The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-08-15
LAMBERTvILLE, N. j.
Wednesday, Aug, Is, 1883.

Oh Sbyle.
There are 10000 Sunday School
scholars in New Jersey, of whom 40 900
are church members.
Proctor Knott's majority for Gov
ernor of Kentucky will not be much over
$4,000. The same ratio Of Democratic
loss in Ohio will give that State to the
Republicans by an overwhelming ma
iority.
A boat propelled by electricity has made
over seven and half knots an hour in
trial trips on the Thames. 1t has to
carry two tons of storage batteries, how
ever, for short trip with vessel 40 feet
long.
The New York World . wants the
Democrats to fight for an income tax,
but the Commercial Advertiser" of the
same city, fears that this might be con-
strued as personal reflection on Mr.
Tilden.
They have guessing parties" at Mar
tha's Vineyard. An exchange states that
it broke one of them all up the other
day when somebody asked how certain
boarders scraped together money in elev-
en- months and half to stay at the no.
tel two weeks.
Summer hotel harvests are as depend
ent upon the weather as other summer
crops. Spring weather in July and August
are not good for them. 1t takes heat as
we'll as moisture TO grow good corn, and
about the same thing to gather large
crop OF visitors along the sea coast.
On the LIST of October, when the redu-
ced rates of letter postage go into opera
ton, two new postage stamps are to be
used. One is 2.cent stamp, bearing
the venerable aud revered face of George
Washington; the other 4-cent stamp,
containing the determined phiz of An
drew jackson. The old twos and threes
now in use will then disappear
Thirty years ago, in the heyday of the
slavery regime, the total value of South
ern crops of cotton, tobacco, rice, hay,
hemp and sugar cane was $138, sos, 73S'
The censns report of 1880 shows that
Southern agricultural products were
that year valued at $T60, 100000. Futh-
ermore, the South is becoming rival
of the North in cotton and other man.
ufactures.
At Confederate reunion in Texas, nm
unreconstructed rebel general named |
Lewis, paid Ben Butler big compliment. |
After saying the name of jeff. Davis
was the grandest in American history,
and that the bloody ehasm is sot bridged
over, he said he was glad that Butler
had not been invited to be present,
because he could never make peace W it'll
Butler Forty thousand people APP
plauded these sentiments.
WHERE SWIMMER WOULD BE Fool
Ep.-The Cheyenne (Wyomingl II Lea
der says: Tenderfeet should know, and
all others should not forget, that it is
more difficult to keep afloat in water in
this altitude than in less altitude.
That accounts for the numerous cases
of drowning even in comparatively small
streams. Young men who could swim
with facility in the East have found out
to their sorrow, aud too late, that they
could not do the same here. The light
atmosphere considerably reduces the
buoyant power of water. This is the
case to remarkable, degree on Lake Ia
hoe, the highest body of water on the con-
hnent' In this water even pine wood |
sinks and when q man is drowned his
body never rises.
llOi. w III. NuIltI iltlDb SH1b. NEW |
Jersey Republicans, as q whole, were
not badly drowned ont in the Democratic /
deluge last Fall. The Democratic maiori- |
ty III New Jersey has been steadily grow
ing less for years. Even last year. spit
of the tidal wave, they had only 2,1C0
on the Congress sional votes. New Jersey
is close State, and is going to remain
so this year and next, in all probability.
hn Il 4,
age, they will have as good chance to
elect their Governor next November MS
their opponents" There is no doubt
that Mr. Phelps is right. All that the
Republicans of New Jersey need is har-
mony and courage. With these they
can win.
Queen Victoria has more than once re-
fused TO confer peerage, event where
the honor was deserved, because the per-
son named for elevation was not rich en-
ough to support the title. And now
there is poverty in her own family.
The Duchess and Duke of Tesk are said
to have greatly angered her by selling
off their household furniture to satisfy
the demand of their creditors. Orders
of view, admitting the bearer to Kensing.
ton Palace, could be obtained of the
auctioneers on payment of a shilling
only twenty four cents for the right to
go about q palace from cellar to attic,
catalogue in hand. The catalogue had
one item ga pair of finely executed busts
of her Majesty and the late Prince Con-
sort on scagliola pedestals," and for
another five kitchen chairs and beer
stillion.
The Brooklyn bridge is no longer Il curl
osity to residents of the cities il connects,
and business has settled down so that
some idea can be formed of its usefulness
and money value. The tolls do not a.
mount to much, compared with the inter.
est on the cost of the structure. The |
greater part of the money collected |
comes from working men, who pey two
cents day for the privilege of crossing
the bridge. 1t is quite likely that the |
bridge will ultimately be made free, at
least to pedestrians. It's great length, in
GLIDING the approaches, make it less of n
convenience to the walker than was an.
ticipated, but it is of great use to all kinds
OF wagon traffic. In winter seasons, too.
and during fogs at oil seasons, when the
ferries are blocked or delayed and the
trips of boats are interrupted, it will be
Of more benefit to the workmen who live
on one side of the river and have their
daily work on the other
Judge Hoadly, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Ohio, was in such a
tremendous hurry for the name of the
person who stated to Gov. Foster that his
nomination had cost him $50, 900, in ord
erthat he might confront him, that he
could not wait for the slow transmission
OF his demand by the mails, but sent it
by telegraph. Now that the name of
Gov Fosters informant has been made
public, Hoadly is not in the confronting
business On the contrary, he informs
reporter that he IS concluded tc drop
the matter, and take no further notice Of
Woodward's charge. 1t was my own
intention to go at it, he says, how.
ever STRONG lint hove haa,, .,,o,.,,I, !