The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-04-30

south American spiders.
Hon. Jacob Vanatta, ex-Attoruey General,
Is lying very i'll at his home 10 Morristewn.
On Sunday there was bat very little hope OF
his recovery.
Mr.. Edison's patent for bis electric light
was registered In the London Patent Office
on Wednesday, and the specifications are pub
lished.
1t frequently happens that severe pain ID
very greatly relieved by thorough purgation
Use DIR. Bulls Baltimore Pills for this pur-
pose. Price IS cents.
/ The town of Cranbury, with population
of about eight hundred, has two full cornet
bands, an orchestra Of six pieces, and lively
drum corps.
1t is the intention Of the managers of the
Stove Works at Phillipsburg to run the works
steadily all Summer, as they feel confident
that the trade will justify them in doing so.
Complaints are creeping into the rural Dem
ocratic journals that the Nincompoop Bureau
of Pap is at work again, sending out elaborate
puffs of Tilden and his claims. The supply
halls from Albany, and Is so ridiculous that
Moses may have furnished it..
One little reform measure passed by the
last Legislature has not attracted as much at
tention as IL should. An act was passed and
is now the law of the State, reducing by one
half all the fees and costs of foreclosure of
mortgages to the amount of $500.
The Army bill. loaded down with the DEM
ocratc political riders, was passed by the Sem
ate on Friday, BY strict party vote. 1t is
now in tile hands of the President, who will,
every honest and patriotic man hopes and be-
lieves, return it with his veto.
A bundle of pap from the Nincompoop Lit
erary Bureau found Its way into the office of
and publishers do not banker after east wind
of that particular flavor, although the offer of
SIS for publishing two articles was consider.
ed fairly liberal, entirely dispelling the charge
that the spigot of the bar'l Is not of a gener-
GUS size.
The Police Commissioners of New York
have dismissed the charges against Captain
Williams for clubbing Mr.. w. v. Blake of
Trenton. Captain Williams appears to be
beyond the reach Of any authorities in that
city for his illegal acts.
In twenty years the United States has in
creased 1888, 900, 600 bushels of its production
of wheat while the value of its agricultural
implements in use upon farms has increased
$185, 600, 900, and its live stock 81, 0S1, 000,-
600.
You may do man 90 fayors through
newspaper, and he never thinks of thanking
you for it, but just tread on his corns once,
especially where he Is to blame himself, and
he viii blackguard you to the seventh genera
ton. Such is newspaper experience.
In the Louisiana Constitutional Convention
on Friday, resolution providing that men,
bers of the Convention take an oath to sup
port the Constitution of the United States
was laid ON the table by vote of "a to 90.
These little straws are all indicative of the
direction of the political mind.
During the last few weeks the iron works
at Pfenixville have turned out the enormous
quantity of 10, SOC, 900 pounds of finished iron,
the major portion of which goes to the New
York Elevated Railway. This is the largest
exhibit ever made by any iron works of a SIM
liar capacity.
Voorhees,, the Indiana demagogue, got mad
10 little passage at words which he was rash
enough to enter into with Blaine OH Friday,
and intimated to the latter gentleman his
readiness to meet him III personal encoun-
ter. Whom Democratic statesman fails in
brains, how naturally he falls back upon his
resources as brute.
Joseph T. Crowell, ex-Treasurer of Rah-
way, demurs to the decision of the referee,
awarding $44 900. by dsallowing large por-
ton of his claims, and, in connection with
his bondsman, demands jury trial. Mr..
Crowell insists that the city is indebted to
him, and that an investigation Of the accounts
from May, 1859, to June, 1879, omitted by
the referee, will SO prove.
Ex-County Clerk j. v. Mattison and ex-
County Collector Simon A. Cummins, who
were convicted last January of forgery and
conspiracy, and are now serving their sentence
in the State Prison at Trenton were last week
taken to Belvidere on a writ of habeas corpus
to testify before the present Grand jury
They will also be used as witnesses next
month against ex. State Senator Joseph b.
Cornish in conspiracy case involving $10,-
600, in which they were jointly indicted with
Cornish.
LOOK Our For THEM.--We clip the fol-
lowing from the Record of Thursday: "A
weli-dressed young man and young woman,
principal interior towns They represent
themselves as q runaway match, give the
names of prominent Pittsburg lawyers as
friends, and, under the pretence that they
want money to reach home and be forgiven,
have raised considerable funds. The richly
attired young lady is a beardless youth, and
the welldressed man swindler."
General Butler manifests his sympathy for
the colored people flying from Southern op-
preston by offering to give them 30, 900 acres
of farming land in WISCONSIN, to be distribut-
cd under the direction of General Conway, of
this State. That is we'll enough, but better
thing would be for the Government to give
them lands in Louisiana and other States
where they belong and to thoroughly protect
them in their possessions. Wisconsin TO the
black man would be almost as bad as Central
America to the white, and we believe in every
man, black as well as white, being located
where he can do the most good.
Gen. Logan, of Illinois, recently published
a card in which he denied statement made
by Brgadier In the House to the effect that
Logan at the outset of the war enlisted troops
in Illinois to serve with the Confederacy.
Logan said that this statement, made by
Col. Lowe, Of Alabama, was malicious aud
viudictively false, a vindictive and malicious
lie." Upon that Lowe writes many letters
and sends second to Gen. Logan. None Of
the letters were answered, and the last, borne
nv the gaoond. can't haal unnnana1