Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-13
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Across the County Lines.

1
The cottagers and lot holders of the
Stoverdale campmeeting have elected the
following directors ]. B. Stehman. S. n.
Eby. E. Stover, H. II. Kreider, L. Peters,
u. w. NJ. Rigor, L. Lehman, G. Hershey
and G. b. Shope They also resolved to
prevent the traffic on the opposite side OF
the Sabbath day.
The Reading Ners observes that "h har-
mony. pure and unadultered, characterizes
the Republican party in Pennsylvania.
There's the hero of the kiskiminetas
she!vcd, Lancaster county in revolt. little
Lebanon growing restive, Lackawanna
becoming unreliable, and the Philadel-
phia Press building dccked out with Han
cock banners-this is the rccord.'
Francis McGovern alias G. F. Lamar,
who has been making Glcenback speeches
in Bethlehem, Lancaster, Allentown, Nor
ristown and other sections Of East Pennsyl-
vania, was sent to Jail in Reading yester-
day, for six months on a charge of having
stolen valise from the Rev. James Good,
of Reading. Both parties rode from the
depot to 4 hotel, and before the court it
was shown that Grcenbac!. orator had in
tcntionally committed the crime.
\ well-known business man of Harris
burg lost his pockct-book containing valu-
able papers worth $, G00 and nearly forty
dollars in money, while driving few days
ago. An employee of one Of the industrial
works found it and asccrtaincdth the owners
name. 1t Was promptly returned and the
finder absolutely refused to take hand
some bonus for his trouble. The man in
sisted that it was not right to be paid for
being honest, that he was honest from
principle alone. The grateful owner of
the book and contents executed flank
movement and sent the man Il valuable
present, notwithstanding his protest
against being rewarded.
A Windsor township man drove to York
with a barrel of cider and a cage contain
Ing about twenty pigeons in his wagon.
On the way up the head burst from the
barrel, the cider delugins the cage of
pigeons, drowning a couple and making
the balance present 4 comical appearance.
The whole OF the barrel of cider was lost.
The Carlisle Herald in noticing Col.
McClurc's argument in the Stcinman-
IIenscl disbarment case says {" No case
more deeply affecting the rights of Amer
lean citizens to freely discuss the conduct
of their officers, whether judicial, legisla-
tive or executive, has III recent times been
brought before the highest court of this
state. The representative of two profess
>ions, whose liberty of speech and of writ
ing is of vital necessity to the wcll-heing
of the people, Col. M'Clurc's powerful
argument is fully equal to the best expcc-
tations OF the press and the bar and to the
cN!gcnc!cs OF the great principles whose
vntliration il undcrtakes''
In the records Of old st. David's church
al l;adnor, it appears in the report of its
missionary rector that at Conestoga lie
"s;sitcd many Welsh and English gentle
men that lived far back in the woods and
:or Il long time lad no other place to
preach Than under = large tree That
was the beginning of the Bangor z. Z.
church ut Churchtown, Lancaster county.
The Democrats of Dauphin county
nominated DIR. J. II. Umbergcr, of Dauphin,
for senator; +. G. Ccbaugh, CT Middle
town. and Henry Beck, of Lykens, for AS
scmblymcn, and Ovid +. johnson for dis
trict attorney. James First, J. b. BOoser
and d. X. Mcclure were selected as con-
grcssiona! confcrces. They will support
Grant Weidnlan, OF Lebanon.
4 grand tri-statc reunion of Odd Eel
lows will take place at Mont Alto park,
Cumberland county, Oh Thursday, the 9th
of September, which promises to be one Of
IlC litlCoG ttolicl CiistC lids cNCA toSCiL-
blct at that beautiful and romantic resort.
The Mannheim circuit of tho United
Brethren in Christ will hold their
annual campmecting i'll Benjamin Ruhrs
woods. near lions (fuhl's) church, Rapho
township commencing Oh Tuesday,
August 18th, and to continue nine days.
The meeting will be under the supervision
of the Presiding Elder, Rev. l.. Peters, of
Annville.
The Union canal extending from Read
ing to Middletown was constructed in the
early part Of this century, was the first
canal in the country, and in its time the
greatest of public improvements. Now
alas it has sunk SO low that the Reading
grand jury indicts its managers for main
tanning a nuisance, because it is choked
up with filth, emits n0Xious cxhalations
and is full of putrid, stagnant water.