Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-13
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORREsrONDENCE.

OUR REGULAR CORIsESPONDENCE.
The Pennsylvania railroad pay cur will
| be up this afternoon.
CarncrOss minstrcls spent u few hours
here yesterday.
On account vi the high water, fishing
for the present is played out.
Between twelve and fifteen hundred
boom logs were caught here on Saturday.
A special meeting Of the school board
| will bc held To night in the council cham
ber.
Mr.. Paul B;etz has returned homo from
college t" spc:,d his summer vacation.
Miss Carrie Herr returned home this
morning from short visit in Harris
bnrg.
Mcssrs Robert Hause and Frank Alli-
son, of York, were in town yesterday.
The strawberry festival, held in tho E.
E. Lutheran church last week, nettcd
about forty eight dollars.
Miss Name Shuman left town to day on
Il visit to her relatives in Chicago.
DIR. Hinklc and wife arc on an extended
pleasure tour. They left to-day for SHIP
pensbury.
The Gr, man Catholic Sunday school is
holding its annual picnic to-day in Heisc's
woods.
VIM. Turner anil Max Moore, both COL
Ored, who participated in the riot on Dec
Grafton Day, had u hearing before Squire
Grier Oh Saturday evening. Both were
disc har.e ed.
The largest canal boat ever seen in Co..
umbia passed through here this morning.
Its capacity was 80 tons and it was con-
canal company.
the members of the St. Johns Lutheran
held in OH Fellows hall, on next Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday evenings.
Yesterday, childlen's day, was cclcbra-
ted in the NJ. e. church. The exercises
consisted of singing, addresses and the
distribution of flowers. The interior Of the
church looked very well, rs the decora-
tiOns were many and very beautiful.
Between eleven and twelve o'clock on
Saturday nigh. fight took place on Front
street, be-; ;weeE South and Walnut. Stones
and bricks were freely used, and with
such good effect that several men were
badly cut about the head and body.
Mr.. j. 3. Douglass, of Washington bOr-
Oush, fell from u cherry tree which stands
in the yard ot Henry Mann, of Manor
township. ami had both arms broken
below the elbow. He is suffering severely
but is doing as well rs can be expected.
At Smiths lumber yard ON Sunday
afternoon, a number of young boys were
playing on Mr.. Smiths lumber piles.
Some Of the boards becoming displaced
the whole pile fell down carrying with it
Il young boy who was on top. He was
very badly hurt, as some Of the lumber
fell ON ton os him.
Mr. Sam IIemDle, ono Of COlumbia's
favOrite comedians, is making prcpara-
tions to brin. u iirstclsss comedy com
pany here sometime this month to play
on shares with the Shawnee fire COM
pany.
Mr.. George Zerger, day caller OF the
Pennsylvania railroad, at Columbia, is now
the happy posscssOr of horse and gig. 1t
was presented to him by the railroad men
Of this place.
Mr.. Dasi,! Mcllinscr's horse, standing
in front of Young's brewery, becoming
frightened ran of. the buggy was badly
demolished but luckily the horse escaped
without injury.
BY the departure Of Mr.. L. w. Richards
Columbia will lose another promising
young man. To-day he leaves for St. Louis,
Missouri, where he will take the position
Of "gang boss " in one of the large iron
manufactures in that city.