The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-04
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err Of Boston, is estimated at $l7, 900, 600
Austrian postal savings banks took in
5000, COO IN their frs. month. January. I
1888.
Two-thirds of all the wheat imported I
into Great Britain last year was from the |
United States.
The Massachusetts House has passed
the bill providing for biennial State elec-
tioas and biennial sessions Of The Lceis-
latura.
II is said that the speech Of Nj Wheel
ct, of Alabama. printed ia the C6Hgfes-
sional Record after adjournment, cost the
Government $40.
When tie Noe York Tribune cai, sar-
render four columns of its space 10 an ae-
count Of Mrs " X Vanderbilt. fancy.
dress ball, there must BE- 4 sleat dearllI
of important tens.
The sudden temperance iu politics Of
William Sprague as the Telemachus Of re
form, with benjamin f. Butler in the role
of Mentor, is enough to make The CLAIMS
laugh. - Hartford COurant
According to The statistical report Of
the State Board Of Health, there were
%, 942 deaths in New Jersey liz 1882, an
increase Of 1000 over the previous year
There were 1887 marriages and 90, 108
births.
The result of the temperance revival at
Newton was 900 signers to the general
pledge, the organization OF reform club
with membership Of $50, and Woman's
Christian Temperance Union with mem
bership Of 100.
According to the Boston 4r oelier, In
about three fourths Of the towns in Mas
sachusetts which voted on the license
question on Monday. the 10th ut, there
was decisive mo Thus the Old Bay
State, as usual, sets a good example in
moral reform
Professor Young, Of Princeton College,
says: take railroad from the earth to
the sun, with train running forty miles
an hour, without stops, aud it would take
about 205 years aud little over 10 make |
the journey" He estimates the fare, at
one cent mile, to be 1880, 900.
Every other day the weather admonish
es sensible people not to be in too great
haste to change their thick winter gar
ments for those of lighter weight. There
is more fatal pneumonia 10 spring than
In midwinter. The clothing should bo
regulated by the weather, but 1t is better
to err on the side OF too thick than too
thin garments.
The usual spring burning of the Hack
ensaek meadows took place Monday
night. The entire marsh lands between
the Iiackensaek and Passaic rivers were
sheet Of fame, presenting very attrac-
tive sight The railroad tracks were sur
rounded with fire and the slaughter
houses of the Jersey City Abattoir mar
rowly escaped destruction.
The question having been asked as TO
the date of the "Great Snow storm" Ca
leb Swayze writes to the Phatips5urg |
Democrat: ''rhe date was January sth, |
9th ana 10th, 1886. Began showing ON
Friday night aud continued until Sabbath |
morning, 8 O'Clock 4. NJ three feet
deep on the level So written in the day
book of ]. *, & e. Swayze, Hope, At the
time"
State Senators are to be elected next
fall in Atlantic. Bergen, Cumberland,
Gloucester, Hudson. Mercer, Morris and
Ocean connties-eigbt. Thirteen will hold
oyer--seven Republicans and six Demo-
Gratis. Tho Republicans win therefore
need to elect four out Of the eight Sena
tors to secure majority. This can cast
" be done, If good men shall be nomi-
mated. Six of the eight counties are
naturally Republican,
John Brown. tho bully Sosiolman who
defended the Queen with bis big fist, and
whose stout heart has just stopped beat
ing. is not monrned in England He had
no friend at Court except Victoria, aud
was disliked. not only by the servants,
with whom he would not associate, and by
his superiors, whom he was allowed to
snub while assuming to guard the Queen
against intrusion and annoyance, bnt also
By the nation Mt large.
Land nj Spring Lake Beach is bccom
ing so valuable that that association has |
giving contract to Hon. 8. b. Oviatt to |
reclaim about twenty-five acres of sunken |
lands skifting Oh Wreck Pond The |
made land ia but one block from the
ocean, aud will sell readily al about So, 900 |
per acre Mr.. Oviatt has been prosecu-
ting the work all winter by u narrow
gunge railroad and large force of
Italians. The job is to be completed by
July list, next.
The music OF a Chinese baud is somei
thing wonderful Chinese class Of the
Spring Street Presbyterian Church, New
York, gave their friends an entertain
ment, the principal feature of which was
the performances of a band OF this the
Tribune says "'rbc most effective pieces
played were war songs, for in these the
gongs and tom toms had full force. Any
body Of soldiers marching to battle in.
spired by such sounds as these, would be
ready-even anxious--to die
Bob" Ingersoll has no narrow view of
the liquor question. He says "If the
Mississippi and all tributaries were filed
with pure whiskey +; II the banks were
loaf sugar, aud all the low lands covered
with mint, there would be no more drunk
enness that there is to-day. believe in
the restraining Influences of liberity."
Aud there are no doubt those who agree
with him, aud trust the day will soon ar.
rive when such state of affairs will ex-
ist, provided the Schuylkill and Delaware
rivers are included
A Legislative investigation OF Massa
chusetts almshousc disclosed the fact that
the Harvard Medical School received from
said institution between 800 and 400
bodie per annum, and tho witness dis
sected two or three per week often at his
lodgings. A majority Of those he dis
sected were those Of infants that would
have lived had they been properly cared
for. Most of them had partaken of no
food for forty-eight hours previous to
death. The shepherd" who run this
slaughter house of tho iuaoeeats should
DO sept to join Cowley.
That slight cold you think so little of
may prove the forcrunner of a complaint
that may be fatal Avoid this result by
taking Ayers Cherry Pectoral, the best
of known remedies for colds, coughs,
catanhs, bronchitis, incipient consump-
tion, aud all other throat and lung di-
seases