Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-23
NEIGRRORHOOD NEWS.
Near and Across tho County Lines.

Near and Across tho County Lines.
The Office of the Oxford Press is being
enlarged and improved by the erection OF
an addition to the building.
VIM. H. Clark, a student of Lincoln
university, died on Saturday from the
breaking of an artery while playing foot
ball two or three days previous. He was
from New York and was about 20 years of
age. The burial took place at the Oxford
cemetery yesterday.
John Schaffer, of Fagleysville. Mont
gomery county, has seen u man walking
around in his barn. Mr. Schaffer has
watched him and says he wanders around
inspecting everything within the barn.
What this nomsd wishes is what Mr..
Scbaffer would like to know, and he offers
a reward Of s. to any person catching him
on his premises
Mr.. Jacob Bender, an aged man, ar
rived in Harrisburg on Monday to pay a
visit to his son, Jacob NJ. Bender, on ALI
sons hill. He spent the evening with his
sons family, aud at about 9 o'clock re-
tired, complaining of slight neuralgia in
his head. Yesterday morning one of his
grandsOns was sent upstairs to awaken
him, but as he could not arouse the old
gentleman he went down stairs and told
his father of the fact. Mr.. Bender, jr.,
then went upstairs and was shocked to
find his father dead.
This evening at 8 o'clock Mrs. Carrie B.
Kilgore, of Philadelphia, will deliver a
lecture before the Legislature in the hall
Of the House. Having been refused ex-
animation by the board Of examiners at
Philadelphia, where she applied for ad-
mission to the bar, she took her case to
the supreme court, which refused to grant
her relief.
Two old citizens of Hartford county,
Nd, have recently died. Robert Kirk
wood, cousin of Secretary KirkwOod of
the interior department, died suddenly
on the12th inst, at his home near Shaws-
vile, in his S1st year. Herman Stump,
ST., formerly proprietor of Stafford mills,
died on the morning Of the 18th, at the
residence of Colonel Henry Smithson,
near Port Deposit, in his 83d year.
1t has been agreed by the Reading fire.
men to hold the great parade of the State
Firemen's union in that city on Thursday,
September g. John Mcknight, J. Il.
Philippi and II. HOll were appointed a
committee to secure suitable grounds for
Thursday and Friday, September 22d and
23d. Messrs. E. Speiers, w. w. Wunder
and E. NJ. Luden were appointed COM
mlttee to draw up a programme and invi-
tation, and report at the next local meet
ing, to be held on Thursday, March 31st.
A meeting of the Republican state GEN.
trail committee will be held at the LOchiel
hotel in Harrisburg, on Thursday, the 18th
day of April, 1881, at o'clock p. m. for
the purpose oil fixing the time and place
for the meeting of the Republican state
convention of 1881, and transacting such
other business as may be presented for the
consideration of the committee.
Samuel J. Lynch, Of Elkview, was badly
from horse. He was in the stable en-
gagged in currying the animal, when he re-
ceived a blow in the face, breaking his
nose and otherwise cutting his face. The
blow knocked Mr.. Lynch senseless, in
which condition he was found shortly after
the accident by his daughter.