Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-14
NEIGuBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Across the County Line.

Events Across the County Line.
DR.. Z. B. Ewing has been re-appo;nted
surgeon for the Baltimore Central railroad
in Oxford.
The Mccullough iron works at Row
landville, Nd, started in full blast on
Monday of last week,
Hon. II. \. Lamberton, of Harrisburg.
has accepted the presidency of the Lehish
university.
The North Cornwall furnanee has
chilled, causing a cessation of the casting
process for about two weeks to come.
Judge Pearson OH Monday filed his for
NAL decree Quashing the remaining in
dictments made last August in the riot
bribery cases. New bills will be sent in
! next Monday and if found the trials will
begin OH Tuesday.
Seven new ice houses are to be built on
the SusIuehanna river. near Havre de
Grace, byJ. c. Poisel & Co., of Philadel-
phia. The contract for building them has
been awarded to 4. NJ. Carroll, of Balti-
more, at u bid Of S13, 7GO.
The fifth or sixth death by accident ut
| the Valley Creek improvement of the
Pennsylvania railroad, occurred few days
ago. A bank of earth fell upon Morris
Ladda, the boss of the gang operating the
! steam shovel. killing him instantly.
The store of Felix Fhuhrer of York was
broken into by burglars yesterday moruing
and robbed OF s2225 worth Of pistols, Il $50
gun, keg of powder, and Il quantity of
ammunition and and small! amount OF
money.
Minnie Vosht, of York. who had just
been released from Jail, broke large pane
of glass from the front door OF store on
George street. She stated that she broke
the glass that she might be sent back tn
Jail. having no place else to 60.
}. Rollins Abrams, q very worthy and
highly respected citizen of Cecil county.
Md, residing near Brick Meeting House,
died on Friday last at Nottingham station
where lie had taken a load of poultry to be
shipped to market.
John 5. Pennell of Little Britain town.
ship, Lancaster county, has sold his pair
OF line bay horses to Moses Moses Of Bal
timore, for high price. These horses
took two or three first premiums at the
Oxford fair, for best pair Of carriage
horses.
The Conowingo bridge company made
81, 731.11 last year and declared dividend
OF 81 per share. The old board of directors
were unanimously elected, viz James G..
Bell. president a; Richard b. Mccoy, of Hur-
ford county, Hon. Jacob Tome, OF Cecil
county, Levi X. Brown and James :. Pat
terson, of Lancaster county,
Wilmington Erery Esening announces
officially" that last years Peninsular
peach crop was 5, ,93l 223 baskets, and that
the net profits were more than 81, 900, ,OOO
Ecery Ecenlng suggests that if northern
papers would stop talking about matter
they do not understand and wait for it's
spring estimates Of the crop they would find
themselves lacking in material for their
threadEare joke about the Delaware peach
crop.
Mayor Tyson, of Reading, sent his first
annual message to councils Monday even
ing. The debt OF the city is stated to Dc
81, l34, 100, Of which sum S5222, 500 is the
debt of the water department. During
the past year the debt was reduced s17,-
$50. The credit of the city is reported
good, the ) per cent. loan commanding
per cent. premium.
Never was there more hunting of foxes
in Chester county than now. The sport
has been increasing in popularity steadily
for the last five years, after having gone
almost out of vogue for awhile before that
In and around West Chester there are now
several packs of fox hounds, some of whicI,
are daily in the field, and ON almost every
morning of the secular week u party Of
bold riders may be seen setting forth in tho
gray light before sunrise for chase.
1t was no wonder the colOred man John
Newman was burned to death at the Cam.
erOn furnace, Middletown, yesterday. A
large barrel filled with oil was located on
top of the feeding house, Or tunnel head
at the furnace. While Newman was in
the act of filling his lamp with oil from the
barrel, while the wick was burning, the
fire came in contact with the oil, exploding
the barrel. The blaze which followed the
explosion lit up the sky for many hundred
yards around the furnace and set fire to.
the frame work of the feeding house and a
portion of the inclined plane.