The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-02-22
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Lamoertviue. N. j.. Feo. ss, 1882.

The State Board of Education have re-
elected Mr.. E. A. Apgar, State Superintend-
emit
Tho extra services in the NJ +. Church
in Frenchtown are still continued More
than forty persons have professed conversion.
Quite a number of dogs in Milford and
vicinity have been killed recently, owing to
their exhibiting signs of hydrophoba
William White landlord of the lower
hotel at Point Pleasant Pa, will succeed Mr.
Runyan, at the Kingwood Hotel.
We learn from our County Superintend-
ent that the Teachers Examination for this
county will be held on the last Saturday of
S the present month.
The wife OF Mr.. Alexander Grant, of this
city, died rather suddenly this morning. Her
health had not been good for some time, but
her death was quite unexpected.
The Legislature entered upon its seventh
week on Monday evening. Thus far 142 bills
have been introduced in the Senate and ga
in the House.
Samuel Corners, of Kingwood township,
last week shot gray fox weighing about
seventy-ive pounds, which had been driven
thirty feet up a tree by dogs.
The annual meeting of the Lam bertville
Vigilant Society will be held at Lyceum Hall,
on Friday of this week, at 10 A. M. Dinner
at Gaddis' Hotel.
Mrs. Thomas Coombes, living on Cottage
Hill in this city. has a beautiful Gala lily of
mammoth proportions. 1t measures 81 by
inches. Mrs. G. takes great pride in the Gull
tvation Of flowers.
Work on the new M. E. Church, at
Everittstown, has been suspended for the
present. The building is ready for plastering
which will be done as soon as spring opens
Frenchtoson Independent.
Miss Mary NJ. Brewer will form class
for Painting, Drawing, Sketching from Ma
ture, etc., on March 1, 1882. For particulars,
inquire at Miss Carpenters School on Tues
days and Fridays, from 3 to P. NJ. OF
--Magno liza Lodge, No. 81, /. o. o. f., of
Frenchtown, have fitted up in grand style
theirnew Lodge Room, which they will occupy
for the first time on Saturday evening of this
week. 1t is the handsomest Lodge Room in
the county.
An extra effort is to be made, both by
the Madison Square and Fleet Wing Com
panies, that the play of "Hazel Kirke,
which is soon to be produced here, for the
benefit of the latter, shall have the benefit of
more and better scenery than is usual in Lam
bertvile. Seats may be secured in few
days at Cochrau's Drug Store.
The Stryker Library Association have
made arrangements for renting the room over
S. w. Cochrans drug store, and will COM
mence about March LIST to have it fitted up
for the reception of their books. 1t is under
stood that the catalogue is already made up
and the books ordered or if MOI, that they
will be in very short time.
Having been troubled with very bad
Cough for about two years and having tried
almost every cough mixture that was ever
made, have found none that has given me
such great relief as DR. Bulls Cough Syrup,
and earnestly recommend it to all afflicted
BENZ F. DUGeAN, ii Park Place, N. Y.
MIR. and Mrs Isaac w. Holcomb, of this
city, were surprised on last Wednesday even
ing by call from some fifty Or sixty friends,
who surprised them on the occasion of the
celebration of their g tin wedding" A num-
bcr of presents were brought and the evening
was spent very pleasantly.
The extra meetings at the NJ e. Church
in this city, closed last week. Over eighty
persons have professed conversion during
these meetings, which have been held for
about two months. The meetings have been
conducted by the pastor, Rev. w. p. G.
Strickland, with very little outside aid. Un-
der his labors the church has been greatly
revived and built up.
The following is report of eighty hens
kept by Amos A. Bearder, of Sand Brook,
from January LIST, 1881, to January LIST, 1882.
He sold 1915 eggs, which brought him
$l30.85 he sold poultry to the amount of
$93.57 making in all 1924 AZ. He paid to
keep those hens $75 73, giving him a clear
profit of $14S.69. His stock was cross of
the American Rose Comb and Dominique
breeds, one of the best for laying eggs.--Hun-
terdon Advertiser.
The members of the House from this
county, we feel sure, did not represent their
when they voted in favor of the
bill to increase the salary of the Chancellor
from $4,000 to $4,000 per year. Ten
thousand dollars ought to be more than sufi-
cient pay for the work required of that officer.
"A Thousand Facts--a valuable book of
nearly $50 pages--given away to each pur-
chaser of two or more Csc. bottles of Sines'
Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry and Horehound,
an almost never failing remedy for all coughs
and colds, at the New Hope Drug Store. ct
-Chas. S. Joiner, Esq, of Phila., formerly
publisher of the Frenchtown Press, was in
our city, recently, engaged in writing up
sketches of our business establishments for
State Gazetteer and Business Directory of
New Jersey, soon to be published by r. L.
Polk & Co., of Philadelphia, who also have
offices at Detroit, indianapolis, &c.
The wife Of Rev. Franklin johnson, D.
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