The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-11-03
According to the Chicago Tribune the re-
,ent hurricane on the Lakes caused loss of

According to the Chicago Tribune the re-
cent hurricane on the lakes caused loss of
$500, 900 In property, aud 90 human lives.
Henry Van Noatwick, of Toledo, Ohio,
says "A friend prevailed upon me to try an
Only Lung Pad" and obtained immediate
relief from racking cough. l know tho Pad
helped me.-Ses Adp.
The annual report Of the appointment di-
vision of the Post Office Department for the
last fiscal year was completed on Thursday.
Il shows that the number of Post Offices in
operation In the Cnited States on the Both of
Jnue last was AZ, $50, an increase of 2.1S4
during the year. One Thousand seven hun
dged aud sIxty,one Of the foSsnlasfers are APP
pointeea of the President. The remaining
Al ,2e8 Offices are filled BY appointments Of the
Postmaster Goneral. Besides the nearly 49,.
900 Possmastefs, there are II, 400 persons
throughout the country who perform service
and receive compensation upon the written
authorization of the Postmaster General or
his chief assistants. In addition 10 the Post
Office clerks above reckoned, for whose en-
ployment allowances are made to Presidential
Postmasters OF the first and second grades it
is estimated at the department that there are
at least co., 600 persons acting as clerks IN the
third and fourth class Post Offices who look
for their employment aud compensation di.
reotly to the local authority and 1t is be-
lieved, therefore, that there are now not less
than 10000 persons directly connected with
our postal service.
WHAT A LITTLE SPARK KINDLETH. The
forged Chinese letter will probably cause the
death of many Innocent individuals. Some
men build better than they know, but the
Democrats generally build great deal worse
Like children, they are not to be trusted with
fire. The support they received In the South
from Buchanan and other Northern Dough-
faces encouraged them to rebellion, the weak.
ness of Democratic authority in New York
led to the riots and murder Of the cofored peo-
pie, and now the publication Of 1 forged letter
has stirred up tho Democracy of Colorado to
crusade against the Chinese of that State
aud to scenes of awlessness aud crime utterly
disgraeeful to the manhood of the Nation and
the Christianity 1t processes. No sensible
man is in favor of Chinese labor as coming
directly in competition with white, and It
will be an impossibiity to graft an Asiatic
branch on the American tree, but that is no
reason why any men, whatever their national
ity, should be beaten and murdered BY mob
Of brutal ruffians.
At Denver, ON Saturday night the hatred
against the Chinese broke out and, under the
influence of that and plentiful doses of whs-
key, the Democrats worked themselves up to
hShtlng point lney kept up their orgies
through the entire night, and Monday morn
ing they began a riotous demonstration which
lasted all day. Many Chinamen were fear
fully beaten. One was rescued by the police
and taken to the Jail which was Immediately
surrounded by mob of about 1000, who
hurrahed and yelled, Lynch the leper y
Two or three are reported killed. Houses
were fired and the city kept in constant state
of alarm. When we reflect that Denver is a
city of 30, 900 inhabitants, Of whom the Chi
nese number $50, we can conceive the heart
lessness Of such fofdy and the inner deprayi-
ty OF a party that can thus gent its brutality
on harmless race. 1t Is said that not one Of
them made the slightest resistance. And the
end is not yet. What do the respectable De-
mocrats think Of their confreres In Colorado