Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-18
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEIGHBOKHOOD NEWS


NOar ana Across tho County Line.
The Chester county corn looks very un.
promising, and the failure is so general
that not moro than half crop is expected.
An incendiary attempt was made to fire
the new stables Of the United States hotel
at MyerstOwn, few nights ago. 1t is but
few years ago that barn was burned
down on the same sight.
Rev. DR.. NJ. Meigs, of Pottstown, and
his two sons, Mr.. William G. Meigs, resi-
dent engineer of the Lebanon Valley rail.
road, and Rev. George D. Meigs, pastor OF
tho Presbyterian church at Mansfield,
TiOga county, Pa, are about to make a
trip to Europe.
The largo tobacco shed of Josiah Hoffer,
on his farm about half mile west OF
Highspile, was discovered to be on fire,
and before proper means Or men could be
taken and had to suppress the flames, the
structure, with its contents of straw, was
entirely destroyed. A tramp named Julius
Ulwig is under arrest on suspicion.
George YocOm, an aged and well-known
citizen of Sinking Spring, died yesterday
morning after an illness of ten days. He
was engaged in farming for q number of
years, but he retired, and his farm was
occupied by his son Amos. He was about
20 years Of age, and leaves eight children,
all grown up.
In little over one year nearly the en-
tire family OF William W. Balthaser, esq :,
of Upper Bern township, Berks county,
have died. On the 9th of May, 1880,
one child died in September, 1880, an
other child died !; on the 18th of April,
1881, Mr.. Balthaser died on the 18th oi
July another child died, and on the 10Th
of July Mrs. Balthaser and another child
died, in all six persons. There is but one
member of the family left, little girl six
years Of ago.
The Reading school board, notorious
over the whole country for it's turmoils, is
in boiling hot water because it supplanted
the old and favorite high school principal,
Prof. John A. Stewart. There is talk of
an Indignation mass meeting against the
"ring." y" who ]egislate simply and solely
in the interests of the favorites," and who
are "panOplied with that peculiar kind of
power which in some eyes attaches to
bodies clothed in ermine, pockets filled
with filthy lucre, fingers ablaze with dia-
mOnds, and hands glOved with the skin of
tn kid"
Charles E. Boyle, of Milton, after q fish
ing trip, on which he caught more than
twenty pounds of bass, besides great
number of other fish, made examination
in tho presence of quite a number Of wit
nesses, and found that all the bass he
caught were alive with worms. In size
they are as large as grain of wheat and
in shape like fish bladder. They arc
plainly to be seen by the naked eye i'm
bedded in all the fleshy parts of the fish,
but by the aid of glass, such as the ex-
animation was made with, they are dis
gusting thing to look at.
In York Mrs. John L. Henry has lived
unhappily with her husband for some time,
It is stated there is another woman in the
case, which has excited the jealousy of
Mrs. Henry. They have long indulged in
family fights, and the neighbors have fire.
qrently been dis turbed by their actions
and loud talk. Tuesday night the fight
grew worse and Henry was obliged to quit
tho house. He returned yesterday after
noon and his wife procured cayenne pep
per and threw it into his face before he was
aware of her intentions, binding him. He
is suffering intensely. The woman will be
arrested.