The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-12-07

At Asbury Park suit has been brought
against James A. Bradley for 8 @. 600 damages
for false imprisonment by Mr.. Slaight, who
was arrested there on August 10th last, at
the instigation of Mr.. Bradley, as pick
pocket.
The time of Col. Freese in State Prison
will expire early IN February. and he has al
ready began to grow his whiskers in anticipa-
ton of that event
The latest device for superseding the cash
boy in large retail stores is system OF
troughs, along which roll hollow balls carry
Ing money and change toand from the cashier.
Shipbuilding al Chester continues remarka-
bly, active. In the extensive yards of John
Roach there are as many as ten iron steamers
now in course OF construction, and 800 hands
fnd employment thereupon.
Ministers, Lawyers, Teachers, and others
whose occupations give but little exercise,
should use Carter's Little Liver Pills for tor
pid liver and biliousness. One is dose.
Nov. 80, 2t
The Chief Of the Bureau of Statistics paid
out 81 900 during November as bounty on
.sugaT cane raised in the State, at the rate of
81 per ton.
James McCsbe, one Of The homeless boys,
aged Is years, sent from New York by Mr..
Whitclaw Reid, on Wednesday shot and killed
Stephen Connors, aged years, at lexington,
Iowa. He escaped.
Aunty' Kate VapdcIveer colored, died
at James Ridge, Monmouth county, OH Sat-
uiday, the goth ult. She was 1913 years old,
and was for years slave when New Jersey
was slave state.
The Plairstown Press publishes an account
az the shooting of bear recently seen about
Columbia. II was shot by Read Titman and
weighed just 200 pounds. Another bear has
been seen in the same locality.
While most of the branches of the silk in
dustry are very dull in Paterson just now,
there is boom y in the handkerchief man
ufActure, especially in fancy designs for the
holiday trade.
Payment was commenced on Wednesday of
The m-annual dividend of 4 per cent. de-
clared ON the capital stock OF the Pennsyi-
vana Railroad Company early in the present
mouth, None but ladies were paid on that
day
The London Times admonishes the free
traders that 1t will be useless for them to at
tack our protectlonist policy so long as our
wonderful business prosperity continues
This Is plain confession that there is at least
an apparent connection between national
prosperity and protective tariff.
How do you manage" said lady to her
sasf' always " lba7e parEers Ginger Tonic
handy" was the reply, "and thus keep N.Y.
self and family in good health and spirits"
Bee adv. d.7,-lm.
Special Agent Tingie. Of the Treasury De.
partment. rnports that 1t cost over So, 600 600
to collect $500, 600, 600 in customs revenue last
year that twenty-five ports of entry did not
collect dollar in duties, aud that thirty-two
other ports of entry did not collect enough to
pay expenses. lie recommends reduction
Of custom districts and the adjustment OF the
fee system in custom houses.
The session of Congress which began Mon
day does not promise to be very important
so far as the consideration of great na,iony
questions is concerned. There will be mauy
questions, Of more or less State and sectional
importance, however before this Congress.
The country az large is prosperous and happy,
and seldom took less interest in Congress aud
it's doipgs than now.
An amendment to the Constitution Of the
State Of Mass; chusetts, which WAS carried at
the recent election, received a trhe over
thirty thousand votes-about ten per cent. of
the population of the State. The amendment
was comp ratively an unimportant one, 1t is
true, but the fact indicates more danger to
our political institutions from non-voting than
from ignorant or partisan exercise of the
franchise.
We cali the attention of our readers to the
advertisement of j. Monroe Taylor. This
house has been established nearly forty years,
and their goods are celebrated for purity and
strength We would recommend trial of
their Gold Medal brands to all who desire SUI
perior cookery, n.l6, Am.
WASHINGTON, ID. G.. December 8. "A pro-
minent Treasury official, in speaking about
the retirement of Assistant Hillhouse at New
York. said it was remarkable fact that dur
ing the eleven years he has held the Office but
81, 500 has been lost in the Sub Treasury with
out being accounted for, although hundreds of
millions of dollars have been handled by the
employees of the Office during that time This
official said be did not believe there was any
large banking institution in the country that
could show such record.
Thurlow Weed, speaking of George Law re-
Gently deceased, millionaire and great busi-.
ness man, says that Law. Com. Vanderbilt
and Dean Richmond could not have passed a
competitive examination for the berth of
night-watchman 10 the Custom House or let
ter-carrier in the Post Office. He has pre-
served letters from all three in which not
single word of three syllables is spelled in the
usual manner. This fact is commended to
the attention Of our Civil Service Reformers,
who want all appointments to office made ON
the competitive examination principle.