Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-06-18
: YHK DELINQUENT TAXES.
~ 10IscIBLE sUGGEsTlox TO THOSE
VINO ARE IN ARREARS.


nssular Correspondence OF ISrELLrerscrR
+ CoLuMBfA, June 1s.-Several delinquent |
school taxpayers said they would not pay |
their Indebtedness to the school district |
and would make test case of the law per- |
tanning to such matters. They did not mean
this for they Immediately went and paid their
taxsA Although the time given delinquents
to cancel their Indebtedness has expired, and
although all the taxes have not yet been paid,
VET not q single law suit has resulted. This
- not through fear on the part of Collector
Boyd, but rather through leniency. Ho dis
likes being severe, and has hopes that the
taxes will be paid without resorting to law.
But he means to collect every tax, of course
excepting the exonerations, and IL kindness
will not do it, then severer measures will be
put into use.
Columbia Overwhelms the Marietta Club.
The Marietta base ball club visited Column
bia yesterday afternoon, but Of course not
with the intention or even expectation Of
winning ball from the Columbia. II they
did they were greatly disappointed, for they
were handled as the Lancaster professionals
could handle the Columbia. Only seven inn
ings were played in which the home nine
piled up 33 runs, 20 of which were earned.
The Marietta boys could not understand
Kings CURVES, and although they made
runs, not q single one was earned Forty
two hits were made off the visitors pitcher
and but off of King.
In the seventh inning with two men out
Koutz of the Columbia, made the longest
hit and ran around the bases before the
nelders picked up the bali. The visitors OBJ
jecsed to the home run being scored. claim
ing Koutz had not touched second base.
Umpire A. Purple decided against them, and
they refused to continue the game. The
score stood Columbia 50, Marietta 3.
Exchanging Postage stamps for Goods.
On complaint of Postmaster Harry Mullen,
Ofhcer John Gilbert this morning arrested
two men for exchanging postage stamps for
goods. Squire Evans questioned them as TO
how they obtained possession of the stamps,
and they replied that they had received them
In Darlington, Hartford county, Nd, and in
legal manner They are being held while
their story is being investigated.
Town Notes.
This morning, Chas. Naplisher, canal
boat captain, discovered a snake two fee,
long in his berth I'm the boat The reptile
must have been his bed fellow for week OF
more, as 1t is of a species not found in this
vicinity.
Rev. F. ]. Clay Moran, who has been at
tending the annual commencement OF the
Lehigh university, has returned to Colum
bia. During his stay in Bethlehem he was
the guest of Bishop Rulison.
The Columbia literary club, with number
of invited guests, are picnicing at Wild Ca
The Ladies' Working society of St John
Lutheran church will hold fair and festiva
in Armory hall, commencing this evening
and continuing tomorrow and Saturda.
evenings. This society makes a sIccess u,
of everything they undertake, ana this fai
will be no exception. The proceeds will b
devoted TO the liquidation 81 the churc
debt.
Harry Kaufman, of MAJOR township. las
evening attended a Dgnkard's meeting il
Mountyille, and during the service snea
femeyed the /earness from his Lors
= 8nd substitute 9apr Old worn-out set No clu
has been found as to the identity Of the THE
Sanitary committee would greatly Olyrlg
residents of North Front street, were the
to remove the remains of a dead sheep fror
the river shore.
Samuel Campbell has two trotters whic
made half piie in min. % Sec, last ever
ing at q triaf given them on Sth street
OaS8tdrday afternoon and evening th
Shawnee Active association will hold thei
second annual grand picnic in Heise's !. weed4
cess and none deserve public patronage moi
than the ''Splinters."
why Young Women Marry Old Soldiers.
The recent case of a soldier applying for
pension shortly before his death, which h
expected hourly in order that his wife shoul
draw pension after his death, illustrate
one of the most fragrant abuses of the preseI
pension system. 1t seems to be a speculate,
business enterprise with certain youn
- women to marry old soldiers who cann'
live long, so that they may draw pensions
widows after their husbands death. Yo
will be surprised" said an official OF til
pension office, "when tell you that ther
are now on the pension roll of I'll
department 2l,000 pensioners of tn
war Of 1872, all of them widows That WI
ended nearly seventy years ago, and th
number of troops engaged in it was not r.
markably great These 2l,000 widows DIRE
last year 81, So, 900, or five and one-ha
times as much as the few thousan
old soldiers surviving. OF course tn
explanation is that some of thes
widows were married to the Vetera
soldiers half a century or so after the Wi
was over. They became entitled to the
pensions as widows whether they had bee
widows ten days or had celebrated the
golden wedding 1t is not improbable tn
in the twentieth century great many of Il
2l,OO0 widows will still be drawn
pensions on account fthe war of 1872"