The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-12-28

house plant. II came into the parlor be-
tween the wall and mop-board, and is now
ever two feet high.
n#The electric system Of illumination
has been introduced into the Reading Iron
Works with satisfactory results. There
ars tnirty-two ''double lamps" and it is
estimated the cost to run these. per night
is five dollars, or cost of about 81, 600 for
three hundred nights very great saving
over gaslight, besides furnishing sufficient
light for the men to work with the utmost
satisfaction to themselves and their en-
ployers.
tT- A Connecticut preacher who voted
at recent town election took his supposed
ballot out of vest pocket where he kept
other papers. The returns from that town
read thus "John M. Smith, Rep, 19l /;
William Richmond, Dem, so (; Mrs. An
derson desires the prayers of the congre-
CATION for husband, gone to sea, l."
tB- There is man down in Greenville,
Del, who is tortured at the thought of the
innocent creatures who will be enticed to
see Bernhardt, and as he is afraid their
souls will be lost, he has issued a warning
against going to see that "awful woman"
as he declares it will be thorn in their
bosoms which prick them until their dy-
ing day.
eB- The Snyder county jury in the case
of Israel Erb, indicted with Emanuel Et-
finger and Jonathan Meyer for the murder
of Gretchen Kinzler, has rendered ver-
dict of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree. A jury has been drawn in the case
against Meyer. Ettinger was convicted at
the September term of the same crime.
eg' Mr.. Robert Barton, one of the Pacific
coast millionaires, has picked up bed and
baggage and left San Francisco in disgust.
He announces that he is going to dispose
of every dollars worth of property owned
by him in California and stake the money
to some place where rich men are not made
the target for sand lot demagogues and
legislative robbers" He proposes to take
up his residence in New York.
HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. 2O.-A woman
walking along the street last night holding
an umbrella in front of her to protect her
from the snow, came in collision with
man, which gave her such shock that she
tainted. She was carried into neighbor-
ing urug store and efforts were made to
revive her, which after some time, were
successful. She has since become hopeless
ly insane.
GB VIVA. Lentz, an aged farmer of Low
er Merion Montgomery county, went into
cows stall the other day to see that the
trough contained enough of water for the
animal. While he was STOPPING the cow
raised her head, and as she did so thrust
one of her horns into his mouth, the point
of the horn tearing its way out just under
the farmers right eye. Mr.. Lentz is not
expected to recover from The terrible
wound.
ca At Baldwin Station, twenty miles
from Jacksonville, Fla. on the Central and
Florida Railroad, body of 100 men, prin-
clpally from Valdosta, Ga, and Lake City,
Florida, appeared fully armed, and captur-
ed three of gang of gamblers who had
been vctimiziDg some friends of the party.
After sharp resistance the gamblers sur
renderd, disgorged their plumber, some
$1,000, and paid all the expenses incurred
by the raiding party, which then left.
GB- A little seven-year-old girl in New
York State accidentally cut off the tips of
two left-hand fingers while interviewing
straw-cutter too intimately. She didn't
pick up the ends, but her fingers were
wrapped up and she went to sleep. She
woke up crying, saying the mice were nib
bling the ends of her fingers. The next
morning the ends could not be found where
she had left them, and everybody around
there thinks the mice ate them sure
enough.