The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17
Brief Items.

Mr.. Sterrett Woods, of Carlisle, has
been offered $500 per acre for his tobacco
crop.
Raccoons are reported plenty. Geo.
X. Duke, of Cumberland county, cap
tured eleven one day last week.
Z Y. NJ. G. A. will meet in the Presby-
{ terian church next Sunday at o'clock.
p. M.
(Several deaths from diphtheria have oc-
CURED in this vicinity within the past
two weeks.
The grand jury report that the Frank
lin county Jail is in horrible and un-
safe condition.
Within the past two weeks our job
press has made over eighty thousand
impressions.
The rain of Friday last will probably
soak the ground so that farmers can
plow. 1t was badly needed.
The livery stable of John Funk at
Waynesboro, Franklin county, was de-
stroyed by fire, Thursday evening. Nine
horses perished in the flames.
"a little girl, daughter of Samuel AL
bright of Montgomery's Ferry, was
| bitten in the foot by black snake few
days since. The foot swelled badly and
was quite painful for time.
If parents would give their children
employment instead of letting them run
in idleness, they would save them selves
many pang in after years. Idleness
begets vice.
y Hon. Kirk Haines, formerly State
I Senator from this district and well
known throughout this part of the State
y died at his residence in Millerstown on
Tuesday last.
The Soldiers reunion of Perry county
4 is to be held this year at Millerstown,
on the End of October. The citizens of
Millerstown are making eXertions to-
have large turn out.
y Quite an excitement was raised on
Thursday morning by the running away
of DR.. Ards horses. They were stop
n, ped however, before they got much of a
start, thus saving the DOCTORS carriage
from break up. .. =
A mule and two horses were stolen on
Sunday night, from field between
Boiling Springs and Churchtown, Cum
berland county. They were the proper
ty of David Deitch.
The Democratic Conferees OF the
Eighteenth Congressional District will
meet at Patterson, Juniata county, on
Tuesday next, to decide on a candidate
for Congress.
y Rev. B. f. Beck, of Harrisburg, will
I deliver his interesting lecture on 7" Geo.
Muller, "or, the Miracle of the Nineteeth
Century, in the bethel of the Church Of
God, in Landisburg, on Thursday night
the 10th. Z
On Friday evening last, a party of
boys of York quarreled near that place
over the ownership of a fire balloon that
had been sent up, and one William Mat
son, aged twenty, stabbed Erastus King.
The knife penetrated the stomach, caus-
ing the death of King about noon on
Saturday. Matson is in Jail.
1.-THE following are the teachers of the
I schools of Spring twp, with the an
nexed salaries Elliottsburg school, J.
w. Wagner,$25 Germany, ID. r. Kane,
$23 Kansas, Mary Hall, $22 Milltown,
A. X, Souder, $25; Springdale, J. G.
Gibson, $22; Quaker Point, /. II. Sutch,
$685. Oak Grove, j. w. Wagner, $25 :;
Pisgah, T. J. Bowers, $23.
=, Joe Rice, the well known stage driver,
Knows that the rain of Thursday made
the ground very soft in some places. In
front of the post Office in this place,
where ditch had been dug to lay the
pipes to drain the cellar of the TIMES
building, one of his horses went down
so far in the mud that he was only got
out by the pulling of the leaders, and
strength of the harness. The stage also
came near upsetting.
See Mortimer's Iron advertisement in
another column.
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