The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-12-02
\ LOG AFFAIRS.
Lambertsitte, N. j., Dec. 2, 1874.
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The regular monthly meeting Of the COM
mon Council of this city, will be held on next
Monday evening.
The Thomas Iron Company have raised
large amount of magnetic ore at High
Bridge.
--FoR RENT--a moe house on Delaware
Avenue, containing five rooms. Apply to S. G.
Landis, or at The RECORD Office. If.
We are under obligations to Mr.. Fred.
Massey, now in England, for copies of En-
glish papers.
Notice thatan application will be made at
the next session of the Legislature to form
new county from parts of Warren, Hunterdon
and Morris, to be called the county of Mus
conetcong, is given.
MIR. Chas. Clarke, of this city, will sail
for England on Saturday next. We hope Mr..
G. will have pleasant trip and that his
many friends here may be privileged to well
CONS his safe return.
MIR. VIM. johnson, of this city, has re-
ceived from the Franklin Institute, Philadel-
phia, bronze medal as testimonial of the
merit of his Universal Lathe Chuck, which is
fast winning a reputation as the best chuck
made.
MIR. Swayze at the new Union street
Marble Works. is doing good trade His
agent, Mr.. Hoff, is securing a large number
of orders. Mr.. s. wishes it known that Mr..
Hoff sells as cheap as any can purchase stone
from his yard.
The tornado that passed over this city on
Monday of last week also visited Frenchtown,
and the Press States that it unroofed Fluck's
Hall and threw the roof upon the south side
of the hotel building, sweeping off the Chin
neys and damaging the side of the building.
The deaths. Of three old people have oc-
Cured in Frenchtown within the past few
days. On Saturday of week before last John
Slater, an old resident, died, and on Thursday
last his widow died. On the same day the
widow of Henry Lott, also died.
Cooper & Hewitt have raised $50 tons of
iron within the last sixty daysa their Church
Mine, in this county, leased of John T. Leigh.
The work has been done by five men. The
metal made from this ore is used in the man.
ufacture Of Lilies safes. It is so tough that
neither powder nor drill will affect it.
Mr. VIM. L. Stryker has put up hand
some office-just such a one as a successful
lumber merchant should have--at his lumber
yard, on Coryell st. The old Office has been
sold to Mr.. Isaac Clevenger, who was engaged
yesterday in removing it to his lot on South
Union street.
notwithstanding the "hard times" the
good shipxtt Santa Claus has been sent out
by Mr. J. F. Beozer, ON a voyage. to gather
presents for the children of this city, and it is
expected to arrive on Christmas morning.
All the children will be delighted to hear this
good news.
The new railroad depot at Milford, COM
pleted recently, is a very handsome building.
So far as the stone work is concerned 1t is the
handsomest on the line, but in general appear
ance it will not compare with the new depot
in this city, it being only one story high and
rather "squatty.''
On finger-board at the intersection
of two roads on Goat Hill is the following,
in the same style as other finger-boards put
up by the township: Continuation of the
Catskill, l M" On the opposite side, 4'Pocono
Mountain, Bungtown Valley" Who thus
commentaries the geographical discoveries of
orr contemporary who grasps the Lever"
we do not know. xFxs- ssenarsya
MIR. r. Mcdowell, the Master Mechanic
of the B. D. Division shops in this city, has
put on, within the past few days, about fifteen
new hands. This increase was necessary in
order to keep the work from getting still far
ther behind hand. We learn that a large
number of cars are out of repair and that it
would require fifty additional hands for some
months to put them all in good order.
The finger boards put up at the road
corners, subscriber says, are in many places
a farce. Instead of filling the requirements
of the law, they are marked incorrectly as to
distances, and they are often given to some
little, Insignificant and generally unknown
places. These fnger-boards, if correct. are of
value to the travelling public, but. many of
them are simply deception and should be
altered. nl-ag~ s~e s~.4---A4
The target practice by Co. G, ON last
Thursday, resulted as follows: John Yard,
first prize, one ton of coal Geo. Gordon, sec
ond prize, one hundred pounds of flour /; third
prize, Andrew Curtis, ham A. w. Smith,
fourth prize, link of Bologna sausage.
The Company afterward paraded through
our streets and presented fine appearance
wearing for the first time their handsome IA
tigue caps.
Frequently in passing along our streets
gentlemen meet three ladies walking side by
side, and in many instances, owing to the mar
rowness of the pavements, they compelled
to step off the sidewalk to pass. Would it not
be well for the ladies to remember that it
would be nothing more than, common. polite
ness to break into single file rather than COM
pei gentlemen to go into the roadway, especi-
ally when it is muddy or snow is ON the
ground
"A paid Fire Department is advocated in
Phillipsburg on the ground of economy.
The work of improving the Delaware river
IN ~ 4.