The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-05-21

not impressive.
The Summer flight to Europe has begun in
earnest. Six steamers left New York on Sat-
urday all crowded with passengers.
The grasshoppers are reported as having
reappeared iu Nebraska and eating up every
green thing as fast as it comes up.
No one can think clearly when suffering
with Headache. DR.. Bulls Baltimore Pills
will Danish this disagreeable ailment. Price
% cents.
A new Lodge of Odd Fellows, TO take the
place of the defunct Railway Lodge, NO. 80,
is to be instituted al Mount Holly on Friday
night.
The forest fires which have been ranging in
Sussex county in this State, and Pike county,
Pa, were extinguished by heavy rains on FRI
| day.
peach crop in Maryland and Delaware will be
unprecedented this year, both as to quality
and quantity.
New Jersey does not elect a United States
Senator next year. Senator Randolph's term
expires March 4th, 1881, and the election
takes place in January of that year.
| Young men who are tempted to respond to
the cry of westward, no " should not for
| get that there are several years of good hoe
ing left in New Jersey yet.
| Judge Asa Packer died at Philadelphia on
Saturday night in the seventy-fourth year of
his age. Going into Pennsylvania from Con-
necticut, at the age of seventeen, with his
| pack on his back and $50 in his pocket be
left an estate valued at $20,000,000.
| Robert Hoagland, professionally known as
Robert Cavella, balloon trapeze performer,
died at his home in Bound Brook, on Thurs
day from the effect of injuries received by
fall while performing at Ph@nixville, Pa, in
| September last
Representative Robson is preparing a
speech upon the latest form of the State rights
| fight, namely, the bill to prevent the United
States from protecting it's officers in the
South from prosecutions in the local courts
for acts done in the discharge of their duties.
The body of an unknown man was found
suspended from tree by a new rope in Gre
gorys woods, near Gutenberg, ON Friday
morning. The dead man was about twenty
five years old, and evidently German His
face was we'll sfaven, and the clothing was of
good quality
James Finley a boy fifteen years of age, re-
siding in Newark, was fatally injured, near
Broadway, on the Morris Canal, on Wednes-
day. He was driving mule team attached
to a canal boat, when one of the mules kick
ed him in the stomach, injuring him SO that
he died in about two hours after.
Charles Miller, aged IS years, died on
Thursday at the residence of his parents, Jer-
sey City. He was accidentally shot in the
head by Charles Erber, on Sunday, April 81.
Erber resides In New York and was over on a
visit when the affair occurred. He was ar
rested and is held in the county Jail to await
| the result
Major Anderson, Fish Commissioner states
that the Commission is preparing to set 3d.
900 brook trout fry in the waters of the upper
part of the State. With what have been
placed in the waters already it is expected
that the taking of these specified beauties will
be the sport of the coming season.
The State Gazette says ''Things ought to
be lovely at the State Prison now--for Keeper
Mott. DIR. Phillips, who fell out with him,
has been removed, and ex-senator Moore,
who presided over the Legislative investiga-
ting committee SO satisfactorily to the aener-
al, has been appointed Supervisor.
The Philadelphia Ledger thinks IL is very
curious that all the messages from the spirit
world come in our language--no matter
| whether the author is a Greek, jew, Swiss,
Italian, or Berks County Dutchman. Evi.
IDENTIFY the English is the universal language
in the Summer land.
A Danish Bible published in Copenhagen
in 1862 was found in the Old Long Ferry
Tavern, at Perth Amboy, on Friday, by James
! Foster, Assistant Sexton, st. Peters Church.
1t was found in crevice of the wall its
edge being exposed to the mercy of the rats,
which have devoured portion of 1t. The
| printing is in good state of preservation.
A large seal was discovered in the Delaware
opposite Delanco on Tuesday morning and an
/ effort was made to catch him, but he broke
through two large nets and escaped. The en-
tire fleet was out after him. and in spite of all
their efforts to head him off he gave them the
slip, and they were soon left behind. 1t was
the largest ever seen in these waters. The
general opinion was that he escaped from some
mepagerie.
A little girl passing the corner of Randolph
avenue and Union street, Jersey City Heights,
at six o'clock Sunday morning, saw the body
| of man hanging from tree in an open lot.
| The body was removed to Speer's morgue,
and there identified as that of Paul Ohlsen, a
| Norwegian, who had been employed on the
New Jersey Central Railway, and lived at No
700 on the Bergen Point plank road. He had
been drinking heavily during the past week.
The New York Legislature has passed bill
reducing tho legal rate of interest to six per
cent. from seven per cent. The act is to take
effect in January, 1880. 1t was passed through
the efforts of the same class of members as
those who secured the similar act 10 New
! Jersey-the representatives of the agricultur-
al districts, where the reduction is Of vital inn
portance. The New York act differs from
that of New Jersey in expressly STIMULATING
that the law shall not affect any contract
made previous to the time it goes into effect.
The Democrats urge that the President
has no right to use soldiers to enforce Nation
a. laws in any part of the country, until the
Legislature or Executive of the State in which
the laws are INSTRUCTED shall ask him to sup
press domestic violence" This doctrine is
nicely calculated for the rebel hearted States
of the South How long would it be before
the Executive or Legislature of Mississippi,
or Louisiana or South Carolina, would call
upon the President to send soldiers to sup
press domestic violence " in any of those
States, said domestic violence consisting of
killing or manning negroes by Red Shifted
Rifle Clubs-and White Leagues
Life Insurance Companies seem to be swim
dies on general principles. In New York Col.
Dwight, who had a large insurance on his life,
bad two medical examinations made upon him
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