wheels have, since their invention, saved
the country over $500, 900, 600 in the one
single item of fuel.
NEW YORK, October 3d. Jane Laugh
ten, who was yesterday convicted of alb
ducting little girl, was to-day sent to
prison for ten years.
GB" During the year Just closed the
United States sold 105 100000 yards of
cotton goods abroad, ten times more than
was exported the year before.
GsS- A while ago q party of lynchers
postponed a hanging five minutes to allow
the victim time to finish smoking cigar.
This proves that the use of toba eco pro-
longs life.
VaB Samuel Humphries and Edmund
Smith, who both pleaded guilty To the
burning of the Lebanon Valley bridge,
were each sentenced to an Imprisonment
OF five years and to pay fine of 81, 600.
ES~ A Union square, New York, ieweler
has had a solitaire opal ring, purchased for
an engagement ring, returned nine times,
ON account of the superstition that the
opal brings disaster to it's owner.
G5y- A lady in Talbotton, Ga, who has
been using one needle cushion for twenty
live years, had occasion to cut it open
recently, when she counted out two hun
dred and twenty-five needles as the saving.
PITT sF1ELD, Mass, October 12.-The
sons of William Doaney loaded an old gun
barrel with powder yesterday, and dis
charged it. The weapon burst killing two
Of the boys and tearing off hand of the
other.
BALTIMORE, October 3d. Gov. Carroll
has appointed November 23 for the execu-
tion of JamesR r. Hawkins, colored, who was
found guilty in the Howard circuit court
in September last of committing a rape
upon white girl thirteen years.
Gsg- General Wagner, of Philadelphia,
has received letter, partially written in
crimson ink, to represent blood, informing
him that if he does not slacken his zeal in
an effort to have the salaries of city officials
and employees reduced he will have ga
bullet put through" him.
G3 George Ii. Price, express messenger,
was arrested in Chicago on the charge of
stealing money from packages in his care
between Pittsburgh and Chicago. Price
once distinguished himself by shooting a
m u hn fa1 10 4
was much respected by the company.
G5B- A Pittsburgh dispatch of the 23rd
inst, says that the Manchester savings
bank of Allegheny closed it's doors this
morning. The liabilities and assets have
not yet been made known. The bank is
long established one, and the depositors
are hopeful.
~ Last March Zeno Fees, of Lewis
town, was robbed of horse, buggy and
harness. Last week the Sheriff of Mifflin
county discovered the horse in a livery
stable in Mfilin county, which resulted in
Mr.. Fees again getting his horse. The
buggy has not yet been found.
G3B A good looking young fellow, who
has been doing farm work about Brewer
aud Orrington, Mass, this summer, smoked,
chewed, shaved regularly till he gave pro-
mise of good beard, and courted the
girls so successfully that the other young
fellows were jealous, proves to be buxom
lass.
~ On Sunday week lightning struck
a rod in Blair county, passed into the
dining room where about a dozen devout
persons were holding prayer meeting,
dismissed the audience, tore up the floor,
passed into the cellar, burst through the
wall and before betaking itself to its grave
demolished the hydrant. No one was in
jured.
CSy- Dr. Everhart, prominent physi-
clan of Scranton, met with serious acei-
dent while handling breechloading gun
at his residence on Sunday a week. A
cartridge, which he was in the act of in
serting, exploded under slight pressure,
giving him the full charge of powder in
his eyes and sending the bullet whistling
past his cheek. His face is badly burned,
aud friends fear he will lose his sight.
EB- About ten o'clock last Tuesday
nipht an unfortunate tramp while at