The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-07-20

water spout burst over the town OF
Marshalltown, Iowa, on the 18th, raising the
rivers, and destroying much property
New Brunswick has negotiated $4,000 of
city bonds, twenty years, at five per cent. 80
and 81.
The pension list now absorbs two-ifths of
the whole amount expended for the support
of the government.
The famous trotting mare Maud S. trotted
mile one day last week, at Pittsburg, in
2104.
Pennsylvania man has been found who
bad never heard of ConB ling. Some folks
have dead loads of ldck.--Bostoa Post.
As true wife and a brave woman, Mrs.
Garfield has made herself a place in history
aud in the hearts of her countrymen. There
is heroism which is not of the battlefield.
Mrs. Langtry has written to friends in New
York that she will visit America in October
next, aud it is said that apartments have al
ready been secured for her at the West
minister.
Mrs. Eliza Garfield, mother az the Presi-
dent, had a severe attack of cholera morhns,
last Friday, and is now Frustrated by fever
AS she is III years Of age, her recovery is
scarcely hoped for.
There are now two hundred pe.sons inn
prisoned in Ireland under the coercion act,
including one member of Parliament, one
priest, one magistrate, several town council
ofs, and many poor-law guardians.
Southern tomatoes, which are virtually no
tomatoes at all, but simply tough saes filed
with an acid liquid, have had their day for
this season. The Jersey crop, which is much
superior, is now beginning to make its APP
| pearance in the market.
RfaI.nn. T.a1.o a.. 4Isf;..at,atI. VT
ran Zouaves, has Withdrawn his resignation,
which he offered in consequence of the excite
ment created by bis alleged remark that he
was glad the President was shot, and at the
same time shouting for President Arthur.
It is probable that Baltimore will carry off
the toy pistol on the Fourth 1t is nearly
two weeks since the Fourth, but boys are still
dying from lockjaw occasioned by toy pistol
wounds. Baltimore has turned up nineteen
victims and has not yet reached the end of
the list.
fine new organ has just been put into the
Baptist Church at Higbtstown, N. j., the gift
! of Wilson @, Hunt, of New York city. Mr..
/ Hunts father was years ago a deacon in the
| Hightstown church, and now the son honors
his fathers memory. The instrument cost
three Thousand dollars.
A despatch from Portland, Me-, announces
that Justice Clifford, of the United States
Supreme Court, has undergone amputation of
the foot for gangrene, and is as comfortable
as could be expected. The chances of his
recovery, however, are exceedingly small.
A somewhat cratic correspondent of New
! Hampshire paper at the State capital says
that the present is the first Legislature he
ever saw in which there are absolutely no
party lines. ut is very much like the Massa-
chusetts Assembly, he says "in which two
thirds of the Republicans are Democrats, and
all the Democrats are two-thirds Republi-
] cans
Though not much is said about it, the sub
marine tunnel under the Hudson between
Jersey City and New York, is being pushed
with great vigor. The EXCAVATIONS are being
pushed at The rate of five feet day, and the
work is now 300 feet under the river from the
Jersey shore. The arch is thirty feet below
the river bed, and the length of the tunnel
from shore to shore viii be 5,4o0 feet, more
than mile
| GALIFoRNIA's BIG WHEAT SURPLUS
Prodaos n fsbo as Sen f
NAMING IN the state ofthe crop of $780, 49,
PA, 27o centals of wheat and 1874, 500 barrels
of flour. This is considered low estimate
as no returns have been received from num-
Der of minor points, aggregating consider
able amount, of which estimate is made,
and as in cases of material discrepancies in the
reports from any point, the lowest figures
have invariably been taken. This is the
largest surplus of wheat ever carried over.
The largest shark ever seen in the neighbor.
hood was on exhibition Mt Long Branch on
Friday evening. 1t was killed at Seabright
on Thursday. 1t had been entangled in the
nets of the pounds, and was harpooned by
two mon. The fish fought with desperate
/ md L.
boat used by his captors, in his frantic effort
to escape. 1t was nearly an hour before the
huge fish died. The ''sea lawyer was eleven
and n BALI feet long. four feet nine inches in
diameter. Its estimated weight was 750
pounds, and the fins were almost two feet
long,
A class mate of the President said at a
Wiliamstown prayer meeting lately !.
"Fwenty-six years ago to night, and at this
very hour, our class was on the top of Grey
lock to spend the night of the Fourth of july.
As we were about to lie down for Sleep Gar
field took out his pocket Testament and said
i am in the habit of reading a chapter every
night at this time with my mother. Shall
read aloud p All assented, aud when he had
read he asked the oldest member of the class
to pray. And there in the night, on the
mountain top, we prayed with him for whom
we have now assembled to pray.
Mercury in the Western thermometers
which last week marked 102 and 1903, indicate
killing temperatures When it gets to that
all bodily work for man and horse should
stop. 1t is best, under such circumstances,
to put out the kitchen fires even, and subsist
on cold snacks until the temperature goes
down. 1t is not alone exposure to the sun
that does the fatal work bodily exertion and
exhaustion in high heats are quite as injurious
and sometimes as fatal, and are, therefore, to
he avoided. The hot wave that poured over
st. Louis and Cincinnati must have como di-
rectly from the tropics.
Carriers Little Liver Pills will positively
cure the sick headache and prevent its return
This is not talk, but truth. One pin dose.
To DO had of all druggists. See advertise
ment.