Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-15
NEIaHBORHOOD NEWS.

A law and order society is being organ
lied at Conhhohocken, Montgomery
county.
Three deaths from smallpox have oc.
CURED at Valley Forge within ten days,
and there are still several cases.
The Penn national bank, recently organ.
lied on capital of 100000, opened for
business in Reading yesterday, with Isaac
w. Levan as president. .
The puddlers at the Coatesville iron
works who quit WORK recently because
their employers wished to reduce their pay
from "a to $3.50 FER ton are still defiant
and will not return to work.
Rev. Benjamin T. Jones, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of West Ches.
ter, has been unanimously elected to tho
chair of Sacred Rhetoric in Lincoln uni.
versity.
The Oxford banking company will be
converted into national bank as soon as
possible after the first of April. Its new
title will be the Farmers National bank
of Oxford.
Fifteen thousand young white fish have
been liberated this season at the head of
North East creek, 10000 in Magraw's
mill pond at the head of Octoraro, and
10, 900 in Westamwell dam, near Oxford,
making 81, 900 in all for the county.
1t was discovered in the family of Mr..
Smith, at Allentown, Wednesday night,
that thieves had been in the house, and
while investigating the discovery his
daughter awoke and was Mortified to find
that hef long braid of black hair, which
grew unusually thick and rich, had been
cut off during the night. The hair was
her especial pride and to lose it was a
source of great grief to her.
David Harmer, of Weldon, Montgom-
cry county, has been deposed from his
position as superintendent of the Methc.
dist Episcopal Sunday school of Harmer
Hill church, because he signed hotel
keepers application for license to sell
liquor and afterward went on the liquor
sellers bond. Mr.. Harmer says that lie
felt justified in his action because the
hotel is necessity to the village and a
benefit to the neighborhood.
The large barn belonging to George
Hendle, of the firm of Hendle & Bro, hat
manufacturers, situated four miles from
Reading, was totally destroyed by fire or
Wednesday evening. The livestock and
| some of the farm implements we're re.
moved with difficulty, but the hay and
grain were all consumed. The loss is es.
timated at about $4,000, nearly covered
by insurance. The fire is supposed to
have been started by an incendiary.
Harry Vaughn, fifteen years of age, re
siding in East Trenton, while playing with
companions, drew small revolver and,
pointing it at Charles Drugan, pulled the
trigger. The revolver. as he expected
from previous experiments, did not 90 off,
although it was loaded. Then pointing at
himself he said {" I'll shoot myself u
This time the ball was discharged and en-.
tered at his right cheekbone and passed
up under his left eye. The wound may
prove fatal,
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun, arrived in Harrisburg last
night, and Immediately drove to the resi-.
dence of his old friend, Simon Cameron.
The publication of the real cause of Gen.
eral Cameron's illness-a fall over foot
stool and against lounge, by which the
muscles Of the old gentlemen's neck were
ipjured-prompted this visit. Mr.. Dana
was pleasantly surprised to find that Gen.
eral Cameron had rallied sufficiently to
move about little and join in sociable
chat. The editor regretted no less than
the ootogenarian politician that their trip
to the far west must be postponed.