The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-02-24
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A GERMAN GIRL in Newark appeared before
the authorities and entered complaint of a most
beastly assault upon her by three persons. For
tunatey for public Justice they have been arrest
ed, and will probably go to the State Prison un-
less the ingenuity of some well-paid lawyers
defeat the ends of justice.
A SERVANT GIRL in Bloomfield, Essex county,
was arrested on the charge of having strangled
her infant. She denied having an infant and
when her trunk was examined the child was
found there with garter round it's neck
A TOUGH JERsEYMAN. Sussex Reqiste,.
says, that on the night Of the 10Th of January,
(the coolest for many years, Aaron Vanniker,
aged years, attempted to cross the Delaware,
in a skiff, and getting caught in the ice lost his
oars, and drifted until after daylight the next
morning, when he was rescued near the Water
Gap, after Is hours exposure to regular Arc
tic temperature, without so much as frozen
toe or finger.
FATAL ACCIDENT. -Thomas Hewitt fireman
at Curtis paper MILL in Belleville, N j., was
found dead On the line shaft on Tuesday morn
ing 1t is supposed he was caught by the shaft
while oiling the machinery.
LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING is steadily regaining
its former magnitude in Paterson.
The members of the South Sixth M. E..
Church at Jersey City have decided to sell their
present edifce and build larger one.
THE residents Of that portion Of Railway
which is in Union county, design to petition the
Legislature to withdraw the provisions of the
city charter from them
THE receipts of the American Bible Society
from this State, for the month of December last
amounted to ST., 305 r. Of this sum 1920 50
was from the Essex County Bible Society.
THE earnings of the Erie r. r. in January
amounted to $3O4,7Os, against 1915, S56 for the
same month last year. The receipts of the N.
j. Central were SCI, AS, showing an increase of
$3.50 over January, 1858.
REV THOMAS SOVEREIGN, of the NJ. E. Church
has accepted the appointment Of State Temper
ance Agent and commenced the discharge of his
duties having left the church to which he was
stationed.
THE agent of the Stevens estate at Hoboken
having offered to pay the city debt ($15, OOO)and
concede other benefits provided the City Coun-
Gil consent to the division of the township and
setting off, " Weehawken' from it, that body
have with drawn their opposition to the project
SUICIDE AT FAIRFIELD.-Mr Anna Paxton,
wife of Obediah Paxton, residing on the Linds-
ley road near Fairfield, committed suicide on
Tuesday morning by hanging herself
THE Roman Catholic Church in Princeton
has been considered unsafe for some time, on ac-
count of the springing Of the walls. 1t has been
determined to take it down, and build it anew in
a different style.
CHARTER RENEWED. Newark, New
Jersey, Banking and Insurance Company, has
obtained renewal of its charter for 90 years,
from the 18th instant, under the name of The
Newark Banking Company
Mr.. HALsEY WOODRUFF, of Hacketstown
MI. died on Wednesday morning last from an
overdose of laudanum The deceased was about
so years Of age.
THE shipments of coal south, over the Della
ware Lackawanna and Western and Central
New Jersey Railroad, to Elizabethport for the
week ending FEBRUARY 18th, amounted to s,O45
tons, making total thus far from January LIST
of 5O,313 TONS