The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-02-10
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We learn that the Distillery near Blazing Star,
was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening the
22d.
At Beverly, Burlington County the reyivalin
the M. E. Church continues with undated Wig
or One hundred and sixty -four persons have
protested conversion.
BELvIDERE DELAWARE RAILRoAD-THE Coal
TRADE.-The Mining Register furnishes us with
the following account of the coal trade on this
road:
Quantity of Coal transported over the Belvi-
dere Railroad in 1851:
Received from Lehigh Valley Rail Tons Cwt
road at Easton and delivered in
Trenton, 81 529OS
Delivered on the line of the road, Il,56O,O7
Total tonnage through, and way, 99,089,15
The official year on this road ends December
81 ON the Lehigh Valley Road the official year
ends Nov 80. This of course causes some dis
crepancy in the tonnage accounts ON the two
roads for an official year.
The Grand Division ofthe Sons of Temperance
of N. J. in session at Trenton on Wednesday,
have elected the following officers:
DR.. J. II. Pugh, G. W. P; James Brown,
G. W. A.. Henry B. Howell, G. Scribe ;
Charles KEENAN,, G.. Con. John Dobbins, G.
Sentinel; George R. Snyder, G.. c.; Jacob
Yard G. T.
The places of meeting of the Grand Division
for the ensuing year, were appointed as follows ::
April session, at Newark July session, at
Bridgeton and January 1860, at Trenton
A FEARFUL accident occurred near Salem at
the residence of Alexandria Hutchinson, on Mon
day morning, Oath inst, which resulted in the
death Of little colored girl, about 10 years Of
age. While in the act of removing kettle from
over the fire in an open fireplace, her clothes
caught fire. and before the flames could be ex-
tinguished she was so badly burned she died
about one O'Clock in the afternoon
The Trenton Daily True Democrat has been
discontinued. The weekly is to be continu-
ed.
JOEL HAYWOOD made an address in favor of a
Prohibitory Liquor Law, in Trenton, on Sun
day.
VIM. MCKEE, one of the oldest and most re-
spectacle citizens of Trenton, died on Friday
He was member of the Legislature of New Jer-
sey some % years ago.
THE people Of Hackensack are about to build
large two story public building in that town
1t is to be called " Military Hall, and is to be
under the care of the Military Companies
IT is proposed by some Of the West Jersey
journals that the State laws should be published
in all the papers Of each county, instead Of only
two, and to have the price fifty cents per folio,
instead Of $50 gross to two papers in each
county.
Mr.. ROBERT H. KENNEDY, awell known citi-
zen of Greenwich, Warren Co., aged 72years,
was drowned near Bloomsbury, on Saturday,
while at work in astream-a wagon in which
he and three others were, being carried over a
dam The others escaped Mr. K. repeatedly
represented Warren Co. in the Legislature sew
eral years since.
Both Houses of the Legislature of New jersey
by strong VOTE adopted emphatic resolutions
against the establishment Of quarantine at Sandy
Hook, and instructing the Senators and Repre-
sentatives Of New Jersey in Congress to oppose
action to that end by the General Govern
ment
DURING the past year, 1875 patents were is
sued to Jerseymen from the United States Pat
ent Office New Jersey stands seventh in the
list of States as to the number of patents issu-
ed
WARREN COUNTY N. J.-From the Annual
Report of the Marriages. Births and Deaths
throughout the State of New Jersey which was
presented to the Senate of that state on We'd
nesday last, we learn that the number of mar
riages in Warren Co. during the past year was
one hundred and thirty-one births, six hum
dred and ninety; deaths, two hundred and nine
ty-fve.
WASHINGTON, FEB S.-Mr. Clay, the Uni
ted States minister to Peru, in writing to the
State Department says the idea that any reduc-
ton in the price at which guano is now sold in
the United States can be brought about by ne