The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

owned and managed by a band Of flee brothers.
Robert NJ. Douglass who has been appointed
marshal for the Eastern District of North
Carolina, is the eldest son of the late Stephen
A. Douglass and was, until recently, private
secretary to President Grant. He is modest
young gentleman, of good abilities and most
sterling good qualities.
A person signing himself Charles Weight
man, the Man fish, proposes in a New
York paper to attempt the feat of swimming
from the Namows to Long Branch, distant
of 26 miles, next sunimer and is confident Of
success.
There is an impression abroad that the
Farnsworth bill for the reduction of postage
became a,law. This is mistake. 1t passed
the House, but failed in the Senate. There
was an amendment to the post office appro-
priation bill which repealed all acts relative
to the franking privilege and free postage
generally This becomes a law. 1t abolishes
the circulation free of postage of newspapers
in the county where they are published, and
also the free exchange of newspapers. 1t
does not take effect until the LIST of July.
Homeopathy was introduced into Pennsyl-
vania forty-four years ago, and there are now
435 physicians OF that School prscticing in the
State.
Rev. Mr. Hammond, the revivalist, was
laboring in Bloomington, Iowa, recently. 1t
is reported that the last evenings he was there
over three thousand people crowded into
foil ~ in
these evening meetings rs many as one thou
sand rose for prayers, and it has been esti-
mated that as many as one thousand were
converted during the two weeks Mr.. Hammond
stayedin Bloomington. During the last week.
on an average fifteen hundred people attended
the morning meetings. The Wesleyan College
suspended its exercises week that the
professors and students might attend the
meetings.
An inventive genius in Kansas has dscov-
cred process by which he says he can make
25 pounds of sugar out of bushel of corn.
In China wives are considered legal tender
for debts.
A New York sexton has an income, from
ices ana Sditly, Ol p0OUu year.
It is said that more champagne is drunk in
the United States than in France, because
much more is made in the former than in the
latter country.
The medical world of Paris is seriously
alarmed by the epidemic Of suicides which now
exists in France.
A Kansas editor is advocating putting up
the United States Senatorshir, at auction for
the benefit of the State.
The stocking manufactures of Newark, N
j.. say that the largest sizes are shipped to
Chicago.
The best liquid-Liquidation of the public
debt.
A chemical treatment for incombustible
woodmaking has been invented, better than
any before known. piece Of pine wood
saturated with oil, but protected by this de-
vice, was placed in white heat flame without
taking fire. When it becomes the practice of
our house, car and ship-builders to use wood
subjected to this process, we shall have an
end of fiery horrors by land and sea. That
ultimately wood so prepared will be exclu-
sively used for building we have no doubt,
but how much longer have we to wait?
A number of Cinnamon who contracted to
work for Captain Hervey, at Belleville, are
said to have run away, and are working for a
laundryman in New York
Forty-eight tons of iron are made into plate
every twenty -four hours in the plate mills of
the Boonton Iron Works
The Missouri Legislature passed resolutions
of respect to the memory of member whose
sudden death was announced. A committee
was also appointed to accompany the remains
to the home of the deceased, but they were
relieved from their duties by the appearance of
the lainented member who moved to recon-
slider.
A Cincinnati man who suspected lis servant
girl of using kerosene oil to kindle the fire
with thought he would try her one night, so
he poured the oil out and filled the can with
water When he landed in the dining room
next morning, there was no breakfast and no
fire to cook it with - nothing but a stove full
of soaked wood, and very foolish looking girl.
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AN ITEM FOR SUSPICIOUS PEoPLE.--The
Wheeling, Va, Register says some eight or
ten years ago gentleman living in Wash