Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-25
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
Near and Across the County Line.

keeps away mutton-loving dogs. Many
farmers have experimental successfully.
Reading is organizing It's Second Ma
tional bank, with S1OO0U9 capital and
Oh. Loeser cashier.
A colored boy at Reading walked out Of
third story window in his sleep and was
awakened by 4 broken leg.
Reuben T.. Getz. aged GOyears, formerly
of Reading and miller by trade, commit
ted suicide in st. Louis, Mo-, on the 10Th
inst.
Harrisburg has a colored baby two
weeks old that weighs but one pound. An
ordinary finger ring can be passed over 1t"
hand and slipped up the arm to its sh"ui-
der. The baby is in good health.
Hon. Samuel J. Randall will deliver the
annual Grafton on Founders day at the
Lchgh university in October, aud during
his stay in the Leliish Valley will be the
quest OF Mr.. III. +. Packet
There appears To bc remarkable neg
ligence Oh the part of the physicians in the
matter of complying with the new regis
tratiOn law nGr rs the circumstance
peculiar to particular localities.
The Daupliin couuty oat crop is the
heaviest ,in years. So far, the returns
from I'LL quarters Indicate that the pre-
dictcd famine is defeated by a LARGE ma
.iority.
Harrisburg is decorated with such mon
strols circus bills that little children walk
inr the streets are seized with Spasms.
These are dull times for the Harrisburg
papers.
1t is proposed to call Ncnn"r ''Old Prola-
bilities.'' Correct. Ii he resembles the
. alleged portraits published in country pa
pers. the probabilities are that he will be
hung for 4 horse thief If caught away
from home.
Irwin Measc. u blacksmith, in the en-
ploy of the Lebanon manufacturing com
pany. while nj work Friday afternoon,
tainted and fell forward into the fire. and
was severely burned about the neck and
back before rescued.
The Harrisburg Telegraph is Of opinion
tla, before the decade. is ont women in the
United States will Uccapy proud positions
in all the professions. The time has come
for :.uch !: condition to be firmly establish
ed, and the word will be made better by
:l,c advance.
Asa passenger train on the P.nnsjlv Iva
MA railroad approached Marion station
Saturday morning, i: struck and instantly
killed an unknown man who was about to
get on board. He was apparently about
~ years OF age. WAS dressed III dark
clothes ana wore black whiskevs and mus
tacEc.
Joseph Cole an employee OF II Norris
town furnace, while making an excavation
was buried by Il fall OF earth. \ fellow
workman named jenkins haSicncd 10 dig
him out, and was twice partially buried
himself lie pcrSevcred, unai'icd, though
several men noted progress and srceulatctl
t,, ftni, t..tf III,
work Jenkins had the satisfaction OF re
.l,in. Cole.
The Chester, IA Rtpabliran says that
Prof. Shortllgn, was led to believe, when
the presidency %. the stale agricultural
college WAS conferred upon him, that he
had Il soft thing. lie resigned in DISCUS:
and returned to his home in Concord :an:l
new there arc fifty vacant scholarship in
the college and 10 farmer is willing that
his son shall g" there to learn I" pick stone.
Perhaps; Prof. Sh"rtliLgc would be willing
20 give the public iii inside view of this
seat "f agricultural learning.
4 POPULAR RESORT.
W,,ere Peoplc Il ecp Cool and l;OO,! iiu.nnr-
ca WIthOu: Much Cost.
There j., Il city in Eastern Pennsylvania,
which offers rare attract ions to visitors Ia
como tu il: and Ia It's own people to stay at
home these dog days. Ii is situated on
high ground in The midst Of the most per
feet agricultural landscape. The drives
al:uu: it, barring u few obnoxious toll
rates, are .'pcrfcct'y lovcly.' 1t has al
abundant supply of water. It's streets
arc shaded and its yards filled
with flowers and fruit trees. The houses
are comfortable and comm"di"us; the
hotels clean ard respectable the railroad
ant! mail facilities excellent the markets
clcap and fresh and the people clever
and sociablc; the newspapers enter
priSin;: and lively, publishing: AL ti.a: hap
pens and some that don't: the aldermen,
fat and prosperous the orgam grinders
patient and the bathing not dangerous
the mercury stays at about So in mid
day the nights are cool and the denizen
.an sleep until the Sparrows chatterine
in the ivy wakes linn the ict
the BARRIERS only asx ten cents tol
Il shave, aud the brokers will shave
YOU ut six per cent; everybody who deal:
in stocks or bucks the tiger in this favored
spot makes money Gf you believe them)
boarding can be had for So a week, ant
work on the street at 81 4 day enough
preachers stay in town I" supply
the people every Sunday, and .
dozen different brands of beer
are sold in the saloons; where
flies never trouble bald headed bache
lorS and all the old maids remain single OF
their own choice; where widows ahoun.
lrd scandal is slcnt--not altogether silen
but silent enough whence fishermen sail!
out and always have Iuck-goO1 or bad
where fruit can lie piucked on the street
when the man who has it for sale turE
his back, and where the ice man gives yoI
good weight--if hr knows you keep scales
in the kitchen.
Gentle and much mystilied irea.ler
seek You this favored spot. Know then
that sensible people who live in Lancaster
stay at home, and those who so ava.
come back With all their strings attunc'
to the melody Of There's no place like
Home
An Aged Colored Man.
Joseph M. Williams colorcd, one of tn
oldest of our citizens. died rather sudden
ly at his residence, No. 1:S South Chris
tian street, this morning, betwce'
five and six o'clock, aged about 81
wears. lie was native Of Dauphi'
county, but spent the greater par
of his life in Lancaster county, living 70
some time in the vicinity OF Washingto
borough and fer twelve or fifteen year
past in this city. He was twice marrie'
and leaves a second wife and several maj
ried children and quite large number o
grandchildren to mourn his loss. Fo
many years past he followed peddling fo
living and was known to almost every