The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-07-23

1t is firmly believed in Ohio that Tilden has
tapped the barrel for Ewing.
The Democratie effort to wriggle out of the
State Rightsrevival business is lively, but un-
successful M
/ Long Branch will entertain Congression-
al Committee-that on Rules Of the HOUSE
early IN August.
! The brig Shasta has arrived at Philadelphia,
4 from Port au Prince, with six cases of yellow
4 fever on board.
A man can never succeed in holding two or
three dozen pins in his mouth as woman
does, no matter how much he practices on
/ shad.
A New Jersey firm is putting up Hacken-
sack brand of mosquitoes, and Is palmDg
them off on the public as potted Holsters
! wheeling Leader.
Elk Senator Joseph B Cornish takes his in
| carceration at the State Prison very pbiloso-
phically. lie is assistant gate keeper under
Deputy Hawkyard.
Joaquin Miller says that men who love the
beautiful are never bad. This will be consola-
ton to the man who runs away with his neigh
boris wife .-BNfoIo Express. m -
The world has not the equal for salt
water ride of tho round between New York
and Sandy Hook aud the short rail dash
down the sea beach between river and ocean.
Tho Republican stump speakers in Ken
lucky are very properly calling attention to
Che backward condition of affairs in that State
on account of Democratic misrule and anti
progressive tendencies.
The Republicans of the South are here and
there lifting up their heads out of the dust.
In the recent city election in Jacksonville,
Florida, they elected their ticket by hun
dad majority.
At Toms River, July 1s, Conrad Repp, a
German cigar maker in the employ OF Coron-
er Adolph Ernest, attempted suicide by plung
ing knife into his head, piercing the skull
in several places. When found he was lying
unconscious in pool of blood.
A fire at Seabright on Friday, swept away
the Lumber summer she'll of number of poo
pie. The occupants of such premises cannot be
too careful with fire. At Ocean Grove for in
stance fire would soon wipe out the
whole place.
The Paterson locomotive works are very
busy, having contracts on hand for engines
for the Erie, Union Pacific, Manhattan Ele-
waited, st. Louis, Kansas City aud Northern,
and several other Western and Southern rail
roads, as we'll as three for South and Central
America. -
As Rogers Doran, of Vincentown, was de-,
cending the steps into his cellar few days
ago bat became entangled in his hair and
with much difficulty was extricated On ex-
animation it was found to be grey on the
back, and is u rare specimen called the hoary
bat
While the members of Post No. 5 G.. A. r.,
of Camden, aud others from Philadelp bia,
who went to Mt, Holly on Thursday night to
institute new Post, were returning, they
were assaulted by gang of roughs aud quite
severely injured. 1t is said that the same gang
have assaulted other organizations while Wis
ting Mt. Holly.
On Saturday week, man named Duffel,
OF Manumuskin, was digging we'll at Port
Elizabeth, Cumberland county, using no curb.
When about ten feet deep the well caved in,
completely covering Duffe to the depth of a
bout foot. Several parties being on the
ground at the time, they went to work in full
force and soon got the man out alive.
Reports on the building of new railroads
and the extension of old ones arc more en-
couraging than those of any year since 1878.
Nearly one thousand miles of new track have
been completed within the past six months.
The greatest activity is seen, of cnnrse, in the.
West, especially in the grain regions of hin.
nesota and Nebraska and the mining regions
of Colorado. s rst
A tremendous explosion of powder occur
red at the hardware store of j. A. VanWinkle,
on Main street, Paterson, at a late hour on
Friday night week. The plate glass front
was shattered, and clerk named Robert A.
Smith, hurled cut on the sidewalk with his
clothing enveloped in flames. The fire de-
partment prevented any spread of the fire
within the premises.
called I" Halls Mills;' about the time of the
Revolution, or few years afterward. The
corner stone of small church (2Sx30 feet)
was laid in 1900, by Bishop Francis Asbury,
which building lasted about forty years. The
present building was built and dedicated
abont the twenty second day of December,
1912.