Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-21
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS

A number of ladies from a Lancaste,
home communion lodge visited their Sis
ters of the place last evening and had a
very pleasant time. They sleighed home
through the rain at a late hour.
At rattle last evening for 700 pound
hog at Pete Melbert's beer saloon, E. W.
Trey, of McCalls Ferry, with throw Of
43 steered clear Of all competition and
took the prize.
Very few of our citizens think fal
icy pavements in front of their houses. A
few ashes might prevent the breaking Of
limb or an accident even more serious.
David Kramer was arrested last evening
on complaint of the board of trustees OF
the Citizens band, but released under
$500 bail. Kramer claims one of the band
instruments for services rendered, but the
band does not grant his claim to he just
one, hence the suit.
The Pennsylvania railroad freight trains
arc having hard time of it in getting
through the cut at Z. K. Smiths. The
curve is short, the grade heavy and the
tracks slippery, hence the difficulty. Sew
eral trains have come to dead stop before
rounding the curve and number of others
have separated into sections by the cOu-
pin. iron breaking. The strain in all
cases is great.
The property offered 1T public sale ut
the Franklin house last evening was with
drawn.
Quite 4 number Of young ladies and
gentlemen were skating on the river in
front Of Swartz's ice house yesterday
afternoon. A small stretch of ice had
been cleared OF snow by couple of ener-
getic boys during the morning. If a
freeze now sets in the ice, from the bridge
to the dam. will be Us smooth as glass and
the skating better than ever before.
All the schools of the Cherry street
building have been closed for the day. In
some cases only three or four pupils, out of
total of from sixty to seventy put in an
appearance.
VIII Hershey, 4 railrOader, broke his
arm this morning by falling on slippery
pavement.
Major j. w. Yocum, of the Spy, has re-
turned from the encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, at Pittsburgh,
which he attended as one of tine delegate;
of Gen. Welsh Post. No. 11S, of this place.
The ma jor wears a badge, with appropriate
inscription, presented to the cncampment
delegates. He reports his visit as being 4
very pleasant one.
Last evening young lady, residing
witt, Mrs William Lockard, on South
Third street, was shedding down the hill
at Fifth and Locust streets, and collidetl
! with n large sled belonging to tue COlum-
ba. fire company and was upset. The
lady's ankle was spraiEed and she was
taken to her home. How many such ac-
cidcnts will it require for the enforcement
Of the ordinance relating to coasting? An
ordinance enacted on March 80, 1868, dis
tinctly forbiis coasting within the bor-
cugh limits on either streets or sidewalks.
ADuring the whole of last night and this
morning rain and sIeet fell and the pave
ments throughout the town are now in such
condition that they can be used only
with extreme peril. Even the streets arc
in terribly slippery state and the walk
ing is there about as dangerous as it has
been on the pavements during the past
couple of weeks. There is but little
travel being done and that little only by
persons whose business calls them out.
At the public schools in Cherry street
this morning a number of rooms were
found to be wet and leaking, and as but a
very few pupils turned up several Of the
schools were dismissed for the day, the
pupils clothing being wet and fears enter
tained that they might take cold while
t!e;r CLOTHING was driving