Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-01

NEI9hBORHOOD NEWS.
Near and Across the Coussy Llnss.
Wrightsvillc borough has bsen sued for
g, 90 damages by Chas. X. Sitter for in
juries received on defective plank-walk.
Tho Good Templars Of Lancaster and
Chester counties will hold literary sOci-
able in F. ]. PennOck's grove, ON Satur-
day, June II, 1881.
In view OF John Cessua's retirement
from the Republican state COMMITTEES
craftsmanship, West Chester Hooton is
hootin' for tho place.
Monday evening Bertha, a seventeen
mOnths-old child Of Mr.. John II. MOI.
of York, fell from the lower step Of the
porch to the pavement and broke her COL
lar bone.
George Robertson an employee oil. w.
Reed, ESQ.,, Brogueville, York county,
was stabbed by . colOred man named
Murray, on Sunday afternoon while they
were in swimming.
Charles Fell, near Kirk's Mills, Lancas-
ter county, is engaged in preparing for the
business Of canning tomatoes on largo
scale. He is now. planting field Of toma-
toes ON his farm.
Rev. III. G. Swentzel. we'll known in
this city and nephew of Mrs. j. B. Living
ston. has resigned his Episcopal rectorship
in Chambersburg He will likely visit
Europe this summer.
The Mutual Admiration society is pre-
pairing for business on the last day of the
legislative session. Gold-headed canes,
diamonds. silverwaro, ETC., ETC., win float
about with reckless prOdigality.
Everybody connected with the state
chicken coop was delighted with his trip
to Gettysburg, and the House signalized
its pleasure by passing the act appropria-
ting >10, 900 to the Gettysburg Battlefield
Memorial association.
Socrates Wyman, living in tho Pigeon
hills, York county, cut himself with an
axe in the ankle joint, which will proba-
bly, make amputatiOn necessary. Mr..
Wyman some years ago had the n,isfor-
time Of losing his left arm.
The wife Of Alfred JimasOn, aged about
26 years. committed suicide on Saturday
last by hanging herself in the garret Of her
house, near Fox Chase, Cecil county, Md.
During the past two weeks Mrs. JimasOn
had shown signs Of insanity, the first at
tack occurring while she was ut work in
the spring house.
A pOrtly state senator was mistaken for
the governor ON the Gettysburg excursion
and became 20 impressed with his sudden
elevation that he insisted on making a
speech at Hanover junction from tho rear
platform of parlOr car. He had for an
audience seven COWS and q dozen milk
cans.
The annual spring fair of the Oxford
agricultural society next week promises to
be equal in all respects to any Of the many
that have gone before. The entries Of
horses for speed aggregate forty five,
which is larger than last year the entries
OfOther horses and flowers and hOrticul-
tural products promise q large display.
The wires of the new Mutual Union tel
Susquehanna river last week. thus joining
the divisions in Hartford and Cecil counties
and eastward towards Philadelphia. The
wires pass through the COnOwingO bridge,
making the number now In the bridge 80.
When the whole number Of the now limo is
put up there will be "a.
w. 8. Mitchell, prominent citizen and
politician Of Perry county, fell dead in the
Juniatia river near his residence. He was
helping his son to fish. for shad, and the
crew was about pulling in to shore, whom
he fell dead on his face in the river.
Hear. disease was the cause of his death.
Ho was . brother of David Mitchell, who
put the fishway in the Columbia dam.
Mrs. Maggie Laird, an old widow, who
has resided for some timo in the rear of
a house ON TwO.and-a-Half street, Harris
burg, disappeared from her home under
mysterious circumstances, causing great
apprehension among her friends and much
distress to 4 daughter. She was mildly
insane on religious subjects.
Operations ut Woods chrome pit, near
Kinks Mills, have been greatly interfsred
with by tho caving in of earth about the
shaft. The pumps were stopped ON the
first Of May and the water has risen to
considerable height. WOrkmen are on
gagged in sinking new shaft, with the ex-
pectatiOn of striking the vein at another
point.
Monday night the residence Of ex-Regis-
ter John Hiestand, in Spring Garden town
ship, York county, was robbed Of num-
ber of articles, among them being silver
hunting case watch. An attempt was also
made to enter the residence of his mother.
As hired man has disappeared, taking
with him all his clothing, suspicion falls
upon him.
On Wednesday, May 25th, between 8
and 12 O'Clock a. m.. some persOn entered
the house of John Chamber, in DrumOre
township, and took hunting case silver
watch and chain belonging to Charles
Matthew'S who lived with Mr.. Chambers,
and $3.50 belonging to Marion Chambers,
from his vest pocket. The clothes in the
room were generally ransacked.
The Pennsylvania editorial association
will hold its ninth reunion at Long
Branch, N. J. The members will rem
devious in Philadelphia. ON June Goth, and
20 by special train over to the shore ON
the 21st., where they will remain two or
three days, making the Ocean house their
Mr.. Menamin, the secre-
tary and treasurer, who arrangcs the de-
tails, is an excellent manager.
Rev. $. f. Herring, Of the Wrightsville
San. having quit pastoral work, publishes
what he calls an "edigram' to the effect
that he will hereafter devote his entire
time and influence upon tho San. He
promises his readers that no pains will be
spared to mako the San . neWsy, fresh
and spicy paper We beg leave to suggest
that it is Overspiced this week with typo
graphical crrors,a "prentico ham in this
Office having marked 200 in four columns
Of the Sun.
The Harrisburg Telegraph publishes the
statement that "it is fact
which has never been fully discussed, or
rather which has never been set forth rs it
ought to be, that while the people of Har
risburg, and those living on both sides be-
yOnd the city limits, ON the river shore,
obey the fishery laws, people who live in
other counties, at Columbia, Lancaster
county, ut Safe HarbOr, in the same