Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-10
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and Wike. The finance committee report
ed that the bond of Thomas B. Dunbar,
tax collector for 1880, has. been properly
executed and signed by the approved Sc.
curities, and that the tax duplicate had
been delivered to the collector. The com
mittec further reported receipts and ex-
penditurcs as follows:
Receipts.
Eberly, rent, August t25................... 90 20
staman. j months tuition from Sep nm
!. q Hess tax collector: 1878. 81 Os
J. q. Hess, tax collector, ls79..........- ITO 20
Total receipts. .......................... s09 7s
Expenditures.
Orders paid since last report. ........... $l!7 "a
Balance Oh hand. ......................... 6i6 ID
The chairman of the finance committee,
in conjunction with the treasurer, was in
structed to prepare book for the purpose
of recording receipts for interest on bonds.
The committee ON rents reported the rents
all paid. The committee on text books re.
ported that Barnes's United States history
had been ordered for exchange. The repair
and supply committee reported that repairs
to the school buildings and grounds had
been attended to. The library committee
reported the receipt of several additional
volumes of Pennsylvania geological survey
Through tic courtesy of Senator Z. 5.
KauffmaD which were placed in the
library. The school visiting committee
reported that the schools had been opened
Oh Monday, September 6, with good at
tendance of pupils and with the teachers
all present. The committee reports were
all accepted. An order was granted in
favor of the repair and supply committee
I'm fOrv "a N (v o.
school buildings, and a list of books as pre-
scntcd by Superintendent Amcs, to he
supplied for INDECENT pupils, was ordered
to be supplied 1T the expense of tho school
district.
Resolutions were passed by the board
fixing the price Of tuition for non resident
pupils, as heretofore, at So per month in
the grammar schools, 81 80 in the second
aries, 81 for primaries and $1.75 for the
first colored permits to be granted only
for three months term and for cash in ad-
vance and to nobody in arrears for past
tuition.
A little boy who appeared in the prima-
rics yesterday without books, and with a
mother who had no money to buy thenl,"
was found to be child of one Of the coli
victcd fishermen. He will come under the
boards free supply of books to INDECENT
children.
Around the Town.
Fcrty-Six excursion tickets were sold to
persons lcavin. here at G:3O this morning
Oh tho Pennsylvania railroad excursion
train to the state fair at Philadelphia. 1t
is thought the sa!c of tickets would have
been much larger had the weather not been
SO very inc!emcnt.
To-day is the twcuty-sixth anniversary
of the first appearance here of cholera in
1854, when the disease became an Cpl
dcmic.
Last evening was q very unpropitiOus
one for the opening of a fair, and this fact
was fully realized by the Citizens band,
the members of which had high hopes
that the inaugural evening of their fair
would be 4 successful one. The rain fell
in torrents during the greater portion of
was but mcagrc. The Marietta band,
which was announced to be present last
evening, did not put in an appearance. The
M"untyille band will bc present this even
ing.
RAUL McMann, baggage master at tic
Pennsylvania railroad depot, appears to be
havin. sad time OF it this summer with
the fever and ague. He was already been
compelled to lay off two or three times and
he is now again OH the sick list. John
LOckard is now running the baggage
room.
Farmer Harry Wisslcr has just sold eigh-
teen very fine cattle to a Philadelphia
party.
Mr.. G.. T.. Gray, of the firm of E. X.
Smith & Co., has just returned from a trip
to the scashore. He took in Ocean Grove
and Long Branch, and on his way home
stopped to visit the state fair at Philadel-
phia.
Council will hold its regular monthly
meeting this evening.
The Philadelphia & Reading railroad
company will run al excursion to the state
fair tomorrow morning.
The school board will hold special
meeting in week or two. The question
OF exoncratinS tax collector from the col
lection Of uncollectiblc taxes will be the
principal business to bc brought before the
body.
Alexander Reese, proprietor of the bill
covering his tables the old covers being in
worn condition.
The First and Second ward Democrats
will remember their club meeting tonight.
The laying of the new pavement in front
of the L. Il. II. depot has been completed.
Quite Il change and somewhat of an i'm
prOvcmcnt.
The circus ut Lancaster tomorrow will
be the cause of a slight and temporary de-
population in town.
Some of the Pennsylvania railroad mo-
doc engines went cast with short trains
this morning. We presume empty cars
are plenty in Philadelphia and that they
are wanted west.
The Democratic pole to he raised on
Saturday evening ut the residence Of
James Gagin will be planted just inside
the fence of his side gard (mercly to evade
the law and not in the back yard. as the
Columbia correspondence of the Neao Era
has it.
Held for Assault.
John Faulk, Jacob Taylor and VIM.
Esbcnshadc haG 4 hearing before Alder
man Barr yesterday afternoon charged
with assault, on oath Of Conrad Blessington.
The circumstances of the case, as shown
by the prosec utor were that he and his wife
were slowly driving on the Millport pike
when they were met by defendants who
were driving in a reckless manner and ran
into Blessington's team, although lie was
as far to the right side of tho pike rs he