Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-24
NElGnBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Acros& ,bs s,ou,,v Lima.

6SS1sS A0kOS< tn0 County Lines
Sheriff Sheesley, Of Dauphin county,
hod exhausted bis supply Of permits for
the exeoat10n OF the Rumbergers.
Colonel James Duffy has on his lowcr
farm adjoining Marietta "A fine lot of
steers, which will average 1,7OO pounds
each.
Some of the Russian Jewish refugees re-
Gently landed in Philadelphia are en-
ployed at the Roach shipyards, Chester.
There is wheat enough in store in Lam
caster county to feed the population within
its borders for five years. 1t is held for
higher prices.
Tho smallpox patient South Eleventh
street, Harrisburg, has fully recovered,
and the city is apparently entirely free
from tho dreaded disease.
A charter has been granted to the
Phenixville & West Chester railroad, from
apoint near Wayne Station to Ph1nixville,
distance of twenty miles.
A witch, who does all manner of un-
canny things and is constantly engaged IN
incsntations. is reported to be living in
Harrisburg.
William Henge, Of Souderton. Chester
county, has young heifer which is 50
trained that it will work in-harness. The
children of the family hitch it to a wagon
and drive about the farm with it.
Sthephen Darlington. of PocOpsOn, Ches-
ter county, whose age is 50 years, has been
plowing for 20 consecutive years. Already
this year he has completed his sod, and
has half of the oats ground done, the latter
all done BY himself
A goodlooking young man sold red
powder in the streets of Reading yestcr-
day for so cents box. The ladies' after.
ward found that the powder was composed
of nothing more than brick dust. The
young man disappeared, and now the
police are looking for him,
In East. Bradford township, Chester
county, Edward Darlington was much
troubled by the vhitations of some ANIMALS
to his farm, and which killed number Of
his ducks. He set a steel trap for the in
truders and inside of two hours he had
caught four cats andten 'possums through
the agency of three traps.
burg, purchased goods ard then requested
that one Of the runners Of the store ac.
company her home and she would pay
runner, a small boy, at the wOman's re.
quest, went into a store to mako small
purchase for her, the woman retaining the
package. The youngster is still WONDER
ing why she didn't wait till he came back.
The late distinguished Arctic explorer,
DIR. l. l. Hayes, had almost completed
valuable and interesting work entitled
''From Pole to POle,' when death stilled
the pen of the author. 1t was a graphic
account of all the expeditions ever sent
out in the world to discover either the
North or South poles, and the work is one
teeming with interest and Information.
Besides the production spoken of DR..
Hayes had writer several Juvenile works.
His father, Benjamin Hayes, of West
Chester, has received the manuscripts and
is preparing them for publication
Yesterday afternoon John T. Ensmin-
ger, Of Harrisburg, with his little son were
ascending to the fourth floor, where Mr..
Ensminger stepped of, the boy remaining
in the elevator, which continued to 60 up.
MIR. Ensminger reached for. the rope to
bring the elevator back to the fourth floor.
As he did so, he lost his balance and fell
through the elevatOr-way to tho cellar.
Going down Mr.. Ensminger maintained
an upright position, traversing the fifty
feet of space like shot and striking the
floor in the cellar with load crash,
When he struck, he rebounded about six
feet, falling among q lot Of kegs near by.
Mr.. EnsmiDger received very serious ex-
ternal and internal injuries by the fall.