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

square, an elevation of $50. A winding
roadway leads by an easy grade from bot
tom 10 top. This is wide enough for
| carriages, and several miles long. In the
sides of the mountain, as one ascends, he
passes hundreds of chambers cut in the
solid rock, with walls, floor, and ceiling
hewn to an even precision. These cham
bers vary in size from five to ten, SIXTEEN
and even eighteen feet square. There are
no windows, and but one entrance, which
is always from the top. The height of
the ceiling is usually eight feet. The
walls are covered in places with hierogly-
phics and figures of men and animals. 1t
is not improbable that they are the re-
mains Of ancient Zuni tribes.
Nasty is striking heavy blows for tenn
perance in the Toledo Blade. He is filled
with the enthusiasm of the new convert.
| Here is what the Blade has recently said:
1.-The whiskey power is as active as the
| allurement of the dollar can make it, and
that its internal work is successful the
criminal records in any paper abundantly
show. 1t is for the people to say whether
this flood of criminality and pauperism
shall flow on forever, or whether it shall
be checked. 1t is the question of the
hour; it is a question, which, in import
ance to the country, is above slavery,
above tariff, above any question that can
possibly come before the people. 1t is
purity against corruption. The very per-
petuity of republican institutions is in
volved in it. The one question in America
as in England, is how best to PulUerige
the Rum Poaoer.
Yesterdays papers state that from
Louisville up, the Ohio river continues to
fall, while from that point downward the
flood is now at its highest. At Cincin-
natl it has fallen six feet. On Sunday
| afternoon concert was given in Music
Hall for the relief of the sufferers, and
81, $40 were Melted. For an encore
Nilsson sang "Give me penny" and
passed through one Of the aises with a
basket taking up collection, while Mad.
ames Schalchi, Sembrick, and other sing
ers of the Abbey troupe went through
other aisles in like manner. In this way
81, 400 were realized. Four thousand
people attended the concert. Relief boats
are at work on the stretch between Pitts
burg and Lawrenceburg, twenty miles
below Cincinnati. In Cincinnati the
local committee have 200 agents en-
ployed in relieving the destitute. Six
thousand persons are lodged in school
houses and public buildings. Although
contributions are being forwarded liber-
ally, the destruction has been so great
that they amount is scarcely 1.-THE of
the loss. Life has not suffered so much
as by last years flood but property has
suffered far more.
The irrational fear that has been
aroused by the clamor of few dema-
gogues was too deep for the Senate to
withstand, aud it yesterday Tuesday,
suceumbed to this peWading terror, and
passed the bill abolishing contract labor
in the State Prison. This simply means
that honest and lawabiding tax payers
shall be compelled to labor to maintain
these convicts in idleness. For it is abb
surd to pretend that they can be prolita-
bly, employed in any other way under the
hampering system that has now bound
them hand and foot What lame and
impotent conclusion of the ''labor" clamor
it is, to pass law preventing these con-
victs from working to earn their own liv-
ing. and compelling honest workers to
support them. -State Gazette.
Hackettstown Gazette: Frederick Searles
moved ON his farm at Rockport q lit
tie over twenty-three years ago, with his
wife and ten children. One more child
was bern after he moved here, making
eleven in all To, day the entire family,
excepting two grandchildren, is extinct.
Besides his own children, two grand
children have died in the family, ting
seventeen deaths in the same family and
under the same roof in less than twenty
four years.
Marshal r. Smith, has sued the War;
aga, Toata,,YoI for l;hal hocausa n ,,hliobad
an article ref1ecting upon the relations of
MIR. Smith to the Reform Club, temper
ance organization of Belvidere, stating
that Mr. Smith had violated his pledges
to the club and that he had a "racket"
with the Executive Committee In conse-
Quence, his offence being drunkenness,
Mr. Smith claims to have sustained dam
ages by reason of this publication.
The House Post Office Committee, it
is said, have agreed to report a bill for
the speedy delivery Of letters, which pro-
vides for the issue of a special stamp, to
cost ten cents, which, when affixed to
letter. will insure its speedy delivery at
any free delivery Office or within one mile
of the Post office in any city, town or viii
lage containing population of four thous-
and or more. This special delivery Is to
o'clock midnight
The Philadelphia Record says that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has a.
bout consummated negotiations with the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company for the
lease of the latter's line to the former.
These negotiations have been pending
for nearly a year, but were not sooner
completed because of the ill-health of the
late President Packer and the inability to
reach satisfactory terms.
A proposition is pending in the House
of Representatives for restoring to the
Governments list of pensioners those
who forfeited their rights as pensioners
by taking up arms against their bene-
factor during the war of the Rebellion.
Why not, while they are about it, propose
to place on the pension list the names of
all the rebel soldiers? There is such
thing as running the sentiment of mag
nanimity into an adsurdity.
THE FLOODS. Huntington, w. Va,
Feb 10. The damage at Catlettsburg is
estimated at 100000. Forty.five houses
are swept away and 300 persons are home
less.
Little Rock, Feb. 10. Several levees on
the Arkansas river have broken, mum
DAFT ng the country.
Congressman Cox, says printer in the
Government office at Washington, pre-
pares the worst copy of any member of
the House. He writes on piece of pap
er torn from envelopes, newspaper wrap
pers and other scraps, and then pins the
lot together and sends them to the print
or. He inter-writes and corrects, and
sometimes alters his speech entirely be-
fore it is printed.
Miss Nina Bachelor, of Kentucky,
whose red-gold hair and dark eyes have
made her prom inent as professional
beauty in Paris, promises also to become
remarkable as q painter. Her teacher, M.
Saintpieyre, predicts that she will be a
star of the first magnitude. 1t is time for
Kentucky to produce something besides
running horses aud Bourbon whiskey.