The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-05

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hear about 1.-THE Rise and Fall of the
Moustache, at Holcombe Hall, next
Friday evening.
Rev Dir. Studdiford preached an ex.
cellent sermon on Thanksgiving morning,
at the union meeting in the Baptist
Church.
MIR. VIM. McCready has purchased
of Mr.. Richard Mcdowell, the Centen-
NAL Paper Mill, in this city. which was
recently rebuilt.
Thanksgiving day was remarkable
for the number of drunken men in our
streets In the evening the lookup was
full of these overloaded people.
Don't forget the lecture by Robert J.
Burdette, of the Burlington Hapkeye,
in Holcombe Hall. Friday evening of this
week. 1t will be well worth listening to-
Titus buys his furniture only of
reputable manufacturers. It win stand
the wear and tear of nse. Prices are low
as the lowest for well made goods.
For the past week George H. Large,
Esq, of Pennington, has been confined to
his house by severe cold complicated
with some other disorders. He is now
slowly improving.
DIR. G. w. Larison's new book Sylvia
Dubois, although not yet published, is
meeting with success, large numbers of
orders having already been secured in ad-
vance. 1t will be well worth buying.
MIR. F. L. johnson has sold his Hope
well drug store to Mr. Thos. Gandey, of
this city, who has been apothecary in the
N. J. Lunatic Asylum for some months
past. Tom is good druggist, and we
wish him success.
The Fleet Wing Hook and Ladder
CO. expect to play tEsmaralda" about
the Holidays. fit is as well done as
was "A Scrap of Paper" last Spring, by
the same company, it will be worthy of a
large audience.
The Changers are erecting Hall at
Barbertown, in Kingwood township.
The building is two stories high, and
the first story will be used as store room
the second story being occupied as a
Lodge room.
The new conner on the DR.. Longshore
farm, Eear the fair grounds, is now cut
ting down the great overgrown Usage
orange hedge along the York road 1t is
generally conceded that it is not cut
away any too soon.
Mrs. Mary Peters, wife Of Fritz
Peters, died suddenly from hemorrhage,
at her residence two miles east of this
city, on Friday last. She leaves four
children, the youngest years old, with
husband and numerous friends to mourn
her loss.
MIR. VIM. f. Holcomhe, of West Am
we'll, has the finest lot of Jersey Red hogs
we have seen this season. We counted
near fifty red shoats ia one lot, seemingly
all about one size and color. Mr.. Hol-
combe has taken great care to select
pure bIoods, which he finds the most pro-
fitable.
Mr.. S. H. La Rue, of Frenchtown, has
recently been granted patent for an
improvement in coal stoves. Mr.. La Rue
has given considerable attention to im-
provments in stoves and has gotten sew
eral patents for his inventions In this line.
His stoves are being made by company
in Reading, Pa.
The tramps have been coming
along in good numbers until within day
or two, since which the supply has fallen
off.
The locking up and putting in the
chain gang of the tramps at Trenton,
seems to drive them away from that place
to others in the neighborhood.
-Burdette is humorist whose fun is
always chaste and contains rich vein
of wisdom. Yeu learn someshing while
you are being amused. Go hear him on
Friday evening.
-Mabee and English, the temperance
reformers, have been holding meetings
in the Court House, Pennington, for sever
al evenings past, commencing on Satur-
day evening, attracting large audiences.
They have two ladies with them, and the
four being good singers, the meetings are
rendered entertaining by the singing of
temperance and other songs. They have
already secured about two hundred signers
to the pledge, and seem to be much in
plish any good in retaining those addict
ed to drink, all good people will wish
them success. Hunferdon Republican.
Mr.. ]. B. Funk, an employee Of G..
Arnett of this city, was arrested last Fri
day morning at New Brunswick by a
detective, for refusing to pay his faro to
the conductor. He had a ticket in pos
session which he purchased in Trenton
on the Gath of November, and on accoun t
day night he was detained for more than
an hour, and this caused him to miss the
train that would have taken him home;
so he stopped at Elizabeth, where he re-
manned until Friday morning. That be-
ing only the sixth day since the ticket was
issued Mr.. Funk protested against pay
ing an additional fare, hence his arrest.
He paid the detective fifty-one cents for
his fare sooner than suffer being lock-
ed up as trespasser upon the trains.
List Of Letters remaining unclaimed
in the Post Office at Lambertville, Hun
terdon county, N. j., for 80 days, Dec.