The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-06-15

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5000, 900 feet Of logs.
According to recent census the population
of London is 3,S14,571.
A thousand stocking weavers are prepar-
ing 70 emigrate from Chemnitz, Germany, to
America.
The New Jersey State Teachers Associa-
ton will hold its next annual session at Long
Branch, July 9th and 18th.
There are 5000 mem employed in the loco
motive works at Paterson, N J. Their wages
annually amount to 81, $50, 600.
The German authorities have expelled the
Mormon ssapostles who were engaged in
canyassing In the FatherlaDd.
A large silk factory is to be built at Boon
ton, Morris county, N. J. 1t is to cost when
completed $4,000.
Government detectives are still at work on
the Morey letter, and promise to give some
startling developments soon.
Professor Cannon, Cincinnati athlete, is
dying of consumption, superinduced, Che doc
tors say, by over training. 1t was common
feat with him to lift 1900 pounds.
Competent authority says the iron market
has touched bottom, and that an improve
ment in price and demand will at once be no.
ticeable.
DIR. Talmage condemns the revised New
Testament with all the vigor of his peculiar
rhetoric. This is regarded as the most favor
able testimonial yet.
A letter from Southern Florida describes a
flight of white butterflies from the South that
had filled the air, like snowfiakes, for six
days, going North.
A., o,.~ar;,at;cn IF az Coofadarota officers
and soldiers has been formed in Chattanooga,
to give reception to the Society of the Army
of the Cumberland, which will hold its reunion
in that city in September next.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
issued an order that passengers shall not
stand upon the platforms while trains are in
motion. number of employees have been
discharged for not enforcing the rule.
A man by the name of Pyatt was killed on
the grade of BEL Div. at Phillipsburg, on
Tuesday morning of last week, by falling un-
der lot of coal cars, caused by the brake
chain breaking. An arm and leg were cut of
and the skull crushed.
"Iroquois,' the horse belonging to Loril-
lard, of New York, the winner of the Derby
races. was raised on the WEIGH stock farm on
the Wissahickon, near Flourtown, Montgom-
cry County, Pa. Mr.. WEIGH has raised quite
a number of fine horses.
The Philadelphia Times has opened it's bait
teries against the smoking of cigarettes. 1t
states that they are very poisonous, the to-
bacco being of the lowest grade and mixed
with drugs, more poisonous and dangerous
than opium. The paper in which the tobacco
is wrapped is also poisonous.
Secretary Window is about TO withdraw
the one and two dollar bills, and their places
will be supplied by gold eagles, half eagles,
silver dollars and other small change. In
other words, our currency for retail trade will
be gold and silver, instead of paper.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company on
Tuesday of last week settled for the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington Sc Baltimore stock. The
amount paid was $15,000,000 1t was not
due until July 1st but the financial condition
of the company was such that 1t was thought
best to anticipate the payment
GEoReIk PHENoMENA.--Mr J. w. Slaugh-
ter, near Pineyille, was having we'll dug on
his place, aud when about twenty feet deep a
we'll preserved oak leaf was found firmly i'm
beded in the chalk. When about fifty feet
deep live snake of the black species was
found.
Egypt is about to take a long stride for
ward in civilization by the total abolition of
the Council of Ministers That it has been de-
termined that henceforth slave questions are
not to be dealt with by the police, but by a
department specially created.
Mayor King, of Philadelphia, intends to try
to enforce the law concerning the use of fire.
arms and fireworks in the city the coming
4th of July. He has assured the manufacturers
and dealers in fire. works that it is his intention
to enforce the law in reference to the sale and
use of fireworks, fire-crackers, toy-pistols,
&c.
Thirty-six persons were admitted to prac-
tice In this State as attorneys at-law, in the
Supreme Court on Wednesday. This is at
the rate of more than hundred year. And
yet litigation does not seem to be increasing.
Judging from the list Of causes published in
the several counties. The marvel is where all
of them are going to find clients.
Nathaniel Stowell, Burlington gardener,
aged 90, has discovered and proved the
efficiency Of green (garden) sage leaves as q
thorough preventative of the ravages Of the
Colorado beetle upon growing potatoes. The
odor of the leaves proves too offensive to the
bugs and they seek other plants. 1t is not
stated whether decoction is made from the
leaves or they are simply sprinkled upon the
plants.
A recount of the votes on Chosen Freehold
er in the old Horse Shoe district of Jersey
City, shows great frauds, and has resulted in
the declaration ofthe election of John Lynch
instead of Patrick Egan It is generally be-
lieved that the enormous Democratic major
ty there last Fall was due to fraud, aud that
aoreeount would have elected Mr.. Potts for
Governor.
A scene was enacted at Harper's Ferry on
Decoration Day which If predicted twenty
years ago would have been branded as a wild,
fanatical dream. It was the delivery of his
torical Grafton on John Brown by Fred
Douglass, a former slave, before a large num-
Der of confederates and old Virginians, among
them being Mr.. Hunter, the States Attorney
who prosecuted Brown, and who was the first
one to congratulate the speaker. Such events,
coupled with the combined action of citizens
in the decoration of both Union and Confed-
crate graves, are the best evidences of the
healing of the old differences, and the estab-
lishment of the old government over all Sec
tions of the country on a permanent basis.
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