Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-23
COLUMBIA NEWS.
X KEGULAR CORRESPONDENCE

OUR KEGULAR CORRESPONDENCE.
Hon. James NJ. Gamble and wife, who
have been visiting Mr.. Abram Bruner, left
to-day for their home at Williamsport,
Pa.
A handsome breech-loading, double
barrel, shOtg0n, to be CHANGED off at fair
for the benefit Of the Knights of the
Mystic Chain, is on exhibition at p. $.
Brugh's drug store.
A session Of the teachers institute was
held this morning.
Squire Grier will open his Office in the
room No. 104 Locnst street.
Rev. G. p. Miller, Of Marietta, will
preach for St. Johns Lutheran congrega-
tion in the German Lutheran church, on
Locust street, below Sixth, on Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock Sunday school at
Shuler's hall at 40 p. m.
The funeral of the late William Gordon
took place yesterday afternoon from St.
Paul's Episcopal church. Intermcnt in
Mount Bethel cemetery.
Excursion tickets to Lancaster ard
return and good for Barnum's circus
are being sold to-day by the Penn
sylvauia railroad company at ninety.
eight cents. Almost every freight train
leaving here for the east between seven
and twelve was crowded with men and
boys going to see the show in 4 cheaper
way.
William Shartzel, Of Washington bor-
ough, who has recently opened a dairy.
will begin on Monday to serve milk ard
cream to Columbia people. The more the
merrier.
Five Columbia ladies and gentlemen
went to Harrisburg last evening to lend
their assistance at an oyster supper given
by MI. Harry Sayford at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward X. Hess. Mrs.
Hess is a native Columbia lady. A happ y
time was had.
Rev. E. 5. Morrell, Of Montgomery
Square, Montgomery county, Pa, will
oficiate to morrow morning and evening
in the +. +. Lutheran church.
Mrs. Charles Bennett, Of Philadelphia,
Is visiting Mrs. r. A. Bennett.
Mr.. p. B. Vache is just about finishing
Il handsome piece of work at DIR. F.
Hinkle's house on South Second street.
The building is renovated thrOuSOut. Mr.
V. was at one time chief Of the Pennsyl
vania railroad company's corps Of painters
and his work speaks for itself.
Much credit is reelected upon Miss Alice
BucIler, a teacher in the secondary depart
ment Of our nublic schools, by the oral ex-
animation in spelling which her pupils
passed. Only two scholars in her whole
school failed to correctly spell each OF
more than two hundred words given them
and these two each failed but once. Is
there class in the country that can equal
this?
A board raft in charge of Plot Isaac
Shultz, Of Washington borough, in going
through the raft chute yesterday afternoon
broke into three pieces. The first piece
on which were three or four men, was sue
cessfully landed at Washington borough.
The second piece struck on the shoals at
the upper end of Shad Island, but of the
third piece we can hear nothing.
Rev. Henry Wheeler, of the M. +.
church, in whose hands was placed the
fund for the poor. created by the enter
tainment by "llome talent" company,
in Thursday last, reports twenty-six fam
lilies assisted from it, some of them two or
three times, some were sick al all desti-
tute. One hundred in all were helped.
The disbursements for coal were S24.26
groceries $1S.83 shoes S.. IL wood So
cash $50. 10; total, s7O.31. The distribution
was satisfactory to donors and donecs.