The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-02-15

The Empress Of Austria has given $500
toward the proposed Garfield Memorial
Hospital
A large number Of the people Of Hsddon-
/ field are afflicted with disease similar TO
''pink eye in horses, being Of catarrhal
nature.
/ General Grant Was elected one Of the foar
Trustees Of the Madison Avenue Gongrega-
tional Church, of which Rev DIR. Newman Is
pastor, at meeting last week.
Backache is almost Immediately relieved by
wearing one of Cartor's Smart Weed and
Belladonna Backache Plasters, Try one and
be free from pain. Price 20 cents. fl5,2t.
A bill before the Legislature provides for
the publication of applications of licenses for
three weeks, together with the names Of the
persons recommending the license.
The Delaware aud Bound Brook Railroad
announces quarterly dividend of one and
three quarters per cent. Cess five per cent. re-
tanned for contingent fund.-, payable Febru
AIRY 10TH
When Russian peasant seeks work in the
capital his wife and daughters are required
by law to remain at home on the land. So
that in st. Petersburg there are 10000 more
males than females.
Few United States authors, says the London
4WeRguHa, can write descriptive papers of
light kind without straining to be humorous,
and without being eccentric or simply weari-
some.
With the admission of Washington Terri
tory as a State, Governor Newell will no
doubt be selected as one of The United States
Senators. The new State with the name of
the Father of her origin, could not find bet
ter man, one who would better represent her.
The snowfall in Austria has been so great
that in many places the drifts reach the tele-
graph wires During some of the storms,
passengers and drivers have been compelled
to abandon stage coaches and seek safety as
BEST they might by cutting their way to the
nearest houses, leaving baggage TO be dug out
later.
DIR. MOTIFS LIVER PILLS are the best
Cathartic Regulator
Ten inches of snow fell at Concord, New
Hampshire, ON Thursday night and Friday
morning, making total of 90 inches for the
Winter to date. The amount which has
fallen in that section during the first ten days
of the present month is greater than in any
whole month of February during the last
twenty years.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. w. Stoll, and their little
son, formerly of Matawan, were killed in
collision on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, on
Tuesday of last week. They were out on a
hand-car with Maj. Washburn, a railroad
builder, inspecting the track, when they were
run into by a construction train. There were
seven persons on the hand car, five of whom
were killed.
One voice all over the land goes up from
mothers, that says "My daughters are SO
feeble and sad, with no strength, all out of
at ba IN
can we do for them =" The answer is simple
and full of hope. One to four weeks use of
Hop Bitters will make them healthy, rosy,
sprightly and cheerful. f15,2t.
Strawbridge & Clothier, merchants, of
Philadelphia, offered premiums to the amount
of $500 for the best lot of cocoons, to be shown
at the Woman's Silk Culture Exhibition in
that city. There were twenty. six competitors
for the premiums. Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, of
Kennel Square, Pa. mother of Bayard Tay-
lor, was awarded the first prize of 5000. Her
cocoons counted 157 to the pound and yielded
one and ne-eighth ounces of silk and two
and seyen-eighths ounces OF waste.
DURNo'S CATARRH SNUFF cures
Catarrh and all affections of the mucous
membrane.
Some time ago, Parmelia Erickson, an old
lady seventy years of age, was found hanging
and it was presumed she had committed sui
eide. She was known to have considerable
amount of money and property. The Coroner
found 5000 in paper bag and an amount of
bonds in her trunk. Two men placed in
charge of the house by the Coroner the night
after the lady was found dead, disappeared
the next morning, and also the money, and it
is now believed that they murdered the old
lady.
Tho new five cent Garfield postage stamp
will be ready for issue on March /. Dark
brown has been selected as the color best cal
culated to bring out the fine engraving of the
work. The five cent stamp is almost entirely
used for foreign correspondence, and Third
Assistant Postmaster General Hazen, believ-
ing that an accurate engraving of the late
President should be used for that purpose,
has succeeded in producing what is pronounc-
ed to be the truest likeness of General Gar
field and the handsomest stamp yet issued by
the Post Office Department.
The Russian Jews who are driven from
their homes by brutal mobs, are flying into
Germany and to England many of them ex-
press a longing desire to come to this country.
1t seems to us that the rich Jews of the
United States ought to offer helping hand to
them. There is room enough here for the
whole of them and there is money enough
among their American brother to bring them
here and to give them homes and start
somewhere in the West. A movement in
their behalf will be heartily seconded by every
humane man, no matter what his race or
creed These unhappy people have a claim
upon all liberal minded persons, and partic-
ularly upon the Americans, who regard with
horror the hideous outrages to which they
have been subjected.
A few days ago, while the fly-wheel of the
Winchester Arms Mandatory in New Haven
was revolving so rapidly that the spokes were
undistingushable, the engineer noticed a
white blotch revolving with it, but supposing
that it was merely sunlight falling on the
wheel, he at first made no investigation. Two
hours and half later he observed that the
white streak was still there and, having stop
ped the engine, he discovered to his amaze
ment that the apparition was substantial
white cat, which had been cinging to one of
the spokes since the wheel started. She was
very much exhausted, and tho numberless
revolutions had made her cross-eyed, but she
has since recovered her strength and visual