The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-03-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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Daniel Porter, has been appointed Postmis-
tress at Somerville, TO succeed her late faith
er.
1t is rumored that the Bethlehem Iron
Company propose starting their mines at Hi
hernia at an early date. They have been idle
for about two years.
The Morris County Collector has notified
the township clerks that the Spring election
expenses must be borne by the townships, in
stead of the county, as heretofore.
Absolutely free from Morphia and other
dangerous agents. DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup is
valued most highly as remedy for the dis
orders of babyhood. Price only % cents a
bottle.
Hon. Julius G. Fitz Gerald, formerly a
Democratic leader in the Assembly, has been
elected President of the First Temperance
Club of Newark.
The coal men had meeting at Long
Branch on Wednesday, and call was issued
for a general meeting at Philadelphia, on the
23d, 24th and 25th The purpose of the
meeting is not announced.
Rev George Hughes was given a super
numerary relation by the New Jersey M. e..
Conference and will take up his residence in
Trenton. He proposes starting weekly re-
iigious newspaper of the Methodist persua-
sion.
The body of man apparently about fifty
five years of age, of heavy build, and well
dressed, wearing silk hat and silver watch,
and very bald, was found on the beach at At
lantic City on Wednesday morning.
The death list has been very large in Rah-
way this Winter. Since the first of January
there have been sixty-nine deaths, nearly an
average of one each day. The population of
the city is estimated at eight thousand,
case of small pox was developed in Pat
erson, on Friday. The patient is woman
who was employed in the Ivanhoe Paper Mill,
whore, it is thought, she handled infected
rags. The whole family was quarantined by
the Health Board.
Apropos of the threat that in event OF the
defeat of the Chinese Immigration bill,
Kearneyfornia : would secede, the Rich
mond State says: F." Don't go Be warned by
several who have been there, and don't, fer
there's nothing secedes like secession.
The Rev. G. b. vosburg, lately acquitted
of q charge of attempting to poison his wife
at Jersey City, has turned up in Yankton,
Dakota Territory, as an applicant for divorce
from his wife, who is living at Stuyvesant, N.
Z. He is evidently preparing for lecture
| course.
Saturday was the eighty-second birthday of
the Emperor Of Germany and was duly cele-
brated by loyal Germans all over the world
| The Kaiser is hard headed old monarch, yet
he has accomplished what no other king or
emperor ever did before him--a united Ger
many. Let him have all the honor due.
About week ago a young Paterson gen.
tleman was at friends house, and heard a
lady sing pathetic ballad, :" She's Sleeping
in the Valley" AT his request, she taught
him the words and music. That night she
went home was taken ill, aud died in a few
days, and on Sunday the gentleman sang at
her funeral the piece she had taught him.
The Boonton Bulletin states the following
as an actual fact - s" A young lady of
Newton visited her brother-in-law recently
and one day accompanied him to New York.
| He proposed visit to a lunatic asylum, and
she was delighted. They went to the Stock
Exchange, and the young lady has since been
telling how the crazy folks acted"
The Democratic members OF the late Legis-
lature amended the Incidental bill by increas.
ing tho salaries of the Republican officials,
and the Trenton american now charges the
Republicans with extravaganza in salar-
les A comparison of the other items of the
DILL with last year will show a different result
The total, too, is just one-half Of that of last
year.
THE BIGGEST PREMIUM Our To any
individual, Church or Sunday School, that
will send us SIXTY subscribers to THE LAM
BERTyILLD RECORD at 50 each, or CLUB of
EIGHTY subscribers, at $150 each, with the
cash, we will give a brand new Two Hun
DRIED DOLLAR EsTEY ORGAN--the best in the
world For smaller lists other organs and
premiums will be given corresponding in val
ne with the above.
Joseph Imfred, the young jeweler, who
shot himself on Chancellor Munyon's premi-
SEES, after quarrel with Emma Erb, his
sweetheart, Thursday, will probably recover.
1t is thought his design was to kill the girl as
well as himself. He had threatened when
they became engaged in marriage that if any
trouble ever came between them he would
kill her.
William Stanbury, well-known resident
of Crawford, was disturbed at an early hour
| on Friday morning by noise in his room,
and arose to be confronted by burglar, who
presented revolver to his head and warned
| him to keep quiet. The man then slowly
withdrew until he reached the door, when he
started on run, making good his escape. On
examining drawer in his secretary, in which
he kept his money, Mr.. Stanbury found 81,
400 missing. Nothing else was taken.
| The Democrats in the House need all the
votes they have got. On the contested cleo
ton case from Florida, Wednesday, they had
only three majority in a full House. All the
! Greenbackers voted against the seating OF
| Hull, Democrat. Hull would not have been
seated in a stronger Democratic House. The
fraud by which he secured the Governors
certificate of election has been acted upon by
the Supreme Court of Florida and the Court,
with the Democratic Attorney General, ad-
vised the Governor to withdraw his certificate
Some of Hull's partners in the fraud are now
serving their terms in the penitentiary, and
Hull himself is under indictment for perjury
and forgery. Good Democrat.
A cruel hoax has been played by some ma.
licious persons unknown, upon the colored
people of Vickshurg and other poiats in MISS
issippi and Louisiana, They have been in
duced IN large numbers to proceed to St
Louis, under the impression, as they assert
that they would be provided with means OF
subsistence and free transportation thence Il
Kansas, where they would be furnished with
government lands, together with money
mules, plows, &c. Several hundreds have
already arrived at st. Louis, and hundreds
more are said to be on the way. As no such
provision has been made for these colored
people, and employment cannot be obtained
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