Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-12

OF the pupils, after they have gone through
ny school, engage in business.
COLUMBIA NEWS
from Our Regular Correspondent,
The water has been drawn from tic
Pennsylvania canal.
Work is being pushed forward rapidly
on the 10 new brick dwellings On North
Sd street.
Mr.. Samuel Fiibert is now making pre-
parations for getting in a supply Of les for
his ice houses.
Tie river abcut the bridge is in iinc
condition Cor skating. Last nights cold
has made the ice safe.
p. r Il. engine No. IL ran of the tract,
yesterday afternoon III front Of the DIS
patcher's office. Il short tia suiIiced to
replace it on the rails.
The young men of town arc cndeavcring
to form another dancing school. As they
are Sc bashful they determined to have
10 ladies at their school.
A large dog entered Mr.. Thee. Urban's
yard on Sunday night and landed .iack,a
pet dog. SO roughly that he died last
night. Poor Jack was a pet with all.
The Knights cc the Mystic Chain intend
CHANGING Off three beautiful hisque sta
tuettes, w!lic', can now be seen at Bou.h's
drug store. The chances will be % cents,
and the luci.y nurI,bcr draws the cutiiC
lot OF staiuettss.
\ birthday party was hei;: ut Mr.. Ell
| ward Smiths residence uI Walnut street,
last evening. y very pleasant evening
was passed by all, who engaged i'll amusc-
ments generally indulged in on such aeca-
! sionS as this.
IN Afternoon Is!eze.
| 4 slight fro occurred yesterday after
noon at 4:1j O'Clock ;sS the three story
brick residence Of iir. John Michael, on
| Front street. Il was caused by tlic SCOT
il one of the chimneys taking fire, and
spr caGing to the woodwork Of the floor of
the second story. The flames We're held
in check until tho Vigilant fire company
had arrived. when they were soon exiin-
guished. The hot fire iu the stove of Hop
Lees Chinese laundry. which occupies the
front part of the first floor OF tic house,
was tie cauSc Of the SCOT il the chimney
taking fire. The damages CAUSED by fre
and water will amount TO upwards of
| $l0)
Opera Iouse Attractions.
Tonight Hcyvood's minstrel troupe
win give an entertainment. il: the opera
house.
There will be plenty Of attrac ions at the
opera house during tho rest of this
month. The following is Il list, with the
dates oa which the tcoupes will appear :
The Da,lites. on the 10Th inst. Miss
Lizzie May Ul,aer, Is Billy Piper; "Jcssc
James" on the a;}i :; Woo,;'s Museum
oil the 2jjt!i Charlotte Thompson on the
eth, and Buffalo Bill on tho 2Srh.
! T.:e Gharity Ball.
| AS this is the last day on which any
thing can be said about the charity ball,
as it comes off TO morrow, it had better lie
said now. Knights orchestra OF Lancas-
ter las beeu engaged to furnish the music.
AS this orchestra has an excellent repu.:s-
tioa for good music, coed music caG be cx-
pected. The tickets arc only 50 csnts and
can be procured ut the door OF the arEnury
on the evening of the ball.
Look Out Cos the Thieves.
! Thieves are about, and it would be we'll
for the merchants TO keep bright look
out ON those things exhibited in front of
their stores. Two oyercoats were stolen
from the front Of Patton's clothing store,
were they were hanging, yesterday about
noon. Tramps arc believed to have been
! the thieves.
To Bo Installed.
Tonight the following officers clec ell
| TO fill uneSpirsd terms, will be installed at
the meeting of Putnam circle No. 113,
, B. L. UI. F.) Of Pa, G. J Joseph Sh:rt
zer; c. F Wayne Lightheiscr II. H., Z.
K. Getz. Nominations for the regular
| election OF officers will also lie held to-
night.
Tbs Pay Car COinius.
| Tho pay Car of the Frederick division,
P. r. H., will DO here to morrow. The
| employees Of the road between Frecerick
! and York wero paid off to day, and to-
| morrow those between York and Perry
vile, on the Port Deposit road, will 10
paid. Columbia employees will he in
cludtd III this payment.
Battery.
| Andrew Hershey, Andrew look, Jacob
Foltz, JOHN Karman and FrcGcI ick Andes
had hearing yesterday before Alderman
Barr on tho charge of feloniOus assault
| and battery On John Sche L berger. of
Petersburg. 1t was alleged that or the
evening of November 1G, Schcr ebcrser was
standing in front of his house making
some noise, when the defendants, who
were at a store across the way. called him
to go with them. He went, and after no
bad gone some distance away from the
store they turned upon him and beat him
80 badly that he was confined to tho house
for some time. His wife then brought
suit. All of the defendants excep: Andes
| were hel,! in bail fOr court.
Discharged on a Writ.
Lydia Pinkertor, who on tho 25,h Of
November was committed to prison for
30 days for being drunk and disorderly By
Alderman A. F. Donnelly, was before
Judge Patterson to-day on writ of
h;:beas corpus and her discharge was
asked for. The committing magistrate
made 10 objection 20 her discharge. and
as the woman promised to go to work she
Was discharged.