Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-23
STATE ITEMS,

The Chamberburg fire laddies will have
grand parade on the 4th of May.
The Cumberland county Democratic
committee selected Alexander Wentz SEN
atorial and Henry Manning and jacob
Hemminger representative delegates to the
Democratic state convention No instruc-
tions were given.
Melchoir Lerch, residing OH the farm of
his father-in-law, Valentine Uhler, re-
tired farmer in Forks township; three
miles from Easton. committed suicide by
hanging. He was about 50 years of age
and we'll to do. He leaves a wife and
three children.
William Furey died at his residence in
BellefOnte, after painful and prOtracted
illness, on the evening of Thursday the
10Th inst. Deceased was the father of J..
w. Furey, editor of the Bellefonte Wdtch-
man, Of John NJ. Furey, city editor of the
Sun and uncle to William p. Furey, its ed
| tOrial chief
Rev. D. F. Owen. the swindiing clergy
man who fed from Dingman's Ferry
sometime ago, after forging notes for large
amounts, and who was arrested at Oil City
Pa, for swindling 4 widow there, was
convicted and sent to prison. He was
travelling under the alias of Colonel James
Howard when arrested.
A COW was recently killed by Jabe7
Thompson, of New Garden township, Ches.
ter county, and upon being opened il
was found that she had been trying hel
hand" at feeding on nails, seventeen Oi
them being found in her stomach. They
were worn quite smooth, giving evidence
that they had been there for some time
and We're not of disgestible nature.
George Albree, one of the best known
citizens Of Pittsburgh, died last week III hi:
18th year. He was one of. the local cele
brities for many years. lie devoted much
time to the study OF meteOrology, and was
the meteorological agent of the Smith
sOnian Institute, was a famous weather
prophet, and contributed articles to thu
press on that subject with regularit!
that was more remarkable than the cor
rectness of his representations.
A few days ago George Zeigler, Of But
ler, was out hunting rabbits. While pass
ing througha 4 strip of wood he saw
} squirrel sitting on limb, an unusual sigh
at this time of year. He fired. The squir
rel did not drop. He fired twice more be
fore it fell. When he went to pick it II,
, he found four squirrels lying on TIL
ground. They were all joined togethe
by a strip of flesh that passed from one
= the other. Thee of the squirrels wer
, dead and the other one died soon after
ward. They were all full grown an
well-developed.
1 On Saturday Secretary Schurz an
r Messrs. Scales, of North Carolina; Hooker
a of Mississippi Dearing, of Iowa Poehle,
4 of Minnesota Pound, of Wisconsin Aims
;, ley, of Idaho, and Errett, ef Allegheny
y members of the Indian committee of til
e House Of Representatives, visited the GOV
t ernment school at Carlisle for the educs
tion and civilization of Indians. Ther
!. are one hundred and fifty young Indian
9 in the school, which was established nea
ly four months ago. Ofthis number fort
are girls and the rest are boys, whose age
range from Z to IS. Eleven tribe
are represented, the Sioux largely predom
mating. Secretary Schurz and the col
gressional committee were surprised at I'll
e progress made by the pupils.