The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-05-12

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and last letter. 4" "Ha ha :" said Rob |;
"Now I've ore for you. found It one day IN
| the paper. Which is the longest word In the
English language ?'' Observation-Disclosures,
said Tom promptly. No, sir /; it's smiles, be-
cause there's whole mile between the first
and last letter" "Ho! ho p cried Tom,
"thst's nothing. know q word that has
over shres miles between it's beginning and
ending" What's that?p asked Rob,
family. Beleayuered," said Tom.
THE CExTExNIAL.-The Board of Centen-
NAL Commissioners met on Monday, at noon,
in the State House, Trenton. There were
present, John G. Stevens, Esq, Hon. Edward
BEETLE, Messrs. Samuel G.. Brown, Janeway,
Condict, Dale and DIR. Hunt. Absent, Hons.
John r. Bird and Orester Cleveland. The
the purpose Of organization, and Mr.. Samuel
G. Brown of Trenton was appointed Presi-
dent, and Mr.. P. r. Quinn, OF the N. j. His
torical Society, Secretary. No programme of
business was adopted, and the meeting was
adjourned to meet in Philadelphia, on Friday
of this week, to confer with the United States
Commissioners, visit and inspect the Centen-
NAL Grounds and Buildings at that place.
Mr.. Caruth, editor of the vineland Inde-
pendent, who was shot by Charles X. Landis,
several weeks ago, is represented as slowly
/ improving, anu mas oetH pidCtu Oh all cxttu-
sion chair, no erect position having yet been
attempted. Judge Vansyckel, of the County
Court, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said
that the question as to what indictment should
be found against Mr.. Lands, would depend
upon whether Mr.. Carruth should live n year
and day, and as this was not yet determined,
| it would not be the duty Of this Grand Jury
to investigate the case.
A correspondent of the Port Jervis Gazette
says a loon was killed at Decker's pond, in
Vantage township, Sussex county, on the
18th ult., by Thomas L. Babcock. 1t weighed
nine pounds The difficulty always expert
enced in killing one Of these birds Is remarka-
BILE. They are great divers, and can swim
several hundred yards under water. It is
said that its motions are SO quick that 1t will
dive at the flash Of gun and escape the
charge
The New Jersey Editorial Association
has received a very cordial invitation from E.
B. Coleman, Esq, formerly Of the Heath
House, Schooley's Mountain, now one of the
Managers of the Hotel at Orkney Springs,
West Va, to visit that celebrated watering
place, and committee is to 60 over the ground
and determine as to its practicability. The
trip well made win include visit to the bat
tie fields of Winchester, Manassas, Bull Run
and other historic places.
One night last winter Geo. M. Brown, a
lawyer Of McGregor, Iowa, got drunk and
slept in gutter. In the morning be was SO
badly frozen that both of his hands and one
of his feet were amputated. Iowa has q civil
damage law which makes the liquor seller
pecuniarily liable for the consequences of
drinking his liquor. Brown drank at six
saloons that night, and his wife has sued the
| proprietor of each for $4,000.
Newark's finances are in an exceptionally
| favorable condition. Its war and floating
debt amounts to 81, 800, 600, and on December
/, 1874, the Sinking Fund of 1864 offset this
to the amount of moro than 100000. z he
other bonded debt amounts to 1876, 900, and
the new Sinking Fund already amounts to
| more than sufficient to cancel the entire
amount.
Work has been begun in removing the
bodies IRON 6cdpfs u abto6p pen
eff!lttd BY the new branch Of the Central
Railroad. About twenty bodies were disin-
tered on Monday, one of which, that of Dr.
Graw, of Philadelphia, who was buried there
about ten years since, was found, with the
clothes, in a perfect state of preservation.
An advertisement in q western paper of a
new medical work began with the line The
Great Cause Of Human Misery By an &C
cdent the advertisement was headed with a
cut Of Webster's Dictionary, but its sugges-
tiveness to bad spoilers was very plain.
| The Charter Election of Morristown was
held on Monday, and resulted in victory for
the Republicans, the whole tic ket being elect
ed by majority of 1855. The entire Council
is now Republican.
All the orders now on hand at the Danforth
| Works at Patterson, will no avlatad dew; :. ..
the present week, and at the Rogers Works
only very small number of workmen are en-
Iloyed. The latter company has Just COM
pleted and shipped Cuban order
A Phillipsburg policeman ordered congre-
CATION of Free Methodsts " to abandon
their services because in his opinion the exer-
cises were not conducted properly. As a
matter of course Mr.. Policeman got himself
in a warm place, and it is likely he will be
dismissed, if he has not been already.
Beauregard, the Rebel general, has recently
written a letter avowng that he was in favor
of "hoisting the black flag s" and showing no
quarter to Union soldiers during the war; He
urged that all prisoners be killed, on the
ground that the war would thus sooner be
brought to an end. These sentiments, it ap-
pears, he is still willing to sustain. In this
view of the case Mr.. Beauregard can scarcely
expect soldiers to shake hands with bin
across the bloody chasm with much alacrity
The Cincinnati Gazette says that the Re-
publicans of Ohio will make good nominal
tions and sensible platform, and laying
aside all side issues, will sweep the State in
October. William Allen will be remanded
back to his farm in Ross county, and Allen
Thurman will have the inside track for the
Presidential nomination from Ohio
The project Of running steamboat from
Belvidere to Port Jervis, which was talked
about last Summer, has taken definite shape
and trips win shortly be begun.
A rude fellow told Barnum that he had new
er exhibited any thing that was mott bare
face humbug. Yes have, said Barnum, the
bearded lady want barefaced
European affairs are somewhat ominous of
a not far distant outbreak. France and Ger
many cannot long be kept from each others
threats by tho hollow pretenses of diplomat
10 courtesy.
In the village of Rutledge, Ga, every
house was blown down by cyclone on the
LIST Of May. The village contains about 800
Inhabitants