The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-05-18
Cape May expects a brilliant season.
City Is already well fllled.

Atlantic Oiby Is aifeauJ wen nAiou.
The puddlers at the Oxford rolling mills
have struck and left. The nail company has
30, 600 kegs in stock.
The Rogers Locomotive Works, at Patter&
son shipped last week niLe locomotive en-
gines and tenders to Spain, for the Vale
Valleneueya and Barcelona Railway.
ohR soourn hes Ia rStarned from his
went to recruit his health. He is restored in
strength and vigor.
AT an adjourned sale of the assets Of day
Cooke 81 Co., on Wednesday, "Ogontz' the
famous country seat of Jay Cooke, was bought
by its former owner for $1f3 500.
Seashore improvements this year are very
great, all along the New Jersey coast, and
there has been marked advance In real es-
tate at all the old, favorite resorts.
A broad plank walk has been built in the
ocean front at Asbury Park, extending TO
Deal Lake, making one of the finest promen-
AIDES on the Atlantic coast.
America really had narrow escape. Mr..
Moncure d. Conway writes that he has just
recovered several unpublished letters written
by Carlyle, and that sin one Of them he talks
of going to live in America.
The old Camden s. Amboy railroad shops,
for several years, were leased on Tuesday last
TO New York party, for term of thirty
years, for the manufacture of locomotives.
Morristown has purchased twelve acres Of
ground near the city limits for $4,000, and
will place stone crnsher upon 1t and crack
the stone, which is found In large quantities
on the place, for use on the highways
Bishop Foster has appointed Rev. Edward
Hewitt, pastor OF the First M. Il. Church at
New Brunswick, as Presiding Elder of the
New Brunswick district, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Samuel Vansant.
Samuel j. Tilden has ceased to mourn for
the Presidency. He says he Is In better
health now than he has been for six years
past; whereas, If be had been installed at the
White House in 1876 he would have been
dead by this time.
Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, has pur-
chased the factory at East Newark which be-
longed to the Peters Manufacturing Company.
He will manufacture there his electric lights,
and win, 1t Is said, give employment at the
start to 1000 men.
Gorham has made a neat little thing by
leasing the high board fence around the Gov
ernment buildings in process of construction
in Philadelphia for 81 ,000, and renting it out
to advertisers for IS, 400 per annum.
On Monday of last week, a train of seven
carsran from Philadelphia to Jersey City, so
miles. in SO minutes. Part of the run was
made at the rate of 10 miles an hour. It
slowed up going through all the towns, and
stopped % minutes in Trenton.
The Paterson Home Journal says {: at
sounded queerly to hear Judge Dixon, after
charging the Grand Jury that the sale of in
toxieating liquors is a great promotive of
riotous conduct and crimes Of a higher grade,
say THE Court win now receive applications
for licenses. ~ -2'sz ~ - 30
ton, N. J., on Wednesday week. the grand
jury brought in two indictments against Ave
of the directors of the defunct First National
Bank of Newark for conspiracy and aiding in
the Justification of the books and reports of
the bank, They are wealthy citizens Of
Newark.