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

7 GEAAiJs A-fSf J Hfei bAt ptlStIAHSS ~ 'NN'F~H
was unusually light.
Owing to the number of deaths from
lockjaw, as a consequence of toy pistol
wounds, coroner's jury in New York on
Wednesday recommended the passage of
an ordinance forbidding the sale of snch
deadly weapons in that city.
Having established prohibition, the
Kansas Republicans now propose to amend
their State Constitution in favor Of wo-
men suffrage. This young member Of
the sisterhood of States is coming TO the
front at a rate calculated to alarm nervous
people.
IN the tenement house districts Of New
York, nov being visited by physicians
employed by the Board Of Health, 90, 800
fam lies have been found ia 1879 houses,
OF an average Of nearly eight families to
house Iu some districts the average is
I still higher.
/ Seventy-tiyo years ago Monday, the It'll
/ inst, Robert Fuiton's steamboat Cler-
mont made its first trip up the Hudson
I river. The little boat was long known as
/ " Fnlton's Folly" but the ocean steamers
Z of to-day show how little folly there was
III Fulton's Invention.
The Republicans of the First Congress
ional District are arranging for first
class defeat this Fall. As things now
look, they will lose their candidate for
Congress, no matter who he may be, and
also several members of the Legislature
1t is needless and disgraceful quarrel as
il now stands.
A Imaginable inconsistency in the late
anti-temperance speech of Mr.. W. III.
English, of Indiana, has been pointed out.
He argued that prohibition would lessen
the consumption Of the farmers grain"
and that it would wreck the fortunes Of
merchants aud manufacturers. Then he
turned and warned the temperance people
that " the effect would be rather to cause
the people to drink more 1t stamps
him as mere demagogue On the subject.
DIR. RoGE1ts' VEGETABLE WoRM
! SYRUP instantly destroys worms and re-
moves the Secretions which cause them.
Memorial Hall, erected by Philadelphia
for the Exhibition of 1876 at a cost of
81 ,5000 900. and intended to stand as re-
minder of that event, is serving the latter
purpose by requiring very extensive re-
pairs. The roof cannot hold itself up
much longer and other parts of the pre-
teuti0us structure are falling to pieces.
A. r. Stewart, the once noted American
prince of merchants, was during his day,
one of the most liberal advertisers on the |
continent. Judge Hilton, his successor,
said that advertising didn't pay, and dis
continued communication with the world I
through the newspapers, and the result t
was that the world discontinued its com
munieaton with his places of business
nd tl.ay IL - 81
JUMBo's PAPA.-Mr Barnnm was at
Block Island recently with party of I
English people and other friends, and as T
usual, p. r. had made friends with the
children. Z" Do you know who am ~
said lac to lad in knee breeehes. g No, |
sir" said the little fellow. Well, III |
tell you. am z. r. Barnum, the great
Snowman "Oh {" shouted the uven-
lie, +" then you are Jumbo's papa.
Horse racing circles are elamoring for
fair play, and ore, the i" Plunger,o as he
is called. has been gently reproved for
paying jockeys for successful driving.
This is considered a bride on the Turf
But il trying to induce jockey to make
his horse do his best, is bad g morals at
the race course, what is that trick to be
called which is said TO be common, that
Keeps horse from doing his bestP
What tho Democrats undertook to do
during the session of Congress Just closed
was To upset the national banking system,
to destroy American industries by break
ing down the tariff. to protect men who
| had stolen seats in the House in the pos
session Of their plumber, to shield
poygamy from its just doom, and, gen
orally, to do that which would have ruin
ed business and demoralzed society.
PREPARING FOR THE KNIGHTS. The
Committee Of Preparation for the Knights
Templars' biennial concave at San Fran
cisco, to be held next year, have perfected
arrangements with railroad companies
west Of the Missouri River for round trip
tickets by either route for $75. Negota-
tons are pending with lines east of
Omaha, and the committee think round
trip tickets from New York and Boston
will be 500.
ALL THAT WAS LEFT or HIM The
closing events in the career of the late
Fun Chew, laundryman in Passaic. New
Jersey, passed with noteworthy celebrity.
I lie was seized in the forenoon with collie.
Before noon he had shot himself He
died early in the afternoon, and at six
Z " NiNSn Nv Nto uutlcu Will 1IlneSe tele-
monies. His brother, All Lung, placed
all his effects in trunk, and burned them
at night fall on the river bank. When
/ the day closed n small mound of ashes was
all that WAS left to tell that Fun Chew had
! lived.
The Sentinel says the secretary of the
| Democratic Committee must be ga man
who knows the value of documents: who
sees to it that they are in the hands of
the people and placed where they will do
the most good. We should like TO know
whether the secretary will circulate the
able speech of Senator Voorhees, in favor
of protective tariff, or the able speech of
ex-senator Mcdonald in favor of tariff
for revenue only, or the able NORTH Amer
scsa Repte'o Art'cle of ex Governor Hen.
bricks taking both sides of the question.
Indianapolis Times
Congress has adjourned at last after an
eight months session. Its doings are re.
ceiving sach an over hauling by the press
MS will not be considered complimentary
by the honorable me mbeys 1t has IN
doubtedly done a great dcal of hard and
honest work, but it has discredited itself
on more than one occasion. Its anti
Chinese bill, Pension act, and River and
llarbor bin are specimens of legislation
that are unworthy of such body The
raids on the Treasury were numerous, and
perhaps the worst is the one not popular
to decry, namely, tho Pension aot--which
takes round Sl03, o0o,000 this year.
The first war debt has been wiped ont.
With last months debt statement the
first loan authorized by the Government
lSUl nf fhn Rnha1in,