The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-12-01


Some ice houses have been filled in this
vicinity.
The public school was closed on Thanks
giving day.
Revival services are now being held in
the New Hope NJ. E. Church.
Some of the Lycenms Of this county are
being reorganized for the winter campaign.
Patrick Kirby, in the employ Of John
Conners. was seriously burned few days
since, while blasting
"A man in this county has just ended a
lawsuit Of forty-iwo years standing, and re-
ceved SIX cents damages.
Since the receut robbery, the front doors
Of the Newtown Post Office are barricAded
with galvanized iron gratings.
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On an average, nearly 400 dozen SHIRTS
are finished weekly at the North Wales shirt
factory. Week before last 400 dozen were
fnsned out.
Thanksgiving sermons were preached
both in the New Hope NJ. E. Church and the
Thompson Memorial Church of Solebury, on
Thursday last. g
-$3,S121 10 is the amount of premium
awarded by the Doylestown Agricultural and
Mechanics Institute this fall. Twenty one
diplomas were also awarded.
The electro. magnetic time telegraph, in
vented by Louis II. Speillier, of Doylestown,
has been awarded the Elliott Cresson Gold
Medal by the Franklin Institute.
"A few days ago the workingmen at the
new paper mills in New Hope, commenced
work upon the foundation of the new store
house to be bnilt by the company. II will
stand few yards below the mills.
Application will be made at the next ses-
sion of the Legislature for the passage of an
act concurring IN the act of the New Jersey
Legislature, authorizing dam in the river
Delaware at Scudders Falls, above Yard
leyvile.
Services were held in the lower room of
the NJ. E. Church in New Hope last Sunday
evening" Owing to the extreme severity of
the weather, the auditorium could not be
made comfortable. There is some talk Of
purchasing larger heaters.
Rev. Mr.. Roberts. Of the Thompson Me-
mortal Church. preached a grand sermon IN
a.ln fsn.....f ~, C,,aAn, afto.oan, l,,t IJts
text was = Not every one that saye,h Lord
Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom, but he
that doetb the win ofmy Father which is in
Heaven.n
While Mr.. Charles Scheimerhorn was re-
turning home from Lambertviile the other
evening, some reckless fellow shot pistol af
ter him. The fellow said he he was shootin
up in the air. No one was injured Pistols
are dangerous playthings.
ALI who were at the Pound Sociable at
the M. e. Parsonage, last Wednesday even
ing, cannot help but say they bad good
time. An auction, with Mr.. T. N. Ryan as
allotioneer. resulted IN selling fifty-seven arti-
cies The money raised by this means was
to farther the interests Of the Ladies' Aid
Society.
On Saturday last horse attached to Van
noy's butcher wagon ran away IN front of
Chas. Crl0k's residence on New street, IN
New Hope. While iurning the corner at
Martin Johnson's, the wagon was overturned,
Breaking up couple Of wheels and a spring.
Simp Kelly. the iriver, at the time was at
the back of the wagon dealing out meat and
could have stopped the horse If the lines had
not broken
PRICE OF MiLK.--The undersigned give no
tice that Milk will be eight cents per quart
after December LIST, $780,
- THEo. HousEL,
g. PRALL WILSON,
A. B. STOUT,
A. w. MuIRHEID,
b. A. HoLcoMBE,
Fl. G. PIDcocK.
Lam5ersuitle, Dec. 1, 1Ss0..2t
e TERRIBLE MURDER IN BoRDEETowN--
A CoIored Nun the VSctsm and HIS ALLEGED
Slayers Tho Men of Has Oaon Race,--Last
Friday morning, shortly after midnight, Bor-
dentown was aroused by the sad news of a
ipurder which had just been perpetrated il
the heart of the city the victim, a colored
man named Charles Ross, having been butch
cred with razor, which. 1t is alleged. was in
the hands of another colored man named
Henry Williams. One of the unfortunate
mans legs was nearly cut in two above the
knee and wide aud horrible looking cash
was left from which pools of blood flowed and
from the effects of which he died almost ipA
simultaneously 1t seems that ball or party
was held at the house of colored man named