The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-06-24
Secretary Robson will make the Grafton at
Easfou College on the SOth.

Vermont has turned out this year 1,500, 900
pounds of maple sugar.
Mr. Belew, the reader, died in London on
Friday night, after long and painful illness.
There is an assurance of an unprecedented
wheat crop in California this season.
A Cuban dollar is now worth only thirteen
cents, but they keep on calling it a dollar just
for the fun of the thing.
Diptheria in an epidemic form and with
great fatality has been prevailing for long
time in New York city.
jeff Davis arrived in New York on Monday
| from Liverpool, and left for his home in Ten
ncssee.
A slave ship with 225 negroes abroad, on
the way from Mozambique to Madagascar,
was lately captured by an English war vessel
The ninety-ninth anniversary of the battle
of Bunker Hill was observed in Boston on
Wednesday last.
The museum of the Iowa State University,
has received curiosity in the bead Of a
mummy over 1000 years old, with complete
set of artificial teeth on gold plate. The
ancients understood it.
The Women's Temperance Convention at
Springfield, Ohio, before adjourning on Thurs
day, adopted a constitution and also resolu-
ton to continue the crusade by street pray
ing.
The Edinburg Scotsman states that cat
belonging to schooner in one of the Scottish
ports was accidentally rolled up in mainsail
when it was furled, and remained there with
no food nor water and very little air for
twenty three days, when the unfurling of the
sail released her, weak but living.
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last week celebrated the twenty-ninth ami
versary of his ascension to the Papal chair,
having been elected on the 10Th of June. 1S45,
in succession to Gregory XVI, who died on
the first of June the same year. He was
crowned on the 21st of June, 1916.
The new liquor law of Mississippi requires
that no person shall be licensed to retail liquor
until he has first secured the recommendation
of more than half the men over twenty-one
years of age, and more than half the women
over eighteen years Of age in the corporation
or township where he desires the license.
The new Assistant Secretary of State, Mr..
John i. Cadwaladcr, is son of the General
of that name of Philadelphia, and grand
son of Gen. G. who served with Washington.
He is IA graduate of Princeton, and has prac-
ticed law with distinguished success in New
York. He is said to have made international
law and diplomacy special study.
The differentiation Of Union and Confcdc-
rate soldiers, proposed to take place at the
great Centennial, is no new idea it SEEMS
| There is said to be a military company in
| Colorado, consisting entirely of soldiers of
the Federal and Confederate armies. The
captain is Union ex-oficer the first lieu
tenant former rebel, the second lieutenant q
| Maine man, and SO on.
While people are looking anxiously about for
n sovereign remedy for hydrophobia, 1t may
not be nninterestng to notice the recipe of a
doctor of Lyons, France, which he declares
to be infallible. This is the application of a
Russian bath of one hundred and forty de-
grees Fahrenheit which causes the disease to
disappear forever, even after the symptoms
are we'll developed.
The crops in northern and western Ken
lucky are suffering from drought, very little
rain having fallen for two months. In con-
sequence Of the excessive rains in the Sague-
nay district in Canada, the farmers have been
unable to put in their crops and are now com
PEELED to use their seed grain for food. Cat
tie are reported to be dying for want of fod
der, and many people are emigrating from The
district.
There is old time mercantile honor in thu
announcement made that Fisk 81 Hatch
bankers, who after a stubborn resistance wer,
compelled to suspend payment in the PAM,
last Fall, have resumed and issued circula
announcing that they are prepared to pay thei
creditors in full, principal and interest. If ;
] failure indicates general business depression
; and unsoundness, a resumption like this ough
i to mean precisely the opposite thing.
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