The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-04-03

The public debt statement for March shows
decrease of 81, 1913, GAIT.
Barnums ne KIT tour will be started SOON
and eighteen elephants will be one of the at
fractions.
Marriage is becoming fashionable among
the Catholic prize SITS Of Germany, the civil law
protecting them.
The total expenses of the recent war with
the Sioux Indians are officially stated to have
been s2,3l2,531
DIR. Dio Lewis says that the moment you
try to tell a workingman how to i've well for
the leas money, that moment he considers
you to be his enemy. This is also Miss Cor
sons experience.
The evidence against Hunter for instigating
the murder of Armstrong, in Camden, N. j.,
is accommodating daily. Hunter in his iron
cage in the Camden Jail, keeps up show of
pluck.
There is a rapidly growing feeling of indig-
nation throughout the State over the at
tempt to emasculate the six per cent law.
1t would be just like this Democratic Legis-
lature to cheat the people on this question
after all.
Real-estate in the vicinity of Atlantic City,
N. j., seems to have shrunk considerably in
value. The Cedar Grove property, near that
place, containing 397 acres, sold the other day
for So, S45 at Sheriff's sale. A few years ago
it was valued at $1,000
St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, of
Burlington, celebrated the one hundred and
seventy-fifth anniversary of it's foundation on
Monday. Bishop Scarborough, d. D., of
Trenton, presiding. The city of Burlington
was settled 200 years ago, and st. Mary's
Church was founded 20 years after.
Cough, Hoarseness, Asthma, or any Irrita-
tion of the Throat or Bronchial Tubes, will
be relieved by taking Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup
1t has cured thousands. Recommend it to
your friend and neighbour Your druggist
keeps it. Price, 25 cents.
Six PER CENT.-In the House of Assem-
bly, on last Friday morning a motion was
made to reconsider the bill allowing contracts
to be made in this State for seven per cent.
interest, and the bill is now in a position to
be taken up at any time,
Madam Restele, the celebrated abortionist
of New York city, after accommodating for
tune at her business, committed suicide by
cutting her throat in her bath tub yesterday,
being certain of conviction and imprisonment
for her offences against the laws of God and
man.
The independent suggests that If people are
really in earnest about fasting during Lent
they ought not to stop with meat only but to
knock off such selfish indulgences as tobacco
and liquors for the space of forty days. There
would be some sense in that kind of self de-
NAL.
Mr.. J. B. Knight, the expert of the Frank
lin Institute, of Philadelphia, has examined
the "Keely Motor" and pronounces it a
fraud the power shown by Keely being sim
ply the effects of compressed air. Professor
Cressor also tested the vapor from the motor
and found 1t to be simply atmospheric air,
composed of oxygen and nitrogen.
The Pope received ex-President Grant, his
wife and son on Saturday. Bishop Chatard,
rector of the American College, awaited Gen.
Grant in the hall of the Swiss Guard and ac-
companied him to the Pope's apartments.
Cardinal McCloskey presented him to the
Pope, who received him with every mark of
distinction.
Hon. Charles Sitgreaves died at Phillips
burg, March 10th, 1878, aged rs years. His
public life was an editor, Member of Assem-
bly,, Member of the Senate, Member of Con-
gress four years from this District President
of tho Belvidere Railroad Company, Presi-
dent Of the Phillipsburg Bank from its iusti-
tuition to his death, and the first Mayor OF
Phillipsburg.