The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-02-19

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IN The burning Of the store Of John A.
Giflaers, a. Asbury Park, on Sunday, the Of
lice Instruments and books of tho Western
Union Telegraph Company were destroyed.
Thomas English, aged 10 years, foreman Of
track gang on the Central Railroad Of New
Jersey. was struck by an engine and killed in
deep cut near PhiIlipsburg, on Monday
night.
II. G. Chisholm. messenger in the Executive
Mansion at Harrisburg, is son of the man
murdered by Mississippi mob in 1871 His
moFher % o clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment ct Washington.
There were twenty-eight tramps in the
Phillipsburg lock up on Monday night and on
tuesday morning they were put to work
cleaning out the ice in the cutters on the
streets, after which they were given some
lunch.
One of the jurors in the Smith murder case,
now being tried in the Hudson County Court,
having become insane, the whole proceedings
will have to DO gone over again. The new
trial is set down for Monday, March 5.
A convict ia Syracuse Pententiary has
written out rules for the government Of his
fellow prisoners. They prohibit all acts not
IN accordance with decency and good order,
and Tx as the penalty for Offences the expul-
sion of the guilty party from the institution.
The late convention of the New Jersey Sab
bath Union, ii Newark, strenuously advocat-
ed the stopping of Sunday trains and one
gentleman said that Col. Tom Scott, W. II.
Vanderbilt. It. Wolcott Jackson and others,
were heartily in favor of the project.
Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, occupied the
chair of the President of the Senate for some
hours on Friday afternoon, and discharged
the duties of the position in dignifed and
graceful manner. IL was the first time in the
history Of the country that a colored man had
presided over that body.
The Elmira Advertiser takes this view of
the matter 1.-The game is to use Pelton as
scapegoat. He was the chap who did all
the business in Tilden's own parlor without
Tildens knowledge. 1t was bad enough for
these gentlemen to be knaves. bnt when they
assume that the people are fools the matter is
sadly overdone.o
The Calcutta correspondent of the London
Times telegrapls that s"Col. Percy Wyndham,
a distinguished soldier of fortune, formerly
with Garibaldi, and with the Northern army
in the hmericaL civil war, hGs been killed AT
Rangoon in attempting balloon ASCENSION"
He commanded the First New Jersey Cavalry
during the war;
Several important appointments affecting
the political future of Pennsylvania were re-
Gently made by President Hayes. Ex-Gov-
ernor lartranft was appointed to be post
master Mt Philadelphia James Pollock to be
naval officer at Philadelphia I, and A. Louden
Snowden to be superintendent of the Phia-
dlphia mint.
The Bridgeton rolling mills are now run
ming on a contract from tire Phmnixvile Iron
Works, on some iron for the ,elevated railroad
in New York, the Phenixville mill, working
on the same contract, not having capacity of
their own to turn out the amount Off used
in the construction of this railroad, within
the specified time
The Philadelphia Press rather caustically
observes 1T is somewhat singular that
whenever noted New Yorker is badly want
ed III court, he immediately becomes alarm
ingly i'll. We hope Nephew Pelton's health
will improve, AS the public would like to
know just how much money no had at the
time he was trying TO buy the Presidency
without Mr. Tilden's knowledge"