Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-31
LITTLE LOCALS.
OF bigger Interest.

III E1SHer 1OtOt0St.
A fifteen-year- old son of Daniel Garu,Oa,,
residing near Ephrata, fell off u horse and
b. ole the left forearm.
The law must be respected. Peace must
be preserved even ii Levi SenseniS has to
fight forit
Levi Sensenig's little finger is heavier
than the loins Of the law.
At Trainor's station, Cecil county, Md
Lizzie +. Sullivan, aged IL, jumped rope
on the railroad track and WAS torn to pieces
by a passenger train.
Prot. Frank Stouch, the popular dane
ing master, has been giving his annual
May hop in the opera house Reading. 1t
was grand success.
By means of the Collins Beach excur-
sion people can so to Philadelphia and
back on Tuesday for s2.25.
David Coffee, coffee cOlOred, went to a
| Harrisburg alderman to get married. On
cross examination the squire found out he
| had wife living in Columbia, though she
was again married. This David thought
was equal to u divorce, but the alderman
didn't.
| On the agricultural blanks of the census
enumeratOrS there are 100 questions ami
on the population blanks &c questions.
Farmers who will have so many questions
| u tulSWcT dS W tuc tCIcttcc VI thSh ishh',
number Of acres titled, kind of cereals
crown, value of same, number Of horses,
cattle and other animals and value Of some
should commence posting themselves, 50
as to be ready for the enumeratOrs.
! The 150th anniversary or third semi
centennial jubilee of the founding of the
| New Holland Lutheran congregation will
be celebrated with appropriate services be-
ginning on Saturday, June 5th. Ilistori-
cal sketches, sermons and addresses will
te the features of u three days feast of
reason. Prof. Richards, DIR. Krauth.
DR.. Mann and other eminent churchmcn
will be present to speak and hear.
The Times thinks that as the delegate :
to Chicago from Lancaster don't intend to
vote for Blaine under any circumstances,
they should obey the instructions Of their
own little side of the house and vote Tor
Quay for president aud Grant for vice pres
ident. That ticket would fairly represent
the "best workers of the ward, and they
are the boys to tie to when things have /"
be carried on the high pressure system.
There was recently erected i'll Lincoln
cemetery a tombstone about which some
argument has already been had. The per-
son, it seems, was born February II, 1862.
and died February 49,. 1890. The age Oh
the gravestoDe is ~ years, II months and
80 days. Might as well have made it 2s
years.
In Harrisburg, yesterday, George Nee
Border. aged II, was oiling his revolver
and putting it in trim. Ralph Sanders.
aged II, stool opposite and facing him,
and as George partially raised the hammer
to allow the cylinder to slip into it's place,
the hammer accidentally struck one Of the
cartridges in the cylinder, exploding it, the
slug (nOt much larger than bucksl,ot)
entered the unfortunate boys breast few
inches below the nipple on the right side,
producing death in ten minutes.
While the Reading Juniors new steam
fire engine was being tested on All island
in the Schuylkill on Saturday the fire box
collapsed, the smoke stack and dome We're
thrown Is feet high 13O feet distant; a
half dozen men were scalded and burned
severely. Mr.. Clapp, of the firm of Clapp
& Jones, the builders of the engine, stated
that the engine will be taken back to their
works at Hudson, New York, and they
will Immediately build another for the
Junior company.