The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-18

Two nail factories at Boonton contain
1874 machines.
Palatka, Fla, has had / 900 Northern
visitors during the last two months.
The Democrats capture the off-year
shell, but not the Presidential oyster
The Easton Delaware Bridge Company
have declared semi-annual dividend Of
$12 per share.
Over 200 men are now employed at the
Dover car shops. The monthly pay roll
amounts to over $l0,0 900.
"True Blue Presbyterianism is "A refer
euce to the dark blue gowns in which
Knox and his companions preached.
The Philadelphia Press refers with
mournful and admiring envy to the pro
gressive sanitary laws of New Jersey.
A proposed prohibitory amendment to
the Constitution of Massachusetts was de-
feated in the House by a vote Of ! ID 10 s3.
Sixty-nine evicted Irish farmers ar
rived in Philadelphia, on Saturday on
the Indiana. They were pictures OF pow
crty and woe.
1t is proposed in Philadelphia 10 organ
ize board of experts to inquire into the
relative merits Of all the different styles
of pavements.
+. J. Wild, Morristown gardener, re-
ceived the first prize for pansies at the
! floral exhibition Of the New York liorti-
cultural Society, last week.
/ Hotel licenses at Bordentown have been
raised from $50 to $3.50 each. restaurant
I fees fixed at $50, and the fees for saloons
have been raised from $40 to 800
! April Goth will be the fftieth anniyersa-
ry of the founding of Odd Fellowship in
this country and arrangements are being
made to celebrate the anniversary in fit
| ting manner.
Rev. Henry Clay Dean is now sixty
years of age and is in excellent health
lie says that he was wrong in denoune-
/ ing President Lincoln for the emancipa
ton proclamation.
DR.. Calling the inventor of the famous
gun, is Southerner, but looks like an
elderly German. He is still hard at work
at other inventions, and promises to again
surprise the world.
George Washington is lecturing in Som
erset county David Davis teaches school
at Middle Valley Cornelius Vanderbilt
is miner in Jefferson township, and An
drew Jackson is assessor of Roxbury town
ship, Morris county.
The Elmira Gazette is bursting its but
tons over joke on its esteemed contem-
poraries' of the state, which copied with
appropriate comment its account of the |
death of T. II. O Mascat, found cut in
two on the Erie track the other day.
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer
tramp refused to saw wood for his dinner, I
giving as n reason that lie was bitterly
opposed TO the destruction of our forests
and would do nothing to encourage that
kind of business. And he walked of /
picking his teeth.
Lincoln, one Of the best-ortlered and /
most prosperous cities III Nebraska, leyes .
Il license of 81 900 on each of her liquor
saloons and her Councils think seriously
of raising the rate TO $2, 900.
A Portland, Ore, couple had all the
fun and romance Of an elopement taken .
out Of them by the united statement OF !
their pas and mas ON their return that
they were all the while in favor of the 7.
match.
An excellent soap bubble preparation is
composed of oleate of soda and glycerine,
and from it bubbles two feet in diameter
and exceeding brilliancy can be blown.
Some OF these have been kept forty eight
hours under glass.
Some parties want The Editorial Asso-
citation Of this State to ''excurt to New
rort next June. No doubt the female
members of the Association will be able
to outshine the fashionables of that locali-
| Wy, and mike n big rprend with their din
/ monds and ,jcwolfy. silks aud satins and
! style generally.
The attempt to obtain water supply
for Ocean Grove by means Of an artesian
well has been abandoned. The work com
! menccd with good promise, but after
sinking the well 100 feet a blue strata of
clay, or soft rock. was met. The shaft
was then driven Is feet deeper without
getting through the clay, and, there be-
ing no prospect of water. the work was
discontinued
Vice Chancellor Bird has refused the
application of the Rev. Mr.. Whitecar and
other officials Of the Moorestown Nj. f.
Church for an attachment for contempt
agains. the Trustees of tho church for re-
fusing to obey the order to keep the
church open, as the church was already
closed before the application for the writ.
Proceedings in the nature of mandamus
will now be instituted rs they should
have been originally.