The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-08-06


to see the sights. When the pier is complet
ed it win pay as well as elevated stock.
A young lad named Willie Doty, aged i
years, son Of Samuel Doty, of North Plain.
field, died on Thursday from tho effects of
fall received in u scutfle with companion a
bout a week ago.
Nature does not execute "snap" judg-
ments, but always warns the offender agaips
her laws by the infiIction Of pain. Give at.
tention to her warnings and take DR.. Balls
Baltimore Pills in a good time to prevent the
Iencroachment Of disease. Price 20 cents.
A young man Of Baskingridge, while visit
ing young lady a few days ago, playfully
pointed pistol at her and snapped it, also
at his own breast with like result. Flo then
placed three kittens in arrow, fired, and killed
all three. CA sa
The Toms River Courier says /: The excel.
lent prospect of large cranberry crop has
been iyiterfered with by the appearance with
IN The past ten days, of the fire worm, which
has already made havoc with several boys in
this vicinity. ~
Six months ago the iron mills aud the fur
naces were begging for orders. Now they
have all they can do between now aud Christ
mas, and it is not a question of price but of
delivery. Orders can readily be got within
the coming month to keep all the mills at
work until next Summer Gazette.
That Democratic Investigating Committee
which is trying to find flaud in Cincinnati,
has made a heavy haul, 1t has found whole
batch of bogus Democratic affidavits which
were invented to break down the election
laws. This wasn't what the diggers went af-
ter, but it is what precedent ought to have
told them they would find. 81 sal2
Pig-iron has at last advanced in price,
Many furnaces have consequently been put in
blast, and numerous neglected ore-mines are
again peopled with laborers. In the mines of
Berks County. the Reading Times and Dis
patch says, it is difficult to obtain sufficient
help, and in several mines the rate OF wages
has been advanced.
The lower portion of the body of a boy was
found floating in the Morris canal near the
Plane street bridge, Newark, on Friday morn
ing. 1t is supposed to be that of Richard
Gormley who was thought to be drowned
about two weeks ago. The body was prob
ably cut to pieces by the car wheels or the ma
chinery connected with the plane.
A few weeks ago Henry Selb, of Burling-
ton, while pulling weeds in his garden, felt a
sudden singing sensation in his right hand.
Examination Showed puncture resembling a
wound from a needle. The hand and fingers
began to swell and soon assumed formidable
proportions AT last accounts it was getting
better. He thinks it was the bite of poison
GUS spider. 8s 9d4 W &
Music is costly on Coney island. Levy gets
$3.50 a week, with board for his family, for
playing the cornet at Manhattan Beach, where
Gilmore is paid $500 for himself and 81 900
for the rest of the band. Arbuckle who stands
on a pedestal in Talmage's dhurch on Sun
days, receives $500 week at West Brighton
Josephine Cooley was gathering greens ov-
or the Red Hill near Hackensack. last Satur-
day, when suddenly a report of a gun was
heard, and the girl cried /" I'm shot :" A lady
companion found that Josephine had received
a charge Of shot in the face, but could not see
the person who fired the gun. The wounds
inflicted are not dangerous.
The first newspaper ever published in New
Jersey was established in Burlington in 1777
by Isaac Collins, and removed to Trenton the
following year. In Trenton it was published
in a building at the corner of State and Green
streets. Mr.. Collins was an excellent printer
and was the publisher of complete edition
Of the Bible. o.
sJehn Welsh, our Minister to England, has
resigned his mission and win return home in
few weeks. Mr.. Welsh has for many months
been dissatisfied, and only remained at the
head of the U. S. Legation at the earnest So
lietation of Mr.. Eyarts This resignation
makes two Important missions vacant Great
Britain and Russia. One OF them will be CIV
en- to Pennsylvania.
The accounts Of the Post Office Depart
ment agree with countless other business ba-
rometers in marking the return ofprosperity.
The receipts at the various post offices
the country for the first quarter
of the year have just been footed up and
reached the enormous sum of 50, 030, 600, be-
ing the largest quarter receipts in the histo-
ry Of the government.
The Zulu war win cost Great Britain the
pretty penny Of twenty five Millions and
transform nice little surplus into deficit of
a still larger amount. The English govern
ment has been fortunate enough to live with
In its income for several years, until the Rus
sian scare came to eat up the surplus of 1877,
and now Cetywayo is responsible for the melt
ing away Of the savings of 1878. as
An old couplet says, '.Seven cities claimed
the Homer dead, through which the living
Homer begged his bread" Governor Nc
Clellan seems 70 have almost as. many resi-
dences, and is claimed by New Jersey, New
York and Pennsylvania. He is supposed to
be resident of this State, so long at least as
he is GovernoS but according to reports in
the Monroe Democrat, he belongs to Penn
sylvania. While at the Delaware Water Gap
a few days since the Governor was serenaded,
and in speech is reported to have said -
!" When I remember that your grand old
State is the place of my birth aud that was
reared among you, aud that claim q resi-
dence here, modesty forbids that should say
much about it on such an occasion like this"