The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-22
Miscellaneous News Items.

rB- A young son of d. II. st. Clair, of
Milton, who resided with his grandfather at
Fishers Ferry on the line of the N. G. r.
r., had his leg broken while wrestlinga
few days ago.
GB- The National Printing Company,
Chicago, has received an order from Liver
pool, Eng, for 5000 show bills. This is
believed to be the first order of any con-
the United States.
GB- A young man named VIM. Stryker,
jumped from train on the branch road,
last Friday evening, at Peck's Station,
near Martinsburg, and struck the ground
with such force as to break both his legs,
one Of them so badly that amputation was
feared for time.
GB- 1t commenced showing on the 18th
on the Sierra Nevada noun tains, and the
storm has steadily increased ever since,
and has became furious from Virginia City
to Sacramento. The sheds were blown
down at Colfax and communication with
the west entirely cut off west of Emigrant
Gap.
CB- Lucifer matches are manufactured
to an enormous extent in Sweden. Tho
largest establishment is at Jonkoping. 1t
was founded in 1845, and in 1879 employed
255 men, $40 women, 105 boys and 14I
girls About four -ffths, of the production,
which steadily increases, are exported.
The chemicals used mostly come from
England.
BARNETT, VT, Jan. 9.-Caledonia county
is greatly excited over a recent discovery
that the Hon. J. ID. Abbott, who was in
trusted with large amount of the funds
of widows, farmers, and estates, and who
enjoyed the utmost confidence of the COM
munity, is a defaulter to the extent of
many thousand dollars. Immediately upon
his exposure he attempted suicide, recently
taking poison, and it is thought will die.
eB- The widow of ex-Sheriff j. II. Latty
of Des Moines county, Iowa, is dead She
acted as her husbands deputy, and though
slight undemonstrative woman, had
much muscle and more nerve. She is
credited with taking a sentenced prisoner
to the penitentiary without assistance
discovering the plot of prisoner to break
Jail in her husbands absence and marching
him back from his hiding place to his cell,
and administering condign thrashing to
two young men who persisted in using
filthy language in their cell.
GB A prudent father in the western
part of the city, says the Des Moines
Register, refused to purchase a pair of
skates for his 14-year old boy until the lad
had earned money to pay the expenses of
funeral, in case he ventured ON too thin
ice. This was last winter. A few days
ago the youngster rendered S21 which he
had earned by hard work and economy
since that time, with the announcement
"This won't get up a regular sumner of a
planting, but Pm not proud, and it will
furnish a good enough outfit for me.
Where's them skates 9' That boy got 'em.
EB- James Johnson, at one time
wealthy diamond broker of Chicago, but
who had become much reduced in circum-
stances, had an alteration with a woman
supposed to be his sister-in-law, Mrs. John
son, at his home in the rear of 1876 Orchard
street. New York, on Wednesday evening.
The neighbors hearing the quarrel and two
shots rushed in and found the woman
dead, with her throat coat her forehead
mashed in, and sixteen stab wounds in her
body. johnson lay near with his throat
cut from ear to ear, and two pistol shot
wounds in his abdomen. In a pool of
blood on the floor were found revolver,
razor shoemaker's knife and an iron stove
hook. Johnson had evidently murdered
the woman and then committed suicide.