The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-11-05

on the 81 900. Last year it was $l1.05.
The number of patients in the Morris Plains
Asylum, $50, is greater by fifty than year
ago.
Walter F. Bartlett, of Trenton, was releas-
ed from confinement 10 State Prison week be-
fore last. He served his full term except so
much as was deducted through good behavior
mau is serving life sentence in the
Maine State Prison for wife murder, and his
wife has been discovered by detective alive
and well in Chicago
The movement of cattle from the West was
exceptionally brisk last week, the arrivals at
Jersey City amounting to nearly TO- 900 head
OF this very lutte was sent abroad, the great
er portion being held for home consumption.
The new uniform for the National Guard
has been approved by the Governor. 1t is
fac simile of the uniform worn by the regular
army, and each suit, Inc udng the blue great
coat, will cost about $40.
Col McDaniels, the wel-known horse
breeder, is said to have fired shot gun at his
next door neighbor, Geo. E. Phillips, at
Princeton, last week. The cause of the quar-
rel is said to be the attentions McDaniels had
been paying to sister of Phillips.
Captain Townsend of Atlantic county took
the contract for $1,000 for getting off the
two Italian banks which recently went ashore
on Brigantne Beach. He was successful at a
cost of $4,000, realizing $4,000 profit ON his
contract.
The Rev. John Y. Dobbins, pastor of the
Centenary M. e. Church, of Camden, has
been transferred from the New Jersey Confer
ence to that of Kentucky, and started on
Tuesday to take charge of the M. L. Church
| at Coyington.
The Paterson IN. j. locomotive shops are
delayed in filling orders from the difficulty in
getting supplies such as airbrakes bells,
gauges &c the makers of such articles hav-
ing orders on hand for months ahead. Last
year at this time orders were filled at twenty
four hours notice.
The mossbunker fisheries of Port Monmouth
have just closed, and the season has been very
successful. Over %, 600, 900 fish have been
taken. The oil averages three gallons to a
thousand fish. and the scrap yields seventy
tons to million fish. The scrap readily sells
at $50 per ton, aud is used as a fertilizer.
The coal trade has been one of the very last
to feel the impetus of returning prosperity,
but even 1t is beginning to show signs of i'm
provement. The tendency of prices is still
upward, and prudent housekeepers whose Gel
lars are empty will lay in stock with all
convenient celebrity, as prices are much more
likely to rise than to fall.
The Supreme Court has just decided that
the law compelling peddlers to take license
for the sale of goods made in other States il
unconstitutional, as it makes an invidous dis.
tiDction between the citizens of the Ststcs
The query is made whether this decision does
not apply to the law under which the game
protective associations demand special fee
from non residents.
Mr.. Stephen A. Douglas, the son of the
late Senator Douglas who has been living in
North Carolina, has decided to remove to
Illinois. Mr.. Douglas is a native of North
Carolina, but he finds that not even his fam lily
prestige, his considerable wealth and his in
| tinence as a lawyer are enough to make life
endurable in the State of his BIRTH He is so.
cially and politically ostracized, because he is
Republican.
The decrease in the national debt during
the month of October reached the enormous
sum of $40. 1852, 000--a figure which has only
been equalled since 1879 In March, 1877, the
decrease amounted to over $14, 900, 600, bur in
this sum was included nearly ten million dol
lars derived from the balance of the Geneva
award. The present large reduction arises
from the expenditures being lessened on the
one hand and the revenue increased on the
other, one a result of Republican economy,
and the other of Republican financiering.
1t is not strange, after all, that Somerset
county has lost its vouchers the only wonder
is that they were not lost or stolen long ago,
for the Gazette says They were found In
the coal cellar, under the bank, in June last,
when the Gazette began to overhaul them,
having been placed there by the Bank watch
man. Jack, TO be out of the way, without
the consent or knowledge of the collector
| We asked for them, the collector looked fol
them in the place where they had formerly
been in the Bank, then Jack was sent for,
and they were resurected from the coal-cel.
lar, dirty and mnsty."
In the Episcopal Convention at Newark, or
Thursday, Rev. DR.. Thomas A. Starkey, ol
| Paterson, was elected Bishop of Northern
New Jersey, in place of Right Rev. DR.. Oden
heimer deceased. The Rev. Thomas A.
Starkey, d. D., is at present rector Of St
Paurs Church, Paterson, and Dean of til,
Convocation Of Jersey City. He is raar
about fifty five years Of age, and was born il
Philadelphia, where be received his education
his chosen vocation at that time being that O
a civil engineer. He subsequently, determin.
ed TO study for the ministry. He was ordain
ed deacon in Philadelphia, in 1S47, by Bsho,
poftar and t,riest in fRdQ IN Doeta,;ita D.