The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-09-01
gNisfellameoas MeWs.

A WINDFALL-A gentleman from New York
arrived in this city last evening bearing news to
the brothers Woodward that during some recent
examinations among the records Of an interior
county of the Empire State, deed for tract
of land embracing seventy five thousand acres,
and now valued at more than a million of dollars,
had been discovered in favor of their father, late
| ly deceased, to which his children are now the
only heirs. Memphis (1enn.) Argus.
| "A FAMILY OF MINISTERS. Rev. Will
liam Williams was forty six years pastorin North
ampton, n H. His son Solomon was for fifty
four years pastor in Lebanon. Eliphalet, the
son of Solomon, was for more than fifty years
pastor in East Hartford and Solomon, the son
of Eliphalet, preached in Northampton for up
wards of fifty years Here are father, grandson,
and great grandson, each pastor for upward Of
| fifty years of their respective churches, and two
/ of them the same church.
A SECOND SAM PATCH, ALMOST. Several
days ago fellow hailing from Rockland county,
New York, and ceiling himself Jim Patch, jumped
/ from the masthead of the sloop Sophie into the
water below, distance of eighty-fve feet, at
Albany, n. Y. The sloop at the time laid at
the lower DOCK Sing Sing, in about seven feet
of water. At the appointed time, in the pre-
sence of about four hundred villagers, Jim made
his jump, firing couple ofpistolsin his descent
He struck the water and stuck in the mud, and
that was the last that was seen of him until q
young man made dive from the dock and
brought him up by the hair By the aid of a
boat-hook he was dragged ashore. After roll
ling him on barrel he was restored to consci-
BUSINESS.
AN ENGLIsHMAN in Stratford Conn, the
other day, found prize in the shape of a swarm
of bees in a wren box. With the assistance of a
brother countrymau, after sharp contest and a
number of equally sharp stings the prize was
secured and taken in triumph to the store The
purchaser raped cautiously upon the box, and
applied his ear to the same when he exclaimed ::
"Were sold They are nothing but horuets ~
and so they proved to be.
AN HEIR is wanted for the Sherburne estate,
the seat of which family was Stodeyhurst, En-
gland. 1t is valued at from ten to twenty mil
lions sterling 1t is an entailed property, des-
cending to an oldest son. The family left En-
gland during the year 1900 1t was left with
out heir by the death of the eighth Duchess of
Norfolk without issue
UNITED STATES TREASURY STATEMENT. -
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-The balance in the
United States Treasury on Monday last, was
$4,123000; the amount of receipts for the week
ending on that day, ST, $3.50 drafts paid,
81, 444000 drafts issued, $l,607 900.
LATER FROM Pixies PEAK--LEAvENwoRTH
Kansas, Aug 25.-The express from Denver
City has arrived, bringing advices two days
later They contain no news of Importance
The rush to the new diggins continues incessant.
A STRAY BULL4-To prevent accidents says
a Western exchange, at the crossing of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, and Dayton
and Michigan roads, it is said that the superin-
tendents are about to issue to conductors and
engineers the following rules
" Hereafter, when trains on these roads are
approaching each other, conductors and engi-
neers will be required to bring their respectiv
trains to dead halt before reaching the point
of intersection and be very careful not to pro.
coed until each train has passed the other"
CURIOUS case was decided on Saturday in
the Court of Common Pleas, in respect to the
right of a man to change his name Mr. John
Shook appeared to that Court under an act
: passed 1847, for an order changing his name to
John Pike The motion was denied, but after
learned examination both of the laws respec-
ting names and the history Of their origin, Judge
DAILY comes to the conclusion that a man may
change his name without an order of the
Court-Paterson Register.
A CIRCULAR has been issued signed by the
managers of the State prisons in thirteen States
calling Convention of the prison officers OF
the United States, to be held at Philadelphia on
the 18th of Sept.
A TAUNTON woman has proved untrue to her
husband. So intimates the Gazette. No names
are given, but we are told that the injured hus-
band fell upon the destroyer of his peace on
Sunday night, and hammered him to the extent
of broken finger, ditto nose, " black eye OF
two," sundry extensive abrasons of the cuticle
about the cheeks and ears, the loss of a few locks
of hair, and the unpleasant sensation usually
contingent upon thumps, kicks and punches in
the epigastrium, and in that part which Irving
has described as the most honorable Y Of the
human frame.
A RUMoRED RAILROAD PROJECT "A writer
in the Jersey City Courier gives the following
rumor know nothing of its accuracy. He
says: Since the Camden and Amboy Railroad
Go. have arranged with the Erie Railroad and
the Stevens to extend their road to the Hudson
river at Hoboken, the NewJersey Railroad Co..
have determined to favor, at the next session of
the Legislature, the extension of the New er-
sey Central Railroad from Elizabeth across the
bay and along Bergen Neck to tide water at Jer
seY City A large purchase lately made by
the President, Vice President and Directors of
the New-Jersey Railroad, and others, of the
farm of Cadmus, on Bergen Neck, consisting of