The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-02-10
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Lans1ertviste, N, u. FEB. 10, 1875.
To-day is the first day Of Lent.


thus refers to local editor of our county
The gutter snipe of the organ . is as snap
by as g tich-me-not"
copyrighted, Shampanore.
The store lately occupied by Mr.. Samuel
Wyckoff, is for rent. 1t is in good location
for business. -
The Senate passed resolution yesterday
morning to adjourn the Legislature on the
4th of March. 1 eA ssse
"A. w. Boss and Howard Sutphin have
been taken into partnership in the mercantile
business by John S. Emery, Of Pennington.
Chicken thieves visited the coop of Mr.
Jacob Williamson, in this city, on Sunday
night and stole seven or eight fowls there
from.
The peach buds are reported as killed in
Somerset county by the severe weather. We
have not heard of any such reports from this
county.
Taking the entire day, yesterday was the
coolest of the season, and one of the coolest,
on account of the piercing wind, that we ey-
er remember. St
The Lambertvlle Iron Works have
recently received number,of orders from the
Lehigh Valley r. r. Co. for their superior
car wheels.
Chester Vansyckel, Esq, and family, of
Pennington, are spending the winter in the
South, Mr.. V. being in bad health. He is at
present in Florida, as
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Attention is called to the official notice
of the City Treasurer, in our advertising
columns, respecting the payment of a portion
of the city indebtedness.
AT donation visit rendered Rev. Israel
Poulson on the 21st ult., over three hundred
persons stayed to tea" Among other pres
ents, Mr.. Poulson had the, pleasure of count
ing 500 in greenbacks. ~
About thirty persons have made profess
sion Of religion at the extra meetings held in
the Ringoes Baptist Church. The meetings
have been conducted by Rev. NJ. N. Smith,
student of Grocer Theological Seminary, as
sisted by neighboring pastors.
Next Sunday is ST. Valentines Day. The
custom of sending missives indicative of the
tender passion is not to be deprecated, but no
one who respects himself or who expects the
respect Of others will be guilty of the dis
graceful act of sending scuTilous anonymous
valentines.
Mr.. c. H. Huff of the late firm Of Huff
s. Swallow, in this city, will remove to Stock
ton in few weeks, where he will take charge
/, of the store now occupied by Huff & Bro.
The Stockton people win find Mr.. II. a very
pleasant and accommodating business man,
and we visa him success in his new location.
The second monthly meeting of the
Young Mems Christian Association, was held
in the Methodist Church in this city, ON Mon
day evening. A very interesting lecture was
delivered by Moung San Win, native of
Burmah, on the customs and religion of the
Burmese. A double quartette sang two APP
propriate pieces in creditable manner. The
next monthly meeting will be held in the Bap-
fist Church on the second Monday evening
in March.
According to the report of births, mar
riages aud deaths for 1878, made to the Leg
islature of the State, and just printed, there
were 271 males and 271 females born in Hun
terdon in that year. During the same year
there were 300 deaths, 157 of which were
males and IA females and 213 marriages.
So far as we are able to learn there is a
general feeling in favor of the creation of an
Excise Board in this city. Let the bill be pre-
pared at once and introduced into the Legis-
lature, so that there may be time to ensure its
passage 1t will remove from our town cleo
lions question which interferes with the
selection of suitable officers.
"A party of young men in Stockton have
organized themselves iuto Variety Com
pany, and will, under the direction of Prof.
w. w. Souville, give an entertainment at Ser
geantsvile on Thursday evening Of this week,
and on Friday evening at Stockton. These
Young men, we learn, have ability to give
good performance, and home talent should be
encouraged.
The new banking institution organized at.
Clinton recently, as the First National Bank
of Clinton elected the following list of Direc-
tors Robert Foster, John A. Young, Saml.
Parry, James X. Kline, Whitfield Durham,
f. A. Potts, John f. Grandin, William john
son, b. E.. Young Jacob r. Fisher, Peter A.
Beavers, Martin Wyckoff, Peter Cramer. The
capital stock of the bank is 100000.
On Monday, the family of the man recent
ly frozen to death in White House, came on,
had him taken up, and recognized him. He
proves to be John Croft, from near Oxford
Furnace, Warren county, and had left his
home to visit some friends at High Bridge,
but by some means got carried to North
Branch, and then attempted to walk back to
High Bridge, when he met his melancholy
DEATH White House Casket.
The resolution of Mr. Smith, respecting
the payment Of city indebtedness was in
correctly given in our last weeks report of
Council proceedings. The Treasurer in sub
stance, was directed to pay off bonds, either
School, Bounty or Municipal, presented be-
fore the 10th of March, in the order presented,
to the amount of Sc, 900; and if application is
not made by that time for the whole or any