Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-05
LITTLE LOCALS.


Here and There and Everywhere.
Womelsdorf is now about getting a
national bank with $50, 600 capital.
The post-offices Of DOwnington and
Reynoldsville are now subject to Presi-
dental appointments.
With as much right az Pennsylvania de-
mands Penn bones and Pittsburgh Pitts
Columbia asks for Columbuss, thinks the
Spg
Daniel McGeevcr, son Of Patrick Nc
Geever. residing on West Walnut street,
shot himself in the finger with a toy pistol
with which he was playing.
The Beartown campmeeting will begin
the 21th inst, and last till August ;, in
elusive. 1t will be under the direction of
|. f. Knerr, +. +. and Joseph and Isaac
Weaver will run the boarding tent.
The FSl,ce Go.ette in it's funny column
has the following: "A Lancaster county
lawyer asked woman on the witness
stand for her age and she promptly replied
"Old enough to have sold milk for you to
drink when you were Il baby, and haven't
got any pay yet.
Thomas Tammany. while intoxicated
went into iIaldy's marble yard on Saturday
evening and upset and broke tombstone,
causing 4 loss Of about SEQ He was ar
,lcrman McCOnomy.
This morning a velocipcdc was stolen
from the front of W \. Doylc's novelty
bazaar in West Kin. street. 1t was of
medium size, brightly painted, having the
seat covered with brussels carpet and was
worth 81.
Peter Monalian, residing on Marion
street, fell into one of the railroad culvcrts
near the Penn iron works yesterday and
cut and bruised his hands and face and
head quite painfully. DR.. Roland patched
him up and he II soon be rs good as ever
A boy namc;l Myers, a son of Mrs.
Muntz residing near the corner of Rock
land and North streets, was badly burned
in the face by the powder o! a loaded gun
discharged close to his head. DR. NJ. L..
Herr attended him.
A ninc-year- old son of Andrew Berg
man. rcsiping on the Litiz pike, a short
distance north of this city, shot himself
through the left haud--a small cartridge
l.iSt" he was handling being prematurc'y
discharged. DIR. NJ. l.. Herr attended his
injury.
Judgment has been entered in New
Jersey against the New Jersey division of
the Pennsylvania Il New England rail-
road, III the SUIT of Peter ). McTaguc, sur
viving partner, this city, Of the firm Of
John Lee & McTagUe, railroad contract
nrS. The Judgment is for :J:i, 2s9.0 .0S, and
was entered over plea and demurrer of
defendants.
John Penn Brock, of No. 81 SoutI.
Broad street, Philadelphia died on Sunday
at his summer residence. in Lebanon. Mr..
Brock, who was in his; fifty eighth year,
had the management OF the immense coal
and iron estates Inherited from his father
by the family.
James Johnson. of Peach EGt:um town
ship, York county, who is captain of 4 canal
boat, and 4 respectable young married
man, protests his eaiirc innocence of the
charge which he is held to answer, Gor
blackmail he says.) Of assault upon a col
ored woman, Mary Green, "n the tow path.
near Deer Creek.
On the lie of Mrs. Eliza Holder, of
Amity township, Bcrl.s county assurances
have been effected to the amount $50. 900.
Mrs. Holder is 80 years of age. Three
different insurance agents have called upon
Mrs. Catherine Whitman, near Pleasant
vile, who is in the 2Sth year of her age,
for the purrosc OF securing policies on her
life.
\ IittZ man discounted, for u stranger,
Il 500 note. rurporting to have been given
10y Monroe Shacilcr, tenant Oh Henry Wit
;ner $ farm, in payment for 4 span Of
muIes. and in,lorscd by John Wilmer, OF
EliZabcthtown. Il son of Henry Wilmer.
1t turns out to be a forgery, and the man
suspected to i,a the iOrgcr is Il fornlcr en-
ployee Of Henry Witmer who. some years
az" during the absence Of the family.
robbed his employer Of over 4 thousand
dollars in bonds. money and gold watch.
The repairs to the old Bangor church in
Churchtown, recently rcopcncd, cost s., 0GO
and all but 500 of it is paid. Among the
improvements are two beautiful memorial
windows--a chanccl window representing
1.-The Good Shepherd in memory of the
parents of William Conway, Of Philadel-
phia and a side window containing the
emblems of religious faith, "Thc Anchor,
Cioss and Crown to the mcmory of the
late Rev. Henry r. Smith. a: one time
rector "f the parish. who was drowned at
Cape May i'm 1874 This was obtained
through Mrs, &. +. Fahncs:"ck. of Ian
caster. and her sister. Mrs. Sample, of
ChurrhtowH.