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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29
lBY AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF NEW JERSEY.
CHAPTER Gel.

An act relating to the transportation Of. ex-
plusive and dangerous material
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey; That
ii any person shall deliver, or cause To be de-
liveled, to any canal railroad, steamboat, or
other transportation company, or to amy per-
sons, firn,or corporation engaged IN the busi-
ness of transportation, any nitro glycerne,
dualin, dynamite. gunpowder, mining or
blasting powdeB gun-cotton, phosphor0us,
friction matches or other explosive or dam
gerous material OF any nature whatsoever
under any false or deceptive invoice or des-
cription, or without previously Informing
stich person, firm or corporation, in Writing,
of the true nature OF such article, and with
out having the box, key, barrel, can or pack
age containing the same plainly marked with
the name of the explosive or dangerous
material therein contained, such person shall
be guilty of msdemeanor and upon convic-
tion thereof shall be sentenced to imprisoil-
ment for thirty days, and to pay II fine OF one
hundred dollars, and shall be responsible for
all damages to persons or property directly or
indirectly resulting from the explosion Of any
such article.
2. And be it enacted, That it shall and may
be lawful for any officer or agent ct any per-
son, firm, or corporation, engaged III the bust
ness of transportation, to require any package
rendered for transportation, believed to con
| tain explosive material, 10 be opened by The
/ psrson delivering the same, and to refuse t
receive any such package unless such require
nents be complied with and If such package
| lie opened and found to contain such explosive
or dangerous material, the said package ana
| its contents shall DC forthwith removed to any
lawful place for the storing Of gunpowder. aic
after conviction of the offender, or after three
months from such removal, the said package
l a. u
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

A SToRy OF FIFTH AVENUE. "A lady on
Fifth Avenue had got in trouble. She had
purchased thousand dollar dresses and thou
sand dollar furs and thousand dollar things
generally, till her bill footed up to sum to-
tai that was fcightful. Her husband had lost
heavily in stocks She dared not ask him for
the money and what was she to do? She
had diamonds to the value of $4,000 She
took these rings and bracelets and things and
hied her to a jewelers., who reset them with
imitation stones that looked just as we'll as
the genuine, and on the genuine stones he
raised the money to relieve her wants.
In the meantime, the husband had lost
money at gambling, and had g debts of homo,
which must be paid" How Svss' TO get II
His wife's diamonds Capital idea One
morning he slipped them in his pocket ant
went to u jewelers..
"Can you take stones out of jewels and re-
set them with imitation?"
Certainly"
sWhat would these be worth, or rather,
what would you advance upon them" said
he pulling ont the sparklers.
The ieweler looked at them and looked up.
"About $l5O?"
$3.50? Why they cost SIS, 000."
1.-THE originals doubtless did. We have
the originals in our SAFE We took them out
two weeks ago and put in these paste Ones"
The gentleman gave prolonged whistle,
and put them in his pocket md walked out.
There was doubtless n scene at his house,
Doubtless he demanded willy Madam, his wife,
had pawned her jewels, and doubtless she
wanted to know how lie Came to know it,
How it was settled never will be known.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29
THERE Mar COME 4 TIME.

Gather them close to your loving heart
Cradle them on your breast
They will soon enough leave you brooding care
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair
Little ones in the nest.
Fret not that the children's hearts are gay,
That the restless feet win run
There may come time in the by and by
When you'll sit in your lonely room and sigh
For sound of childish fun.
When you'll long for the repetition sweet
That sounded through each room,
OF "mother" mother the dear love calls
That will echo long in the silent halls,
And add to their stately gloom.
There may com, a time when you'll long to hear
The eager boyish tread,
The tuneless whistle, the clear, shrill, shout
The busy busiling In and out,
And the pattering overhead.
When the boys and girls all grown up
And scattered far and wide,
Or gone TO that beautiful golden shore
Where sickness and death come never more,
You will miss them from your side.
Then gather them close to your loving heart
Cradle them your breast;
They will soon enough leave your brooding care
Soon enough mount youths tOpmost stair
Little ones in the nest.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29
CHAPTER, CCLXxy.

A further supplement- to the act entitled
AN act empowering Railroad Companies
TO employ police force" approved March
tweniy-second, eighteen hundred and sixty
five.
]. BE it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State Of New Jersey That
the provisions of the act to which this is a
supplement are hereby so extended as to APP
ply in all things to all the railroad Corpora
lions OF this state, ON which transportation is
carried On either by horse or other motive
power.
2. And be il enacted, That this act shall be
deemed and taken to bo C public act and shall
take effect ilnnediatelys
Approved March ~, 1874.
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BEAUTY.

Every Individual nature has its own beauty
One is struck in every company, at every fire.
side, with the riches of nature when he hears
SO many new tohes, oil musical-sces in eath
person original manners, which have proper
and peculiar charm and reads new expressions
Of face. He perceives that Nature has laid
for eacli the foundations of new building,
if man will not build thereon. There is no
face, no form, which one cannot in fancy asso-
ciate with great power of intellect, or with
generosity of soul. In our experience, to be
sure. beauty is not as it ought to be; the pow
err of man and woman is invariably a sensa.
ton. Beauty is, even i'll the beautiful, occa-
sional; or, as one has said, eliminating and
perfect only single moment, before which it
is unripe and after which it is on the wane.--
But beauty is never quite absent from our
eyes. Every face, every figure, suggests its
own right and sound estate. Our friends are
not their own highest form. But let the hearts
they have agitated witness what power has
lurkcd in the traits of these structures of clay
that pass and repass us. The secret power
OF form over the imagination and affections
transcends all our philosophy. The first glance
we meet may satisfy us that matter is the We
licle of higher powers than his own, and that
no lawsof line or surface can ever account for
the inexhaustible expressiveness of FORM
We see heads that turn ON the pivot of the
spine, no more; and we see heads that seem
to turn on a pivot as deep as the axle of the
word, so slow, and lazily, and great they
move. We see on the lip of our companion
the presence or absence of the great masters
of thought and poetry to his mind. We read
in his brow, ON meeting him after many
years, that lie is where we left him, or that he
has made great strides.-R w. Emerson.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29
CHAPTER CCLXxxIII.
An act relating to Public Health.

TN HcD ItfttIIIg 10 HDIlC IItH1IH,
/. BE it eiiactcd by the Senate and General
Assembly q the State Of New jersey, That
James r. Meicrin, Samuel Lilly George II.
Cook. William Elmer, Jr.. Edward w. Hunt,
Lewis Oakley, and Richard II. Cooper, he and
are heicby appointed sanitary commission
for the purposes herein specified, viz: to
examine into the present sanitary needs u
this state /; Into any deficiencies in existing
laws. Az to the securvment of vital statistics,
The abatement OF nnisances or whatever con-
rms rhe prevention or mitigation Of disease.
and also to report such form Of general state
law as to health, as may seem to them desira-
le.
!. And i 8 Il enacted. That tho commission
be instructed through secretary appointed
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29
CHAPTER (,cTI

A further supplement- to an act 70 provide for
the support Of the government OF this state,
and to Xix the salaries of public officers, APP
proved April sixth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-iive.
/. BE il enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
the crels OF I'LL the couits in the several Counties
OF this state shall receive three dollars per
diem for every days attendance at court.
2. And be it enacted, That all acts and
parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this act, lie and the same are hereby re-
pealed, and that this act shall take effect i'm
mediately.
Approved March IL, 1874.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29
CHAPTER CCLII.

An act relating to freights and fares on rail-
roads in this state.
!. BE it enacted, by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State OF New Jersey, That
the privileges and provisions of an act en-
titled IAN act relative to freiglits and fares
on certain railroads in this state" approved
March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
tilty-sx, be, and the same are hereby extended
to, and may be exercised by railroad COM
panies now incorporated or hereafter to be in
corporated in this state.
z. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect Immediately, aud shall be deemed
and taken to be a public law.
Approved March le, 1874.
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CHAPTER J;I,Lxxxrv.

4 ".
A Further Supplement to an act entitled
e An act concerning Idiots and Lunatics.
|. Be 1t enacted by the Senate aud General
Assembly of the State Of New Jersey, That
whenever the lands or real estate OF any idiot
or lunatic shall be, or hath heretofore been
sold. pursuant to the provisions Of the act
emit led, u supplement- to an act entitled.
An act concerning idiots and lunatics, =
which supplement- was approved the twenty
sixth day of February, one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-two; or whenever any idiot
% lunatic my be entitled to property Of amy
description in this state, and suSll idiot or
lftnatic shall be nonresident. and shall have
Il guardian or committee IN The state or place
OF his or her residence, AMI such nt,n-resident
Guardian shall produce an exempliiicatiosi
from under the seal of the Office, (i there Be
1t seal), OF the court in the state Or place Of
lis residence, containing all the entries on
recoid in relation to his appointment and
giving ond., and authenticated as required
~ the act of con ,ress IN such cases !; the
chancellor, or the ordinary, or orphans court
OF the proper county in this state, may Cause
suitable orders to be male, authorizing the
delivery and passi.g over the proceeds of any
such sale. or any properly in this state to
which such idiot or lunasic may be cnt tiled,
TO such non-resiient guardian or comm S5tee,
and dischayging any resident guardian, exc
cntor, administrators, or Trustee, and rcfiir-
ipg receipts to be passed and recorded, if
deemed advisable pro,i led that thirty days
notice shall lie given 10 the re- ident guardian,
execntor. administrators, or trustee, of the
intended application Cor the order Of renewal
unless it shall appear 10 the court that such
notice has been waived. and tic court may re-
jet the application and refuse such order,
whenever it is aiistitsl that 1t is fpr tho in
terest of such idiot oylunatc, that such re-
noval shall not take place,
2. And lie it enacted. That the chancellor.
in case of not being satisfied with the proof of
security given by AIRY sucl. non-resent guar
dian or committee. HipsWct of the property
of any such non-ies deat idiot nrunatic ward,
may require addiii nal security 20 be given in
| this state. and make snch order In respect
thereof MS may to him seem meet and right
3. And lie it enacted, That this net shall
take effect Immediately.
4 Approved March 10, 1874.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

The painful habit of opium eating is in
creasing in this country. From three to five
years of indulgence wrecks the finest consti-
tuition; the eyes are snnhen, the frame is
emaciated, and death ends the wasted life.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

Two hearts that beat as one are singularly
to mud. We never knew MN in
love to circulate petition for u pavement or
additional lamp-post.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

In the City Council, Kansas City. horse
railway bill, providing that no siiigls person
should pay Of fare more than five CENTS was
amended, on motion of Alderman Black, to
include also married people, and passed.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29
CHAPTER G LXxIx.

A supplement to an act entitled AN act tn
provide, FOR the drainage of lands ap-
proved March eighth, eighteen hundred and
seyenty-ane.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly Of The Etaie Of Now Jersey, T1Glt
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

New Jersey has gone extensively into the
sardine business. Hitherto the sardnes used
in this country have come from the Mediter
ranean. Last year the American Sardine Com
pany, located at Port Monmouth. packed four
hundred and seventy-one thousand cans, ana
shipped some Of them to Europe.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

CURE FOR LocKJAw.--A correspondent
recommends turpentine as q cure for lockjaw.
He says: Let any one who has an attack
of lockjaw take a small quantity Of tnrpen-
tine, warm 1t and pour 1t on tile wound, no
matter where the wound is or Of what nature
it is, and relief win follow in less than one
minute. Nothing better can be applied to n
severe cut or bruise than cold turpentihe it
will give certain relcfalmost instantly Tur-
pentinc is also sovereign remedy for crour.
Satuls.te piece of flannel with 1t and place
the flannel On the throat and chest, aid in
very severe cases from three to five drops on a
lump of sugar may be taken inwarslly. Every
family should have bottle on hand" In all
serious cases an application should be made
under ncedful advice.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

A Western critic recenl y said ST 4 new
novel. sits incidents follow each other like
a shoyclful Of bot coals.''
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

Schooln,aster--" What is nothing?" Boy
1T is when man asks you to hold his
horsey and just says, Thank you.'"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

from one Of their nhmberji to inquire into the
present construction Of Health boards and as
to local health laws so as to know what gen.
elal legislation ,nsy be needed this columns
sion shall report to tie governor on or Before
the first Of December next ensuing; Tile ex-.
penses Of said commission shall not exceed
one hundred dollars.
Approved March To- 1874.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29

A snow storm occurred at Jerusalem this
winter, the first time for fifteen years.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-04-29
CHAS. a. SKILLMAN,

Office over Lambertvile National Bank
Practices in all the Courts of the State.
Collections will receive prompt attention
Lambertvile, Sept. %, 1872.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-05
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ENGLAND.

LONDON, Feb. "a report has reach
ed here that great battle has been
fought at Coomasie between the Ashan-
tees and the force under Gen. Sir Gar
net Wellesley. The engagement is
said to have lasted whole day and to
have closed with no decided result.
The loss of the British troops is given
Is nearly 800, including many officers.
The Highlanders alone are reported 10
have $50 men killed and wound
cd. Gen. Sir Garnet Wolesday was
said to be in need of reinforcements,
which were fifteen miles off.
LONDON, Feb. 25-The war Office has
received no report of the battle said to
have occurred between Sir Garnet
Wolesley's army and the Ashantees;
but an-unofficial, though circumstan-
tial, dispatch has reached the Admiral
ty Office that battle was fought at
GcroombOa, January 31st, not at Coo
massie, as reported. Among the kill
ed are Major Baird and Capt. Buckle.
The Globe says if this news be be true,
great disaster has befallen the British
army, and the only course left to Sir
Garnet Wellesley is to effect a safe re-
treat to the coast. A special to the
Standard says the Ashantees entirely
surrounded the British army, but were
eventually driven off with great loss.
The principal war chief of the Ashan-
tees was killed. The king has taken
command of his army in person, and
it was expected he would renew the
attack. Feb. 5th was the date decided
upon for the storming of Coomassie by
Gen. Wolseley's forces.
LONDON, Feb. 25-Further details OF
the battle between Sir Garnet Woles-
ley's force and the Ashantees say the
latter fought desperately, the fight last
ing from O'Clock Am. until in the
afternoon. Seventeen British officers
were killed. or wounded. The naval
brigade, Jas strong, lost 80 men, the ri
fie brigade 26, and the engineers 3S.
The loss sustained by the native allies
is unknown, but is very heavy. The
communications of the British forces
with the rear are threatened. 1t is be-
lieved thar another large force of
Ashantees is approaching Comassie
from the southwest. In addition to
the losses already reported, the fusi-
liers lost 56 men.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-05
The Deadly Evils of Gossip.

have known country society which
withered away all to nothing under the
dry rot of gossip only. Friendships
once as firm as granite Dissolved TO jelly,
and then away TO water, only because
of this; love that promised future as
enduring as heaven, and as stable as
truth, evapoarted into a morning mist
that turned to days long tears, only
because of this.
A father and son were set foot to
foot with the frey breath of anger that
would never cool again between them,
only because of this; and husband
and his young wife, each straining at
the heated lash, which in the beginning
had been the golden bondage of a God
blessed love, sat mournfully by the side
of the grave where all their love and
joy lay buried, and only because of this.
j haveseen faith transformed to mean
doubt, hope give place to grim despair,
and charity take on itself the features
Of black malevolence, all because of
the fell words OF scandal, and the magic
mutterihgs of gossip.
Great crimes work great wrongs, and
the deeper tragedies of life spring from
its larger passions; but woeful and
most mela ncholy are the uncatalogued
tragedies that issue from gossip and
detraction; most mournful the ship
wreck often make of noble natures and
lovely lives by the bitter winds and
dead salt waters of slander. So easy
to say, yet so hard TO refute-thrawing
blame on the innocent, and furnishing
themas guilty, if unable to pluck out
the strings they never see, and to silence
words they never heard. Gossip and
slander are the deadliest and cruelest
weapons man has for his brothers hurt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-05
OHIO NEWS

Akron has raised 5000 of the S25,-
900 needed to build a soldiers monu-
ment.
The tobacco growers of Montgomery
county have most of last seasons crop
yet on hand.
Thirteen buildings in New Lexing-
ton, Perry county, were destroyed by
fire on Monday night week.
The Mansfelders are still digging for
coal. There is grim suspicion that
the first vein WAS 'doctored.'
The taxes collected in Muskingum
county during the six months ending
January 20, 1874, amounted to SlSS,-
095.
Rush R. Sloane, the distinguished
financier of Sandusky, is tarrying at
ST. Catharines; Canada, for the benefit
of his health.
The next meeting of the Ohio State
Grange, Patrons OF Husbandry, will he
held in Columbus Oh the third Tues
day of February, 1875.
In Nelson, Portage county, there are
sixty-nine people who have passed the
scriptural allotment of years on earth.
The oldest is Ira Fuller, ninety-one
years.
a burglary was committed at Bloom
vile, Seneca county, and the perpetra-
tor was tracked to the house Of a we'll
known citizen, hitherto considered
above reproach.
A heartless deputy Sheriff in Zanes-
vile broke up a wedding patty or
Monday night by arreSting tie gr9oms-
man and two others, for burglary and
larceny. The marriage was Indefinite
ly postponed.
Toledo has no funds TO pay her fire.
men for December and January, and
the men refuse to serve longer without
compensation. Bonds We're issued to
meet this contingency, but the Mayor
of the city refuses to sign them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-05
Land of the Midnight Sun.

At last got to the land of the Mid
night Sun. 1 watched it throughout
the first night, an remained there
nearly seven weeks. 1t bothered me
when to 90 to bed, my watch being out
ofrepair. discovered the birds reti-
red to rest at IL A. NJ. and got up at 2
AN. Still further north, and then
mosquitoes. Talk about your New
Jersey specimens, pshaw! Why, they
were SO thick you couldn't see man
three feet off. 1 saw log houses one
hundred and fifty feet, some of them
seven hundred years. To heat them,
wood fires are built in huge fire-places
having very thick walls. These are
kent u two or three days, and then
they have no fire for a week. Some OF
the farms have as many as forty-ffve
houses. There are houses for cheese,
and for butter, and this thing and that
thing-I don't know what all. Each
farm has two dwelling houses, one for
winter and another for summer. Hou-
ses can BE- rented for S5 year. Car
penters' wages are As cents day, and
they don't strike. Everybody works.
Each house has its loom; they weave
cloth and make their own garments.
There are no markets; nothing Is sold.
Whoever has more than he wants for
himself gives it to whoever needs it.
The people are healthy. They do not
have consumption, and you never see
an emaciated form. You never see a
beggar, either. If too poor to live,
they are too proud to beg, and not
mean enough to steal. The subsistence
Is sour milk, bread, meat twice week,
and fish.
Nearer yet to the Cape, and the
horses and the cows and the reindeer
live on fish, eaten raw. Still nearer,
and the cows have nothing but boiled
seaweed to eat. In degree 6S, farm
houses are scarce, the travelling un-
pleasant, and done on foot or by boat.
In the summer it is wet, and the mos
quitoes leave you no peace.
At length / reached IL degrees 81
minutes, the cape, the northern end ol
Europe. The coast Of Norway Is mag
pificent, its harbors lined with steam
boats; it mountains high and grand,
are covered with GLACIERS, its waters Sc
clear that the bottom of the sea is dis,
cernible. Sweden bears no comparison
to it. In going from the city Tonjin
toward Sweden, don't sleep under the
skins they offer. Such fieas, and such
numbersI Grogshops are one hundred
miles apart up there. They buy whis
key by the quantity, and keep drunk
while it lasts.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-05

aAA conceited snob was so fond Of
fine clothes that he reveled in them by
day and dreamed of them by night
One evening he visited lady and re-
moved his overcoat, etc., in the hall,
preparatory to entering the parlor,
when the lady heard him utter the fol-
lowing words. Taking his overcoat
and hanging it up, said: Hang there'
you $50 overcoatp Pulling off his
gloves, and putting them on the table,
lay there you So glovesv placing his
hat on the rack, hang there you SO
hatp = putting his cane in the corner,
stand there you $l5 canep Then en-
tering the parlor, he was about to sit
down, when the lady pulled the chair
from under him, and as she left the
room, said: "Lay there, you ten-cent
goose ~ He has not been around that
house since.