Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-23
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR EEGULAk CORRESPONDENTS

OUR EEGULAk CORRESPONDENCE
Saturday next being pay day at the Sus-
quehanna rolling mill, and the day being
Christmas and a holiday, the employees
will receive their pay for two weeks work
on Friday morning and the mill will be
closed on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Fiibert will ccle-
brate their silver wedding on Monday,
December 81, and a reception will be given
to the friends of the family.
The Frederick accommodation train
came in yesterday afternoon forty min
utes late.
Alfred C. Bruner has returned from his
visit to Philadelphia.
The Fifth Stree: Presbyterian Sunday
school will hold its Christmas services this
evening in the SalOme chapel Sunday
school room.
Robert Clark died Of pleurisy this morn
ing, aged about 20 years.
The members of st. Paul's conSrcga-
tion were busy last evening tying greens
to decorate the Episcopal church.
At the stores this morning business was
right lively after market hours.
Samuel Filbert today commences his
contract of furnishing two thousand tons
Of ice to the Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany.
Yesterday afternoon while the telephone
people were digging hole at the
corner of Second and Locust streets, the
main gas pipe was struck with bar
and pierced and a quantity Of gas escaped.
Had lighted torch and i Market street
bridge been near We might have had con-
fagration. A band was put around the
now the pipe in the locality IS secure.
While Henry ItOye was unloading a
wagon load Of coal, this morning, his
horse fell, and, in its efforts TO get up,
kicked the aforesaid Henry, who is some
what hurt tlercfrom.
A break, which was ut once repaired,
occurred yesterday morning in the main
water pipe on Walnut street, above
Second. The cold weather is possibly the
cause.
A party OF a dozen ladies and gentle
men took trip last evening to Mount |
Joy, loaded in big and rather clumsy
lookin. sleigh drawn by four horses. They
took supper at Slicily's hotel and made the
return rs "Wednesday was giving place to
Thursday.
The mercury Wa, evidently on :, still! |
hunt last night, as 4 look ut the ther!Gom- !
etcr at 1:30 o'clock this morning showed |
the mercural point to Ec ut but twelve de |
grccS above zero.
Excepting, perhaps, the tobacc" and
cigar trade, the stores of the borough will !,
bc closed on Christmas day and We may !
report the same of the private and national !
hanks. The post, III 20 will bc open only ut |!
the usual holiday hours The usual Christ !
mas services will be held If st. Paurs !.
Episcopal and the Catholic churches.
Any number OF tIle trees commonly !
known rs Christmas trees have lately !
been disposed of by our nurscrymcn and
cnterpriSing boys. The latter have also
been on the go for moss, greens. etc.
Market this morning WAS rather good.
For the first tim" in = month cTr,s wcr.
plenty.
Major Yocum, Of the .Siy, WAS busy .his I
morning in putting away the banners,
transparencics, etc, used by the Rrpub'i !
cans IN the late campaign.
The telephone WORKING force was this
morning increased from ten to twelve
men. Holes were dug to Fourth street
yesterday and it is thought tic Shawnee !
furnace will b, reached to-day. Tic cX-
change Office fittings are expected here on
every train.
Tho slciS hing is becoming better than
ever. The snow holds its own well and IS
thoroughly beaten.
We arc informed that several of our ca
tcrprising young men will sweep the snow !
from the smooth ice in front Of f. y. ,
Smiths planning mill and provide 4 good !
place to skate. The end viii! Justify the ;
means. :
DO not forget market to morrow after
noon-this to our Columbia readers.
Tomorrow TIC Pennsylvania railroad
company will commence selling their cN-
cursion tickets to all points Oh the main !!
line and branches, and also to points on !
other lines. The tickets are good to return |
until January ,, 1881.
The mercury ut 12:5S o'clock is consider !
ably above the stand it took 4 T:30 4. IN. !
Christmas Turkeys. .
1t is admitted on all hands that - lice !
tor" kautZ is the best judge of turkeys ;
and knows better where to get them than .
any other man in Lancaster; and hence /
HectQr's services are eagerly sought by
persons in search Of big sobblers. john
Murphy recently gave Hector 4 com
mission to buy for him fifteen
turkeys, the best he could get, for
presentation to some of Mr.. Murphy's
particular friends. That Mr.. Kautz did
his work well, the following figures will
show lie secured two turkeys weighing
2G pounds Gael! /: three weighing g pounds
each four weighing % pounds each :; one
30, one 81 pounds two SO pounds cacl,
one 33 pounds, and one that weighed no
less than 81 pounds. These were nicely
dressed, decorated with ribbons and sent
to the gentlemen for whom they were i'll
tended.
Mr.. Kautz has also purchased for Nh. B.
J.McGrann for presentation to friends some
fifteen or twenty turkeys, some Of which
tip the beam at 30 pounds
Mr.. David G. Ili.sh, tobacco packer.
has presented to each of his employees,
some twenty i'm number. 4 fine turkey E'r
Christmas.
Lumber Manufacturing in Chester Cs'un:y.
West Oh lester Local News.
II. Z. Shimp. the wcll-known lumber
was in town yesterday
afternoon, lie tells us that he has three
in this county and is largely ]
Interested in another ut Manheim, Ian
caster county. Those in Chester county
are situated rs follows :One at Laurel iron