Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-22
NERGHEORHOOD NEWS.

Events Near and Across the County Lines.
The Jefferson club of NorristOwn have
put up a transparency on their building at
cost of $50.
The population Of New Bloomfield is
invited to gather at the old graveyard next
Saturday and give the grounds thorough
cleaning.
The new depot now being erected at
Harrisburg on Canal street will be on the
sta OF an old graveyard. Many skeletons
are being exhumed.
The international association of s.enO.
graphers, which held their annual conven-
ton in Toronto. Canada, last week, will
meet next year in Harrisburg.
Tie Pennsylvania and Schuylkill Valley
railroad will likely be extended from
Reading through to Pottsvillo and to Har.
,isbnrg.
II. II. Houston is having erected on one
Of the many eminences in and about Chest
mt hill one OF the larges. and finest hotels
ever built in the suburbs of Philadelphia
Samuel Goodman, conductor of a
feight train running between Huntingdon
and Altoona, was crushed to death while
coupling cars at Shoonbergcr. He lived in
Alt IONA.
Daniel Mast, one of the best knowu
citizens of Berks county and a preacher OF
tho Amisb, died very suddenly ct his
residence in Cae1narvon township on Sat
urday.
The locations Of the boxes of the fire
alarm telegraph in York have been Sc
lected, and it is thought the system will
bs III complete running order III few
days.
TIE people OF Slating:on will decide in
a fcv days by ballot whether they want
to i; crease the debt of the borough some
eighte,r thousand dollars TO promo;e the
efficiency of their water supply OF rot.
While Thomas Mccarthy was walking
Ou the railroad track at Steelton yesterday
he was struck by an ensiEo aud terribly
maDgled. He died g short time after the
accident.
James Harkins was stealing a ride on IA
train OH the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad, when TO avoid = brakeman, be
jumped from the car while it was in mo-
tion near Girardvilie, and his skull W.
fractured and an arm broken.
A convention of veterinary surgeons
will be held in Philadelphia to day for the
purpose o! forming state association and
for consultation rega. ding the action nee
ess Try to elevate and protect tho veterinary
profession.
A side wheel iron steamer for passed.
gers, called the Olympia, built by Harlan
Il Ho.iir:s :sworth for the Oregon railway
ard transportation company, to run on
Puget sounn: was !auGhed at Wilmington
Yesterday afternoon. She is 2G0 feet long.
:9 wide and IA deep.
Edward Wilson and Charles Davis, who
escaped fran ;he York Jail about two
weeks ago, were captured ip Harrisburg
Tuesday, lis they were about boarding Il
train. Wilson attempted to escape but
was promptly shot in tho leg by tho officer
and compelled to stop.
The Fairmount creamery, Upper Uwch-
Ian, Chester county, received during the
of July, 493,345 pounds Of milk. from
which were made 734 cheeses of 80 pounds
each, aud 1G, GSS pounds nf butter The
price paid for milk vas cant per pound
or 2! cents per quart. Eight of the patrons
each furnished over 1000 pounds of milk
during July, tho largest producer bringing
over 1S, 600 pounds.
The total number Of buildings in Har-
risburs according to ? ceisus just CON
p!eted, is 7,735. OF thala 1870 are
built Of brick: 5,13S are frame, and 27
stone. Of the dwelling houses 1886 are
brick, and 4, 11S frame and 90 Of stone.
This makes total OF 6, 53G buildings and
residences It is claimed thai the present
population of Harrisburg: is 40, 900, which
with SteeltOa added, would increase the
population to 80, 900