Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-11
COLUMBIA NEWS.
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At last evenings meeting Of council the
finance coLlmittee REPORT showed the re
ceipts, including a balance of $685.. .65 to
he S13, ,554.28 and the expenditures to bt
$12, AGA. Oh, leaving balance Of 81, ,O9O 25
The fire committee reported their action
at Reading in relation to the repairs of the
Columbia engine. which has been shipped
TO the Spawn g. Dennisson manufacturing
company, and that q machine for Oilin.
hose had been examined, and the commit
tee recommended that one Of these ma.
chimes be purchased for the use of the Co.
MRbia fire department.. The gas and
water committee reported that with few
exceptions the water plugs and lamps were
in good condition. The exceptions were
ordered to be attended to. The sanitary
committee reported having had two thou
sand notices printed calling attention to
section 3 Oc the ordinance relating to health,
passed May 3, 1866, and having a copy
placed in each house in Columbia.
They further reported complaints Of an
offensive smell issuing from the tannery ut
Fourth and Mill streets, aud a number of
cutters as being in bad repair. The order
Of business was suspended to give to a
couple of gentlemen present an Opportu-
nifty to address council Justice George
Young spoke in regard to the Dec
Grafton day riot at Third and Locust
streets, and Of the suits now pending. He
favored the settlements of the suits,
brought against those charged with carry
Ing concealed deadly weapons, while
serving as officers, before the small
costs become great, and thought
council should do something in the
matter. He also spoke of the
poor ventilation of the borough lock up
and thought something should here be
done for health's sake. General William
Patton complained OF n gutter near the
Susquehanna rolling mill and declared
Mill street, from Front to the Pennsylvania
railroad, to be unfit for service, as he be-
licvcd no horse could haul one-third of 4
load up the street grade. He asked that
council take action looking to tho streets
Improvement. Papers relative to the duties
of the several standing committees were
read by the secretary, and adopted and
ordered To be placed upon the minute book
Tor reference by members Of the commit
tees.
Upon the question OF floating the borough
debt at 1 reduced rate of interest 'pro
grcss' was reported by the finance COM
mittce. The secretary was instructed to
furnish each committee with a book for
its minutes and with instructions in its
duties. Permission was granted J. Milton
Misller TO erect htchins post in front of
his residence. To the paving committee
was referred the restricting the moving on
the pavements of trucks, pusll-carts, etc.
IL nd hat II, k.y
be collected under the same rules and pro-
visions rs last year. Proposals were read
for the collection of the borough tax from
ThOmam Il. Dunbar at three per centum
and DR.. S. Atlce BOckius at four per
ccntum. Il call of tho roll resulted in the
election Of DR.. Bockius. The question of
continuing in the service of the borough
the special policemen who have been doing
duty for the past few weeks was referred
to tho police committee in conjunction
with the chief burgess. The chief
burgess was instructed to commits.
sion Mcssrs Michael Dysinger and
Henry Rodenhauscr as special policemen.
IL WAS resolved that an abatement of five
per cent. be made on all taxes paid OH or
before July 1G, and four per cent. Oh all
taxes paid Oh or before August IL. A
communication was read from the sccrc
tary of the school board returning the
thanks of the board to council for the Use
OF council chamber at the holding Of The
meeting of the board. Bills to the amount;
OF SJ9G.Ji, including the pay roll of :209.-
-, were read and ordered to bc paid.
Adjourned.
The River.
Tho river rcse four inches since day
l:.,1, W1i1, %1,n Gc0, M Of ts,o
batteries below the dam were on shore for
away their seine. This morning fisher
mans hut OIL a battery near the York
county shore was carried away by the logs
and high water together. A raft which
escaped from Marietta yesterday. and mad
lodged on the bridge piers got of, and had
not the steamer Wrightsvillc towed it in,
it would have gone over the dam.
The logs from 4 small boom this side
of Williamsport have been passing here
all forenoon. the last going by at 1915.
Those from the Williamsp0rt broken boom
have not yet arrived. Representatives. Of
the lumbermen are here and are going
on down to arrange with persons captur
ing them. Hundreds of persons have been
watching the flood Of logs from the coal
chutes. but owing to the swift current
and the distance out OF the timber little Of
it has been caught here.
KelfE EfOus.
Childrcn's $ day in the NJ. E. church to-
morrow a Gettyburg preacher in the E.
Il. Lutheran Hev. E. 7. Herring, Of
Wrightsville. in st. Johns Lutheran
Rev. J. A. Lloyd, 70: the Baptist; in Wig
liant hail. The E.E. Lutheran strawberry
festival was success. The Westminster
prcsbytcry yesterday dissolved the pas
toral relations of the Coleman church in
Lebanon and Rev. W. b. Reed, who goes