The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-08-14


The Burlington people are having troub-
lesome time over the laying of the new water
pipe. The contractor estimated the cost of
labor to be one dollar per day, but when this
was offered the laboring men of Burlington
they refused to accept When new men were
obtained who would work for one dollar per
day, the discontinued parties hindered them
from their work by hooting aud other mani
festatons of displeasure.
Forty-f four new cases of yellow fever and
twelve deaths were reported in New Orleans
on Friday. The fever is epidemic in the first
and second districts of the city, and there are
occasional cases in other districts. The dis
ease being of a mild type, the Health Board
continues quarantine against vessels from
other infected ports, to prevent the introduce
ton of more malignant type. Sister Loyola
Lawler, of Pttsburg, died of the disease on
Thursday. -Four new cases of fever were re.
ported on Friday at Port Ends. At this place
the cases are pronounced by DIR. Stone s'the
worst he ever experienced"
The failure of Jay Cooke s. Co., five years
ago, will hold a sad prominence in the history
of the financial ard business troubles of the
present time. At a meeting of the creditors
in Philadelphia on Monday, plan of settle
ment of the vast liabilities, over eight million
dollars, was proposed. Forty per cent. it is
thought will be realized from the estate.
A Newburg dispatch says A shark eight
feet long was caught in a sturgeon net near
Verplanck's Point, on the Hudson, on Sun
day afternoon. 1t was pulled to the beach
and killed.
An editorial in the Washington Republican
says the Government is determined to stop
the raids on the Mexican border at all haz-
ards, and that it is not improbable that there
may be conflict with the Mexican forces.
Rev. Herman Bokum, German preacher
who was driven from Tennessee during the
Rebellion because of his loyalty, and who was
afterward somewhat noted as Republican
speaker, died at Germantown few days ago.
Terence Dolan of Jersey City, was arrest
ed on Monday, for beating his wife over the
head with potato masher. Mrs. Dolan was
severely injured.
Up to noon on Monday the cases of yellow
fever reported at Grenada, Miss, reached 100.
Ten additional deaths had occurred since
Sunday noon.
George w. Baker, of Jersey City, Division
Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
is dangerously i'll at the White Mountains
A special car has been sent ON to bring him
home.
II is stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company makes great saving in fuel by
the simple device of allowing the firemen
half the coal saved out of specified amount
for running the trains.
Bostonians are complaining of the reap
pearance of worms upon their trees, despite
the multitudes of sparrows, supposed to be
their destroyers. They will probably soon
find the sparrows humbug.
Vast swarms of grasshoppers have appear
ed in the extreme Northwest, and are moving
Eastward. Farmers in Dakota, and other re-
gions lying in the pathway of the oncoming
plague, are hastily harvesting their wheat.
A few of the colonsts who went from Sus-
sex county in this State, and Orange county,
New York, last Fall, and who did not get
homesick and come back before they had Civ
en- the country fair trial, are meeting with
success in Texas, according to the Middletown
Argus, and send back favorable accounts of
the country.
Marble declares " all Tilden's fights are
won by moral forces" Apgar is one of the
moral forces. Times The bar'l and
the man with the branded nose from Oregon
are two more.
Baltis Titman, of Warren county, has pig
weighing about fifty pounds that has eight
perfectly shaped feet.