The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-04-09
Brief Items.

Miss Ella Burns select school COM
mences on Monday of this week.
Court is in session this week and the
judges are all present.
More changes in residence were made
in this county this year than has been
made for many years.
Quite a large colony have gone from
Penn twp, Cumberland county, to settle
in Wilson county, Kansas.
Nice prunes, 10 pounds for dollar at
MOrtimers. Peeled peaches very nice,
also on hand at IA cts, per pound.
The Franklin county sheriff now re-
ceives thirty-five cents per day as COM
pensatiOn for the board of each prisoner.
There are now twenty teachers in
Spring township who abandoned their
profession several years ago.
The members of the Excelsior Litera.
ry Society, are already talking of having
another picnic the coming summer.
Spring twp, contains five grist mills,
nine churches, and eleven school houses.
Why should the people of that town
ship not live well, be good, and ''smart?"
Preparations are now being made to
put the furnace at Newport into opera
ton, and they expect to be ready by
May 1st.
William Wooden of Newport was
badly bruised by falling from a culvert
near Haley's station, where he was at
work replacing tie.
Ash & Robbins are out with another
circular trying to give publishers fits"
Ezekiel, you can't" tit'' us unless you
pay first.
Is your life worth twenty-five cents ?
If so get the Safety Valve put on your
lamps. 1t can be applied to any lamp
and makes it secure against explosions
or accidents from poor oil.
Doctor Samuel Smith, student of DR..
Fuget of Shermansdale, practiced little
in surgery the other day, by accidentally
putting pistol ball through his finger.
The wound was not serious
A fine bay mare belonging to F. Nor
timer was badly hooked by COW on
Saturday last. The horn entered the
breast of the animal, making wound
six or seven inches deep and tearing off
the skin as large as mans hand.
A farmer, who has just returned from
a visit to Kansas, says it is a good State
for man who is willing to work, but
the large number of Pennsylvanians
who are now going there mustn't eX-
pect to loaf around and have nice time.
A couple of swindlers gathered the false
hair of about q hundred Pottstown ladies
recently upon pretence of renovating it.
Then they skipped, leaving an unpaid
no tel bill and numerous indignant fe-
males.
Some time during the last week, some
person carried away set of harness
from the shop of Mr.. Jonathan Weaver,
during the temporary absence of the
persons in charge, either forgetting or
neglecting to leave the proper equiva-
lent.
There will be Christian Temperance
meeting, held in Markleville, next Sat
urday evening, at Z o'clock. Speakers
will be present to address the meeting,
and the choir of the Bloomfield G. II. u,
will conduct the singing. All are invit-
ed to attend.
A New York paper says: +" Our peo-
pie do not take to silver dollars" We
are not informed as to public sentiment
on that subject in New York, but as far
as our observation in this latitude goes
we have not yet met with any who did
not take all they could get, and look
anXiously for more.
The Chambersburg Repository says:
Our community was startled on Sunday
morning by a report that Mr.. John ID.
Jacobs had fallen down the stairs of his
residence, producing injuries which re-
suited in his death few hours after. 1t
seems that Mr.. Jacobs, about ten o'clock
Saturday night, went down stairs for
glass of water, and on his return, had
reached the top, when in some way he
slipped and fell backward down the steep
stairway.