The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-11-21

"What will become of the last man +" says
scientific exchange. Manufacturing shoes
by machinery is, we believe, knocking him
out of the business.-Phiia. Bulletin.
/ A merchant down town sells more Of Dir.
Bulls Cough Syrup than all other medicines
'gether 1t surely must be the best remedy
/ fora cough.
II was decided In Newark, on Friday, that
tho unauthorized taking of an umbrella Is
larceny For this offence John Price, a
former bookkeeper for VIM. H. Sc E. w.
McClave, was arrested and committed to Jail.
Ex-Governor Newell certainly showed that
he is appreciated at his home and adjoining
townships. Notwithstanding he is defeated,
this is worth something. Against any other
man McClelIan's majority would have been
larger by thousands. --Hightstoaon independ-
ent.
Gen. Mcclellan will now be COMMANDMENT
chief Of the New Jersey Militia and Admiral
of the Stevens Battery, SO that his genius as
a soldier will at last find scope to display it
self. without being hampered by the orders of
unsympathizng supeliors.
"I'm poor man and my father was coop
err, said an opponent Of Tom Marshal upon
one occasion. Doubtless his father was u
"copper" replied Tom, but he put mighty
poor head on his whiskey barrels"
weeden. the prize-fghter, died in the State
Prison recently. He was serving out a four
years sentence for killing his antagonist in a
prize fight at Pennsgrove, Salem county, some
time ago.
Rev. III. a. Hanaford, son of Mrs. Phoebe
A. Hanaford. of Jersey City Heights, who
has been Universalist minister, has renounc-
ed the faith of that denomination, and will
enter the Congregational ministry. He has
been proposed for membership in the Bethes-
da Church, Reading, Conn.
The Tribune rightly says that Tom Paine
q was at the best a narrow thinker, without
scholarship and not much more than dcx-
ferrous disputer. II lie were living in these
days of what is called religious liberalism, his
writings ON that subject would hardly attract
any attention at all
Speaker Randall used to drink hard Three
years ago this coming winter his neighbors
saw him brought home one day in an express
wagon, lying on the bottom Of the vehicle
dead drank, and he was lifted into his house
by four stout men to shake off his fit OF ine-
briation. But it was the last As soon as
he sobered he took vow Of total abstinence,
and has kept 1t.
The extreme length Of New Jersey. from
Carpenters Point to Cape May, is 1919 miles.
1t il narrowest in the middle; and from the
Delaware river, above Bordentown, to Rari-
tan Bay, is scarcely % miles, There are 81
counties, 225 townships, with an area of z $40
square miles.
Miller, Of Camden, N. j., goes to Jail, at
Trenton, for swindling Sunday-schools and
Churches. He had advertised stereoscopic
views of the Holy Land, but when people
sent him their money, he pocketed it and sent
them no views. He was caught in the act of
taking letters from the Camden Post Office -
His victims arc many.
FAST TIME.--One day last week the fast
est time on record on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road was made between Philadelphia and Jer-
sey City bv the limited express. The distance
was made in an hour and forty ght minutes.
Every mile from Philadelphia and Trenton
was made in 58 seconds. The passengers de-
clare that large stones were hurled against
the rear end of the train by the force OF air
raised by the passing cars.
Dover having a mad dog cxctement.-
One rabitl dog has been killed, aud several
other dogs are known to have been bitten,
and in consequences Mayor Richards has issn
ed proclamation authorizing the destruction
of all dogs found at large and unmuzzled
Within the corporate limits on and after the
17thinst.
A man named Matthew Lynch, of Neshan-
10, about three years ago drank some water
from pool in swamp. He fancied at the
time that he swallowed something beside
water, and has been troubled with queer feel
ings ever since. A few days ago no expert
enced an inor,linate thirst, and drank two
quarts of butternik. Shortly after he felt
sick, and soon vomited live lizard about
three inches long He feels better
The Philadelphia Ledger includes among
the large number of citizens who did not vote
last week the women OF the country who are
debarred from voting The Ledger thinks
there was hardly a member of the disfran-
chised sex " but had direct, though possibly
an unconscious interest in the result The
pure administration of justice, the jealous
prosecution of rogues and criminals are mat
tiers that concern the welfare of society: and
in oil SUCH all women and the mothers OF
children no less than the fathers, are vitality
Interested" This declaration in favor of wo-
mans right to the franchise will make the
ledger more popular than ever with the gent
Ter sex.
A MONSTER STEAMsHIr-The largest
steamship except the Great Eastern ever built
is now moored to the wharf of the French
Steamship Company, at Pier No. 80, North
River, New York She is named the Hooper.
This is her first trip to this country. She is
$50 feet over all, 55 feet broad and 36 feet
deep She is built OF iron and is registered
as 4. pas tons, but has Il capacity 900 tons,
exclusive of passengers. She has two COM
pound inverted engines of 400 nominal horse
power, and Is fitted with steam windlass,
winches, crane, and ballast and donkey en-
gines. In her are three cable tanks, one 43
feet in diameter and 30 feet Deep another 81
by so feet, and the third 81 by 80 feet In
the centre one Is stored $1,000 bushels of
corr I'm the spaces between these tanks she