Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-11
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE

OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE
The members of the school board were
ali 1T the meeting last evening except
Messrs. Mccullough and Scurbeer. The
receipts for the month were reported at
s1,S79S1, and expenditures 81, G23.16. The
balance on hand last meeting having been
s1,04l.G3, now was S29S.2S: orders on
hand SSS.GG teachers salaries for January
paid. The total attendance OF pupils for
last month was reported at 519 males and
542 females average attendance 443 males
and AS females percentage of term 20
date 90: pupils present every session 32J ;
visits 1876.
News Of the Borough.
The Pennsylvania railroad pay car will
he here this afternoon.
The borough council meets this even
ing:
Tomorrow will be pay day at the
Shawnee rolling mill.
Freight, which has not been heavy for
couple of weeks, is reported to be again
"picking up
Sleishing is about played out. The
water is running. cutters arc being opened,
and plvemcnts washed.
Rev. Mr.. Shannon, of Wrightsui!lc, will
oficiate liz the NJ. E. church of this pl,te
on Sunday morning next.
A dense fnS hung over town during the
whole of last night and portion of this
morning. The sun is now mounting high
ard the weather is clearing. 1t is yet
warm.
Mr.. S. III. Purple finishe stripping his
min, acres OF tobacco yesterday mornln-.
lie IS one of the first tobac:O growers
about here to finish the work
Frederick Eucher is digging the cellars
for six new houses at Sixth and Walnut
streets. couple of days ago he came
across lime stone and is compelled to blast
his way through it.
The choir OF the E. E. Lutheran church
spent last evening very pleasantly at the
residence of Rev. f. w. Sta'cy. A prcvi-
ously arranged programme of exercises was
gone through with.
Mr.. ID. +. Kramer. of Cariisls. Pa is
visiting in Columbia. lle will remain
here until the entertainments for the benc-
fit of the poor is gwen Us he is booked IT,
take part in the performance.
Yesterday afternoon Frank Herr went
to the top OF the house at Third and Union
streets (wherein his fathers store is stu
ated) to clean the snow from the roof, he
tied rope around his waist and attached
the other end 70 i chimney. The prectl-
lie had worked many minutes, he lost lis
footing and was carried over the edge of
the roof. just below which he was held by
tin" rape until asSi> taIce could be rendered
and lac released from his dangerous and
uncomfortable position.
The State of the River.
The ice has moved at Baldwin tic
river is rising four inches per hour at Col
lins and ali inch an hour at Columbia.
The warm weather of the past couple OF
days is certainly telling upon the so!i'!ity
Of the sheet of ice before us. and unless
the weather changes within the next couple
Of days - breakup is inevitable. Since
yesterday the river has been rising fast
and there has been no lct-up this morning.
1t is reported that last nights rise ut Ma
rietta is fully p feet. The ice has moved
from !. point In front of the Henry Clay
furnace, but from the dam to the tunnel it
is still apparently firm. Just where the
ice which moved has gone to is quc>-
ton. 1t is either gorging above here or
filling bare places which, by the way, re-
peated walks have not discovered to lis.
The next cOuple Of days NAV tell tale.