Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-11
sEluHBORHOOO NEWS.


kbOnuoOO NEWS.
Near and Across the County L,Des
All dogs residing in the borough O
West Chester are to be registered.
Nh. and Mrs. Sam'l. Dickey, Of Oxford
started on Monday for Florida, where the
will! remain for month or six weeks.
Jesse McCrcry has SOLD his grist an,
SAW mills in COlerain township, Lancas
ter county, to James Hark,.ess, of Littl,
Britain. Mr.. McCrery has rented Wiley
mills in Lower Oxford.
David Hum,nel. aged about sixty-iiv'
years, residing in Swatara Gap, and til,
father OF Josiah Hummel one of TIN
Raber muidercrs. who was hung last sum
mer, has died at his homo, it is said, from
broken heart.
Frank Pyle, miller in the lover end Ol
Lancaster county, was the possessor OF ;
handsome and long beard. While he was
engaged in greasing some machinery II
his mill his whis.sers got cntangled in the
wheels and were actually torn from his
face. The accident was al exceedingly
painful one, but the fact Of their being
torn out no doubt saved his life.
Prot. George A. Zeller, A. NJ, o!
Franklin and Marshall academy, will lee
ture in the chapel of Palatinale college
Myerstown, under the auspices of the
Palatinate literary society, on Friday
evening. His subject will he, "Not fOl
Self Alone
Mr.. Willis p. Hazard, one of Chester
county's most progressive farmers, has
shipped to this county from the Isle Of
Jersey, where he has been for some time
purchasing stock, 50 cows and heifers, two
fine bulls and eight calves. They left
Liverpool Saturday, Feb. 26th, and after
their arrival and quarantine for several
days will lie offered at public sale.
Is it true that the household and kitch
cn furniture, tho farm stock and utensil;
in short all the personally upon the ex-
pcrimental farm, Chester county, has been
levied upon for tax?
The fine large stone barn Of Townsend
w. Evans, of South Coventry, Chester
county, has been destroyed by fire. 1t is
supposed to 10 the work Of an incendiary.
The loss is 81. 600, on which there is an in
surance of 81, 400.
Miss Hattie B. Trimble, of West Chester,
has Strawberries ready for market. They
sell for S. per quart. She also has beauti-
full ripe tomatoes which bring just hall
the price Of the Strawberries per quart.
West Chester has at present two sources
from which to obtain water, neither OF
which separately will afford full supply
many years. During the dry season Bath
spring furnishes less than 10000 gallons
per day, and Chester creek about 2lO, 900
gallons per day, making daily consump
tian of $50, 600 gallons. This is thrown
into the present basin at an elevation of 50
feet from the former and 62 feet from the
latter place. In dry seasons this amount
is all the borough has to depend upon, and
the present reservoir holds but slightly
over days supply.
The beautiful old ivy-srown Church of
the Itcdeemer, near HavcrtOrd station, on
the Pennsylvania railroad, is soon to b.
torn down and the old stones to he used in
the erection of a parish building ON the
ground where now stands the handsome
ncw church, the erection Of which was
made necessary by the needs OF the large
aud growing population Of the neighbOr-
hood. 1t is said that movement is on
foot amongst the residents and visitors,
who during tho summer months, thrOng
that region, to ask the vestry of the Church
Of the Rcdcc'ner that the old building may
be permitted to remain.
Some scamps broke in tho door Of Hos
tetters's school house, in the southeast
ern pant Of Jackson township, Lebanon
county, took some of the scholars copies
aud Allen German, the teachers report
and other papers, piled them under the
desk and set them on fire, with the object
no doubt, of burning the school house.
but happily the fire only scorched the desk
and did no further damage. This is the
third attempt made this winter to burn
the building.
The surveying party of 4 new telegraph
line reached Oxford last week. This line
is being built by the Mutual Union tcle
grapl, company and extends from Boston
to Washington. The superintendent Of
construction is Mr.. James Fite, formerly
OF Oak Hill, Lancaster county, who has
had large experience in building telegraph
lines. This line is partially completed and
is in operation between Boston and New
York, and the construction party is now
working between Washington and Ba'ti-
more. 1t is being built in a very substan-
tial manner, and when finished will bc one
of the most complete lines in the country.