The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-08-27

ington. Lambertville has an unusual mum
Der Of men on the petit jury list.
The stated monthly meeting of the Com
mon Council of this city will be held on next
Monday evening.
Mr. Zephaniah Sutphin, of this city, lost
a horse on Monday evening. His death was
caused by pleuro pneumonia.
Rev. Fl. B. Scott, late pastor of the
Bloomsbury Presbyterian Church, it is report
ed, has received and accepted So, 600 call
from a church in Maryland.
Charles F. Hoff shot turkey buzzard in
John Stout's woods, near the Kingwood Pres
byteriaI Church, on the 18th inst, which
measured six feet from tip to tip of wings.
Miss M J. Mllen will open her school on
Union street, this city, on Sept 1st Terms
$3.50 per quarter.
st. Elmo Commandery, of this city, is
thinking of a parade next October, on the &C.
cason of the first anniversary of its institu-
ton. The organization now numbers over
thirty members, most of whom are equipped
"A friend informs us that there will be
shipped from the vicinities of Quakertown
Cherryville, this season, about ONE hundred
thousand baskets of peaches. The yield is
considerably less than usual.
The circus will come to town tomorrow.
The small boys will be wonderfully excited,
the larger boys correspondiugiy and the
grown people, while not having any interest
in the circus, will feel excited enough to go
and see the menagerie.
He thought he heard the angels sing +"
but it proved to be chorus of yells from the
next door children. He grew desperate, pro-
cured bottle of DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup and
sent it to Mrs. S. with his compliments. He
was bachelor.
The floor of the stable in which taber-
nacled calf belonging to j. Sut. Hockenbury
at Stockton, gave way one day last week, let
ting it down the length of the rope and chok=
ing it to death.
Every week we hear Of some one losing a
horse from putrid sore throat, that fatal dis
ease lurking in our county notwithstanding
the skill of the best veterinary surgeons
Last week Joseph Fisher of Kingwood, lost
u horse by the disease.
nesday and Thursday evenings of next week,
at Holcombe Hall, the Emerson Double Quar-
tette Club, of Easton, Pa, will give two en-
tertaiuments for the benefit of St. Andrews
Church. Tickets, 25 cents.
Elk Sheriff Wesley Bells is building a
new house on his farm near Baptisttown. He
also has parties boring for water near the
house. They have gone down over 100 feet
without finding sufficient water -Hunterdon
Republican.
The Delaware Valley Fair is receiving
considerable attention on the part of exhib
itors, and there is good prospect that an ex
ira fine exhibit will be made. As there is
no entrance fee charged fer exhibits in the
Ladies' Department, there should be a fine dis
play by the ladies'
The Mount Hope Cemetery Association
have reduced the price of lots five dollars
An assessment has been made against the
owners of lots, in accordance with the provis-
ions of an act respecting cemeteries, passed
at the late session of tho Legislature of this
State.
While Mrs. Isaac Wyckoff and family, of
Three Bridges, were riding from the harvest
home last Thursday night, their wagon was
upset by driving over an embankment which
was not seen by the driver in the darkness,
and all were thrown out. Mrs. Wyckoff was
very severely injured about the head.
Fifty years is long time to follow the
same avocation, but man named Roden-
baugh has carted lime from the kins in Clin-
ton for that length of time. The kilns have
not been conducted by the same parties dur
ing this half century, but with every change
of firm the old gentleman would be employed
as carter. The long service speaks volumes
for his trustworthness.
The Board of Freeholders met at Patten-
burg on Tuesday last, according to notice, to
view the bridge over Black Brook near Coles
Mills. 1t was decided to build new bridge
to cost about 800, aud committee was app
pointed to oversee the work. The salary of
the Clerk of the Board was fixed at $3.50 for
the year. No plan for funding the county
debt was agreed upon, we believe Hunter
don Democrat
Mrs. Jane Eldridge, of this city, died
rather unexpectedly on Sunday evening
of this week from somewhat singular
cause. About week ago what was thought
to be felon appeared on one Of her thumbs,
and it inflamed the arm for some distance
alb owe the elbow. Saturday the thumb turn
ed black, and death ensued as above stated.
Hay fever usually appears, in cases that
are susceptible to it, about the close of sum-
mer. In this vicinity many have just gone
through with the regular attack. 1t is said
to originate from the pollen of certain plnnts,
and our own luxuriant growth of rag-weed
THAT some of our people would exterminate il
they had the power.) is the best calculated to
fill the atmosphere with the poison.