The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-06-20

CLARK PIERSON, Editor.

Forty-six Democratic papers in indiana
are solid for Tilden and Hendricks and
fresh bar'l.
Harper's Weekly says there is book
canvasser in that city, who earned last
year by commissions on his sales not less
than 500, 900, and that he has done SINH
larly well for several years.
DR.. Karsner, one of the leading resi-
dents of Ocean Grove, fell dead from
heart disease on Wednesday night. He
spent over thirty years in the itinerancy
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but
of late had practiced medicine.
The Star Route trial ended Thursday
morning with a verdict of ''not guilty in
all the cases, aud the jury and the de-
PENDANTS were discharged 1t isannounced
that the other indictments against Brady
will be pressed
Gen. Grant says that when the North
ern and Southern people meet on IA line
they find that after all there is very little
difference between us. The institution
which was wiped out by the great war
has made us one people.
Following out the idea already prac-
ticed in the Methodist Church, the Pres
byterian General Assembly at its late SEES
sion in Saratoga adopted minute that
the second Sunday in June should here
after be "Children's Day. in all the
churches.
Another offensive "patents monopoly
has received a set back by the decision of
Western court. This time it is the
barbed wire fence patent which has been
declared invalid. Farmers everywhere
have paid extortionate prices for this sim
pie contrivance, and the owners of the
patent have pocketed huge fortunes by it.
A man who weighs 100 pounds on the
earth, il transported to Jupiter, would
shake the ground with u ponderous tread
of As, 900 pounds, or 291 tons. A hickory
nut falling from bough, would crash
through him like a minnie ball. Water
would weigh fifteen times as much as
quicksilver. A moderate wave would
SILVER to atoms the strongest ironclad.
The Warren Journal says that man
in that county recently presented a claim
to the executors of his mothers estate,
and when called upon to explain the same,
said that his mother died in harvest time,
and as he was obliged to suspend labor
for short time to attend the funeral the
claim was for damages suffered to his
crops while attending the funeral. For
genuine meanness this takes the lead.
Mr.. William Boswell, one of Trenton's
Oldest citizens, died Tuesday night Of last
week, at the advanced age of rs years.
Mr.. Boswell was printer by profession,
and in connection with the late William
Phillips, carried on the jobbing business
for number of years. He served term
,.G e ~
years was Deputy Marshal of the Y. 5.
Courts.
The Salem Standard says that farmer
at Lower Alloways Creek, after having
slaughtered over hundred crow black
birds on his premises last week, was in
duced to make an autopsy of some Of the
birds. He was wonderfully surprised to
find their crops to contain more or less
grub worms, which they had gathered
from his fields, but not grain of corn.
He Immediately countermanded all orders
for the killing of these birds on his farm
hereafter.
Some pretty sharp practice has been
used in the matter of the bill passed by
the last Legislature providing for the
branding of convict labor goods. An
amendment to the bill was got in exempt
ing axisting contracts fran its provisions.
The bill passed the House February .
and the Senate March Z, but was not
signed by the Governor until March Ia.
In the meantime Supervisor Moore exc
cuted the button contract on the day the
bill passed the Senate, and thus sue
ceeded IN exempting that contract from
the bills application. There is not a
single contract at the State Prison now
that can be affected by the bill until three
years have expired.
MURDER AyENGED.-On Wednesday,
Lyman Dukes, who shot Capt A. G. Mutt,
cashier of the State Treasury, was killed
by son of Mutt, n young man named
James. The shooting took place imme-
diately IN front of the post office OF
Uniontown as Dukes was going for his
mail. Young Mutt stood inside of an I'M
occupied house, and fired five shots, foul
of which were fatal ones. Dukes died
without saying word, ana was carried
to his room in the hotel where he shot
Mutt, and which he has occupied since
Young Mutt gave himself up, and handed
the pistol to the office, and was placed in
prison. The incidents of the first shoot
ing are still fresh in the minds of ou'
readers