Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-01
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPOND

OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE
William Graub and Barbara Ecker
were this morning united in marriage al
Holy Trinity Catholic church by Rev
William PEPPER.
In the absence, by reason of sickness, OF
Captain D. Braiuard Case, 1st Lieutenan,
II. S. Graybill last evening drilled Com
pany H.
1t is reported that the casting house o
the Cordelia furnace was on fire yes
terday morning. To what extent it was
damaged We have been unable to learn.
MIR. G. NJ. Pierce, who had been visi zinc
friends here for the past couple Of weeks.
left town yesterday morning for his home
at Crbana, Ohio.
This snow spoils the different coastinn
places in town. 1t will require wear and
| tear to get them in condition again.
4 passenger from Lancaster On the
| Frederick accommodation train, west, this
| morning, in jumping of at the lower yard,
| was thrown head over heels in the snow.
| He picked himself up sadder and a wiser
man.
1t now generally requires about twenty
four hours for a freight engine to make a
| round trip between Columbia and Phil.
| adelphia.
This mornings market was very dull.
| The snow storm was probably the cause.
Yesterday a couple Of lesser lights Missed
dog upon that staid but powerfully built
colorcd individual, Joe Cole. Joe stood
| tie racket as long rs he could, and when
| patience ceased to be i virtue, he rln to
| the middle Of Locust street, picked up a
boulder, about the size of 4 mans head.
and threatened to clean out everything
1. - I, y
tracks down Locust street and the other
ensconced himself in Morrison's barber
shop. Cole was not afterward interfered
| with
The report OF the movement of cars,
| over the Pennsylvania railroad for the
! month ending January 81, 1891, shows
| that the aggregate to the east and west,
| loaded and empty, passing through here
on the main line was Gs, Gs7. or this mum
Der q total of 50 297 were dispatched east
and $3.50 west. Loaded east, 3l.999
loaded west, l,242 Freight is row about
as heavy as 1t has been this winter, and it
is thought the report for the month Of
February will also show a heavy move
ment in cars.
That billiard match of $40 points has
not yet come off. Latest reports have it
that no day has yet been decided upon.
Baggage-m master John Reagan, of the
| Frederick accommodation train, to day
made his first trip as conductor. He la
charge Of the mixed train passenger and
| ircight) leaving here for Frederick at
/ about 1910 p. IN. Reagan is a faithful
| employee and will make good con-
ductor.
The semi-annual dividend of four per
cent. of the Columbia armOry association,
is payable to-day at the banking house OF
| E. X. Smith & Co.
Professor l. S. Geist and four lady
| teachers Of the public schools Of Mariett;.
were visiting tue schools of Columbia yes
! teiday. They expressed themselves as
highly pleased at the management OF cur
| schools.
A fall Of about six inches Of snow has
taken place since last evening. In town,
and especially along Front street. the
| sleighing will he much improved, but on
| the country roads, where there was net so
much travel, the sleighing yet remained
excellent and this fall was not necessary
to its improvement. If another cold snap
sets in and continues long enough for our
people to break a road along Front street,
We will again have good sleiShing. With
| the advancement Of sleighing stock there
is corresponding decrease in that Of skat-
ing, and it will require n heavy wind or 4
brigade of brooms to clear off another
space to allow our people to again
engage in this eXhilarating sport At this
writing, (2:5S p. n.y., it is still showing,
but not as fast as earlier in the day. 1t is
not gray over head.