The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-03-13

10 tue temperance pIcdge IN the CITY Oh ASH
ington.
Jessie Van Ripper of Chestnut Ridge, Bergen
county, shot an owl few days ago, which
measured four feet from tip to tip of wings.
A large muskrat was killed in front of the
/ Episcopal Church at Freehold on Saturday.
He had evidently set ont to see the world, but
his tour was brief
The Rev. w. B. Osborn, late of the New
Jersey Conference, has been appointed Pre-
siding Elder in the Southern India Confer
ence. s.g 40
/ The Ferracute Machine Company of Bridge
ton shipped some of their valuable and inn
| proved machinery to japan last week. One
/ of the fruits of the Centennial.
| Vineland has wakened up on the temper
ance question. Her township committee is
after the Illicit vendors, three of them having
| been arrested, ane held for trial.
sEx- Mayor Comstocl, Of Phillpsburg, has
started bakery inthat town. The first pro-
duction of his oven, consisting of $50 loaves
of bread, was distributed among the deserv-
! ing poor of that town.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has deter
mined to destroy a large accumulation of
PLATES on which the notes of various denomin-
ations of nearly three hundred defunct nation
al banks were printed.
Jay l.. Adams, wel-known butter dealer
in Sussex aud adjoining counties, failed last
week, owing to complications with New Or
leans House. The liabilities of the two
houses are over 81, 100000.
A Philadelphia gentleman, the owner of
what is known as the Methodist Seminary at
Vineland, has agreed to give twenty thous-
and dollars towards having the building COM
tafz Inc ps..
The mortgage upon the Free Methodist
Church in Dover, has been foreclosed, and the
property is now in the hands Of the Sharif,
who has advertised it fer sale on the Goth of
April next.
The Coroner's jury in the case of Catharine
Foley, who was burned to death by the ex-
plosion of a kerosene oil lamp, In Jersey City,
recommended legislation forbidding the sale
of oil that will fash at a temperature below
1000 Fahrenheit.
Potato bug items are beginning to appear in
the Connecticut papers, together with miser-
able prognostics as to the result of next sea-
sons crop. At Montvile, recently, bug was
unearthed at depth of IS inches, and wis as
frislsy and full of enthusiasm as if it was mid
summer a ess
Mothers will grow weary and sigh over the
responsibility that Baby places upon them,
but they have the high privilege of shaping
character FOR usefulness. The exercise of pa
thence and the preservation of Baby's health
by the proper use of DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup
will give them great present comfort and
prospective happiness. 20 cents per bottle.
The British Foreign Secretary admitted on
Thursday night, that the treaties of 1856 and
1871 have been virtually anuulled by the re-
suits Of the war. He spoke of the coming
C.,,, fot,o
task Of the nogotiators very complicated. The
Russians are constructing intrenchments
which confront the Turkish lines protecting
the US..lipoli peninsula.
caEph Parker captured one day last week
at Barnegat Inlet a beautiful specimen OF .ne
sea dog or seal. The animal measured tour .7e'
and four inches in length and weighed lie lbs.
This is the second OF this species killed by
Caliph this past month. Quite number OF
the animals have been sporting about the in
let this winter. During the severe cold wealth
er four years ago they were very numerous.
Struck OL.-An oil-well, which in a cou-
pie of hours yielded five barrels of petroleum,
has been discovered in Wilmington, Delaware.
The discovery was made by Alexander Giles
pie, while at work in his cellar digging a well
to take off surface water. The oil is almost
entirely free from impurities and is unmis-
takably petroleum. The matter has attract
ed good deal of attention, and the flow of
the oil, which at present shows no sign of |
stopping, is watched with great interest.
THE Coal REaIoNs.---A Wilkesbarre dis
patch says The Lehigh Valley and Frank
lin Coal Companies will suspend operations
tonight for the balance of the month. This |
completes general suspensions in the region, |
as the Riverside Delaware and Hudson and |
the Iehigh aud Wilksbarre Companies are al.
ready idle. This is owing to the fact that the |
quota allowed this section by the combination |
has been filed. The Lehigh Valley Company
worked but three days this month.
The Dover correspondent Of the Jerseyman
says that the proprietor of the Sickle House
was agreeably surprised on Tuesday by re-
ceving an express package containing fifty |
dollars 1t seems that about thirteen years |
ago a boarder left in the night time under
mysterious circumstances leaving the land. |
lord n mourner to the extent of the above |
sum, as well rs others who had trusted him. |
Since that time he has not been heard from
until the cash was received last week.
PREPARINe FOR THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. |
The widest excitement prevails among
some of the citizens of 'rrigg County, Ken
lucky, living near the Tennessee river, over
the apprehension of the immediate coming of
the day of final Judgment. Many of them
nave dDonuoheu All business, have turned |
their stock loose TO range through the woods,
and cutting themselves loose from the con-
temptation of all earthly affairs, they go from
house to house singing and praying for the
eventful day.
VIOLENT Snow SToRM--The most violent
snow storm yet known at Cheyenne, Wyom-
ing Territory, began at IL o'clock on Thurs
day night, and continued until Saturday noona
The wind blew at the rate of fifty to sixty
four miles an hour, and drifted the snow into |
banks ten to fifteen feet high in the town.
The storm ragged from Bitter, Creek on the
west to Julesburg on the east. A number of |
trains on the Union Pacific, Denver Pacific |
and Colorado Central Railroads are bocka-
ded. Communication with the North, with |
en- many freight outfits are travelling, is sew
cred, and loss of stock, il not of human lives,
is feared. A telegram from Sydney, Neb., |
says the storm ragged there until Sunday morn
ing. Sundays kilograms from Cheyenne re-
port the railroads still blocked, snow filling /
the cuts, but endeavors are making to clear /
the tracks. The storm extended over 400 T
miles of country. from west to east.
LIGHTNING STRrKING Down AN INcoRRr-
CHILE ScorFER IN A HOUSE OF PRAYER-A I
cta ayant that noc,,rra.l -. tN.l-...l..-