The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-02-20
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Wednesday, Feb. 90, 1884.

AOhbVfS ~ ~ WIZ SPttAS
We regret to hear that Col. Ingham
Coryell is seriously i'll at the Lambert
vile House.
Miller Cline has bought the farm of
the late Thomas Lake, of Locktown, on
which he intends to move in the spring.
-Superin teDdent Apgar decides that the
trustees of the public school have right
to control the dress as we'll as the conduct
of the pupils.
The Trenton Times: "Lambertville
gives very fine sociables. Many of the
ladies are lovely dancers, and not few
are fine performers on the piano.
-Newburry Dotterer, of Frenchtown
has an apple that was picked year last
October that is still perfectly sound aud
in good state of preservation.
The enterprising Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company will soon place weather
signals on their trains for the benefit of
farmers along the line of their roads.
The annual meeting of the Lambert
willie Vigilant Society will be held at Ly-
ceum Hall, on Friday morning of this
week.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will hold meetings every Friday
evening, for some weeks to come, at their
room in Lyceum Hall, TO which the pub
lie doth men and women is invited.
Mrs. Judith Ellen Foster, lady law
yer of prominence in the West, and a
speaker of great ability, will lecture in
this city on Tuesday evening, March 18th.
The place of meeting has not yet been
fixed.
"A union temperance meeting will be
held next Sunday evening in the Presby-
terrain Church in this city. Addresses
will be delivered by Revs. Studdiford,
Strickland and Mick, and by w. F.
Herr, Esq.
George B. Stothoff, now residing
near the Fair grounds, Pennington, has
purchased the property of Mr.. John Kiaz }.
vi ihCdfiitSs COuSiobtuS vi ~ HCtCo VI ihhuf
for three thousand dollars, and will re-
move there the coming spring.
The New Jersey Republican Execu-
tive Committee will meet this evening,
in Trenton, to fix the time for calling the
State Convention to appoint delegates to
the Republican National Convention.
The number of iliterate children in
New Jersey turns out to be only 2,74s, or
Stone hundredths of per cent. Senator
Blair had said in the United States Sen
ate that there were ninety thousand
illterate children in New Jersey.
We were in error in our last issue in
stating that Rev. w. P. G. Strickland, of
the NJ. E. Church of this city, has been
pastor only two years. He is now on his
third year pasttorate, and of course will
be assigned at the coming Conference to
a new field.
The best advertised sales bring out
the largest number of people. Large at
tendance increases competition. Lively
competition advances prices. It pays to
advertise in detail the sale of valuable
stock, implements, household goods, &c.
Orders taken for Sheet Music, a
Johnson's Drug Store.
MIR. Joseph Haines, the well-known
stock breeder, of Delaware township,
sold last week to Levy & Bauer, a FIVE
year-old thoroughbred short horn Durham
bull, weighing two thousand AMI ninety
pounds. 1t was huge beast, and its
weight is seldom excelled.
The Trustees of the College of New
Jersey, at Princeton, on the 14th inst,
unanimously conferred the degree of d d.
on Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, of the
Third Presbyterian Church, Trenton,
native of this city. We congratulate him
upon an honor worthily bestowed.
The farm recently owned by DR..
Longshore, on the York Road, near this
city, containing about 100 acres, was sold
at public sale last Thursday. 1t was bid
off to George w. Arnett, of this city, at
$75 per acre. The stock, ETC., brought
good prices.
About two years ago, Mr.. ID. w.
Stout noticed that a swarm of bees had
taken up quarters between the ceiling and
the attic floor. A short time ago he took
up some of the boards and obtained EGO
pounds of honey in the comb. How is
this for honey?-HopeweH Herald.
The Trenton Times of last Friday,
says that flames Raymond, Lambert
Vile printer, was arranged for vagrancy
in the Police Court this morning and got
thirty days in jail.' "James Raymond"
isn't Lambertville printer. He is one
of those scallawags who palm themselves
off as Lambertvilans when they are viii
lains belonging to some other town.
"A very aged lady, Mrs. Lucretia Hice,
widow of John Hice, died at Milford, in
this county, on the nth inst. She was born
August:17, 1883, and died February II,
1884, consequently she was exactly one
hundred years and six months old at the
time of her death. Funeral services are
to be held at 1890 a. NJ, tomorrow
Thursday Rev. DIR. Studdiford, Of
this place, in the absence of her pastor,
the Rev. Isaac M Patterson, will offciate.
The contents of the drying room of
the paper-ware factory, in Stockton, con-
sisting mainly of large number of pals,
took fire, from overhead, on Friday after
noon, February 9Th, consuming nearly all
the material, and damaging the room or
oven SO much that rebuilding will be nee
essary. No damage was done to the main
or other buildings, as the drying room
does not adjoin them. This is the third
or fourth time that this dry house has
been burned.