Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-16
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OuE REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS

Market was not very steep" to-day.
A wedding is to come. of to-day-mor,
anon. ----
We had heavy frost in town this morn
ing.
Charles Hiteshue, the tailor, is moving
to-day.
Yesterday was meeting day for the
Protestant ministers of town.
One Of the sisters had the children OF
the Catholic school out this morning.
| Local freight east over the Pennsylvania
railroad was never heavier than it was this
morning. Besides the regular local en-.
gines there were five OF six mOd0cs sent
east with trains of thirty OF more cars.
Mrs. Colonel James Myers with hel
daughter. Miss Clara. Of Norwood, are Wis
iting in Philadelphia,
Samuel Z. Swartz's new ice-house is
now ready to be rooted, and that work
will he commenced at once.
| The book keeping class recently formed,
will hold its first meeting tonight.
The mercury got down below the freez-
ing point last night, and ice Was the re-
suit this morning.
Quite number of RATS passed through
here this morning. One party says he no
| ticed fifteen or more, while another tells us
he saw twenty. 1t is certain that some of
the pilots have made four, five and six
trips from Marietta to the lower end since
| the late freshet. The river is yet in splen-
did condition and the rafting will contiDnc
| while it remains SO.
In last evenings INTELLiGESCER we said
couple of tobacco dealers had called
upon Mr.. Henry Wisler and examined his
crop Of the weed and the article went Oh to
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have heard of being made here" when it
should have read .'these are the first pur-
chascrs We have heard Of as being here"
We make the correction as the article mis-
represents Mr.. Wisler as having sold his
tobacco.
Company II, after its arms and equip
ments were lisidly inspected last evening,
held business meeting when Stephen y.
Dowhowcr was elected member. The
company decided to participate in the GER
cmonies of the inauguration at Washing
ton on March ith, and a committee was
appointed to make the necessary arrange
ments. The hour OF the parade on Thanks
giving Day was changed from 3p. IN. to
9a. III. and some repairs to the armory
building were ordered. 1t was decided to
have sort of a reunion with refreshments
on Monday evening next. Captain Case
commanded the company for the first time
since his accident Of about three weeks ago
Tho Market Question.
An adjourned meeting of council was
held last evening with all the members
present. The following was presented by
the market committee
"A supplement to the ordinance ell
titled AN ordinance relating to markets.
enacted February % 1880
g Be it ordained and enacted by the town
council of the borough of Columbia, that
section 2 of the ordinance entitled al ordi
nance relating to markets, enacted Fcbr,l-
arv "a. 1880 be and is hereby repealed and
the following substituted therefore, to
wit:
Sect . That the clerk of the market
shall give notice Of the opening of market
by ringing a bell at o'clock. 4. M, on
each market day, from the first day Of
May until the first day of October, inclu-
sivc, and ut oclock, a. m., from the first
day of October until the first day of May;
that il shall bc the duty of the clerk of the
market to open the market house
for the admission of sellers butchers cx-
cepted) thirty minutes before the hour for
ringing of the bell, and not before
Laid over under the rules.
The property committee presented the
following in reference to enlarging the
opera house store rooms:
"IOur property committee beg to re-
port that the store rooms on Locust
street front of the opera house can be
made fifteen feet deeper Cor seven hundred
dollars and will reduce the capacity of the
market space about ten stalls"
The report was accepted and further ac-
tion postponed until the next meeting OF
council.
Adjourned.