The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

George Francis Train announces that he
will be a candidate for the next Presidency
This takes u great load off Morton, Blaine
Grant and the other aspirants.
Some one wrote to Horace Greeley, inquir-
ing If guano was good to put on potatoes
He said it might do for those whose tastes had
become ytiated with tobacco and rum, but he
preferred gravy and butter.
Last week the wages at McClees & Co.'s
Sheet Iron Mill, Phillipsburg, were reduced
20 per cent. on the ton for piece work. The
laborers' daily pay was thus cut down from
$l30 to $l.90. All employees of the mill were
included iii the reduction.
Now is the time to hunt DIP relics ! Mr.. L.
Y. Singleton, of Rosenhayn, Cumberland
county, has IN his possession sofa which was
once used by General Lafayette, the stand
from which he took refreshments, and also a
portrait of General Washington, which has
been in the family for over eighty years.
An hour and fifteen minutes is the time now
talked of for making the trip between Phila-
delphia and Cape May next season.
The Republican members Of the Maine
Legislature on Thursday chose delegates to
the National Convention, and unanimously
adopted resolution declaring James G.
Blaine their choice for President of the Unit
ed States.
The House of Representatives of Pehnsyl-
vania has agreed to fix the salary of the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court at $780, and
those of the Associated Justices at $1,000 per
year.
A Bible has been printed in Oxford Univer-
sity, which is probably the smallest ever prin-
ted 1t 1, four and half inches long, two
and three-quarter inches broad, and half an
s. IL. IL.
ed India paper extremely thin and Opaque,
and weighs, bound In limp morocco leather,
less than three and half ounces, going
through the English post for two cents.
A lady in Paris Is introducing new FASH
ion in regard to furniture. Size is having all
her chairs and sofas and even her carriages,
stuffed with aromatic herbs, which fill the air
with an agreeable, bot not too powerful per-
fume. The fashion is derived from the East
ern nations, and prevails extensively over a
considerable part of Asia.
The Southern Democratic position as avow-
ed by Ben. Hill, of Georgia, is simply this -
Accept our Interpretation of the Constitution,
submit to our dctation, or prepare for anoth-
err struggle. This time it is to be an interne-
cine warfare, fought within the Union and un-
der the flag. 1t is the old rule or ruin policy
utider another aspect!
The editor who was told that his last article
was as clear as mud, promptly replied, Well,
that covers the ground, anyhow"
The National Convention of the Republ'l
cans is fixed at Cincinnati, June. 18th, and the
politicians are figuring up certain advantages
to particular candidates and disadvantages
to others. Mr.. Blaine; It is said, is injured,
while Mr. Morton and Mr.. Bristow are helped!
This is nonsense.
The Trustees of the Philadelphia Gai
Works, on Friday, held meeting, and decid-
ed to reduce the price Of gas from 81. v L.
900 cubic feet to 81. Is.
The amnesty bin before Congress affects on
| ly about 750 persons in the entire South
| They are men who violated their official oathl
to maintain and defend the Constitution Of
the United States by going into the Rebellion
Without amnesty they cannot vote or hold Of
fee That is the only disability under which
JEFF. Davis now suffers.
Dun, Barlow & Co.'s commercial agency re-
ports the number of business failures during
| 1875 at 7740, with liabilities amounting te
| SEQ, O00, 900. The number is greater thar
/ during 1878 or 1874, but the average liability
Of the persons failing is much less. The
1 Tribune says this is an unfailing sign that
the worst is over, and that brighter skies are
in view for commercial interests