Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-21
SIGNS OF THE SEASON.
y DSslPSDAfSD BRAss BAND AND
CRIES OF MAD DOG
Wnss Amscss and Ensertains Coiu mbis About
fAss Time Of the Year-A sAd Decsdsnce OF
0rsss Musical Orsani,at'on-The Cry
Of . sasA Dog and Its Answer.

Regular Correspondent 10 the 1sTELLiGENcER
CoIuwpIA, July 2l.-No, the Columbia
band has not yet gone where the wood.
blne tvineth but it is rapidly approaching
that poiut Its debt is heavy, too great
Z load for the present members 10
carry, and soon will the sheriff have
I sale on his hands The personal
sheets of the once famous organization
consist OF 8 full set Of instruments and uni
forms. At auction they would bring more
than enough to pay OIL all Indebtedness but
that II not the idea. Some members will
come out Of the big end of the horn, while
others-well-.they'll get "left" 1t is big
game OF "grab," every man for himself, and
the member with the best chance will get the
best OF the grab. And this is the present
position Of the Columbia band.
The cry Of "mad dogW has already been
sounded; not in Columbia ss yet however
But there is no telling when we may near IL
DOG days" are near at hand, and Columbia
should be prepared to meet them. ms can
be done in but one way; enforce tne uog
believe, and IL rlgidly enforced would soon
rid us of some of the obnoxious ours that
infest our streets This matter demands i'm
Personal and Society Notes.
The approaching wedding of Miss Minnie
q. Wheeler, daughter of Rev. Henry
Wheeler, former pastor of the Columbia
NJ. Il. church, to Rev. I. r. Newberry. has
been announced for Thursday, July 10Th.
The ceremony will be performed in SLPaurs
NJ. Z. church, Philadelphia.
d. b. Case, ESQ.,, OF Marietta, lieutenant
colonel Of the Fourth regiment, National
Guards Of Pennsylvania, drove from Allen
town to his home, distance OF ninety miles,
in one and one-halfdays. The trip was com.
menced last Saturday morning and ended
Sunday at noon.
A party of Columbians and Lancastrians
are bass fishing to-day at McCalrs ferry.
DR.. and Mrs ]. B. Mcbride celebrated the
tenth anniversary of their wedding last even
ing. A number of friends were present, and
the occasion made a memorable one.
On July %, 90, 80 and 81, the Mexican pa
vilion combination will exhibit in Columbia
Mrs. NJ. McEnDis, of Frankfort KY, is in
town visiting her mother, Mrs Mary Nc.
Nall.
merry crowd attended the party of the
German Pioneer club in Heise's woods yes
terday, and tho occasion was pleasant in the
extreme.
Mrs. II. F. Yergey and children are recu-
perating at Kane, Pa.
Base Ball News.
On Saturday afternoon the Sam Fields club
of Reading, will visit Columbia, and contest
game with Manager Bears nine. The ad
mission for this game has been increased t
25 cents.
The following Tuesday the Columbss and
Christianas will cross bats on the formers
grounds.
ing game between the Columbas and August
Flowers, of Lancaster. Each club has won a
game.
In Church Circles.
The United Brethren congregations of Iron
vile, Mountville and Silver Springs were to
have held a union picnic to-day at Penryn
park, but owing to the disagreeable weather
it has been postponed.
On Sunday afternoon, August l, the corner
stone of the new United Brethren church will
be laid.
On Friday the St Johns Sunday schoo
will picnic at Penryn park.
Midsummer Politics.
On Saturday evening next, July 9th, tn,
Democratic voters will meet and elect county
committeeman for the ensuing year, anC
delegates to the county convention, which
meets in Lancaster city, Wednesday, Jun,
2Sth. The places of meeting are follows
First ward, Black Horse hotel Second ward
Wagner's hotel corner Third and Locus
streets Third ward, Third Ward hotel at tn
Five Points. The meetings will he called I,
order at 1880 o'clock.
All Around Town.
VIM. p. Hartman, while painting the rea
OF Leonard Smiths house on Fifth stree
yesterday, fell distance of twenty feet, b,
the ladder on which he was working givinI
way His chin was cut, second finger OF hi
right hand mashed aud shoulder severel,
bruised.
A Boston tramp was arrested last night b,
Officers Dyssinger and Hartman fer drunken
ness snd Squire Frank committed him tc
jail for ten days
A moment after the engineer and fireman
OF p. X. X. passenger engine No. 936 had
alighted yesterday morning, its boiler bursted
tearing rent III its side two and a half feet
long, by eight inches wide.
Canal navigation has been resumed, the
break at Brier creek, above Northumberland \
having been repaired.