The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-09-24
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w The State Treasurer is now engaged in
sending off the laws of 1872 to the several
counties, and to the members of the last
Legislature. The number of laws belonging
to each county will be sent TO the County
Collectors.
"a Governor Noyes says he is of the opinion
that Grant will carry Ohio by from 10000 to
SO, 600 majority.
gW7 White County, Ind, produced baby
with two heads facing opposite directions
regular Janus. They talk of calling it Horace
Greeley.
gB The award of the Geneva Arbitrators
has been publicly announced. The United
States is to receive the gross sum of $15, 800 900
for losses sustained by the depredations of the
Alabama and Florida, and of the Shenandoah,
after leaving Melbourne The other claims
are excluded.
GB- A new iron mine has lately been opened
near Troutdale, Warren county. The in
dications are exceedingly promising. The ore
is red heinatite, and apparently in immense
quantities.
gY 1t is acknowledged by the Springfield
Republican and the Cincinnati Commercial
that the worst class of politicians in the coun-
try are most enthusiastic for Greeley, and Mr..
Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, declares
that Grceley's worst advisers are the most in
fluential with him. These are the statements
of Greeley's own friends. Why should they
be questioned? If Mr.. Bowles does not know
Mr.. Greeley, who does?
g Cider apples are selling at ten cents a
bushel delivered, in parts of Connecticut.
CB A race between steam-wagon and a
trotting horse took place at Troy, N. Y, lately,
resulting in a victory for the former, which made
a mile in 2:28.
ey tits stated that the voyage of the Grand
Duke Alexis has thus far cost his father up
wards of half million of dollars
GB- The last question up is this" Did
Stanley, of the New York Herald, really see
DR.. Livingstone in Africa, or is Stanley, like
many other modern things, mere sensation"
We trust that nothing redder than black ink
will be shed i'll settling the controversy.
The Philadelphia North american says
Maine has proved an eye-opener of more signal
The Springfield Republican, the principal
Liberal organ in New England, having claimed
$1,000 majority in Maine on the morning of
the election, the next day conceded that
popular feeling is setting against that COM
bination, and that nothing but luck or some
unforeseen issue of great weight allows them
the ghost of a chance.
There are ninety Councils Of the Order of
United American Mechanics in New Jersey.
Preparations are being made all over the
State by the various Councils for the grand
parade of the o. U. A. NJ, in Newark ON the
Goth inst. New Brunswick will send about
100 in full regalia.
Nearly thousand names have been signed
to the anti-locomotive-whistle petition now
circulating in Hackettstown. How delicate
some people are.
On Friday last very extensive caving in of
the Byram mine commenced, and has con-
tinued ever since. The mine is $50 feet deep,
and said to be the deepest in Warren county.
The damage is estimated at $75, 600.
Archbishop Bayley is expected to leave for
Baltimore on the 18th of October. On Fri
day council of Bishops was held for the pur-
pose of agreeing upon three names to be sent
to Rome from which to select "a new Bishop
of the diocese of Newark.
A libel suit has been commenced against
Speaker Niles by the National Railway Com
pany, and damages laid at $4,000, 200. The
alleged libel is contained i'll an article which
appeared in the Nation over the signature of
Jersey" Attorney General Gilchrist, Cort-
landt Parker and J. d. Banghart appear as
counsel for the Company.
j. Ross Browne has contracted to pay $780,
600 for 20, 600 acres Of California salt marsh.
An immense gun weighing 90, 900 lbs, passed
through Trenton on Friday, on its way to
New York. 1t is fifteen-inch bore, requires
10 pounds of powder to charge it, and will
carry ball weighing 100 pounds. TWAS cast
at Fort Pitt, Allegheny City. 1t was three
days coming from Philadelphia to Trenton,
having been compelled to stop frequently, in
consequence OF not Journals. This immense
affair is intended for some of the Qualifications
about New York.
In, l. af 81, ON, low
night of last week, Mr.. Greeley said, g If the
people of the South said they wanted disunion
would consent to it," This contrasted very
strongly with the sentiments expressed by the
fifty thousand Boys in Blue who had filled
that city with blaze of patriotism the day
before.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have
issued orders to the effect that no foreman or
head of a department shall influence the vote
of the company's employees.
c. Chauncey Burr has left the ''clean white
sheets of Democracy, and crept into the s'bed
of Sumner and his implacables.' In other
words, he has come out for Greeley. Chaun-
cey naturally belongs to the Scovel-J Jerusalem
Fitzpatrick tribe of demagogues.
Profs. Dana and Silliman, the eminent
biologists, visited Franklin N. j., last Satur-
day. They consider that neighborhood one
of the most interesting in the world, for the
geologist.
Professor John Tyndall, the eminent English
scientist, will visit this country shortly, and
win deliver series of lectures on scientific
subjects in many of the large cities.
Admiral Winslow, who commanded the
Kearsarge when she sunk the Alabama, will
receive $24, 600 as his share of prize money.
The total yield of the new hop crop in the
United States is now estimated at 14,000 900
pounds or about 10000 bales. The yield in
Wisconsin is twice what it was last season.
The total supply in this country is less than it
was last year.
gB- Mr. Bingham, who presided over the
New Hampshire Democratic State Convention,
made his usual speech, denouncing everything
that the Republican party and President Grant
have ever done OF attempted. He also incor-
porated in it this sentence % Horace Greeley"
he said, Sis pledged to do, and will do, if
elected, just what the Democracy would re-
quire one of their old and tried leaders to do,
were he elected
VARIOUS FANcIEs ON WEDDINes.-A Wood
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Wedding Marrying ''glass eye." A Tin
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