The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-24

(Seeding is delayed by the dry weather.
I Some farmers have already commence
ed corn cutting.
See Mortimer's Iron advertisement in
another column.
Teachers Institute this year in this
county will be held the first week in
December.
ZMr. Fickes, of Juniata township, has
this season lost seventy head of hogs byI
the hog disease.
Capt. B. F. Miller has again taken the
hotel he formerly kept so satisfactorily
at Newport. Mr.. Blatenberger retires
from the business.
The stay law passed to enable debtors
to bridge over hard times, and approved
March 23rd, 1877, expired by limitation
yesterday.
Z The storm of Thursday week tore
( off many of the brackets of the tele-I
graph lines from Newport to Bloomfield.l
The line has again been put in order.
Mr.. Joel H. Stewart, of Centre twp,
brought into our Office one day last
week few strawberry plants which
were in blossom.
The Mcbride property, advertised for
sale and offered on Friday last, was not
sold. The highest bid was So $50, which
is only about half its value.
Honesty is said to be the best policy,
but if paying debts constitutes honesty,
we know some persons who come far
short of having claim to this virtue.
On Monday night, 10th inst, the
large Grist Mill, the property of Joseph
Haines, of West Beaver, Snyder co. was
destroyed by fire, cause not KNOWN
Partially insured -Middleburg Post.
We have noticed that the sickness
among hogs does not amount to much
until after they are turned into the stub
BILE field, and that those who keep their
hogs penned up lose few if any.
John Stone, who we stated last week
had been hurt by being thrown from a
horse, died on Wednesday. He remain
ed unconscious until death, so that it is
not known how the accident happened.
The conferees of this congressional
district adjourned on Saturday noon
after 213 ballots, to meet again at New
port on this (Monday) afternoon. The
vote stood nine to nine all the time after
Mr.. Bailey withdrew from the contest
The citizens of Harrisburg are very
anxious to have the new penitentiary
located near that city, and are asking
the County Commissioners to furnish
the State the ground suitable for the
purpose.
We learn from the Carlisle papers,
that the President of the Cumberland
Valley Railroad Company, on account
of the low prices of grain, has material
ly reduced the rates of freight upon the
same to Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Two fat hogs belonging to Isaac Quig-
ley, of the Sherman House, were found
dead in their pen Tuesday morning.
1t is supposed they died from cholera.
which is now prevailing in some parts
of this community.--S -Shippens6'rg Nes0S.
The Northern Central railroad bridge
which spanned the Fishing creek near
Goldsboro was destroyed by fire about
half past ten o'clock Thursday night
Cause of fire not given. The bridge was
covered one, similar in construction to
the bridge over the Yellow Breeches
creek at New Cumberland.
At York on Friday evening a week,
while Frastus King was lying mortally
wounded in the home of his father, Mr..
HI. l.. King, and DIR. Spangler was
dressing his wounds, some one fired a
shot through the window of the house
at Mr.. H. L. King. The doctor came to
Mr.. Kings assistance, and upou search
found bullet on the floor.
MIR Geo. w. Sanderson was elected
one of the directors OF the Lutheran