Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-08
COLUMBIA NEWS.


Affairs Along the Susquehanns-Glsaning
in and Around the Borough hFickec Up
by tho InteIligencer's Reporter.
Tramps plenty.
Mr.. George Schroeder has 5een elected
by the Vigilants delegate to the next state
firemen's convention, to be held in Brad.
ford next September. -..-
Harry Lockard has opened gents fur.
nishiDg store in the place formerly occu-
pied by Ed Gable. He deserves success.
1t was tho Shawnee-nOt the Susque-
hanna rolling mill-which forty-one men
left to engage in Establishing. focum's .
correction corrects-for once.
Sunday pcstoiiice hours from to a: m.
Postmaster Mullen announces that on Sum-
pouch for the East, closing at As D, No.
All mail for this pouch must he deposit ed
in the postoffce, and not in the letter box
corner of Third and Locust streets. later
than 400 p. m. the previous day. There
will also be a pouch received from the
West at 2:14 p. m. On and after Monday,
April 10th, letters will be taken out of the
letter box, corner of Third and Locust
streets, at 6:30 a. m, II 90 a. M. and 4 100
pm.
The Vigilant steamer yesterday got up
thirty pounds of steam in five minutes and
from an inch-and quarter nozzle threw
solid stream 2Gj feet and including a
spray, 285 feet.
John Temple, groceryman, chipped the
end of his thumb off last evening while
cutting dried beef.
Easter services iu St. Paul's Episcopal
church tomorrow as follows Morning
service, sermon and holy communion at
1890; Sunday. school at !: As and chill
drcn's Easter service ut Up. m. On next
Thursday evening the younger portion of
this congregation will hold a package So
ciable at the rectory, No. 423 Walnut
street.
The g Bankers Daughter " played to q,
fair house last evening and gave a good
show
Special services in the First African
Baptist church, to morrow, Rev. George
Jones officiating. They will give an en-
teltanment for the benefit of the Sunday
school next Thursday and Friday even
ings.
The Suprlea steam engine works have
Just finished an engine of new design.
which viii be tried this afternoon before
the board of directors. Instead of the
piston working as in other engines, it
remains stationery while the cylinders Go
the work Of the pistons.
Secure your stock early in tho Kelley
stove works you want any at all.
Tobacco buyers abundant and prospects
for SIX weeks business good.
Rev. Joseph Young of1iciates in the
United brethren church Tomorrow.
Passion service every evening this
week and yesterday morning in Trinity
Reformed church. Fifteen new members
received last evening; communion to,
morrow.
Dead i:aby Found.
Yesterday afternoon two boys named
Harmon and Scott found the nude dead
body of girl baby lying on the shore of
the Susquchauna river at Wrightsville at
"A point known rs the lime shutes." F.
McGce took the remains in charge They
were fearfully mutilated and decom-
posed, having probably been in the
water eight or ten days. The coroner
ordered an autopsy and d.. s. G. Channel,
after 4 careful examination Of the lungs
and brain, found that the body was
- still born" The mutilation was due TO
contact with stones on the bed Of the
stream, from which it is supposed the body
had been thrown in tic water at some point
north. The body was good sized, being II
inches in leng,h and weighing 8 pounds.
1t was buried by the Wrightsvillc con-
81 n. I.