Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-25
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR C0RRIsFoNDENcE.

| OUR KEGCLAR CORkESPONDENCE.
Miss Amelia Wilson, daughter of Mr..
II. Wilson, hardware merchant, will give
a masked party at her tatha's residence,
Second and Locust streets, ctO,morrow
evening. Quite number of young misses
| and masters, besides some older folks, have
been invited and will 60, and there is q
prospect of having q very pleasant time.
James Gagen, proprietor of the Eagle
house. No 40 Masor- street, tuckNdow
his Hancock and Rng3ish spoij yestsgday.
This pole was che Arss raised n Columbia
during the late campaigne.
Rev. J. w. Deshong will preach his
farewell sermon in the Church of God on
next Sunday evening, and will leave hero
for his Altoona charge early in April
The auction held last evening at the
residence of Mrs. Hahn, on Locust street,
below Sixth, by the e. Lutheran church
aid society and the Young Folks social
and working society, was . very pleasant
and successful affair, and something more
than ten dollars was netted into the church
treasury. Mr.. C. Cooper Hogentogler
discovered his calling to bc that of an
auctiOneer, and We respectfully suggest
that he call at the INTELLIaENcER Office
to have his cards printed. .
At the Frueauff sale of Office furniture
and household goods yesterday, most
everything sold we'll. The safe was. sold
to Mr.. II. 8. Shuman at seventy-one dol
lars.
Rev. Leroy F., Baker, Of Harrisburg,
Pa, preached an excellont sermon in st.
Pauls Episcopal church last evening.
The river is still falling.
An agent of the Philadelphia Press is
here trying to work up the circulation of
the Sunday edition of that paper.
The band recently organized from among
the members of Putnam circle, No. 113,
b. Z. (H. F.) C. A.. have received their
instruments. for which a committee went
to Phiiade phia on Monday morning last.
Most of the instruments are second hand,
but several Of them are new. =
One of the large canal boats which ar
rived here few days ago, and which has
been here ever since waiting for the winds
to fall, in going down the river this morn-
ing struck rock about . quarter of .
mile below the dam. We have not heard
the extent of the injuries.
Gently published statement that Blacks
hotel has been leased by Mr.. j. p. Bait,
tue proprietor, to the Messrs. Wertz. of
NOW GukO COUuCys OdtI
will continue to run the hotel as hereto
fore. ....., .,..
In our article of last evening we forgot
Nella F. Brown entertainment would be
opened at Richards's book store on Mon
day morning.
n. ID. Cassel is the name of Philadel-
phian who came here day or two ago
with more than one hundred dollars in his
pocket. Cassel formed the acquaintance
of a number of Columbia's gay young
men, and with liberal hand he expended
his money for everything which his COM
panions thought they would like to have.
While the money held out . succession of
oyster.stews, whisky punches, ETC., disap-
pcared with amazing rapidity, but all this
had an end and the end was not far be-
hind the beginning Cassel, while out
driving yesterday ran into gypsy wagon
and njured it to some extent. In the af-
ternoon of the same day he met a number
Of gipsies-whO are encamped in Garber's
woods-at Sam. Campbelrs bazaar at
Fourth and Walnut streets. The gipsies
recognized him as the Iarty of the morn
inS's collision and proceeded to avenge
for the injury to their wagon. !
Cassci, shOrn of his late cOmpanions-his |
money having been played out-was COM !
PEELED to defend himself as best he could,
but his defence did not save him from a !
severe beating, which was administered
by the incenscd itinerants,
and he was we'll hammered before finally |
escaping. A couple of officers took him |!
in tow, washed him and put him in the
borough lookup for safe keeping and he is
in there vet.