The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-01-29
Miscellaneous News Items.

tB- DR.. Richard A. Robertson, of Titus
willie, who has been missing since June
last, is supposed to have been murdered.
GB- Eddie Smalley, aged seventeen
years, was killed at Erie on Tuesday by
the careless discharge of pistol by play
mate.
NB- The Connecticut House of Repre-
sensatves last week passed resolutions in
opposition to the Bland Silver bill and in
favor of the resumption of specie pay
ments.
gsB- The passenger train on the Nashville
and Chattanooga railroad ran off the track
near Hunts Station, Tennessee, on Tues
day, throwing one coach down an embank-
ment twenty feet high. Several persons
were injured
BosroN, January 3d. A Concord, New
Hampshire, special says: cat New
Market, New Hampshire, last Friday John
II. Robinson, on his deathbed, confessed
that he murdered young man named
Jewell in the town of Gambia, New Hamp-
shire, some twenty years since"
VB- A party in Person county, N. c.,
ran a fox five days every day until sundown,
resumng the chase each successive day
about daylight in every instance jumping
Reynard within thirty steps of where they
left off the evening before. The chase was
abandoned on the fifth day, men, horses
and dogs being worn out
G5B- Among the oddities of the Boston
cat-show this week will be two specimens
of "what- is-it, recently captured in the
woods in Rhode Island, having head and
shoulders like cat and headquarters like
a rabbit, and resembling the latter in
manner of locomotion.
CAS- On farm at Kttery, Me-, is an in
termittent spring, which has the singular
eccentricity of flowing only in dry weather.
1t was discovered during the excessive
drought five or six years ago, when all the
other springs in the neighborhood were
dried up As soon as the rains came on it
disappeared, and has followed the same
tactics regularly ever since.
EAsToN, Pa, January o. The suspen-
sion of the running of coal on the Lehigh
Valley, Lehigh and Susquehanna, Morris
and Essex, Central railroad of New Jersey,
Easton and Amboy and Belvidcre and Della
ware railroads has thrown over 600 men out
of employment in Easton and Philipsburg.
READING, January 22-Jacob and John
Huntzinger, late President and Cashier of
the Miners Trust Company of Pottsville
were this morning sentenced each to two
years solitary confinement and fine of
$500, also to refund to Thomas Kerns, the
prosecutor, S24, 600, with costs.
e5y" Shortly before the commencement
of the matinee performance at the Holiday
street Theatre, Baltimore, on Wednesday
the cylinder of calcium light placed to
the flies exploded, shaking the building
and causing an excitement, during which
many left the house Two employees of
the theatre were dangerously and several
others slightly hurt. The performance
took place as usual.
I5s- The will Of Mrs. Elizabeth f.
Denny, one of the oldest and wealthiest
residents of Pittsburgh, has been filed in
the Registers office. The estate is chiefly
in real p roperty and was valued before the
panic at about ten millions. 1t is now
worth five or six millions. 1t lies in Pitts
burgh, Allegheny, Westmoreland county,
Erie, Illinois and the District of Columbia,
and was purchased by the father of the
deceased great many years ago. The
property is left entirely to the children of
danaoead