The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-07-26


$3.50 las; year, and they have twt
months vacation besides.
President .Iewett. Of the Eric Railway
rides in private car which cost $25. 900
Farmers must not make sng ill-natureS
remarks about it.
The Albany Journal says L 5. Senate
Warner Miller commenced life as
school teacher in New Brunswick, ahou
forty years ago. at salary of foriy.fivl
dollars month
A German giantess named Marian. six
teen years old, eight feet two inches high
and still growing. has heen engaged L
take the part of an Amazouiau queen il
babel and Buou AT a london Iheaier
The Rev. E. o. Barnes. The g Mountain
Evangelist, whose work in Kentucky /.
attracting 81 much attention is graduate
years 10 India rs missionary OF the
American Beard
George II. Reeder, son Of i former
Governor of Kansas, and recently one eI
the editors aud proprieIors of The Easton,
Pa, Express, was found wandering in one
of the streets of Brooklyn. Tuesday
morning of last week, insane.
General Grant says that iGe people Of
Egypt are ten times worse of fhau the
Southern negroes. and he expresses the
belief that an English proicotorate would
help to develop the resources Of the conn
try and improve the condition of the
people.
4 writer in the London Lancet has dis
covered that meat is highly stimulating,
and is cause of nervous diseases to
those taking but little exercise At the
present prices of meat this statement must
be consolation to those who cannot buy
il.
Emerson Etheridge, one of tho most
brilliant orators of Tennessee, is about to
enter the field as Prob ibiiion candidate
for Governor of that State, and the Mem
phis Appeal says that if he does "thcre
will be vigorous shaking up of the rum
sellers
A monster mushroom has forced its
way through the s5lid 9-inch flooring of
concrete and asphalt in Buffalo grain
elevator. The bulge in the floor was first
noticed the latter part of last week, but
the break did not occur until Wednesday
morning.
The brook trout in New York markets
come mainly from trout farms on Long
Island. Here science and art step in
again to supplement nature and furnish
food for man when it would otherwise be
almost impossible to obtain IT, The low
est price is 81 per pound
A potato grower IS. r. Hunt near
Rochester, N. Y J, recommends tar water
as a cure for potato bugs, and puts it
ahead of Paris Green. Two quarts of
gas tar to pail of water are the proper
tions. He also uses it on currant bushes
with fine effect. II is easy To try.
The costliest collins in this country are
cheap affairs when contrasted with some
to be found abroad. In the tomb in the
Cathedral at Milan, the body of Cardinal
Borromeo is inclosed ir q crystal casket,
magnificent, with gold and silver trim
mings, set with precious stones, at Il cost
of $500, 900.
Tho late William Il. Garrison, who was
killed in the Little Silver Railway disaster
on july 9th, left an estate valued at $S,-
900, 600. BY his will, which was admitted
Y,
estate is lett to his executors, in trust for
his family, which consists of his widow
aud four children.
Bishop Wigger, in late address at
Moutclair, admonished his congregation
aud the Children of Mary in particular, OF
the great danger in attending balls OF
sociables. Hundreds of thousands, he
believed, were lost in that way, also by
reading bad books, dime novels, and
weekly story papers.
The tariff on imported potatoes i.
fifteen cents per bnshel, and probably
tariff upon them. But tariff was hardly
necessary to protect them since las
years drouth. A tariff that would protect
them against the Colorado bugs would bt
welcome to the farmers.
Mr.. Preston Powers exhibited few
days ago, to the widow and mother Of thu
late President, the model for bust Of
General Garfield, taken from the portrait
used ON the now five cent postage stamps
They were highly pleased with it, and
Mr. Powers will at once proceed to Italy
to execute the work in marble, life sized
Arab Pacha's force is said to be in
crcasing and he is delaying action untl
after tho arrival of the False Prophet will
his immense and constantly increasing
army. The hesitation in attacking hin
at once and forcing tho fighting is regard
cd as fatal mistake. 1t now looks as i
the war would DO religious one, aud il
the end the crescent will sure trail in III,
dust before the cross.
Once, few years ago the late BishoI
Levi Scott was invited to preach
Thanksgiving Day sermon at Odessa
Del. A large congregation attended ant
an elaborate discourse was expected. But
to every ones surprise, no closed hi
sermon after talking only fifteen minutes
and TO tho inqurers who ilocked ahou
him afterward he explained that he haC
said all he knew on the subject in hand
and he had, therefore, stopped talking.
The evidence in the Star Route cases i.
all in. and it is now being argued by the
lawyers. While there does not seem ia
no sufficient evidence to send any promi.
nent statesman to the penitentiary, there
Is much to open the eyes of tho American
people as to how their officers manage.
and 10 convince them that we have dishon.
est officials. Probably it would not look
we'll to send an American Senator to pris-
on for fraud, and we should hold up our
head before the Powers of Europe.
The country was Mortified on Tuesday
by the reported abduction of a child in
Montreal, for whose ransom ton thousand
dollars was demanded on penalty of the
death of the child. All the detectives,
both civic and government, were set to
work, and dire vengeance was threatened
by the citizens. Fear seized the hends
who stole the child, and on Tuesday night
they abandoned the child in an unfre.
qnented street where he was subsequently
found and restored TO his agonized
parents. The work of hunting down The
iuffiaDs should not be abandoned
The Seaside Sunday School Assembly,
under the direction and management of
the Presbyterian Sunday School commit
tee Of the Synod of New Jersey, will NEE,
at Asbury Park, August 1st where the
sessions will continue for two weeks. The
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