Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-01
COLUMBIA NEWS.

O1xlO00o4A NE
OUR REGULAR CORREsfoNDENcE.
Emanuel Fry's condition is unchanged
Most of the Columbia doctors arc a
Lancaster to-day.
Mrs Clement NJ. Brown, of Philadel
phia, is on visit to her mother, Mrs. Col
James Myers, at Norwood.
Carncr0ss will be here on next Tuesday
night under the auspices of Gen. Welsl
post, No. 118, G. A. II.
Rev. E. J. Wolfe, D. D., of Gettysburg
theological seminary, will ofIiciate on next
Sunday morning and evening in the E. E..
Lutheran church. While hero he will he
the guest of Mr.. F. A. Bennett.
A congregational meeting of the E. e.
Lutheran church will be held at 7:3O
O'Clock this evening, in the church build
ing, to take into consideration the qucs-
tiOn OF electing pastor to fill the vacancy
caused by tho resignation Of Rev. +. w.
Staley. A full meeting is requested.
The fair for the benefit Of the lady s
order of the Home Communion, has
closed alter not very successful run. All
the articles voted for have not yet been
awarded, and We withhold our report of
the award until it is complete.
Last nights rain was one of the most
welcome visitations We have had in a
month. Besides cooling tho heated at
mOsphere to the tune of fifteen or twent Y
degrees it mOistened the earth sufficiently
to allow the farmers, who had been await
ing it for couple Of weeks. to put out
their tobacco plants. An increased guam
tity Of the weed will he grown about here
this year.
Our fellow correspondent Of tho Nesc
Era, Mr.. L. w. Richards, was the happy
recipient this morning Of very pretty
bouquet, handed him by colored woman
with the words, "from a lady" Mr.. Il.
was SO pleased thai he 'straishtway bought
a vase and planted it, with the bouquet in
it on his writing desk. How nice it is to
have lady friends.
With the incoming of today bass may
be caught in the several streams of this
state and in this immediate ncighborhood
the fact will not bc lost sight Of. In the
early hours Of this morning quite a num-
ber of COlumbia's spOrtsmen took their
rods and lines and pulled for favOrite spots
in the river. The dam between the fish
ways is yet considered the best point, but
with a fall in tho river it will he abandoned
and another place looked up. Catfish are
yet being caught in undiminislled numbers.
Some Tow Hill coons brought suit
against the young gentlemen who assisted
Oh Monday in arresting two of the negro
dcsperadocs who started the riot at Third
aud Locust streets. The charge is carry
ing concealed deadly weapons" The
fact of tho matter, S" tar rs
We can learn it, is, that the par
ties in question secured Tow Hill
the rendezvous of tho rioters with their
revOlvcrs in their hands ready for use and
how tho word Concealed gets a place
in the charge VIC cannot see. The case
was argued this morning. Squire Frank
reserves his decision until Saturday. Ii
the decision is for tho blacks and against
the prcscrvcrs of tho peace there will be a
big howl in the town and it will not he
ShOrt-lived.
The editor of tho Herald is justly indig-
nant over the small turnout at the opera
house on the evening Of Decoration day,
when George w. McElroy, cs4., Of York,
pronounced tho Grafton. Tho Herald
says : L" The audience was very small and
had it not been for the yourg ladies' and
misses Of the town tho orator
would have addressed empty benches.
Not one dozen OF COlumbla's bust
ness men WCrC present anu less GnIn
so males, outside of tho post membership,
were present. Tho memorial exercises
appear to have no charms for abseDtees.
They could not spare an hou, to honor the
dead. The time was when they could spare
weeks in persuading mon to enlist to fight
for their country. Some of these men
died for their country on the fieIdiof battle
Others have since died from wounds or
disease contracted in the army, but the
country nevertheless was saved, and what
care they for the memory of the men who
thus died? What a noble thing it is to honor
the dead soldiers, but how much better
it is to he a living solder. All the shallow
and heartless professions can now be seen.
The men who were the lOudcst in tho pro-
fessiOns of loyalty and remembrance are
the first to refuse to do honor to the dead.
Hereafter the services, if any are held,
will probably bc in the cemetery. 1t is no
use to attempt to get good speakers and
have them shabbily treated, rs was the
case Oh Monday evening""
Tho M0ravlans at bethlehem.
The sessions of the MOravian synod
closed yesterday. A resolution to the
effect that the provincial board of church
extension bc directed to devise . plan
looking to the present use of the income
nf tho fipnd SO fHr nc this can he lCra11v