The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-04-16


I'll 81 O'Clock on Tuesday morning.
Next morning the trial list was taken
up In regular succession.
James ID. Willis vs. John p. Steel
and Robert ID. Steel, Executors &C., of
Sarah j. Steel, decd. The plfl. in this
case was the son-in-law of Sarah j. Steel,
decd. Mrs. Steel had made her home
for certain portions of time with Mr..
Willis after her marriage For part of
the time Mr. Willis made no charge and
expressed himself to other parties as not
intending to make any charge therefor.
The defts. alleged that this intention
existed in general way and that at no
time until shortly before suit was
brought did he have any intention to
make any charge for the old lady,s
boarding or services rendered her. PHI.
contended that he was entitled to receive
compensation for a certain length of
time, amounting to $3.50, for which he
had always expected to charge and that
his declarations above mentioned applied
only to certain period of time for
which he asked no compensation what
ever. The jury saw proper 10 construe
his statements as applying to the whole
length of time during which the old
lady was member of his family and
verdict for deft
The next case was John Preisler We.
David Cleland, Jesse Meadath and John
Rynard The last two of the defts. were
bail for the other one, in a promissory
note upon which plfi, brought suit and
recovered Judgment some years since.
In order to retain the lieu of the judg-
ment scire facias was issued, and to
this the last two named defts. made de-
fense that plff. had been notified to pro-
ceed with collection of the judgment at
time when the money could have been
made from the principal and that he did
not obey the notice, also that the prin-
cipal at one time offered plf. S25 which
he refused to receive. BY consent the
amount of the judgment was reduced
$25 which made the balance $l37 40 and
for which sum Judgment of revival
was confessed.
/After this case was disposed of the
criminal calendar was taken up. The
first case was the Commonwealth VS..
Jacob Basorn, ndictment-FornicatiO
and Bastardy. Sarah T.. Smith came in
to court with two babies as much alike
as were even two eggs, and solemnly
swore that the aforesaid Jacob was the
father. The soft impeachment was
denied but Jacob would not take the
witness stand and swear to the truth of
his denial. The Jury pronounced him
guilty and the court sentenced him to
support the twins in the usual manner.
v In the case of the Commonwealth vs..
Enoch Carter, the deft., who was II
colored boy was indicted by Isidor
Schwartz clothier of Newport for Ma
licious mischief and assault and battery.
This was conflict between the repre-
sentatives of two distinct races-a fight
hot fln ap1 (Aontiln Ennnh
was accused of throwing tobacco guilds
and chewed paper against the windows
of Isidor's store, fastening the doors on
the outside so that no customer could get
in and the proprietor could only get out
through the window, smashing up store
boxes, heaving missiles at his head, and
doing other diabolical acts which exhib-
tied an intense degree of pure cussed-
ness in the wayward young darkey de-
serving the severest punishment of the
law. Enoch replied that he was pro-
voked into throwing store box at the
complainant who intimated in no gentle
way that he had q canine descent, some
what in accord with the Darwinian
theory, but that he was guilty of moth
ing else. The Jury found him guilty,
the Court admonished him and sentence
ed him to pay the costs, and the County
Commissioner to save expense paid the
costs and turned him out of Jail
The Commonwealth VS.. Thomas
Haines and John II. Boden was again
continued, and a motion to quash the
bill of Indictment directed to be argued
on the 1lth day of June next.
| I The com. VS.. John Junkins and
James Shriver, alias James Linhurst,
was an Indictment for riot and affray.
BY consent this was changed into sure
tu of fhn Dnnna II onan1oA RI 10 oxya haar,
a fight at Duncannon, brought about by
bad whiskey in the ugly stomachs of
dirty tramps, and they were discharged
with a sentence to pay the costs of pros
ecution. Dist. Atty. McAllister for
COM, Seibert for Defts.
t The com. VS.. Chas. +. Huss, was a
prosecution brought by the wife of Deft.
for desertion and maintenance. A gen.
eral discussion of family affairs induced
the court to dismiss the case with in
structions that the Deft. should secure a
home, take his wife thereto and guard
against being brought into court anoth-
er time on the same charge.
The civil list again resumed and the
case of Benjamin c. Rheem VS.. Lewis
Mcneil was taken up. On the 1st day
of May, 1875, Deft. entered into an
agreement with the Plff by the terms of
which Rheem was to farm the Mcneil
property for the term of one year, per-
forming certain specified requirements
and receiving therefrom one third of all
the grain raised &c. Defts. allege that
from the time Plaintiff came upon the
premises he failed to comply with his
part of the agreement, and at the expi.
ration of three months his conduct had
become intolerable, and they elected him
from the premises by the aid of JUS
tice of the Peace under the Landlord