The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-02-21

The Prince of Wales is said to be age
ing very fast, and giving evidence of i'm
paired health and strength.
The Maine State Senate has passed the
Constitutional Probihitory Amendment,
only three members voting against it.
The company at Belyidcre that mann
facture pals from paper pulp, has sus.
pended, and the works are now in the
hands of the Sheriff.
ReEdell, one Of the star reuters, has re
tracted his plea of not guilty and turned
states evidence. lie will get a hiding
from infldel lngersoll
The Senate Committee of the Ponnsyl.
vania Legislature on constitutional Re.
form has reported a prohibition amend
ment to the constitution.
a young Baltimore woman, actnated by
20 matrimonial considerations, has re.
uounced Methodism and made formal
profession of the Jewish faith.
A coffee exchange has been started in
New York city, and Immediately the
gamblers in the commodity are dealing in
Futures" which has put the price mp.
Ex-Governor Joseph d. I'cdle was on
Thursday, fined So for failure Ia have the
snow cleaned from tho walk in front of
his residence, on Sussex place, Jersey
City, by Justice StiIsing
More than million postal cards day,
or one to every forty OF the United States
population the year around is the num-
Der manufactured ut Castleton, on the
Hudson, where our postal cards are made.
There is in Texas a rancie Of 5000
acres devoted exclusively to the breeding
of thoroughbred Shetland ponies for chill
dren. These little animals are described
as being very gentle and range over the
prairics like sheep.
The business in dressed meat has grown
to enormous proportions in Chicago.
More than 1000, 900 hogs aud 1000 GOO
head of beef cattle have been slaughtered
there in year. These are conveyed to
the stock yards by eighteen different rail
roads
Three cucumbers for $1.95 was bar
gain offered to q boarding house keeper
in the outskirts of Washington Market,
New York, on Saturday. Early spring
fruits and vegetables are coming in from
the South, but sell at extravagant prices.
Cucumbers are 90 cents each new pota-
toes sc per barrel, strawberries 1910 a
quart, and tomatoes 30 cents a quart.
A company has been formed ut York,
Pa, with capital Of $780, 900, for the
manufacture OF beet sugar. A large facto-
~ is to be erected at York, where success
full experiments have already been made
in the culture of sugar beets, and where
the soil has been found To be we'll adapted
to its culture.
Chief Justice Agnew, OF Pennsylvania,
favors the proposition to amend the Penn !
sylvania constitution so rs to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of intox ieating II
quors. He gave it as his opinion that tho
experience Of 200 years has shown license
law to be u failure, and that prohibition
is the demand of the times.
They say prohibition does not prob hit. !
Let ns see Last month in the city of
Portland the Sheriff seized 479 gallons of
rum, whisky and gin, 1,43l gallons of ale,
and G77 gallons of lager beer in all 1858
gallons. As all that was poured into the
gutter, instead Of down the throats of
men, there was prohibition to that
0xtent.
The scenes that were recently witnessed
in the flooded valleys of the Rhine and the
Danube are now repeated along tho Ohio
river Homeless people are in danger Of
starvation, relief committees are trying
hard to supply the wants of the sufferers,
and tho work of the devastating flood is
seen through the whole length of the river
valley from Pittsburgh to Cairo.
BOOMING Town, Business must be
booming at tremendous ratio in Aralaehi-
eolu, Fla, for Southern paper states, with
great so;cmnity, that three-story building
is erected there while an ordinary man is
pronouucing the namo of the town. Ye,e
FORK Commercial ddgGtiser.