Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-20
NEIGnBoRHOOD NEWS.
Near and Across tho County Lines.

Near and Across tho County Lines.
The Reading BARRIERS couldn't agree to
shut up shop ON Sunday.
S. b. Herr, late Of this city, now gen.
eral secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A., Reading.
is attending the general conference and
International convention of the order in
Cleveland, ..
There was a little boom in tobacco at
thirty wagon leads Of the weed arriving ut
cars for Lancafter.
tunnel recently found imbedded in the
gravel underneath the quicksand curl
Ously moulded fragment of iron, ID inches
in length by about 3 inches in breadth. 1t
lay As feet underneath the natural surface
Of the ground and a5 feet below the pre-
sent bed of the railroad in the Gap cut !;
and an Inquirer correspondent figures out
that it was the mould board Of plOw
made at Tubal Gains antediluvian black
smith shop.
The place Of meeting of the Central
Pennsylvania Episcopal diocesan cOnven-
tion, on June 14th, has been changed
from st. Marks church, Mauch Chunk,
to St. Johns church, York, Pa, on
account Of extensive Improvement now in
progress in st. Marks.
The programme for commencement
week at Lebanon Valley college, AnnNille,
is rs follows: Sunday. June ). 10 a. m.,
Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. ID. d. De
long, president 7:3O p. M. annual ser
A. NJ. Monday, June 6, 7:15 p. m, COM
Tnoclnv
June :, 7:3O p. M, public meeting Of the
Alumni association /; Wednesday. June 8,
1 80 p. m., class day exercises 7:3O p. m.,
annual address before the literary sOci-
cites, by Rev. A. A. Willetts, ID. d.. Of
Philadelphia; Thursday, June .. 9:15
q. m., commencement exercises. Among
the dozen graduates are E. II: ant J. w.
Sheath, of Columbia.
is family" newspaper in every sense
Of the word The proprietor, Mr.. Charles
Spatz, and his daughter do the compost
ton work, son, about fourteen years old
acts in the capacity OF foreman, while
Mrs. Spatz assumes the role Of ..press-
man. MIR. Spatz has been 4 cripple for
years, making him barely able to attend
to the duties of the office, yet the paper
appears AoS""'i y '''' - cn'oA'"'""S '''''
readable.
While David Taylor, of Oxford, was at
Edward Walls, Lower Oxford, and in a
STOPPING position his horse in kicking fly
struck him over the eye, making deep
cash in the forehead. 4 bountifnl appli-
cation Of sugar checked the flow Of blood,
which was prOfuse.
The Falls of French creek in Warwick
township, Chester county, have become
quite 4 resort during the summer season,
although the accommodations did not ell
tirely meet the wants Of the people. At
the opening of the sprin. company Of
men began the erection of large and
commOdiOus frame hotel, which will ac-
cOmmOLatc one hundred persons when
completed.
Jesse Dertzlcr is the name of giant
who works ut the Cornwall ore hills. His
wheelbarrOw weighs 400 pounds. and lle
easily moves it when it is filled with ORE
He fills car with five barrOws Of orc.
Diphtheria is raging in and around
Palmyra, two of Herman Turpe's children
having died within week of that disease.
Several children of other families arc not
expected to live ut this writing. The dis
case, the physicians pronounce t" he the
fever connected with it.
There arc 500 children, from ore tu
twelve years old, insured for their lives i'm
Reading. Three cents week premium Ia,
paid on some policies.
In East Coventry, Chester county.
thieves robbed Abram YysOn's stable Of
his horse and harness. The stolen horse
is brown in color, heavy name and tail,
white spot on the hind leg, about nine
years old, and is valued by Mr.. Tyson ut
$17j. Tho wagon and harness aro wOrtl,
about $25.
The reunion of the sixtccncrs, grad
yates of the Soldiers Orphan schools will
occur in Harrisburg on August 25th and
Goth. Governor Curtin will deliver an
address.
Benjamin Snyder, 13-year-Old brother
of the lynched murderer Snyder, near
Bethlehem, threatened to stab i number
of the children of the Northampton cOun-
ty almshOuse. lie has been sent to the
House of Refuge, and while Oh his way
made several attempts to escape.
A slight fire occurred in the cigar fac
tory of N. F. Hartman, i'm A,lamstOwa.
l. w. Lewan and family left Reatlin.
yesterday in their carriage and will drive
to Philadelphia and New York, to be alb
sent two weeks.
An excursion will be run over the Penn
sylvania railroad to Lancaster, from Mount
Joy and all points west, on Whit Monday,
juno 9Th.
The Methodist Episcopal church Of
Noun: Joy has undertaken to lift its
debt of eleven hundred dollars and
to finish the upper room tastefully and
comfortably ut a cost OF thirteen hundred