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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27
srooKroU. July 26. ,sf


SMASH UP.-As the second A. M. train
down was coming into our depot this morning,
q baker from Lambartvalie, BY the name Of
Kimmel, who was standing at the store w.
Petit, and just about to leave, turned his
horse around and started over the track, and
when fairly on the track, he saw the engine
about to strike him. He hurriedly hit his
horse, but the engine struck the rear Of the
carriage and broke 1t into fragments. The
man received few bruises but the horse was
unhurt The bread and cakes were pretty
well scattered around. One loaf Of bread was
found more than 500 feet down the track.
As there have been several narrow escapes
at this place, 1t Is the general opinion Of the
public that the r. R. Company had better put
a f1agman at this crossing. If there is one
needed any where, 1t is here, because train
cannot be seen only from one way until within
10 or Is feet of the track, and fagman
would not only be for the benefit of the public
In general, but for the r. r. Company's benz
eft also. As there are several trains which
run through here at high speed and make no
stop, in case they run over wagon there is
danger of throwing the train off the track and
killing aud crippling the passengers, which
would cost them more than ten flagmen. and
as they have not many hands around this de-
pot, we suggest they get more. x.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27

III you want to get the best sewing ma
chine in the market, try the Light Running
Domestic, FOR sale by Mrs. NJ. w. Cooley
Every machine warranted. Dec TO-.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27
FIRST WARD ITEMS.

Real EsrATB CHANGES. Messrs. Carver
q Williams have sold their property, south
west corner South Main and Swan streets to
Mrs. Martin Shay. The amount paid was
$3.50. We hear that the purchaser intends at
an early day to erect brick store and dwell
ling upon the premises.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27

Burlington city tax rate has been fixed at
10 cents on the 500.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27

CANADA THIsTLEs. During the past week
the Water Power Co. have had workmen
clearing the Canada thistle from off their
vacant lots. 1t appears that there is an old
state law which requires the removal or des-
truction of these thistles from off all proper
teys, or be liable to suffer penalty for ne
elect.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27

STATE Room Cars This magnificent adj
dition to the mass Of comfortable appoint
ments for modern railway travel, originates
with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road, the favorte route from East to West
These cars enable the passengers to enjoy
every luxury Of first class hotels each room
being provided with washing, bathing,
lounging and sleeping facilities, and also ar
ranged In SUITES for the convenience of
families and parties. The best part about it
is that 1t costs no more than ordinary sleeping
car accommodations while it secures complete
privacy. If any of our readers contemplate
going West they will do we'll to secure their
tickets gia THE BURLINGTON ROUTE.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27

RUM.-A correspondent of the Frenchtown
Enterprise says "Forty years ago this fall
the Hunterdon County Pleas made an order,
that Court was satisfied there are ia the
county greater number of inns and tayerns
than are required to accommodate and enter
tain travellers and strangers to serve the pub
lie occasion of the county, aud for the con-
venience of mems meeting together to trans
act business. At that time rum was sold at
Boarshead, Croton, Grog. Kingwood, Rose
mont, Locktown, Greenbriar, Eyerittstown,
Pittstown, Cherryville, Hamden Point, Mt.
Carmel. Barley 6heaf, Pleasant Run, Mechan-
icsville, White House, Cokesburg, Mountain
vile, Mt. Airy, Norton, Klinesyille, West
End. Hickory, Mechliu's, and sixty other
places. What change forty years has
wrought in Huntsrdon county. Our churches
have increased ten fold in number and the
rumselers have diminished at the same rate
If not greater, as the places above mentioned
with several other rumshops have loug since
ceased to be curse to their immediate neigh
borhood, and at a corresponding rate for the
next quarter of century, selling rum will
be among the things of the past"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27
STOCKTON. N. J.. July 90.


Mr.. EDIToR IL read in your paper this
week piece about the boys of Stockton that
they get behind the fence to strike blow
That is cowardly and I don't think any of
them is of that breed. The person who
wrote the letter to your paper misrepresented
things, not for the first time either The
case of the persons he has reference to is lust
this. The young man from the country-as
the writer says-went to a certain man and
told him that he saw beer taken to his boy, aud
of course he, being protested Christian. the
man believed him, but it was false, and when
the parties asked him about Il lie denied 1t, and
they had few words; no blows exchanged,
nor no bones broken, as saw; there was no
getting behind the fence about it, aud if the
gentleman who wrote that letter thinks any
of the boys will jump behind fence, per-
haps he had better try some of them. don't
for him if he does measure six feet in length.
He says they go around on Sundays with a
bottle of whiskey. Perhaps he knows more
about that than do, but guess he is little
out of humor, because they didn't ask him to
take drink, and that is the reason he writes
think If some of the grown people would
look more after their own business and let the
boys alone they would be of more account to
our little town. There are few in this town
that are always throwing stones at the boys,
but people that live in 6 lass houses ought not
to throw stones. Let cur Observer load up
and come again and we (boys) will meet him
every time. Yours,
STOCKTON Boys.
-Debeiges, Atwood filling, are being sold
at ~ cts, reduction of cts. from last
ntu W., a
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27

A new county sewer is being built on Cot
tage Hill, opposite Cottage Hill store, on
Swan street. A sewer that was placed there
few years ago by the county freeholders is
being torn out and larger one built in its
place.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27

Mr.. F. F. Lear, Of this city, lost valua-
BILE horse this morning His death was caused
by Inflammation of the bowels He was valued
at $175.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-27

July 81, lss1.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-12-10
PeriIs Of the Republic.

Col II. @. Ingersoll.
Everthing in this world that is good
has t. be defended; everything that is
bad will take care of itself. There is
the same difference between vice, as
between truth and falsities, that there
is between grain and weeds. We have to
plow the land and we have to SOW the
seed with great labor, and gather the
crops of everything that is useful; but
weeds and dog -fennel sowed by chance
and cared for by accident, will grow
in the highway; and SO it is with every
thing of account in this world. The
battle of right is never won. Fight as
long as you may, the argument will
never be changed. After four years of
war in the United States the question
that we endeavored to settle by the
sword are as unsettled as they were in
1859. These questions must be settled
not only by the bayonet, but by argu>
ment. All that the war settled is who
were the strongest. War only makes
the contestants stop and listen, and the
result has to be argued out, not fought
out; and so to day we are arguing the
question in defense of which millions
of men risked their lives. and that
question is just as open and unsettled
tonight as it was then.
We have country, the best / think,
in this world. hold all other forms
of government in supreme contempt
except the free republican form of
government. / look upon kings, princes
and noblemen as men rObed in the
livery of larceny, and wearing the in.
sigma of robbery. When / speak of
free republican form of government /
con6ne myself to the northern and west
ern states of this government. This
government is good simply because life,
liberty and property are better secured
in the nOrt hern and western states of
this union than in any other part Of
the inhabitable globe. We have taken
the men that other governments have
robbed and trampled upon, and the
second generation have been superior
to the nobility of the countries from
which their fathers emigrated. We
have given to every man coming to the
states l have spoken of, an equal op-
portunity for winning applause and
power with ourselves. / like this coun-
try because we all admit that labor is
honorable, and because it is admitted,
here in New England, that the labor
ing man is worthy of his hire.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-12-10
The Density of the Earth.

r. walterhGfer IN Popular Science Monthly for Octo.
Der.
Efforts have been made, at all times
in which the spirit of investigation
can be said to have existed, to ascer-
tain the condition of the interior of the
earth. There has been no lack OF un-
founded assumptions on the subject,
and fanciful hypotheses were held even
down to period in which correct con-
clusions have been reached upon ito
the beginning OF the nineteenth CEN
tury. Alexander Won Humboldt re.
lates that he and Sir Humphrey Davy
were several times invited by Captain
Symmes to join an expedition into the
interior Of the earth, which was rep
resented as a hollow sphere, having
large opening at the eighty-second
parallel of north latitude. The idea of
the existence of hollow space within
the earth was set at rest by the
measurement of the average density Of
the planet, and the contrary view was
advanced that the globe is a mass Of
great specific gravity. The con-
stituency of this mass, whether it is
hhlh vi pOllN, NlSll OIl1 iOItl
like spaces; filed with fluid matter has
not been determined but the calcula-
tions that have been made contra
dict the theory Of wholly fluid in
terror.
Several methods have been adopted
for ascertaining the mean density Of
the earth, to the older Of which a more
accurate method has been added with
in few years. An account of the
methods hitherto adopted, and the
results obtained by them is here given.
The trade of Macon, Ga, in morphine
alone is worth $4,000 year-that is, NOR
phine and opium together. A prominent
dealer says that few people have any
idea of the number of morphine and
Opium eaters there are in that city and the
surrounding country.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-12-10
THE PANAMA CANAL.
A Sickly, Forsaken, Poverty-Striken
people.

People.
DR.. Charles Peitzch, German ply
sician of New York, has just returned
from Aspinwall and Panama, and gives
very gloomy account of the country
and the prospects Of the De Lesseps
Canal scheme. "If any of your friends
think of going to Panama." said the
doctor to Tribune reporter, "advise
them not to. In all my travels l never
saw more sickly, poverty-stricken
and forsaken people. was induced to
go there by the promise of large
business in my profession. There was
plenty for me to do, but no money in
it, and came away as soon as could.
There are about $50 people at work on
the Panama canal, 200 Of whom are
negroes Half of them are sick, hag-
gard and starving, and the death rate
is alarming, although the facts are
suppressed as much as possible. There
are not more than 100 able bodied men
to work at any time, and the force is
constantly being renewed, because the
laborers fall victims to disease, then
lose their places and starve, or die Of
fever and peculiar wasting away of
the system. The canal company wants
to get all the laborers possible, and ii
offers the inducement of high wages,
board, plenty Of work and free passage.
Agents gather laborers up wherever
they can find them and take them by
boat to Aspinwall and rail to Pana-
ma. They receive $l7 month,
and the worst board imaginable.
They are crowded into shanties
and fed on the cheapest kinds
of food; rice twice a day, tea Or coffee
in the morning only, salt beef once a
day, and no bread; fresh meat, never.
Once there, it is impossible for laborers
ever to return, as the men have no
money, ard it costs $25 to ride back
to Aspinwall, distance of forty-seven
and half miles, and they are too
weak to walk. White people soon be-
come yellow and look like death, and
beg tourists to take them away.
"Work is advancing very slowly on
the canal, and there is nothing to show
for the money spent. 1t is generally
believed in that country that the canal
will never be finished. 1t is about as
wide as Broadway from house to house.
There are some stakes driven. down
and planks laid along and the
earth stirred up little, but
that is all. 1t seems hardly
possible to live in that country.
1t is marshy and malarial, and infested
with alligators and serpents and pois.
OnOus insects. l was bitten in the
hand by poisonous insect, and my
arm has swollen up and been useless
for month. The population is COM
posed of negroes and Spanish and
French Of the lowest class. The cli-
mate is warm-terribly warm-moist
and oppressive, and tends to induce
the use of stimulants. st. Louis beer
costs thirty-iive cents bottle, Mil
waukee beer twenty-five cents. Whis-
ky is cheap, and the best imported
Holland gin only 40 cents quart
Beef and fish are very plentiful and
cheap, as are also fabrics. On the
whole, the country is no place for any
but very patient man with plenty of
money"
An old peach-tree near Vallejo, Cal, has
developed singular freak. A bud yolun-
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-12-10

An old peach-tree near Vallejo, CAL, has
developed singular freak. A bud volun-
tarily appeared from a two-inch limb
which this year bore dozen or more
sweet, soft-shell almonds, while nothing
but insignificant peaches were produced
by the remainder of the tree. The bud
started about four feet from the ground.
No other features are observable to indi-
cate that the tree is any other than an or
dinary peach tree.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-12-10

DE. II. Fisk, of Huntington, Mass, has a
pair OF mules at work repairing Church's
reservoir dam, one of which is known to
be over go years old, and the other is said
to be about 40.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-12-22

A business looking uodbouneed upon We
rear platform, strobe tire the car ~ hA
at-you-please gait and imeli
snow, drirer dout Part ms car up'i' I
md out something"
oWiil this ear talsk to ST. Aubin az
enueg"
eyes ma'am."
"Ihen you iusi driff es.9 ~. 10y g ~ . ''''i
". 20 you know Saf nntni
ifW3v ran .,t4l He came here from
, ork State three vel ago. anu ng W
and down on those ger cars n,sus Au. us ~
ne lives ia biz tfiofg white uoas. "a W, IN
right or leli handh I've iols0.'sn y ili'. 1,
with green windofinds ana lo.o.ioo y
front. l'll knowb place .wh..ea,. ] see w. 10.
oamanihy writ Jan about W.
beg your p fon VA am. sac We ~
inierupiinr "bBou haven't put your fare u
the box"
"No, nor ali agoin' to nuiher, until 20.
stop 10 front oftmanihy smiths house.
" Bet don't up ST. Auhin avenue lna Ai
u leave you a 81 corner and you u nave
waikup 70 the buse."
,"Well, you'll not get my nickel qnih lo
olive right up front q the house. / on can
play any of vo4 swiudling city games on m'
young nan, 1u bet ! haven't come olea
here IRON Yorkbtate q cut my eye teeth, ny
you can't play % tricks on me Il oudo drive
boss car"
She was Gtalh induced to pay her tar
some OF The passengers assuring her That
was all right. Asthe car stopped and she siel
ped from the ioottbarj she pointed mp 81. Al
bin avenue with her parasol and eXclaime
"There's The tht house where Sam and y
manthy live. KEW Ia know Il as quick
ever ! saw IT, lwo-story white house vi
green winder blinds onto it and a porchico
'front.'" and The car drove on.-Deir0il fr
Press.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-12-22


One 81 iio most leaned aad dir-
uifod Hema rsnf tte Arsan Bsr
got tln Be rebuT from olI Urele
Nose sast week. Tie ola msn lal
Jim Webster hauled up before Jus
lice Gregg fof stealing lis Spanish
Chickens As Jim Webster has boo
liticai influence, he was defended n,
Two pr0mineu. lawyers Uncle
Nose was put on the stand. and
made out bad case against sJlm
Webster, testifying 10 having f9und
some Of the chickens IN Jim's pos-
session, and identifying them bv thc
peculiarities Of The breed
The prominent lawyer then un
certook 20 make Uncle Nose weak.
on the cross examination.
Now, Uncle Nose, said tbo
lawyer, suppose / was o. tell Won
that I have athome ia my ward hall
a dozen chickens of that identical
same breed -
What would I say, boss Z"
Yes what would you say ST I wss
TO tell yoa I've got that same kind
Of chickens in my yard ~
4 would say, boss, dat Jim Web
ster paid mp yer fee wild my chick
enc, aud a pensivo smile crept around
under the old mans ears, and met
at The back ofhis head.-Texas Sift.
mgs
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-12-22

In connection with the murdei of
General Tucker of Mississippi a g,n.
tleman few nights since related o
us q circumstance that occurred soue
moaths ago We have forgottpl
the names of the parties, but ole
man had challenged another TO iigH
a duel, and the challenged was acl
cepted- II we remember right, or
the day the duel was to be fought
the challenger walked into a room
where The challenged party was seat
ed, deliberately walked up to him
and shot him in the back, killing
him instantly Two or thee men
saw the killing. Gen Tucker was
employed to defend the murderer,
receiving fee Of $4,000 The
case came to trial, the witnesses ties.
tilted directly to the unproyokod
murder, and yet the prisoner was &C
quilted. Afterwards incarceration
Gen. Tucker remarked that with
money he could clear any murderer,
when friend replied that this vas
certaiuly a'horrble state affairs, and
added "Your own life is in danger
and you may be assassinated at any
moment Not very long thereaf-
ter Gen. Tucker was assassinated
There is nothing specially remarka-
Die in In this, but it is somewhat o.
eoincidenee. Shreveport Times
The gentleman referred 70 wa
either misiniormed or manufacture,
the story out Of whole cloth. n
such thing ever occurred, and Gen
Tucker was the last man in the worl
to have uttered snch a sentiment
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-12-22

The Okolona Messenger suggests
Gen. Featherston for appointment to
tue first vacancy that may occur on
INC supreme bench Of the State. We
can fully endorse The suggestion. Nc
nun in the State Is more deserving
orbetler qualified He is not only
emManuy fitted for the position b,
bis great abilities, but his superior
legal otlainments are deserving o.
recognition by theparty he has Sc
long and loyalty served. We sincere
" trust That Gen Lowry will givl
the most favorable constellation to-
tho suggestion Of the Messenger
should q vacancy occur daring hi
term Of oilice-C Crystal Springs Mon
itOr.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-12-22
About lhe ApPOrtiOnment.

Let's suppose that the next Leg
islature docs not re district the
State-won't there be a lively till
tof the Congressmanship at large
that Mississippi will be en-
titled to? Congress has not set
passed the law pporlioning the Rep
resentatiyes under the census Of 1850
and it is very probable that it will
not do so before the Legislature Of
this State meets and adjourns, in
which case the additional member
viii be chosen from the State at
large, or If the representation is de-
creased all the Representative will
he elected FROM the State large.
Vie census, however, shows the pop
dation of Mississippi so increased
tlat the latter cannot occur.
Section 1863, Of the Revised code
Of 1880, will probaly be read within
tere.t on the subject. II is as fol-
lows
Should an elections OF representa-
tives il congress occur after the mum
Der Of representatives to which the
S ate is now entitled shall be chang
el, 10 consequence Of O new appor
tionmenl, such representatives shall
be chosen as follows; In case the
number Of representatives to which
{ the State IS entitled be Increased
then one member shall be chosen il
each district as then organized, anC
the additional member or members
shall be chosen by electors Of tn
State at large and if the number o
Representatives. shall be diminished
then the whole number shall be chos
en- by the electors of the State at.
large.-Yazoo Sentinel.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-12-22


New York to buy goods When &c
lell NJ asked bis friend Googcnhei-
mer N keep an csc on bis store, see
chat everything vent on smoothly,
ana overlook what the clerks did
during his absence.
On his return Gooeenhoimer re-
ported everything straight, but
Schaumberg found, on examination,
that his head clerk had been drunk
ell the time he had Teen gone, and
that the destinations OF crack loo lor
the drinks had prevented the Other
clerks from devoting any Of their
time to business. he hunt,d al
Googenheimcr and said
IVY you not dels me dot mine
CLERKS vas blaying de duyyell putty
veil"
al dells You nodings about dot,
| said Googenhcimer, because yol
dold me to overlook vat dem CLERK
did ven you vas gone yet, so over.
| looked all dot foolislness "-Texa
/ Siflings.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-12-22
THR APPEAL FOR 1852

In issuing its prospectus for 1882,
the Appeal has but one promise to
make, and that is, a determination
to maintain it's character and rank
in the fore front Of American news
papers. The Appeal is now regard
edas one OF The institutions Of tho
South. It's history for the past Al
years is the history Of the develop
ment Of Southern thought, Southern
politics, Sonthern industry aud
Southern literature, and its sympa-
thies and aims will be the same in
the future The paper will coutni G
to be the constant rtaex Of the most
reliable intel genee obtainable from
all parts OF the world Il will remain
| inlexibly Democratic, hut lis space
will be mainly devoted to news. the
interest Of agriculture, trade, com
merce. manufactures, internal im-
provemen,s, the development Of
Southern resources and Oh branches
of industry. While always on the
alert for the latest intelligence, Il will
avoid the mere senta iouai. and will
never pandcr to vilialed tastes. Tho
4 Appeal is specially devoted 10 the
interests of Toni essee and Memphis
/ its great commercial emporium, and
viii use itsb6st abilities TO promote
both II realizes that the futur,
empire Of this country lies 10 th'
South and West, and viii labor tC
combine the political and business
relations of these two sections Il
inducing the legislation Of Congress
for improving the navigation Of th'
Mississippi river and IS tributaries
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-12-22

A San Francisco husband, return
ing from an alleged fishing trip OF
three days, asked his wife if she re
ceived the fine trout he sent her from
the lake. She gave him q stony
glance and replied
81 received some f.h, I believe
but the market man also left word
that he had gotten your telegram, bu'
as he hadn't enough fresh watel
trout he sent you some first rate
Goldfish instead"
D did, CD Z" stammored thu
wrotched Benedict.
eyes, sir he did; and nowi sir
perhaps you will be good enough e
ovnlain-'
Quick curtain.