The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-09-13

TOUCH" everywhere throughout our
county, | feel conscious that am paying
the Warren gentlemen no unmeaning
compliment.
The bridge had been built but thirteen
(lSl years, but was already on its last legs.
The bottom timbers were as rotten as q
decayed politician, and about as reliable,
having been built of red and black oak,
probably in the "palmiern days, so any
reflections at this time might be consider
ed invidious. might say just here, that
it is not one of the lost arts by any means,
to transform even pin oak tree into first
class schite oak, by the simple use of an
up and down saw or the deft use of an
axe SO as to deceive even the every
elect " themselves This is why the poor
Freeholders are forced to be absent from
their families so often, riding over the
mountains and down through the valleys,
and compelled to eat toast turkey end
other delicacies that will not stick to the
rib. can hardly think that any person
can be found so very obtuse as not to see
at glance, that 1t Is because they did not
use flrst-class Georgia pine instead of the
miserable stuff so often delivered at the
bridges, labeled ss.,..s and oak, The
dinner was s6sshers, ths,ly that SCUM
was convenient gaptRsSe ne biob alwavs
suits Jerseyma aosenk pg was pre-
o. - 'ae gghese stxGe Of aa mary art
our Aaonls q Clerk was heart OF soon
AFTER alnnegf frustrating along ne high
way AZ -s~o-forty gait, with some miF
heoe unknown to the writer. Psading
thaTit would be worse than useless toNbe
enTious, we let him have his own ways
ana aoubtless the happy couple enjoyed
tncpssi,-a TO their hearts content as
they sped along by happy hearthstones,
well-fllled barns, and peach orchards laden
with luscious fruit, conscious only of
their precious selves.
| heard something of an event that
happened the night before, of rather
startling character, in the woods on the
mountain somewhere In that delectable
neighborhood, concerning tho partial
capture of the gentleman in black that
made such a precipitate flight from Sheriff
Lunger's boarding house, few days ago.
Whether the board furnished him was I'M
satisfactory, Or that an 6 hour. of virtuoos
liberty was more desirable than an
eternity of bondage l know not, but
sufficient to know that on Friday night
be was back to his haunts, in the spot
:" dearer than all others,' sweetly sleep
ing In wagon load of dried leaves. Sur
prised at the report Of musket and
badly wounded in his extremity, he gave
-. a.uarvtiy scrcwm auu IN disnapirIo
made his escape. At last accounts he
was perambulating
"out on the mountain cold and bare,
Away from the tender Sheriff s care"
Goaded to frenzy by their failure, and
full of hot stuff from Bascom's grocery,
and with laudable desire to immortalize
themselves in killing Niger By The Ken
tucky method, they may even yet succeed
in bringing their game bag full to Elem
ington. Who says we do not live in the
Land of the free and the home of the
brave y
The prospect of hearing any more
spread eagle oratory from Warren County
in the halls of Congress, is exceedingly
slim. Mr.. Harris is being so much
harrdssed that he must be losing heart
already. This wide-s spread detection
must be goading in the extreme, I
heard his dement's fairly canvassed by
the representative men of his own party,
and really there were none SO poor as to
DC Vim rovUtence, Of say one Dfftve word
in his behalf. Unless I am greatly mis-
taken, an overwhelming and crushing de-
feat ia not only expected, 5utnost earnestly
desired, even by those who two years ago
were foremost In holding him up as a
pattern of honesty and fidelity. They
look upon him as political scapegoat
that has brought misfortune and calamity
on their party, and that be Is the veritable
Jonah that should be cast overheard. The
old ship has stood many strain and
racket before, but Secor Robson, while
Secretary of the Navy, neglected to keep
her in good order, and there is now great
danger of her going to the bottom. What
terrible thing 1t is to be cast to the
whales and sharks OH stormy sea, but
the ship must be saved at any cost.
AMINADAB.