The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1858-12-16
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Quoted addressed, anu conVeneu ny Tic men
themselves and the officers kindly devote to
their use a certain part of the ship.
KossuTH has lately turned up in Scotland, on
a lecturing tour
By an old England law, an able bodied man
to he caught the third time begging, was held
guilty of a crime deserving death.
Coop H1T.-The Plaindealer announces an
of America. The two contestants are to go
beyond the city limits and eat mush and milk
until one of them bursts-the one who does not
burst to be declared the victor
A SOUTHERN paper thinks the neutrality of
the Atlantic cable, which was so earnestly
begged for by President Buchanan, has been
fully established 1t hasn't word to say on
either SIDE
A LARGE black wolf was shot in Clearfeld
county, Pennsylvania, recently.
THEY are reducing the wages at Lowell in
some instances the reduction is equal to twenty
five per cent.
THE person who "stole a march," has been
put in the same cell with Procrastinatioh, the
thief of Time "
"PIEAD1Na at the bar" says Western edi.
tor, is trying to persuade bar-keeper to trust
you for three-cent nipper"
IF the best mans faults were written on his
forehead it would make him pull his hat over
his eyes
A MAN ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS OBJ
CONVERTED. - It was related in the Fulton
Street Prayer Meeting, that man died last
week, in full possession of his faculties, who
was one hundred and FIVE years DID, He was
converted after he was one hundred years DID,
CHRISTIAN WoRsH1p IN JAPAN. We are
gratifed to learn, by an extract from letter
from Japan to the Boston Journal, that pub
lie assembly for the worship of God has been
held ON Japanese soil. The Rev. Henry Wood
has had the privilege and honor Of preaching
the first gospel sermon ever heard in that dark
land from the lips Of an American minister
A PLoUaH1Na MATCH for boys under eighteen
years of age, came off in Bucks county, last
week, under the superintendent of committee
of the Bucks county Agricultural Society,"
There were but four competitors all of whom
did their work well, and were awarded premi-
unis
WOLVES IN V1RG1N1A-A letter from Page
county, Va, in the Alexandria Sentinel, states
that wolves are very plentiful in that county,
and very destructive to sheep-one gentleman
having lost flock of forty last week by these
ravenous animals. A panther measuring six
feet from tip to tip was killed last week while
springing from the hog pen of W. s. Medsett,
with a shoat in his mouth.
OLIVER BUSHNELL, of Hartland, Conn,
caught in trap, on Monday last, large gray
eagle, measuring six feet eight inches from tip
to tip.
COCOA lot of fellows went on a deer hunt,
the other day in Arkansas, and in less than
three hours captured five girls and a woman
That's great sporting.
A MAN in New Orleans had to pay SAB
fine and costa few days since, at the suit of
Post Office authorities, for enclosing letter in
a newspaper, and posting the same to CORE
spondent.
A MAN in Troy, who wanted sewing ma
chine, sold his wife for the purpose of obtaining
it He found that she had discovered an " af-
fnity" in one of his friends, and, like shrewd
dealer, he at once traded her off to that Atm
ity :" for a sewing machine and little cash,
offering to throw in a child or two rather than
have any talk about it,
WE have often heard of men who could hold
but one idea in their head at a time. 1t is not
so with my uncle Joshua AS he sat down to
dinner the other day, he asked blessing in
these words =" For what we are about to re-
ceive, may the Lord make us duly thankful :"
and added in the same breath, "Sally, that
stoke is burned to q c,.isp!"
HENRY WARD BEEUHER drew such an audi
ence at the Mechanics Hall, Worcester, to
hear his lecture on Sympathy, that seven hun
dred dollars were taken at the door That sin
gle lecture paid the expenses of all the lectures
for the whole course.
In Vermont, recently, young man logged
his brother severely for preventing his father
from hanging himself. On being demonstrated
with, for whipping his brother for saving his