The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-12-11

John S. Morton, the bond forger, speculat-
ed and peculated under spiritual mediumistic
advice.
Revenue officers have destroyed $50 illicit
distieries and arrested 300 moonshiners in
Tennessee within thirteen months.
There is we'll founded rumor that the
Baldwin locomotive works are to be removed
to the banks OF the Delaware, between Brides
burg and Tacony.
GENTS fine calf boots, sewed and extra
good quality, only $500, at Twins. d.4
William Van Houten, Newark hoodlum,
aged seventeen, was committed to Jail for trial
on Friday for attacking his mother with
hammer and threatening to kill her.
A silyer-grey fox was killed few days ago
at place called Ash Swamp, near Scotch
Plains, Union county. Two others of the
same species were seen at the same time.
Joseph DUEL, farmer in Salem county,
on about fifteen acres of land planted this
season $4,000 hills of sweet potatoes, and
gathered therefrom 4, $50 baskets.
A butcher wagon was struck by train on
the Paterson Railroad, at Bellville, on Thurs
day morning. The wagon was demolished,
and the owner received injuries which it is
feared will prove fatal.
"When the swallows homeward fly" then
is the time when coughs and colds begin to
appear. DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup cures every
case.
Blaine's resolution for an investigation into
Southern election outrages is to be pushed
The Democrats, it is thought, will seek to
have the investigation include New York and
Massachusetts.
The conference of National Greenbackers,
which met at Washington on Monday night,
recommend the holding of convention of the
party in the capital of each State GU the 22nd
of next February, to perfect its organization.
A sea lion, weighing 1876 pounds, three feet
eleven inches long and thirty three inches in
circumference, was captured on the west
bank of the Hackensack river, about two
miles below the town, on Friday.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his lee
ture on 1.-THE Wastes and Burdens of Soci-
ety." claims "man's natural life to be 80
years, and as the average life is but 80 years
there must be waste of AZ years" There
is much of truth in this statement
The Republicans elected their whole city
ticket in New Haven, Conn, on Tuesday, by
considerable majorities over the Democratic
and Greenback candidates New Haven has
been, for some years, in the habit of giving
about 1900 Democratic majority
The Church of the Holy Comforter, at
Railway, was ntered recently and the contri-
button box brok en- open. There was but lit
tie in it, and the thieves were poorly paid
for their trouble.
Mems fine calf Congress CATERS, only
SO. so every pair warranted, at Twins New
Yor,. Store d.4.
The failure of the West of England bank
is said to have caused the utmost consterna-
ton in South Wales. The liabilities of this
monster concern are SIT $780, 900, and even
partial loss of this enormous sum must cause
widespread ruin and distress.
"Congressman Singleton, of Mississippi"
observes the Tribune, ais credited with the
perspicacious observation that the Democrats
have certainly got hold of the hot end of the
poker in this cipher business They have,
they have and the worst of it is can't let
go, squirm they never so hard"
Berlin correspondent of the ChristSan
Union sends the unwelcome news that the
German Socialists are to be shipped to this
country in great number. While in all prob
ability, few will approve of the remedy the
writer proposes there is little doubt but the
influx of this disturbing element in any con-
siderable quantity may reasonably alarm those
who are interested in the social and political
welfare of our people.