Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-13


Council.
The regular monthly meeting of council
was held in the council chamber, Friday
evening, March 10. The finance commit
tee report showed receipts as follows:
Balance on hand per last report......s LIS 2.
ffocee.!S OF nOtc...-.. 3,cSo w
annual market rents. ISS S og
Recejnis for mia no no........,,.... 20 OJ
Receipts for rauditorium.......-. 2IO W
Hershey coIlecfor-Is7S 1G IL
IS19............... 1O3 IL
Bucsins, coIIector-Iss9 .............. 50 50 a 2e
Total. .sla5G7 81
The expenditures were
Notes charged. $1,000 w
Orders paid. Observation-Disclosures. S24 sc
The committee also reported that the
borough bonds, with coupons attached,
for the new loan were printed, and will be
mature a; between eight and ten thousand
dollars worth have already been engaged
and there viii be 10 trouble in disposing
Of the rest about the 1St Of April next.
The property committee reported
several communications. Mr. Given,
Oh behalf of tho library commit
tee, asked for the use Of the opera
house, on March 18th. for an enter
tainment for the benefit Of the Shoe h
library. Permission was granted. Mr..
Pfahler, chairman of the committee made
statement in regard to the article that
appeared i'm the last issue of the Herald
and the complaint Of Father G.. G. Russell.
A lengthy communication was read in re-
gard To giving the opera house to Earnest
Writers at .he same price that Managers
Mishlcr and Miller receive it. Laid on
the table.
The road committee reported that they
had firished macadamizing Front street
from the borough line to near the gas
works. Had $50 done considerable towards
completing Barber street and will Soon
finish it with heavy coat of broken Gin
Iers. Had Samuel Wright, the borough
engineer, survey and locate the street for
the Chestnut hill iron ore company, from
Barber 10 Florence and thence to Mill and
Fifth streets. The report was adopted.
The paving committee reported num-
Der Of pavcanen:s and board walks being
refixed. The report was accepted.
The fire committee reported no fires but
4 number of false alarms. Chief OF Fire
Department John Shenberger had sent
communication to councils in regard to the
new NiGilant steamer, in which he said
the engine was = fine one, and according
to contract. Ho had advised the Vigies
TO accept her, and as soon as they did he
gave them permission to send their old
steamer back. Mr. Wann stated that the
new steamer had been accepted, and that
the company would now like to have tho
money promised. lie also made verbal
statement that Mr.. Shenberger, having
I:>;l
have his resignation accepted, and mo-
tion to that effect was carried. Mr.. Cutler
moved the appointment Of a successor by
council be deferred until the adjourned
meeting. So ordered.
The sanitary and police committee re-
ported that council had ordered High
Constable Strowbridge to feed no more
trampS, and in consequence the vagrant
bill Tor feeding was very small this month.
That Chief Burgess Sheath had called their
attention TO Fifth street between Locust
and Alley H. that the quality of water
now furnished was not good, and also pre-
sentcd the communication from Rev. j. j.
Russell, which caused considerable discus
sion, i'm regard to the renta! of the opera
house auditorium.
y The matter Of lighting the borough
caused l,ngthy discussion. The Penn
sylvania Globe gas light company, of
Philadelphia, was represented by &. K.
Robinson, and the Columbia gas company
by G. II. Mccullough, who asked for time
as Col 6hoch was sick and they could not
very well 10 the business without him.
After some time was spent in discussing
the pros and cons, it was decided to wait
until another meeting which, on motion
of Mr.. Filbert, will he March 30. After
some business of little Importance was
transacted councils adjourned to meet at
the above time.
Borough Briefs.
Rev. Mr.. Erskine at Presbyterian church
ycsterslay.--Harry Fasig. of Philadelphia,
in town Saturday.-False report that Ro-
bert Waile was killed in the Harrisbur,.
yard Saturday night.-Henry Clay furnace
casting shed set on fire by a cinder sooa
extingushcd.-R McDcvitt. while
watching fire, would have been struck by
an engine had he not been dragged off the
track by friendly tramp.-Rev. Henry
Wbcclcr's farewell sermon at Methodist
church drew largo congregation last
night his departure is universally regret
tcd.-In a fight at Bats hotel, Saturday
night. one stranger badly beat another
over the head with a revo!ver.-In Leigh
InClScF oSStcF SIiooH q HILL ufuHhou HAL
insulted Jacob Rothschilds, who escaped
stabbing by choking his assailant until he
was insensi5le.
Mr.. Harry Lockard, formerly of Colum-
bia, aud whose sister lives here, seriously
if not fatally hurt at Scholl, Steacy + Den
ny's rolling mill, York, Saturday.
Young's brewery team and Kings bakery
team ran off about the same time this
morning, and in attempting to pass each
other in front of Squire Franks office on
Union street, Kings wagon was demol-
ished and bread scattered around indis-
criminately {; Young's team ran to Smith S
lumber yard, and was not damaged
Misses Ida and Fanny Hanauer home
from a two months visit to Philadelphia
Miss Espy and Mcssrs. Bucher, HummeI
and Joseph Fendrici,. returned to Harris
burg yesterday" Rooms for Rent" to a
fair-sized audience-A Kitchentown woman
ran away with a near relative Of her hus
band, leaving him with five small chill
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MAYORS COURT.
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