The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-01-24

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New Years diuuer 70 800 OF her tenants,
and afterwards personally presented a
gift to each one.
Ex-Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, the
ahsconding embezzler, was lodged 10 the
Nashville Jail on Saturday. It is charged
that he stole $3.50, 900.
James A. Bradley has placed a thirty
foot statue of the Goddess of Liberty,
which cost S., 1000, on the north of the
railroad station at Asbury Park.
The Prince of Wales proposes to give
one of his sons an ecclesiastical training.
After the young man has taken orders,
probably he will try to reform his papa.
The Probibitory amendment to the Con-
stitution of Iowa, adopted by the people
of that state last June, was on Thursday
declared invalid by the Supreme Court
on technical grounds.
1t is not the longest railroad that makes
the most money. The New York Ele-
waited on fourteen miles of road earns
more money than the East Tennessee on
1928 miles, or almost seventy times as
long road.
Forty years ago it was predicted that
the population of the United States in
1888 would be 90, 100000 From the fail
IRE of this prediction it appears that the
prophets of the preceding generation
were not whit wiser than those of the
present day.
Some idea of the active work being
done by Mormon missionaries may be
CLEANED from the fact that one of their
L., a., l,af .
from twenty-eight saints who were seek
ing converts as far West as Nevada, as
far South as Alabama and as far North
as Oregon.
When color on fabric has been acct
dentally or Otherwise destroyed by acid,
ammonia is applied to neutralize the same,
after which an application of chloroform
will. in almost all cases. restore the origi-
nal color. The application of ammonia is
common, but that of chloroform is but
little known.
The first daily newspaper printed In
the world WAS established and edited by
Elizabeth Mallet, IN London,
1909. Woman-like, her paper was re-
formatory. In her salutatory, she said
she had established a newspaper ito spare
the public half the impertinencies which
the ordinary paper contains.
South Carolina has twenty seven cotton
mills, with capital of 81, 547, 900, 4, 1876
looms and 1902 spindles, employing
4, 2G2 hands and paying SIPS 900 in wages.
In 1880 there were only eighteen mills in
he state, with total capital of $2,294,-
600, 1888 looms and 95.838 spindts.
Nine new mills have just been chartered.
The Senate, in executive session, on
Tuesday, confirmed the following nOmi-
nees of the Governor Justices of the
Supreme Court, Bennett Van Syckel and
Edward Scndder, appointments !; Lay
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
William s. Yard, Mercer county Com
missioner of Sinking Fund, Joseph l..
Bodine, of Trenton.
There is something pitiful in a child's
life that has never been illuminated with
childish Joys. There is an underground
lad in New York who has been the faith
full nurse of feeble mother ever since he
was five years of age, and in the twelve
years of his devotion he has never spent
more than half an hour at time outside
of the darkened chamber.
In recognition of the courteous recep-
Minister at Washington, in Philadelphia,
when on the way TO the capital to assume
his office in November, 1881, the city was
on Wednesday formally presented with
portrait of Mr.. Vests ancestor, Thomas
West, third Lord De la War;, after whom
the Delaware river was named.
Ii is sta ted that some kinds of woods,
although of great durability in them
selves, act upon each other to their mutu-
al destruction. Experiments with cypress
and walnut and cypress and cedar prove
that they will rot each other when
Joined together but on separation the de-
cay will cease, and the timbers remain
perfectly sound for long time
Mr.. Vanderbilt does not seem to have
very high opinion of railroad men. He is
reported by the Mining Herald of Penn
sylvania MS saying II can't think too
much of Mr.. Gowen. His recttude com
mands the admiration of all. He is one
of the very few railroad men who could
withstand the temptation of putting 500
600 in his pocket if au opportunity pre-
sented itself. There are others like him,
OF course, but they are not many"
Prof. Gillian has been. making some ln-
ulation statistics of the late census, which
he publishes in the current number of the
Popular Science Monthly. He finds from
the rate of increase that has prevailed for
fifty years past that in 9S5 the North
win have 240, 900, 900 whites, and the
South SO, 900, COO whites and 192. 900, 600
blacks. This will be serious business for
anybody who intends to live in 1885. 1t
is of more consequence that at the pre-
sent rate the whites and blacks will be
equal in the South 10 forty years.
There is very wide difference between
the local traffic of roads in different States
Nearly all the Massachusetts roads are
prosperous, yet IL Texas had as many
miles in proportion to territory, she would
be entitled to 10000 miles of road, or
more than halt as much as there is Ia all
the United States. Although Kentucky
| has population only one sixth as dense
as that of Massachusetts, it has as many
people to each mile of road. On the other
side Of the Mississippi, railroad building
is still rapidly going on, though there is
hardly one person to the square mile in
the Colorado belt.
The secretary of the treasury has au-
thorized the coinage of five cent nickel
piece of a new design, which is consider
ed as being more in compliance with the
law as regards weight and description
than the present five cent nickel piece.
The new coin weighs twenty-one MILL
metres (Which is one millimetre more than
the present COIN, and is little larger
and thinner than the one now in circula-
ton. On the face Of the new coin is a
female head surmounted with filet up
on which is inscribed the word Liberty"
the whole being surrounded by thirteen
stars. The reverse side contains wreath
surrounding Roman numeral represent
ing the denomination of the coin.
A GARFIELD BONFIRE STILL BURNING.
The bonfire that boys built on the side
of q hill near the Stanton steamer house
on the night of the Presidential election of
1880 is still burning. The subterranean
coke bed to which 1t has spread has slow
ly fed tho fire ever since. Clay taken
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