The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-06-11

Delaware promises four million baskets Of
peaches.
A carrier. pigeon rnade the distance from
Monsoon to New London, Conn, 81 miles, in
81 minutes, ON Friday hast.
The ANIMAL commencement OF the College
of New Jersey win take place on Wednesday,
June 18TH The BaecalauTease sermon will
be delivered by Dir. McCosb, Sunday morning,
June IS.
When you see woman going toward the
asiysr with q good sized polesin her handana a
Wrinkle across her nose, you needn's think
she's going fishing Not much, she's gos a
boy down that way who promised her with
tears in his eyes that be wouldn't go In swim
ming: steu benville Herald.
The Presbyterian says 6 A clergyman in
Cincinnati must have hit asgreat many peo-
pie 10y two sermons which hs preached One
was aimed at the people who cheat the store
keepers by purchasing goods for which they
do not pay, the other was aimed at the store
keepers who cheat the people by selling goods
which are not worth paying for.
The bankrupt Archbishop Purcell, of Gin
cinnati, evidently lived very economically
According to the list Of his assets his bed was
worth $3.50, his bureau So, and the remain
ing furniture of the room, six chairs, 40 cents
each.
Somebody stole $500 from Mrs. Lyman, of
Dalton, Mass. She suspected her youthful
son, and whipped him until he declared that
he was the thief but investigation proved
him innocent.
The Fulton IN. W Patriot prints note
from Mr. L. A. Edison, dated May 20, in
which he says i" l have nothing new at pres
emit to communicate regarding the electric
light, but the whole subject will go through
the "press mill " ere long, as am just now
rounding up the corners and expect in a
short time to show tho unbelievers something
that will make them doubt no longer. AS
soon as | am ready TO make an exhibition of
the light here shall open my laboratory"
The Hon. Nathaniel Niles, the scholarly
young lawyer who succeeds Mr.. Adams as
one of the Government Directors in the Union
Pacific Railroad, was formerly Speaker of the
House of Assembly. The Tribune says -
8 The people can trust the man who, when
Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, smiled
at summons and complaint for 81 900, 900
damages which a powerful railway combina-
ton served him with, and continued more
cheerfully than before TO show ON the floor
and in the press that the objects of tho rail-
way were unjust and against the public veal. ;"
Charles Foster, the Republican candidate
for Governor of Ohio, was recently in New
York City, and was interviewed Of course,
by the newspaper reporters, to whom he ex-
pressed himself very freely ON the political
situation in that State. On being asked what
were the prospects of Republican success in
Ohio next October, he said that " three
months ago tho contest would have been very
even and uncertain, but to-day feeling has
been so aroused by the recent debates in
Congress, and by the reappearanee of the old
secession spirit, that think tho Republicans
of Ohio are sure of victory. The Union Dem
ocrats of the State are disguised with their
Democratic Congress, and their State Legis-
lature is another thorn in their sde 1t is
still in session."