Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-21
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE

OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS
The doings OF tile teachers institute at
its session of Saturday were unimportant.
Two Marietta teachers-the Misses Tur-
nc.-werc in attendance as visitors.
\ missionary collection will take place
in the NJ. L. church next Sunday morn
ing.
The Reformed churcI, entertainment
will be we'll attended tomorrow evening
and SO will tha ball of the Citizens band
this evening.
The probability is that the excursion to
Port Deposit Tomorrow will he a very
large one.
The Susquehanna rolling mill employees
were paid on Saturday.
Tomorrow will be the anniversary Of
Wasllington's birthday and holiday.
The Philadelphia & Reading railroad
cOmpany's pay car is to be here to day.
The employees will BE- paid for January's
work.
F. & Z. engine No 1925 is now running
here on local freight, in place Of engine
No. 3S1, whlcl, was broken up in the
Parkesburg wreck of about a month ago,
!! in which Wilmer Daily, who has since
died. was injured.
About one inch Of snow fell here during
tiic early hours OF this morning. 1t has
quite a natural look.
Miss Jessie Dentlcr, Of Lock Haven,
Pa. is visiting in Columbia, the guest OF
her sister. Mrs. W. Z. Withcrs.
Nj. William Ellis, of York, Pa, spent
yesterday in Columbia the guest o: his
brother, Vernon Ellis.
Mrs. Wheeler, wife of Rev. Henry
Wheeler, of the NJ. +. church of this place,
addressed the VI. E. Sunday school of
Wrightsvil!c yesterday afternoon, and the
Vi. f. church of the same place last even
ing on missionary work Mrs. Wheeler is
a pleasant speaker and we know she was
atientivcly listened to on this, the subject
in which she appears to be particularly in
tclcstcd and on which, she SO often
speaks.
Passengers were to-day, for the first
time since the recent gorge, enabled to so
through from here to Port Deposit on the
Columbia g. Port Deposit railroad. The
train which left here at / 30 4. m., car
iicd them \ transfer had to be made at
Pc1uea creek, where the bridge has been
washed away but the structure will he re-
placed this evening and through runs will
ac resumed as usual tomorrow morning.
y Columbia workman employed there said
that during the first days of the Port De-
posit gorge the ice was piled as high as the
telegraph poles, and that the men willie
wor!lin" had their coats hanging On the
wires.
On the Pennsylvania railroad in the cast
Hlri yesterday afternoon, a laborin;, man,
working ior !pp & Black in their con-
tract of st raj yhtuning the line east Of town
wanted to fight with John Struck, q son Of
+ the Third ward cOnStaDic-ciCct. John did
not want to Sight, but the man persisted,
and finally Struck accommodated him.
Tie rcSdlt was that Struck escaped un-
hurt, but his itlvcrsar, was terribly pun
i>l,c,! and lad Il couple OF ribs broken. IL
will bs some time before lac is again in Il
lighting lanor and when he is he vii!
steer clear of Struck and look for another
man.
Madam Rcntz's Ministries appeared in
the irium,i:s opera house on Saturday
evening before one OF the largest audi
ruscs Of the season, and gave perform
:lncc wl,icl! was cicditabc to tie company
:,n! which has since been spoken Of as
fully equal to the performance given here
about one year ago by the same company
which as viewed by our local critics,
ranks awon" the \ entertainments here
given. AS in tlc;r former appear
ancc the company presented Eothing which
Il refined audience could take exception t..
There was no action or look bctrayinS
anything not appearing Oh the surface,
and during the entire entertainment every
thing was conducted Will, u molcsty too
natural 10 be assumed. The end men
We're goo'l SO We're the speciality artists
and the hullcsquc, ''Pcnn's ArA,s Among
the Piratcs,' WAS too ridiculous to admit
of one restraining his propensities for
laughing. Condcnsins the thing into u
nutshell the performance was very credit
able and he house was worth something
more than $500.