Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-16
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORREsPONDENcE.

OUN hkSIOA.AAS SORfsE.SfONDEINCLs
A special meeting of the school board
was held last cvenin: ut the law Office Of
W. B. Given, esq, with the members all
present. The salary of the superintend-
ent of public schools was fixed at 81 400
per annum-thc same rs herctofOre-and
action was taken Oh Il report that some
fences in g Tow Hill - alley had been torn
down. The following preamble and rcso-
luton, which were adopted, we present in
full, because we believe they will he of in
terest to Columbia tax payers !:
"WHEREAs, The contract for the ccllcc-
tion of the school tax for 1880 was given
to the collector at the rate of 81 per cent. :
and
WHEREAS, 1t is greatly to the advant-
age of the school board that the school tax
should he collected before the close Of the
present school year, therefore be it
L" Resolred, That upon Il full settlement,
by Thomas L. Dunbar, collector, of the
tax duplicate for 1880, on or before June
/, 1881, he, the said collector, be allowed
an additional commission Of i per cent.
on the full amount collected
The five per cent. commission, which is
given to the collector by the increase of
the II per cent. embodied in the above
resolution, puts the collectors commits
sion where it has always stood prior to
this year, and is not s. a new departure
as may believed by some of our readers.
At a meeting Of General Welsh post
No. 11S, g. A. r., held last evening, it
was decided to have a"bcan bake . for
the members Of the post at very carly
date. 4 number Of recruits were mus.
tered in and the post adjourned to meet
on Tuesday evening, March Goth.
Louis Martini company, which will ap-
pear IN the opera house this evening. in
''Around the World in so Days" ar
rived here this morning, bringing with it
the scenery necessary to put the play we'll
before our people.
The Citizens band last evening gave to
some Of citizens one Of their promised SER
cnades. Among the fortunate were Mr..
Jacob Sheath and a newly arrived couple
named Charles. Financially the band did
not realize much, but its members had {;
good feed.
p. s Brugh's drug store has just been
repaired in handsome style and the bar-
room of the Franklin house was recently
subjected to the same treatment.
The proposed new establishment for the
manufacture of small articles in steel, OF
which We have already spoken, will be
SlsCu al uC" UtlC "hSCA
very shortly. In a couple Of days VIC will
have more to say on this subject.
This very pleasant weather is being
about. Among those who are already
ploughins the ground is Mr.. Henry Wisler
the we'll lknOwn tiller of the soil residing
just beyond the borough limits. The soil
is in excellent condition to be turned up.
River Pilot Warren Brown, of Washing
ton borough, has recently received letters
from timber men up the river who say
that the ice has not yet been carried from
the upper portions of the north aid west
branches of the Susquehanna, aud that
until it is carried away they will not start
any RATS towards the eastern markets.
Between here and the timber lands the
river is now in good rafting condition and
it is only the fears of what this late-moving
ice may do that causes this effectual
check. The trouble at Turkey Hill with
high water may be averted, as the
rocks in the channel arc sunken
to such depth that raft may pass over
them without striking, in high water only.
A couple of light rats, which had been
been lying near here since last fall, have
been taken over the Turkey Hill rocks
and through to Port Deposit. The sunken
rock nearest the surface of tho water was
felt for with the rear oar blade of one of
the RATS as it was passed over, and it was
found to be two feet or moro below the
waters level. With fall of foot in the
river, however, it will not be safe to run
from here down. The river is yet falling.
Mr.. Henry Stevenson. :. former resident
of Columbia and well-known here, is Lying
seriously i'll at his home in Duncannon.
Mr.. Stevenson has several sons here, three
of whom are in the service of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company in the different
offices in town and one as book-keeper at
II. F. Burners coal yard.
Mr. Robert Frey, Of Altoona, of whose
illness we spoke a couple of days ago, is
cnnvalescing. -.