The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-08-16

days since.
The Board of Freeholders will meet
in this city on Saturday, to take action on
building bridge over the creek on the
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Owing to the severe illness of DR.. c.
W. Larson, of Ringoes, the next session
of the Academy of Science and Art will
not open until further notice.
The annual festival of the M. E. Church,
Kingwood, will be held in E. E. Bonham $
Grove, Wednesday, 23rd inst. All day
and evening
The new cottage on the corner of
Delaware avenue and Main street now in
course of erection, will in few days be
under roof. This will be one of the finest
places ON the avenue.
-Dysentery has prevailed here to quite
an extent for the past ten days. There
were number of severe cases, and one or
two deaths among adults, but the disease
is now subsiding.
Mr.. A. X. Wagner, of Stockton, fell
down the steps of building IN Fleming
ton, last Thursday, in consequence of an
attack of dizziness, and spraned his left
wrist and bruised himself considerably.
Over twenty buildings are under con-
struction in this city, to be completed be-
fore winter Lambertville is growing
pretty rapidly, if the increase in the num-
Der of houses is any indication.
The handsome advertising car of
Nathans & IS Circus was an attraction
to our citizens on Monday last. Mr.. f.
Cordova, the gentlemanly advertising
agent of the concern, kindly showed the
car to numerous callers.
Yesterday afternoon some one broke
into the house of B Dominick, the Italian
fruit and peanut vendor, at the FRANKLIN
street bridge over Swans Creek, and stole
five dollars in silver and two boxes of
segars.
John H. Horn and Phil Guillek, of
the First Ward Joseph Sproat and Geo.
r. Gaddis, of the Second Ward, and P. K.
Hazen and Jas. McQuillen, of the Third
Ward, are the delegates from this city to
the Democratic Congressional Convention
at Newton, tomorrow.
Tho Greenback Labor Party in the
Fourth Congressional District, will hold
a convention at Clinton, August Both, and
IL ho fol ba
day and place the party will hold their
County Convention for Hunterdon, and
make their county ticket.
The Eagle Fire Co., of New Hope,
will hold picnic on Thursday of next
week, the gath inst, afternoon and even
ing, at Solebury Deer Park. Tickets
$1.O0. Seddon's popular orchestra has
been engaged. Hacks will be run from
New Hope to the Park.
The Pennington Cornet Band will
furnish the music at the Locktown Har-
vest Home, on the 18th inst. Addresses
will be delivered by Rev. E. B. Eldridge,
of Carversville, Pa, and r l.. s. Kuhl, Esq,
of Pennington.
The Milford Leader says: DIR. Mich
olas Summerbell, once pastor of the
Christian Church here, as is well known,
and afterward President of Union Chris
tian College, is steadily recovering from
his late feebleness, and expects to spend
two or three weeks this summer here with
Ill
DIR. C. w. Larson, of Ringoes, who
has been lying seriously i'll for the past
week from blood-poison, contracted 10
a recent post norton, has for the past
twenty-four hours hcen improving and
his attendants are now hopeful of his re-
covery, which was for time despaired of.
The M. E. excursion from this city
to Ocean Grove, yesterday, was success.
Over six hundred passengers were carried,
and the net profit will reach about 1915.
The excursion by the Stockton M. Z.
Church TO the same point, took one hun
bred and fifty persons, and the Titusyille
NJ. E. Church sold about one hundred and
eighty tickets. These three excursions
were carried by the same train. The
train was divided into two sections and
made good time going and returning.
While Mr.. VIM. McCready's en-
ployes were engaged last week in dig
ging ditch for his new water supply near
the Delaware, they came across dressed
piece of sandstone, with the following in
scription
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