Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-22
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

Phocnixville, Chester county, will have
a little teachers institute of its own.
A man in Calm township, Chester county
went cunning for English sparrOws and
killed sixteen at clip.
A new postofice has been established
at Townsend, q miles north of oxford,
and q miles from Russellville. Henry
Ponley has been appointed postmaster.
The City Grays' fair in Harrisburg took
in whcelbarrOw load Of silver on Satur-
day night.
The farmers and dairyman around Kutz-
town arc about organizing a creamery.
John Rogers. 4 three year old child, Of
Bechtelsvillc. Bcrks county, fell into Il
bucket of hot water and was Scalded to
death.
Henry 4. Derr, prominent citizen Of
NOrristown, and president of the State
Firemen' sassociation, is lying seriously i'll
ut his residence in that place with pneu-
mOnia.
On the Sd of March a party will leave
kutZtown for Marietta, tOreceive from the
fish commissioners tank holding one
thousand small fish, to be distributed in a
number of dams along the Saucony creek.
Sulphur in the Susquehanna is driving the
| bass i::tO muskrat holes into Harrisburg.
The rats eat the bass the boys kill the
| rats; the fish authorities interfere with
the boys and thus the state pays for the
determination of the bass.
Chester county has many more golden
| weddings to the square inch than any
| OF her part Of the state. The last to he
celebrated down that way was the ami.
/ versary of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Loag OF
l. oag's corner.
Mrs. Stouth, of Manchester township,
York county, tied her baby with rope to
some object to prevent it from reaching
the fire while the mother went to milk.
too long, and during the mothers absence
it mana red to approach close enough to
the fire to set its clothes in blaze. When
the mother returned the child was still
living, but so terribly burned that it died
the next day.
While COurtland Michener, Of NewliI
township, Chester county, we'll know:
farmer, aged sc, was threshing he applied
the brake to the thresher with too sudden
force, which caused the y-wheel-a heavy
one five or six feet in diameter-tO break
piece of which struck Mr.. Michener on
the side of the face, crushing in the skull
and lacerating the flesh i'll terrible man.
ncr. lie died in an hour.
Mrs. EtlensOn and daughter drove down
to where the Brandywine at COpes fOun
1 dry was flooded and endeavOred to drive
through the stream to the Strasburg road
The horse suddenly stepped into wash
out, fell down and was nearly drowned
Mrs. EdensOn jumped out of the vehicle
to bank and called for assistance, and the
workmen of the foundry came immediate
ly. The daughter remained in the wagon
The men succeeded in getting the horse
and carriage from the stream with little OF
10 damage. excepting the breaking of the
shafts and some portion Of the harness.
James Thompson. young lad residing
with his parents at Red Lion, York cOun
ty, was bringing the mail home, when the
horse upon which he was mounted turned
suddenly through a gateway, throwing
him against a post, the point Of which
pierced his cheek and was forced through
the top of his head, completely severing 3
piece of skull two inches in diameter. Not
withstanding the serious nature Of tho
wound the little fellow pluckily caught
his horse and walked to neighboring farm
house, where he is now lying under the
doctors care.
Alex. Harbold abducted Kate Farrell, II
years old, daughter of DIR. Farrell, Of
Dillsburg, York county, and took her to
MecEanicsburg hotel where she was tc
be met by her lover, Frank Newman.
She was locked in 4 room and the key
given to Newman, but at this stage Dr.
Farrell, who had traced the abductors,
Came upon the scene and secured his
daus liter and took her home. Harbold
was arrested on the spot and entered bail.
Young Newman will be brought to York
and held for an appearance AZ court
With an elopement at Glen Rock, the
lower end of the county, which occurred
last week, and an abduction at the
county's northern border, York society
has abundance of material for discus.
sion.