The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-11-29

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According 10 all accounts, the old
fashioned poke bonnet worn by our
grandmothers will be the reigniBg style
this SEASON.
Military critics arc tearing Gen. Grants
defense of Fitz John Porter all 10 pieces.
They show it to be full of errors, both of
statement and reasoning
If the mere possibility that the tariff
may be swept away has such depressing
effect on the industries of the country,
what effect must positive free trade legis-
latiOn have?
1t is stated that Miles Ross stopped
payment of some OF his political checks
because the parties who received them
sold him out There is much feeling in
some localities about tho matter.
A Cincinnati lawyer charged soldiers
widow 81 600 for getting her a Sc, 1000
pension. Circuses which visit Cincinnati
next Summer should not bother abou t
taking along any sharks for exhibition.
The movement TO raise $50, 900 fer the
Garfield monument by contributions from
the State encampmcnt of Knights Tenn
plar in Ohio, equivalent To 81 for each
Knight in its jurisdiction, is meeting with
gratifying success.
Il has been decided by tho Post Office
Department 10 admit to the mails as
fourth class matter "dried prunes, COM
pressed tongue, boned turkey, and other
canned meats, put up in soldored tin cans
not to weigh over four pounds.
Daniel Van Scoten, of Walnut Valley, |
Warren county, probably the oldest post.
master, in point of service and age, in tho |
United States, died at his home on last |
Friday week lie was eighty-five years
old, and WAS frat appointed postmaster in |
1927.
Mr.. Oliver Amcs, Lieutenant Governor
of Massachusetts,, although now man of
great wealth, was trained TO work, and
did work for years in his fathers shops,
as n common journcyman shovelmaker.
The proficiency he attained as a mechanic
is shown by the fact that for several
years he alone made all the prize shovels
and other tools exhibited by tho firm at
fairs in this and other countries. His ex-
ample IS being followed by his son. now
20 years old, who daily works ut the
bench and anvil.
Uc i1lbtiua iihtc ~ FhOillN GDuiiLY
rank rs the first in New Jersey aud tho
eleventh In the United States. They are
worked by three companies the Andover,
the Glendon and the Bethlehem The
average export Of the three companies is
fully IL, 900 tons per MONTH The Glen
don company alone last year raised over
$4,000 tons. The three companies employ
over 800 hands. The iron ore Is taken by
the Hibernia Mine Railroad to Rockawny,
and thence shipped to its destination.
Last year tho railroad carried $50, 900 tons
of this useful ore. Drills which are
worked by steam and compressed air are
used extensively in these mines.
The Democratic papers are urgently re-
minding their party that it must not tako
the elections Of the seventh instant as
proof ef returning confidence in the Do
mocracy The Macon Telegraph admits
that 1t were idle to attribute tho results
to anything in tho way of confidence in
the general policy of the Democratic
party as developed when it had majority
in both Houses OF Congress. The
Doylestown Democrat is also persuaded
that They who believe the result Of the
elections solely a Democratic victory, fail
TO appreciate its true inwardness. IL was
III Luc uTOsiut5t anu uCGptob bGthc u VIC
tory of tho people over boss machine rule,
and is notice that they will have no more
of il.
Mn. RoDgsos TIRED or poLirIcs.--A
Washington dispatch says Mr.. Robe
son announces his intention of joining
Mr.. Conkling aud the caravan of retired
statesmen ut the ond of the coming
session, and that thereafter nothing shall
induce him to re-enter politics. Tho
practice of law, he says, will command
his undivided attention. Az the same
time hc does not attempt to conceal his
ehagrin over his recent defeat, and it is
evident that he will part from Office with
sore and regretfu heart. Mr.. Robson
says that his house cost only $2S, 900 in
stead of S65, 600 as charged, aud that the
money came from fortunate real estate
Investments when no first came here and
which had nothing 70 do with his subse-
quent income.
The true inwrrdness OF the great rail-
road war now fighting one of the periodic
battles In the Northwest is in this, that
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad two or three years ago undertook
TO scatter its tracks over about two hun
dred square miles of Southern Dakota in
such way as to shut out all competing
roads and to control tho local and through
passenger and freight traffic represented
by that section Of country. This has pro-
duced conflict, now going on for two
years. between this road and the Chicago
and Northwestern in the first instance,
and in which contest other roads are now
joining. One of the results to-day is that
men are getting the ride from Chicago to
Sioux City, Iowa, or TO Sioux Falls, Da-
kota, distance of something ever 900 miles
10 either case, for rs cents, the usual faro
being about $18. Freight is being car
ried ct proportionately low rate between
Chicago and all points in the far West,
with Indications that things are not halt
as lively vet ae they win be.