Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-26
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE.

A Severe Storm-PersonaI News-That Co.
II. Again-Dead by Diphtheria.
Mr.. Fred Bucher was heard from yes
terday in letter dated August 18th post
marked Antwerp. 1t is thought he is now
on the ocean on his way home.
The Misses SinnicksOn, of Salem, N. j.,
are visiting at Fairview the residence OF
Mr.. and Mrs. E. X. Smith.
Mr.. Charles Hiteshue has returned from
visit of couple ofweeks to New York
city, where he was under instructions in
cutting.
Detail No. of the Compony II. rifle
teams shot at target on the property OF
Henry Wisler yesterday afternoon. The
shooting was not remarkably good. One
bulls eye was made at one hundred yards.
At this evening s::meeting of the ladies'
committee, who will assist at the fair to be
held next month for the benefit OF the
Citizens band, the president will appoint
the several committees to whom the ar
rapgcments for the running of the fair
will be entrusted.
Mrs. F. A. Brink has just removed her
residence from Walnut street, below Third,
to Locust street, below Fifth. .
A party of Columbia gunners tramped
the country about Mount Joy yesterday,
with little success.
The Our Boys baseball club were to play
the TrOnsides second nine at Lanca 'ter
this afternoon. The rain ''callcd' the
game.
Mr.. Ed. EcIert has lust returned from
visit of couple of weeks in Reading and
other places.
Some of our young ladies' and gentlemen
arc picnicking to-day Oh Groom island.
They will probably return with the ague.
An excursion train pulled from the
Reading & Columbia railroad depot this
morning for Concy Island and Brighton
Beach few cxcursionists.
The big engine from Baldwin's shops
which left here on q return trial trip at
five o'clock yesterday morning "stuck -
on top of the Gap. The engine with
ModOc No. 3Oj left here again at about
nine o'clock this morning.
The Garfield and Arthur marching club
met last evening in the Odd Fellows hall,
and effected permanent organization. A
uniform will be adopted ut the next meet
ing. The club has sixty odd names on It's
roll.
The picnic OF the Home Communion at
Heisc's woods yesterday, is said to have
been a pleasant affair. To-day ut the same
place the colorcd cOrnct band will hold a
picnic.
During the past and the present week
the Pennsylvania railroad company have
been planting hcw telegraph poles and
making connections with the same
from a point at the lower end of the east
ward ut this place to Blacks hotel. The
work is now about completed.
A picnic will be held to lay at Millway
park, on the line OF the Reading 4 Col
umbia railroad, under the management OF
Mcssrs. G. Cooper IIoscntogler and Or
rick Richards.
A little son of l.. f. McCrackcn, aged
four years, died last night OF diphtheria.
Another child is lying very low with the
same disease.
Two horses: belonging to Justus Grey,
attached to 4 wagon in which was loaded
Il ton of coal, became scared ut IN engine
| while Oh Front street this morning. and
ran away. The horses ran down Front
street until Perry was reached, up which
they turned and continued on until the
wagon was wrecked. The horses were not
injured. Mr.. Grey, the owner OF the
team, is farmer and resides about mile
and I: half back of Columbia.
Yesterdays Storm.
| 4 very severe storm Of wind passed over
this place from the northeast yesterday
afternoon, carryin. with it such quantities
of dust that it was almost impossible to
see through it. The window shutters on
many houses were closed with bang ard
in several places clothes that had just been
washed and hung OH the line to dry were
torn from their fasteninSs and carried a
considerable distance without improving in
any way the cleanliness of the articles. y
temporary scaffold, erected to hold John
p. Staman's tobacco. was blown down
without any further damage.