The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-08-13


1t is estimated that there are 900, COG, 900
sheep in the world.
There are 100000 openings in mans
skin. But when you go to Texas be careful
yon do not get the 1000 001tl. 1t is the last
one that causes the coroner to sit on fellow.
A party of Philadelphia capitalists have
purchased Five Mile Beach, above Cape May,
with view to building up a new Summer re-
sort there.
If there is any thing in the Survival of the
fittest y pr. Bulls Baltimore Pills must be
"counted In >; they have lived long and do
better work than ever.
The result of the election in Kentucky, as
expounded by the Louisville Courier Journal
(Dem.): Taken altogether we bave done
nothing to be proud of"
The Corinth Miss Record thus expresses
itself: We must arouse from our lethargy,
aud, IL necessary to the success and vindica-
ton of the Democratic party-the great party
of the people-resort to desperate measures.
Mr.. Brice Pursell, while engaged in quar-
rying stone on Thursday in the quarry OF Mr..
Abraham Edinger, near Carpenterville had
his foot literally mashed from stone falling
upon it. 1t is hoped that amputation will not
be ultimately necessary.
It appears that tho Pennsylvania Railroad
Company does not propose to sit still and al
low the Reading to seize the major part of its
Philadelphia travel by the removal of its depot
to Ninth and Green streets, and so has re-
solved to carry its own depot down to Fiji
teenth and Market.
The Newark Germans have fully resolved
N m "a tho mr. n laaat n unndiftCa tinn
of the Sunday laws, an issue at the next elect
ion, and meetings have been held and COM
mittees appointed with that end in view in
several of the wards. Immediate action will
be taken.
A Greenback orator in Maine was violently
denouncing Secretary Sherman as Shylock,
when an impatient log-cutter asked him who
Shylock was The orator advised him then
and there to go home and read his Bible. He
will probably have to examine the Book very
closely to find out much about the Merchant
of Venice
A foreign gentleman said to an employee
on one of our railroads, " What is the next
train to so-and-so ?" No. A, sir /; but she
is late because No. 10, which is just behind
IL, is not going out before 16 backs up before
5. Then % will go out before your train gets
in TO let II come up on the track where 8 is"
answers given by. railroad employees in re-
ply to questions by travellers.
Considering the recent frauds in Georgia,
the Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle says, with
much pertnency :" The Investigations made
by the Legislature implicated number OF
men in questionable transactions, which, had
they occurred under one of the so-called car
pet bag administrations in the South, would
have furnished virtuous Democratic editors
theme for pious bowling that would have been
inexhaustible. But now it 10 their OK that is
gored, and they hayen't word to say
The Rev. John Graham, ID. D., of Bright
on, England, lost his life while bathing In the
surf at Cape May, on the 26th nit, having
venture out too far. The body was recover
ed through the brave efforts Of DIR. Grabam's
niece, Miss Bessie Graham. She secured the
drowning man and chung to the pier with
him until aid reached her. when the doctor
was found to be dead. The cause of his death
is said to have been congestion of the brain,
resulting from fright.
Blackburn, the newly elected Governor of
Kentucky, is said to be the dastardly villain
who, during the war, Ient large quantities of
clothing infected with small pox, to North.
err cities. 1t was charged upon him during
the recent canvass by responsible Republican
journals and never noticed or denied Modern
Democracy seems to be steadily veering to-
wards justification and remand of the very
worst phases of the rebellion.
No better illustration of the difference be-
tween tho course of yellow fever in south
western city aud the same disease in a north
ern hospital can be mentioned than that found
in the recent experience at the Quarantine
Hospital at the Lazaretto, nine miles down
the Delaware from Philadelphia. Here, some
two or three weeks ago, San Domingo brig
arrived with nine men on board, seven OF
lost several men by death on her voyage. The
sick men, one of whom the temporary cap
tain of the vessel, was very low indeed, were
placed la the hospital, and now they are all
cured There was not fatal
case.