The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-07-24

land was held in Camden on Tuesday of last
week, for the purpose Of completing arrange
ments for sending Samuel A. Cook to Eng
land to get possession of the property. His
offer to collect the vast amount at 10 per cent.
has been accepted and some $4,000 is to be
raised to pay his expenses. The members
present were quite hopeful under the represen-
tations made that the connecting link in the
heirship had been found, and that removed
all bar to their becoming possessed of the
property, amounting to some $500, 600, 000.-
Mr.. Cook will start for England 10 short
time.
! The European Congress is over and peace
more or less permanent has been secured
That there will be wars, notwithstanding the
Berlin treaty of 1878, may be concluded from
the fact that the key to Russia's back door
still remains in the hands of the Turk, aud is
more directly guarded by Great Britain than
ever before. But for the present, at least,
the treaty will be respected, and all people,
hearing that the Turks are to be compelled
| by the powers to abandon the persecution of
Christians as such will join in the rejoicing
of the German press that such result has
been achieved without general European
war.
The total number of deaths from sunstroke
in St. Louis, on Monday of last week, was
81. Five horses in one stable, valued at ST.
900, died from the effects of heat on the Sun
day previous. In Chicago, on Tuesday of last
week, the temperature reached 30 in the
shade and % cases of sunstroke were report
ed, six fatal. Throughout Iowa and Illinois,
in the early part of last week, the tempera-
ture ranged from 30 to 100, and one or more
deaths from the heat are reported from near
ly every town. At Leavenworth, Kansas,
there were IA cases of snnstroke and deaths
on Sunday and Monday.
The trial of the Rev. Elias Mead, pastor of
the Reformed Church of Keyport. on charg-
es of un- Christian conduct, has been conclud-
ed, the members of the Chassis who cousti-
tuted the Court, bringing in an unanimous
verdict of acquittal. Mr.. Mead did not sum
up. but simply rested his case on the common
sense of the ministers, and retired to await
the verdict. Not one of the charges which
we're preferred against him was sustained
MIR. Mead remains pastor of the church as
formerly.
KILLED BY AN EXPLODING WHIsKEY BAR
REL.-A most remarkable accident occurred
at Steubenville, o., ON Thursday. AS little
son of John Slaugherty, a saloon keeper, was
playing in his fathers barroom he happened
to jostle against barrel containing two or
three gallons of whiskey A frightful explos-
ion followed, the barrel being blown into frag-
ments killing the boy instantly The barrel
stood beside window through which the sun
shone very warmly, and it is supposed this
generated gas sufficient to produce an ex-
plosion.
A young lady who was in attendance at a
party at Phllipsburg ON Monday evening,
had a small sponge filled with vitriol thrown
at her, which landed on her neck and worked
its way down her back and burned her in sew
eral places. It was the act of a saloon keep
er down on the flats who should be made to
suffer the full penalty that the law allows in
such cases. The physician who was called on
to administer the proper antidotes gives it as
his opinion that the act was maliciously done.
There is very effective temperance sermon
in dispatch from indianapolis. 1t remarks
that the heat wave had prevailed there in
great severity for the past week, but no
deaths from sunstroke had occurred, adding !:
Every little drinking of stimulants is indulg-
ed in here, and to this fact is attributed the
great exemption from fatal prostration. ~
There is no doubt that temperance in all
things and especially in stimulating drinks,
is one of the very best and surest preventives
of sunstroke.
The workingmans great aim is to obtain in
return for days work the largest amount of
purchasable comforts-raiment shelter, and
food. During the war; at inflated prices, it
required months wages of a workngman
to purchase a decent suit of clothes. Now
better suit can be had for weeks wages |!
Which then are best for the workingman p
Initiation or honest rates?
Hundreds of Democratic rifles and pistols
attended nearly every Republican meeting in
South Carolina during the canvass of 1876,
and thousands of the same persuasive elements
surrounded the State House and compelled
Governor Chamberlain to reiinquish the Office
to which he was legally elected by the people,
The same Instruments inaugurated Wade
Hampton" local self-government'
And now, by the Democratic policy of mid
night raids, terror, and the most brutal vio-
lence, solid South having been assured all
the way around to Arkansas, the Democracy
gravely congratulate the country on the
fact that state of peace in accordance with
the constitution and laws has been reached in
our Southern States" The peace of DEATH
1t is not generally known. and our farmers
will do well to remember, that there is law
which places fine of fifty dollars on every
farmer who does not cut down and clear his
fields and fence corners of a weed known as
the wild carrot, so abundant in our neglected
fields, and at this time of the year in full
bloom. Farmers, destroy this noxious weed
Tho Secretary OF the Treasury holds over
$500, 900, 900 of coin and bullion. This will
become part of the currency of the country
as soon rs coin payment is resumed, carrying
the circulating money up to more than $780,
100000. Why should this not be done al
oncep 1t is an expensive folly to hold SO
much coin as commodity, when only word
is wanted to change it into money.
The voice of reform is heard through the
land, and speaks of the "good time coming"
So too the spirit of reform is working in the
nurseries of the land to Danish those danger
Gus Opium and Morpha preparations, and es-
tablish useful and harmless remedies, of which
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup is acknowledged as
the very best for all the disorders of Baby
hood and early Childhood. Sold everywhere
at 25 cents q bottle.
The Postal Department of the Government
must be in a fourishing condition, il we are
to judge by the demands made upon it for
stamps and postal cards. On Saturday
the acquisitions amounted to 1884, 492 for
stamps. The number of postal cards receiv-
ed by this Department on the same day was
4,254, 900. This would seem to indicate an
improvement in general business.
Under an irredeemable paper currency
:" absolute money the prices of articles of