The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-12-20

Keely says his famous motor is now
almost ready for use. Mr.. Boekel, the
expert appointed by the court in his re-
port, after sketching the corporate exis-
tence of the company, treats of the great
possibilities of natural forces, which, he
says, Mr.. Keely has been assiduously
studying. until the inventors "investiga-
tions and experiments have carried him
far beyond the laboratory experiments Of
Professor Tyndall and other scientific in-
vestigators, and he has succeeded in ex-
citing Harvesting aud utilizing the subtle
force which to them has been only sub
ject Of scientific wonder" 1t is also de-
clared that the motor is soon to be tested
on the Pennsylvania Railroad on trial
trip.
A law student giving his name as John
p. G. Smith, has been convicted at Port
Jervis on a charge of forgery. Upon ex.
animation it transpircd that the villain is
none other than DR.. Paul Sch@ppe, who
murdered Miss SteiDecke at Carlisle in
1877, and who upon second trial was ac-
quilted. He served recently three years
in the Joliet prison for forgery under the
name of Count Schulenberg. He is now
serving a five years sentence in Sing
Sing. He is engaged to be married to
Miss Ida butcher, the daughter of min
lister OF Port Jeryis, but as Is usually the
case, she is slow in believing him great
reprobate.
The New York Herald of Monday, pub.
lished parcel of letters and kilograms
which show that Stephen w. Dorsey was
in confidential intercourse with General
Garfield during the campaign of 1880. 1t
could not be otherwise, because Dorsey
was the Secretary of the National Repub-
lican Committee But because Garfield
advised with him on politics in friendly
way then, are we to infer that President
Garfield was bound to shield him from
the Star Route prosecutions when those
trials were inangurated? Or that the
friends of the late President are bound to
give him countenance and support?
Hon. John Hill lost no time in re-iutro-
ducing his two cent postage BILL and put
it in Oh the first day of the session. Now
that il has the emphatic endorsement of
the President, there is little doubt that it
will be made law this winter l. was
helped in this direction by the House on
Wednesday directing it to be embodied in
the Post Office appropriation bill, which
was another triumph for Mr.. Hill mas.
much as that was the precise course he
advocated and aimed to secure.
The Philadelphia Coach Company, run.
ming omnibuses on Market, Broad and
Oxford streets, Philadelphia, has made an
assignment for the benefit of creditors.
The company runs 25 coaches and owns
1866 horses. During the year ending in
August, the receipts were over 5000,
and the operating expenses over $62, 900.
The line yet in operation by the assignee.
The House on Saturday refused to make
an appropriation for the "fast mali SER
vice, and the newspaper train, as it has
been called, will be taken off. The ar
gument was that the service was purely
for the benefit Of New York and Phila-
delphia newspapers, and that If they
wanted such special train they ought to
pay it, The argument is not without
force.
The first of an order of % ''mastodon''
locomotives for the Central Pacific Rail-
road was turned out on Friday, at the !
Cooke Works at Paterson. The engine
is believed to be the largest ever made
weighing SO tons without the tender, and
having cylinders 20x30 inches. 1t has
eight driving-wheels and four truck |
wheels. ~ u s.gafs
Mr.. Enrico Rosengi, an Italian, talks
of locating bis "Ferroline, or black mar
BILE works in Bridgcton. The works will
it is estimated, cost $50, 900 and employ
from sixty to eighty workmen.
At PRINCETON, Stephen Alexander, LII. \
D., Emeritus Professor of Astronomy,
says Of the transit of Venus that four
years will no more than suffice to make |
he calculations, that now mnst ensue.