Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-04
STATE ITElEb.

John Kelley has died at Easton from
lock, jaw. caused by having his toes crush
ed by Lehigh train.
A misplaced switch derailed a locomotive
at Port Morris, demolishing water tank
and damaging the engine considerably.
To its other Affections Pittsburgh adds
a report that sick cattle are bought at the
drove yards and sold in the city markets.
The grist mill of Jarvis Gordon, in Mil.
ford borough, was burned yesterday with
large quantity of grain, etc. Loss over
$4,000. Insurance, 500.
The Green & Coates street railway,
Philadelphia, which cost only $247, ,564,
earns for its owners $4,000 a year, OF
twenty. four per cent. upon the investment.
The Lehigh Democratic county meeting
reiterates often renewed declarations
against second terms for county Offices.
The party over there wants the hOnOrs t0
go around.
Harry, alias "Pheas" Abbott, notOri.
GUS character, has also been arrested in
Philadelphia, on suspicion of being the
murderer of Samuel Clugston, at Valley
Forge. Next?
81 see that life is not safe in this com.
munity," said a Southern gentleman visit.
ing Pittsburgh, as he read the account Oi
the --latest Allegheny murder" in the
morning papers. "rlI have to 60 back to
Texas"
Mrs. Eliza Martquet. of EastoD, in at.
tempting to straighten bent sewing ma
chine needle with her teeth broke it, the
point going down her throat. The lady is
now lying at the deaths door, the broken
needle having reached 4 vital part.
Mr.. John w. Forney's address before
the Agricultural society of Mexican county,
at Port Allegheny, Wednesday, Septem,
ber 7th, will be on Providential Miracles
Provided by Modern Progress in Agricul-
ture and the Arts of Peace"
Robert Belt fell from Philadelphia coal
bin and was seriously hurt John A. Craw-
ford has died from fall off tho elevated
railroad trestle; Chas. StengeIein, of
Easton, fell from Lehigh Valley excursion
train and was killed.
The Danville Record must have an aw-
full combat with somebody on hand, since
it asks tho cOwardly sneak, who sold
himself to Rowbotham for an undershirt,
to come out and prove the slander he con-
cocted against the Record last week %
DdHu Walk 16TuoT, d oOu VI U1E. II.
w. Tarner, near Oakville, in the fifteenth
month Of his age, was drowned in pond
near his fathers residence. While Mrs.
Tarner was preparing dinner the lad was
left in tho care of young brothers and a
sister. He wandered away from them
and had been missed but a short time
when it was found.
Peter D. Helms, of the borough cOun-
Gil of Pottsville, has been expelled for fur
nishing white lead and other material
used to paint bridge, the work having
been done at the borough's expense. Tho
vote stood II "aye' to 10 ''no''-the lat
ter including Peter himself. But lie did
not leave until he told the council their
supervisor was whisky sign and beer
barrel.
Iu Pittsburgh Coup and Barnum come
into sharp competition with their circuses,
and the newspapers have "fat takes" in
tho publication of their abusive cards and
counter statements. Coup publishes big
picture of himself "cooping" Barnum up !;
Barnum circulates stories about Coup's
show disseminating smallpox, and Coup
returns with a long card depicting Barnum
and his partners as an old man, "a biga-
mist with several wives laboring in new
matrimonial tOilS.'