Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-10
COLUMBIA NEWS.
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! COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS
The mercury at 12:45 o'clock points t.
seventeen degrees-Black's hotel the spot
There has been fall OF ABOUT 1oot II
the river in the last couple of days. 1t il
now but little, if any, above low water
mark. The ice, We guess, is a permanent
fixturc-for the season.
The Frederick accommodation train wes
was fifty minutes late yesterday after
noon.
Chester Herbert, a seven-year-old schoo
boy, at the Cherry street building, was
accidentally knocked down while drinking
water at the hydrant yesterday afternoon,
and falling on the iron receiving trough,
was severely cut on the forehead. The ac'
cident occurred at recess. Herbert's cut
is about three inches long and rather
deep. He was taken home.
Council will hold its regular monthly
meeting this evening. Som ething will
probably he done in the question of mar
| kets.
The east yard at this place was blocked
last evening and the Harrisburg accom-
modation train west was compelled to run
. in on the south track. Dispatcher Heciar
says freight train sneaked in on him and
dcad-locked everything.
We took a walk yesterday afternoon to
| a point near the st. Charles furnace in
search of good skating ground. but
were unsuccessful in finding a suitable
spot. There is plenty of ice, but it is not
OF the right kind. Lying in the basin and
canal near the point mentioned are now
from twenty to thirty or forty canal boats,
all firmly held by the ice. Some of the
crews vet hold the fort in the cabins.
The river, in front of town is again
closed. Ice formed last night between the
bridge and the dam and is at this writing
about an inch thick. It is very pretty
sheet, but is not as smooth as was that Of
the first freeze. The mercury last night
was wholly on the descending scale.
The boys complained against by. DR..
Kline, Of Chestnut Hill, for disOrderly con-
duct will be given hearing tomorrow
afternoon before Justice Evans.
Rev. +. w. Staley has returned from the
Harrisburg conference of the f. E. Luth-
eran church, held at Millersburg, Dauphin
county.
The School board Meeting.
At last nights meeting Of the school
board the finance committee presented tho
following report:
Receipts.
Balance on hand at date Of last report. $ Ssj Sc
,s, neat 10 NoyemDer a,:.:i....'..'.''.' .ss ~ ~
j. w, Steacy, tuition. II 90
j. q. Hess, tax collector 1873. AS
I. Il. Dunbar, tax collector 1850. 54s 81
Total rcceipts. .ssOss "A
Expenditures.
G%ts Sps,. c!@rSes %,t s;cc, ias, s 1Ss
Balance in treasury ry....................$ 425 Al
A note due on December was renewed
for full amount for sixty days and the ac-
ton of the finance committee in making |
the renewal was approved. Orders were |
granted for tho payment Of bills amount
ing to s74.G9. The rent committee re-
ported rents all paid for the month of No.
vcmber. The meeting hour of tho board |
was changed from o'clock to 7:3O o'clock |
p. NJ. On motion the schools were ordered |
to be closed on Tuesday December q, to
be rcopencd on Monday January 3, 1881.
The superintendent reported the attend
ance of pupils for October and November
rs follows:
October-whole number in attendan,e-
males, 5G5 females, Cos average attend
ttuCC GuC IuOulu-AlSSlCO, fOC IL |
males. 525 percentage of attendance dur
ing the month-lnalcs, 92t; females, 924
of attendance for term to date
males, 90; females %.
November-whole number in attendance
males, 553 females, 5S2; average at
tendance during the mOnth-males, All
females, 503; percentage of attendance
turing the montll-males, 94k; females,
93 :; percentage Of attendance for term to
hate-malcs, 81; females, "a.
The secretary was instructed to request
all physicians of the borough that in cases
Of contagious disease under their attention
the parents of same family he cautioned
against sending any children to the public
schools during the continuance of the dis
case and that said physicians be also rc-
lucsted to Immediately notify the borough
if cases Of contagious dis
cases ; and further, that no children of a
family having any such disease shall be
permitted to attend the public schools
until the attending physician shall have
issued certificate setting forth that all
langer of contagicn is past.
Upon the recommendation of the finance
the tax duplicate of 1877 was
ordered to be closed upon the payment of
1862 outstanding taxes by collector John
B. Wisler.
Adjourned.