The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-07-21

lof kissing his washerwosnan. The offence is
somewhat relieved, however, by the fact that
the said woman is his wife,
The recent rain has raised the Delaware
severalinehess and our mills are now able to
run again..
The firm of Murphy & Bethel, of the
Trenton State Gazette, has been dissolved, Mr..
Chas. Betchel retiring
Helms, the slater, is still prepared to pat
on the best slate roofs at the lowest living
prices. He visits all sections of the country.
The coal Office of Heath 8 Holcombe, in
this city, was entered on Tuesday evening of
this week and robbed of nearly five dollars in
small change. The Office door was unlocked
by the thief or thieves and the desk opened
where the change was kept.
The contract for the new iron bridge at
Reigelsville was not awarded yesterday. A
number of bids were handed in, but owing to
misunderstanding between the Committees
from the two counties as to the kind of bridge
ordered, the time Of making the award was
postponed until August 10th.
s The contract for building the new iron
bridge over the Branch, at Clinton, was given
by the Committee of Freeholders, on Thurs
day last, to firm at Athens, Pa. There ap-
pears to have been but little discrimination as
to the character and strength of the bridge
proposed to be built by the various bidders.
If one bridge is as good as another, this is all
right-if not, otherwise.
& The Press says that Rev. VIM. Fl. Pease,
Of the Baptist Church of Frenchtown, is to
cease his labors there at the expiration of his
term, in September or October next.
One day last week as Mr.. Robert Mont
gomery, of this city, was passing through
Mount Hope Cemetery, on his way to his resi-
dence ON Cottage Hill, he was chased by a
"racer" snake, and it was with some diff
Guilty that he killed the reptile.
"A Grove meeting will be held on the prop
erty of A. Davenport, one mile from Quaker
town, in this county, commencing July Ssd
and continuing over the Sabbath. Rev. VIM.
Gould, Chairman of District and other min
isterial help from the Free Methodist Church,
will be present.
Attention is called to the advertisement
of the Rngoes Seminary in another column
Those who wish to give their children the
benefit of good education, in place free
from Objectionable associations, &C., will do
well to send them to this school.
"A lecture will be delivered in Lyceum
Hall, ON next Saturday evening, by J. M.
Watson, ESQ. Admission Is cents.
The Family Casket, published at White
House, in this county, appeared last week in
a new DRESS The Casket is an interesting
sheet, we'll worthy of patronage by the peo-
pie of the section where it is published. The
effort of some of the managers of the big J"
county organs in this State to kill Oft the
smaller papers by the repeal Of the law re-
specting the publication of laws in the news
papers of the State, hasn't resulted quite as
satisfactorily as they expected. These papers
thrive in spite of them the Cosket being an
example, and there is time coming when
they will be able to strike back.
The Frenchtown Independent denies that
it charged our base ball club with playing on
Sunday, and thinks we have no regard for
truth to make such an assertion. Upon a
second reading of it's article we find that it
charges that Lambertville Il. e.--the whole
population) plays base ball on Sunday.
This is still worse than what we supposed
AS it stated in its opening sentence that
"Lambertville wants to play base ball with
Al L. ohsn nd I'm
ing that the "Star" club of this city had
challenged that club, we inferred that the
words in the same paragraph which read
"they cannot get practice enough in the week
without Decorating the Sabbath" referred
to the Star !" club and not to 'Lambertville'
generally. We stand corrected. The charge,
however, remains just as untrue.