Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-03
COLUMBIA NEWS.

OUR REGULAR COKEsESPONDENCE
The report Of the movement OF cars fror
Columbia for the year 1880, shows tha
S66, 496 cars, loaded and empty, were di'
patched from this place east and west. y
this number IA 3Sj were dispatched east
and 422. 101 west. The report for IL,
month of December shows that 3S, 322 wer
sent east, and 33,525 west. The total fO
month amounts to u, ,S47.
Permits for tue intermen: OF the remain
of 149 persons had been granted during tn
yerr 1880 by the authorities of Noun
Bethel cemetery. This shows an increas
over the year 1879 Of about sixty four pc
cent, which may be accounted for to
great extent in the prevalence of ofdiphtherl
during the past few months. The othe
Cemeteries will not show SO large list.
The Methodist Episcopal Sunday-schoc
elected the following officers yesterday:
Superinteddent-Charles II. McCul
'ough.
LIST Assistant Superintendent Henry :,
Graybill.
I'd Assistant Superintendent-Ab Ab.an
Bruner.
Sccretary-Harry Stevens.
Assistant Secrctary-Samuel GuiIcs.
tIcdsulcf--AllEeOS ". Druuer.
Librarians-John S. Maxtop, George
Sener, James I. Schroeder, William
Baynton, w. II. Shenberger and Isaac
Auwerter.
Yesterday at the United Brethren sun
day-school the following officers were
elected to serve during the ensuing wear
Superintendent-Ja Sheath
Assistant Superintendcnt-C Hershey.
Secrctary--Harry NJ. Sample
Treasurcr-C. Eichcriy
Librarian-D. Welsh.
Assistant Librarians--Misses Carrie
GOhn, Mary Rowe, Emma Broome and
Minnie Sourbeer.
Miss Annie Il. Purple is visiting at York
the guest Of Miss Annie Musselmau.
William Henry, Of Philadelphia, who
has been visiting Frank W. HinkIe, left
here to day.
Most OF the school boys and girls are
leaving or getting ready to leave.
Rev. Mr.. Wilson, who is OH the retired
list of Presbyterian ministers, ofiicated
in the Presbyterian church last evening.
Ice cutting is again going on in frontsof
S. &. Swar!z's lower ice house.
At Wagncr's hotel Oh Saturday after
noon the following named gentlemen
were elected to the board Of trustees
of the Old Columbia ground com-
pany TO serve for the ensuing term of
three years: Messrs. Conrad Swartz,
Milton Wike and Jacob 4. Minnich.
S. $. Detwiler, cashier Of the First
national bank, gave his annual dinner t.
the officers and directors of the bank on
Saturday afternoon, January 1st. Nine
courses were served.
There was not very large attendance
at the ball o; the Shawnee fire company in
the armory Oh Saturday evening.
A number OF our young men made their
New Year calls Oh Saturday. They went
mostly in couples.
The week of prayer begins tonight in
the United Brethren church--timo, 1:}o
o'clock.
The Columbia public schools were re-
opened to-day
While Mrs. Henry Gcrlin was on her way
TO the Reformed church last night she slip.
ped and fell on the icy pavement, ut Third
and Cherry streets, aud had her right arm,
broken. She was carried to her home and
the injury attended to.
Look out for the Wrig.ltsvlle .Sua this
week 1t will tell its readers how a bowl
filled with water was blown ND and the
aforesaid bowl blown into fifty pieces. The
Sun will probably give the "myslc.y"
''double-iined top-llcadcr.
Tho Columbia accommodation tain east
was late in reaching here this morning.
Three chickens belonging to J. T. hrg-
ney, froze to death on their rcosts on sat
Urday night-something unusual.
Local freight engine No. 155 cam ap to-
siay as an "cxtra.
The temperature is much more moderate
than it has been during the past few days
and as consequence the ice on the pave.
mcnts is thawirg. The sle;ghing lc mains
good.
The Pennsylvania railroad ticket agent
at this place sold total OF 223 excursion,
tickets on December q, 2J, 81 and Jaur-
AIRY good until to-day.
Frank w. Hinkle left here to-day tn
engage in the study of medicine at the Cni-
versity OF Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
Needs Assistance.
John Cross, tinsmith, residing on Nor:i,
Mulberry street near Lemon, needs assist:
ance. He is out of work, has q sick wife
and a crippled daughter, and is out OF
money and provisions. Thirty days ago
he received notice to quit the house he
lives in for non-payment of rent. He is
unable to pay, and liable to DC set out on
the street. The last quarter lie earned. q
few days ago, by making co!cnder, was
spent in buying Is cents worth OF coal )
cents worth of molasscs and 5 cent loa; !!
Of bread. 1t is not yet too late for warm
hearted people to wish this poor family "a
happy new year" in some things mere !
substantial than words.
Tho Enlarged " Examiner
Our good-lccking Beighbcr the daily
Er0Miner SiNnalizad the Nnur Ycar nv