The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-08-21


The Ocean Grove camp meeting began on
Monday, to continue ten days.
The Potter Committee hasn't yet invest-
gated the attempt to buy an electoral vote for
Tilden in Oregon.
The Methodist Episcopal camp meeting
near Toms River will remain open until the
26th inst.
Work continues lively at the locomotive
shops at Paterson, and is likely to be so for
some time to come, and it is hoped perman-
emily.
Some of the oldest inhabitants of Cape
May say that the sea has advanced some three
hundred yards on the land during the last
forty years.
Nettie Gunther, little girl nine years of
age, living in Hoboken, was badly bitten on
Monday by Spitz dog owned by Gustav An
gerstein. The dog was shot by an officer.
The Pennsylvania Railroad intend to intro
duce bells having only two tones, one for the
freight and the other for the passenger en-
gines, so that the difference can readily be dis
tinguished by the sound.
The corner stone of the Memorial Presby-
terrain Church, Newark, was laid on Monday
afternoon. Rev. w. t. Findley delivered the
address, and Rev. DIR. Brinsmade laid the cor
ner-stone.
Health Inspector Cronn on Friday inform
the Superintendent of the Jersey City Gene
terry that the bodies now kept in the vaults of
the company must be buried at once, or COM
plant would be made to the Grand Jury.
The last thing in the world any man but its
owner would be likely to want is horse car
conductors bell punch, yet Springfield ave-
nue. (Newark) conductor, had one stolen re-
Gently while eating his dinner.
The conductor on the train between Bur-
lington and Mt. Holly, day or two since, at
tempted to eject two persons from the cars
who refused to pay their fare, when they as
saulted him. He finally had them arrested
and committed for trial.
The Elizabeth Journal says Burlington
College has been closed for six months, and
is abaLdoued and ST. Mary's Hall, that cele-
brated school for girls, which formerly had
many more than hundred pupils, had last
year only fifty-six.
The Rev. Charles Larew, pastor of the
Franklin Street Methodist Church, Newark,
is charged with having, on July 2, married
Mary Kirwan, to Horace Quimby, of Verona,
each being only sixteen years old. An inves-
tigaton will be made on the return of Mr..
Larew, who is now in the country.
The Patterson Press says: A colony of nine
tramps are housed in barn near the New
Jersey Midland, at Hawthorne, and that they
secure considerable money by tattooing let
ters and devices on the arms of the people of
the surrounding country. The other day they
managed to purchase whole key of lager
Then they got jolly tight and shouted like
demons.
The mushroom-like growth of some of the
western towns is well illustrated by Leadvile,
Colorado. Ten months ago gold was dscov-
cred in paying quantities in an abandoned
gulch at that place, which at that time was
absolutely deserted. To-day it is city of
over 5000 inhabitants, with a stock exchange,
several fourishing banks and two daily news
papers.
The Camp Meeting at Ocean Grove began
on Monday, and promises to be unusually in
teresting. Many eminent ministers are al
ready on the ground, and others are expected.
Rev. Cyrus ID. Fox, D. D., President of Wes-
leyan University, Middletown, Conn.,, preach
ed superb sermon on last Sunday morning,
and was followed in the evening by Rev. J..
L. Sooy, of Lexington, Ky. Mr.. Sooy, it will
be remembered, was lately pastor of State
Street NJ. E. Church, Trenton, and preached
an eloquent and scholarly discourse, as usual.