The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-06-25

When the Republicans had majority in
Congress the Democratic press used TO make
great fuss over the appropriation of Sl25
to each member for stationery during tue two
sessions. Since the Democrats have come in
power, they have shown the sincerity OF their
reform professions in various ways to the Diet
rment of the Treasury, and on Monday fur
thcr amended the Legislative Appropriation
bill SO as to give each member $125 for sta
tlonery for the present extra session, which is
a clean steal and will take from the Treasury
about $4S, 600.
Tn an editorial comment on advertising
schemes, the Reading PENN Times says =
There are men who would rather spend $40
or $50 in the railcard and board nuisances,
which may be seen by few hundred people,
than to expend the same sum in their home
papers, where tens of thousands would see
their cards every day. This is an age of
newspaper reading, and the sooner business
men come to realize this fact in all its i'm
portance, the better it will be for business
generally, and the better it will be for them
selves"
The tbinnest folly attempted by the De-
mocracy in Congress was to unseat two Re-
publican members from Iowa, and construct
lively the whole Iowa delegation because they
Four opinions have been prepared by the
Committee on Privileges and Elections, but
all agree on the essential point that the men,
beers now holding are entitled to their seats.
If they had taken the other ground and un-
seated them, there would have been new
election and gain Of two Republican mem
bers. SO IL was cheap to be honest.
The Postmaster of New York has been sus-
tanned, by the Department at Washington, in
his recent order to return, if possible, all let.
tiers to the sender who fails to designate the
State in their address of letters. 1t is stated
over $4,000 letters are deposited daily in the
New York office with the name of tue State
omitted, and that though one-fifth of them
can be forwarded without mistake, the other
fourth fifths have to be guessed at.
Information has reached the Secret Service
Division of the Treasury Department that a
new counterfeit five dollar legal tender, note
has made its appearance in western New
York. 1t is of the series of 1875, and bears
the names of Allison, Register, and Wyman,
Treasurer. 1t sexecuted on printed imita-
ton Of fibre paper, which is lighter than the
genuine. The portrait of Jackson is good,
but the general appearance of the note is bad.
Bankers pronounce ita dangerous counterfeit.
Geo. w. Patterson, formerly member Of
Assembly from Monmouth county, was on
Thursday convicted in the Essex County Ses-
sions, Judge McCarter presiding, of having
libeled Henry S. Little, Clerk of the Court of
Chancery. Prosecutor Abeel moved for SEN
tence, and the Court fixed Monday, June 80,
AS the day on which it would be pronounced
Ex-Judge Beekman and the Hon. Charles
Haight, counsel for the accused. gave notice
of an intention to appeal from the verdict.
A legal gentleman in this city, says the
Norwich Bulletin, who had the settlement Of
violated contract put in his hands against a
man who had purchased place on the install
ment plan, in reply to mailed notice OF the
fact got the following brief statement "
bought my place on the embankment plan,
and although little behind in my instaa-
tiops, | hope soon to reciprocate my means
and liquify all claims against it,"
The Philadelphia North american says :
There are many strange things connected
with the through freight business. One Of
them is that it costs only five cents hundred
more to send meats from Chicago through
this city to Liverpool than is charged for
bringing the Same package from Now York to
this city by rail-
The standing challenge Of Senator Blaine
to the Democrats of Congress, To point out a
single authenticated instance of single man
privilege to vote by United States soldiers,
still remains unanswered. What a eommen-
tary upon tho ridiculous talk about military
despotism
Commonding the filnness of Senator Bay
ard in his opposition TO the Silver bill the ST.
Paul (Mipn) Pioneer Press (lSep.) remarks !:
Bayard should be carried around the coun-
try and exhibited in a tent as that rarest
bird in the political menagerie, a Democratic
even Democratic aspifant with
a spinal column.n
Secretary Robson declares that the cock
and bull story about plot to seize Mr.. Til
dcu, il he had been sworn in as President i'll
New York in 1876 published in the World a
few days ago, on the alleged authority of
General Woodford, is without even shadow
of truth. He expresses the belief that the
newspaper man who gave it to the World
it out Of the whole cloth.
Information has been received in London
from Cape Town, by way Of Madeira, that
Prince Louis Napoleon, the only son of Ma
poeon HI, was killed by Zulus, while he and
some officers were making military observa-
TONS The Prince received seventeen spear
and was discovered dead in a field Of
long grass. His death has caused great gloom
in Cape Town.
telegraph operator at Phillpsburg pro-
tects his cherry tree from the depredations of
the small boy by running number of wires
over it in connection with the battery 10 his
office. When the small boy touches one of
them he drops to the ground and runs off
bowling.
DIR. SHELTON, a wel-known citizen of Tren-
ton, died week before last.
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Nervous Debility! Nervous Debility
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