The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-06-23

The extraordinary variations in the eSti-
mates of the contractors bidding for import
ant public work have just been shown anew
in the bids for the Agricultural Hall of the
Centennial exposition. The successful bidder
took it at $196, 240, and from that point the
bids ran all the way up to 1868, 200, differ
ence of nearly $4,000. Four bids were
above $237,000. Yet the lowest bidder is
likely to do his work as thoroughly as the
highest. Mr.. Dobbins' bid for the main
structures was nearly half million below the
highest bidder, and yet no one has questioned
his ability to do the work well. The differ
ence is that the low bidders are all practical
men who draw their own plans, buy their
own materials, and superintend their own
work, while the higher bidders allot the var
ious portions of the work to sub-contractors.
In this business, as in all others, all the small
economies tell in the aggregate.
They must be holding some little centennial
celebrations of their own down in the interior
of the earth. New Grenada was recently SO
horribly shaken up from beneath that fifteen
or twenty thousand persons lost their lives /;
then followed bump at Iceland which up
heaved a large area of territory and destroy
ed a vast amount of life and property, and
now the disturbance comes nearer home
Dispatches received last Friday from Cincin-
natl announce that an earthquake shock Wis.,
tied the southern part of Ohio and portions of
Indiana Friday morning, by which large
number of buildings were shaken very per-
ceptibly, cracking walls, and alarming the
inhabitants SO that they ran out of the houses
into the streets. The tremor was also very
distinctly felt at indianapolis and Chicago.
A comparison of the last report of the coal
tonnage of the Pennsylvania Railroad with
that of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is
interesting as showing how very much greater
.e mi NJ c0a1 frnpSnorfa6 nv the fOr-
mer than the quantity carried by the latter
During last week the Baltimore and Ohio
Company carried 33, 294 tons of coal, and dur
ing the present year 502 994 TONS During
the week the Pennsylvania Company trans
ported 6S, 1856 tons of coal and $3.50 tons of
coke, and during the year Lees, 7O7 tons of
coal and coke.
Senator Morton, in speech delivered on
Decoration Day, at Greencastle, Ind, said:
II believe, now, am willing to vote for a
bill next Winter doing away and relieving the
last disability growing out of the rebellion,
to take effect on the 4th of July next; SO that
all men, all races and colors, without re-
gard to previous condition of servitude or of
arms, shall begin the next century on an
equality before the law"
The rates OH western bound freights were
advanced at Baltimore on Monday by both
tDc DdltlfnOFc anu OntO dllQ tuDSy ithiltA
Companies from six to fifty per cent. above
the current rates during the war.
In giving in his support to the reputation
heresies of the Ohio platform, Senator Thur
man is universally acknowledged to have de-
Dental nomination.
The Grand Army of the Republic will have
a reunion in Newark on July 21st. All the
d. - ~ Ara ox,l h.. o,,,sll
be collation. and Grafton at the Industrial
Building.
The shipments of boots, shoes and rubbers
from Boston since January exceed those of
last year by more than AZ, 900 cases, or nearly
ten per cent.
At Abilene, Kansas, Is wheat field of /, 800
acres, the yield of which is expected to sell
for SEQ, 600.
Hon. John l. Blair has returned to his
home after a four weeks tour in the West,
during which he arranged to build 200 miles
of new railroad.
There was last year reduction of 724 in
the number Of breweries in the country.
In six years 6,1o5 wild beasts have been
slaughtered in Algeria
O'Brien, in the New York post-office, knows
the names of everyone owning its 5000 boxes.
In Holyoke. Mass, tramps are made to pay
for lodging and breakfast with three hours
work on a new sewer.
James Beecher Henry Ward Beecher's
youngest brother, has retired from the min
istry.
Uhe sea serpent has been sighted off Maine.
He appeared to be well, but was reticent and
n hurry.
Queen Olga, of Greece, is the most beauti-
full woman in Europe.