The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-05-01

horse cars should run on the Sabbath, and
majority of 667 decided that they should.
Ocean Grove and Asbury Park have resolv-
ed to become joint possessors of steam fire
engine.
The Burlington County Court, last week,
granted thirty three licenses for hotels, and
rejected five applications.
By very large majority the members of
both Houses of Congress are opposed to any
more agitation of the Presidential controver-
sy.
| A Texas paper has an estimate that the
number of immigrants into Kansas this seas
on will reach 500, 900, and it is worried about
! it, thinking its own State is to suffer.
The strike of the cotton operatives in Eng
land is extending and there does not seem to
be much probability of an immediate settle
ment
A freight car ran off the track at the State
street bridge, Trenton, last evening, and tore
up the track for short distance, but no one
was injured.
Mr. Benjamin Odds, who used to publish the
Farmers Almanac at New Brunswick nearly
60 years ago, is still living, at the advanced
age of 80 years.
The proprietors of one of the silk mills at
Paterson paid their hands $4,000 on Satur-
day in gold, the first paid out in Paterson in
II years.
The Gloucester City Savings Institution
commenced on Saturday to pay out gold over
its counter, it being the first banking institu-
ton in the State to take this step.
William Tilman, cologed, while dressing up
coal pit beyond Cookstown, Burlington
county, last week. fell through and was burnt
to death.
| Benjamin Moves, recently arrested in Wash
ington, was arraigned in Newark, on Friday,
for perjury, and pleaded not guilty. His
trial was set down for the 9Th of May
NEW York, April 22.--Willam Orion,
President of the Western Union Telegraph
Company died at his residence this morning,
aged 90 years.
Fortify the body against disease by purify
| ing the blood with DR.. Bulls Blood Mixture.
Thus forearmed, wou will not be attacked by
sickness.
They have just sent man to the peniten-
tiary for two years in Mississippi for "prowl-
ing in mask !" but as yet they have done
nothing to the Democratic citizens who MUIR
dered Judge Chisholm and his daughter.
President Hayes visited Philadelphia on
| Wednesday, when the city was gay with flags
and bunting. He and family stopped at the
Continental and visited Paramount and the
Union League Club House.
Caleb Cushing, who is 70 years of age, and
who had national reputation forty years
ago, is talked of as candidate for Congress
in Massachusetts district. His faculties are
said to BIO just as good as ever.
The other night tramp slept under the
wagon shed of Lowe & Bro, at Phllipsburg,
and after he had departed in the morning his
set of false teeth were found lying where he
had slept.
From the sworn statements of the officers
of the different railroad companies in New
Jersey, it appears that 101 persons were kill
ed and 269 injured by railroad accidents dur
ing 1877.
A Pennsylvania exchange speaks of an old
lady who is afflicted with o watch stealing
kleptomania. She ought to be called I" Old
Procrastination." The thief of time you
know
Joseph Watson, aged is, an apprentice in
the Office of the West Jersey Press, Camden,
fell from the third floor of the building
through the hatchway, on Monday, and re-
oeived injuries that it is feared win prove
fatal.
Mayor McGeorge, OF Woodbury., has issued
a proclamation directing strict enforcement
Of the ordinance of the city forbidding the
running at large of unmuzzled dogs during
the Spring and Summer months.
Four hundred and eighty boats were load
ed at Port Delaware since the opening of nav
igation on the Morris Canal, on March Goth
ult., up to noon on Thursday, making an av-
erage of nineteen boats per day.
A citizens committee of Cape May recon-
mended the appropriation of $1,000 by the
| 10 oIv ha 10
time they took some action to maintain their
popularity against the activity of their rivals.
The reunion of the Army of the Potomac
and the National Encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be held at Spring
field, Mass, on the 9th and 9th of June
President Hayes and most of the distinguish
cd army officers are expected to be present.
Three boys, dime novel readers, aged re-
spectively, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, of
Brooklyn, captured at the Pennsylvania Rail
road depot at Jersey City, were going West
to kill Indians and lead wild life generally,
armed with knives, slung- shots and loaded
canes. Capital stock, So.
The body of a lttc boy named David
Wright, was found in creek near the Novel
ty Rubber Works, New Brunswick, on Mon
day Morning. The child had been missing
since Sunday afternoon, and it is thought he
fell into the water while playing about yacht
anchored close by,
John Badow, of Railway, shot bald eagle
on Monday morning near the Dye Works.
The bird is the first that has made its appear
ance in that city for years. 1t measured a
trife over five and half feet from tip to tip,
and its mate was much larger bird but kept
itself out of range of the marksman.
The walking match at Paterson, thirty-six
hours continuously, between Miss Won Sauls-
burg, and Captain J. II. Miligan was finish
ed on Monday, and was won by the latter.
At tho conclusion of the match the lady chal-
lenged the captain to walk against time. The
challenge was accepted, but no time was
specified.
The World of Sunday week published a
story about man who invented perpetual
motion thirty years ago, took his machine to
n country fair in Monmouth county to exhibit
it and was arrested. The Judge ordered the
machine to be broken to ascertain whether a
spring was not the motive power, and the in
ventor died of broken heart.
An entertainment was given on Wednesday