The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-01-11


Seven men were hanged in this country on
Friday.
One Key West gardener expects to send
North the tomatoes from 10000 plants.
There were /, $50 fires in New York in 1881
causing $500, 600 loss, or two millions more
than in 1880
The process of breaking down Blaine is now
going on with great energy. All the Stall
warts have enlisted for the war.
Vice Chancellor AMI Dodd, has resigned
to be elected President of the Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance Company of Newark.
General and Mrs. Grant will visit the Presi-
dent at the White House the latter part Of
this month.
The Tribune wants Guiteau hanged as soon
as possible, that his blackguardism may be
g stopped short never to go again.
About one-ffth of the entire population of
90, 900 of Paterson. N. J., consists of girls
who employed in the different mills.
BAKERS PAIN PANACEA cures pain
in Man and Beast For use externally and
internally.
Long Branch is making arrangements for a
water supply of 35,000,000 gallons day next
Summer.
Senator sewel is attempting to secure for
the important rivers Of South Jersey larger
share of appropriations.
Edwin NJ. Stoughton, ex-Minister to Russia,
died on Saturday at his residence in New
York city, aged 81 years.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., the well-known
lawyer author and politician, of Boston, died
in Rome, Italy, on Saturday, of pneumonia.
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The late Professor Draper and Professor
Morse opened photograph gallery in New
York city in 1910, and took daguerreotypes at
IS apiece.
The Atlanta cotton exposition, the most
successful enterprise of its kind ever held in
the South, closed on Saturday with addresses
and much mutual congratulation. 1t, how
ever did not pay expenses.
Judge Tourgee, author of the Fools
Errand, said in a recent interview that
" Mahoneism meant that GO, 900 votes should
be recorded in Virginia. He says that If five
or ten millions Of money were poured into the
schools of the South the differences between
North and South would disappear.
Prof. Edward d. Cope, the Philadelphia
geologist, thinks be has discovered missing
link" In the tertiary formation of the Big
Horn Valley, Wyoming, he dug out the skull
of species of monkey which exhibits human
characteristics in miniature, aud is vastly SUI
perior to the monkey skulls of the present
day.
Contrary 10 the general idea, the majority
of the European immigrants who come to this
country do not 90 West hnt remain in the
Eastern States. Tins Of the 100000 immi-
grants who landed at Castle Garden, last
year. no fewer than $4,000 settled in New
Yprk ST SLATE and liz CITY while I'll hlA found homes
arrangement of tho liver, with constipa-
ton, iniure the complexion, induce pimples,
sallow skin, etc. Remove the canse by using
Carriers Little Liver Pills. One dose.
Jan. AIT
The gain OF Democratic Assemblyman in
Newark gives the Democrats the control of
the next Assembly unless the Anti monopoly
element from Hudson county should stand
aloof. This is not probable. 1t is not
matter of sincere regret that one patty should
have decided majority for the legislation of
the House. The Legislature is now decided
tho Republicans controlling the Senate and
the Democrats the House, and there can be no
partisan legislation. The Republicans will
have majority on joint ballot
We call 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
lsrength. We would recommend trial of
their Gold Medal brands to all who desire su-
perior cookery. n.16,-4m.
Tho year just closed has been busy one at
the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Phladel-
phia. The whole number of locomotives built
during the year 1851 was 800, or at the rate
of two every working day This number of
tnromntivpu with thpir tpprare vxpl,l1 rna1ya
n column six miles long Abont $500 hands
are now employed in the establishment.
DIR. ROGERS VEGETABLE WORM
SYRUP instantly destroys worms and re-
moves the Secretions which cause them.
AN ECCENTRIC VILLA number of years
ago rich man, as eccentric as he was benevt.
lent, died in Philadelphia, leaving will, in
which no laid a solemn injunction upon his
children that SO long as they lived they should
see the old year out and the new year in at
the foot of his coffin. The children are scat
tered through many States, from Vermont to
Nebraska, but they never violate their fathers
injunction, and Saturday, December 81, few
moments before midnight, they assembled as
usual, in the family vault in Laurel Hill Gem
etery. Four of those upon whom this grim
necessity was laid are dead, and the survivors
constitute strange and mournful group as
they carry out their fathers solemn hehest.
TAXING STORE ORDERS. -Several large cor
porations in New Jersey have been issuing
shinplasters or "truclS orders . to their
employees, redeemable in cash ten years from
issue, but receivable for goods in the mean
time at certain stores owned by the corpora
tons. When this practice came to the knowl-
edge of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
he proposed to levy tax Of ten per cent.
upon all paper of the kind, as he can do under
United States law. The Attorney OF these
corporations. accompanied by Congressman
Robson, made an effort TO prove that the
paper is not taxable. He was unsuccessful,
and Commissioner Raum decided that the ten
per cent. tax must be paid. This is eqniva-
lent to prohibition of further issues of the
kind
The alarming increase of smallpox in diff
ferent parts of the country very naturally
arouses attention to the peril in which the
public health is placed and to the. measures
that should be devised to protect it. The
doctors cannot, of course, agree. Vaccination
is denounced by one school as of no value
whatever. Some of the extremists Of this
party evon go so far as to say that it is worse
than the disease Tho pracfieal evnerianca nF