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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
TIE BIRTHPLACE OF LIBERTY.

From Woburn advanced on Lexington.
IL is very pretty village, and externally
contains but few evidences OF poor folks.
The historic green ON which the battle was
fought is q small triangular piece of ground,
inclosed by railing and shaded with elm
and hickory trees. 1t contains liberty
pole, by which is q mounted iron cannon,
and little distant is plain granite shaft,
erected in 1899 TO the memory of the seven
men Of Lexington who fell there. / noticed
that one John Brown" also died at Lex
ington. About the top or "lubber Of the
liberty pole is a grit inscription indicating
this as the " birthplace of American liberty"
II was warm Indian summer October
afternoon when sat on the green. The
quiet reigning over the village was such
that the crow Of q rooster could be heard
through the entire place. A gang Of It.
alians engaged on some public work were
rolling and lunching on the grass children
talking and laughing were on their way to
school; young ladies tripped along with
music-rols in their hands people went in
and out of houses with market baskets |;
washing was going on; clothes were hung
to dry in back yards; grocer's wagon
ratified along the street; sand cart fol-
lowed. And this was Lexington, and APP
parently not soul thinking Of the skirmish
between company of American farmers
and n battalion Of English troops, which
has been so often told in story, history and
song. Letter in San Francisco OAr0niclej
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
THE TEXAS EDEN.

Travelling on the old Mckenzie trail, ON
the third day we stopped to lunch and water
our horses at the fow-out of the Blanco Cor
White) River, which flows through Blanco
Canon for forty miles, and which, it should
be remembered, is only the fresh water fork
OF the Brazos. We had halted at the gate of
the Texas Eden, where the painter would
have stood entranced, pencil and brush be.
ing all too tame to put in lines or color the
grand landscape where earth and brush and
hill and water and cloud and sky mingled
into an indescribable picture. The sun was
shining brightly adown the valley and upon
the mountain bluffs looming up hundreds
OF feet above the hmpid stream flowing
through the centre of the canon. The grass,
which was tinged with the autumn brown
in the open valley, appeared in green plats
and patches. in the hollows and under the
shadows of the cannon bluffs. Myriads of
flowers, blooming and withered, cropped
out from The hillock, rock-base and open
prairie. Rare among them was the Texas
star, iive-leayed flower, which heads to
the north-a veritable flower magnet. Rare
it is, and growing still rarer, rs the rude
hoof of horse and cattle continue to trample
il out. The hardy Towering cactus is every.
where. Nature made a big effort in the
spreading mouth of Blnnco Canon. This
canon is about forty-five miles long, and
widens from its source like wedge, until
at its mouth there are fifteen or sixteen miles
of plain and blush and rich grasses As wa
cross the crystal stream flowing over lime
stone and gussum beds we follow the trail
ap over the bluff, where the fossil sea shells
crop out on every bare surface, md there,
stretching away to the far distance, we see
and for the first time realize the extent of the
ranges known MS the "Staked Plains" In
the wonderfully clear sunlight we see herds
of cattle feeding, and away towards a hill
range some startled antelopes are scamper.
ing off in alarm. This trail up the steep
bluff over which we have just come has
been beaten into smooth path by the
countless feet of buffalo and antelope and
Indians for centuries. Here, where the saw
age in his primitive brutality once hunted
the noble game, we now see cattle feeding
undisturbed in the great range of the Ken
lucky Cattle-Raising Company The buffalo
have departed, but in their place have come
short-horn cattle, showing the peaceful mar
riage between the wild cattle of the West
with the thoroughbreds of the Bluegrass of
Kentucky in Tie Louisuil6 Courier.
Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
BURYlNG CHOLERA EGGS.

In spite OF all that has been done for the
education of the people, superstition is
strangely prevalent in the world, and this
has been abundantly demonstrated since
cholera visited Europe. A recent instance
Of the kind is mentioned by the Project Of
Reggie, in Italy, who was dismissed from
his post on account Of certain eccentric and
absurd measures decreed by him to combat
the developments of the disease. He justi
fed his conduct through the medium Of the
press ON the argument that, "when one has
to deal with lunatics or idiots one must put
ones self on a level with their intelligence"
and as proof of the superstitious feeling
prevailing in this district, he related the
following circumstance During the cholera
visitation, lie says, somebody acquainted
with the nonsensical stories current placed
one night couple of eggs, black and white
respectively, ON the threshold of n house,
after which he aroused the inmates, TO warn
them they were threatened with cholera,
for the legs We're ut their door" The
terror of the foolish persons communicated
itself to the inhabitants of the village; the
authorities were apprised of what had oc
Cured, and met to deliberate on the situa
ton. 1t was ultimately decided that the
house on the steps of which the eggs were
found should be surrounded by sanitary
Gordon, and that being done, man with a
net at the end Of prodgiously long rod
picked up the eggs, which were conveyed
with extreme precaution to the cemetery,
and, in the presence of the authorities
buried in hole filled with quiclslime. This
absurd proceeding, adds the Project, was
needful to restore confidence to the vii
layers --London Standard.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
BUSINESS IN MEXICO.

As for the capabilities of the Mexican in
commerce and manufacturing, 30 small is
the development in these directions that 1t
is difficult as yet to toll what the future
will DO. At present nearly all the import
ing trade in this country Is in the hands Of
the French, Germans and Spaniards, rs
we'll as large share of the retail trade, es.
pecially in dry goods, hardware, drugs, ma.
chinery, carriages and wagons, tools, &c.
Tho Mexican storekeepers confne their at.
tention mostly to articles Of food, groceries,
meats, liquors and the like. They are moi
very enterprlsing as race, and do not ven
ture into new enterprises as do the Ameri-
cans. The native Mexican shops are, for
:he most part, little holes in the wall, and
.heir stocks Of merchandise of the most mea-
gre character. tismy impression, though
give it only MS personal impression, that
the large retail trade and almost the entire
wholesale business of the country will for
many years 10 come remain in the hands of
foreigners, tho only change being constant
increase OF Americans aud English among
the large wholesale trading houses, crowd
ing out or diminishing the business done
by the French and Spanish houses, who are
not SO pushing" or so adyenturesome az
either tho English or the Americans.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
WHEN THE COWS COME HOME.
A POeticni Journalist Describes the KIrg
of the Milking stool in Georgia.

Every afternoon go down to SEQ the cow
come home. From the meadow to the milk
ing they come in rambling haste Way
down the shady lane puff of dirt arises.
The cloud deepens until the view is closed.
The COWS are coming" calls some one.
From the rolling dust emerges the horns,
the head, the tanks Of Jersey. One after
another the cloud gives them forth, EN-
bodying rapidly until the hord stands re-
vealed Up the lane they come trooping,
the dust cloud hanging about their TANKS
and still enveloping the centaur who speaks
and hurries them on. A charming sight it
is Tudora, stately queen of the herd,
leads the why. With head uplifted and
swinging pace she wheels into the wide
gate, the aroma of the clover hanging all
about her and the peace of the meadow
beaming in her eye. After her the herd--.
Jerseys all and every one jewel pressing
in slow tumnlt through the gate, bringing
in their rich udders tho essence of the rhed
pastures, as honey bees bring home the
stolen sweets Of the flowers. Once in the
open lot the herd disperses and each COW
wends her way to her especial stall.
Then begins the milking. oscaoa, a
colored man of great dignity and reserve,
with his hair done up in cotton-string curl
papers, is in charge of the herd For four
teen years he has been trusted and found
worthy. He has his assistants, who place
the huge milk cans each with its strainnr,
at convenient intervals through the barn.
The assistants then with cans of clear water
wash the dusty udders and respectfully re-
tire. Then Osceola's time has come. Ad-
justing his white apron he leaves the crowd
whose questions he has been answering
with caution and hauteur, and sents himself
by the side Of the first COW in the first row.
Milk? Well, just wish you could see
lin With two sinewy hands and rotary
motion, the head thrown back, the foot
beating time, and tho milk fairly Kissing
into the pail, in two big streams Three
minutes to the COW, aud with fine energy
and abstraction he moves from one stall tc
another, filling the big milk cans as he goes.
Picking out half d dozen fayorite COWS he
MIXED thirteen and half gallons in fifteen
minutes, on test, and somehow or othei
left the impression that he hadn't half done
his best. From 100 to 10 gallons is days
milking, and it is cows milk, too, and moi
milkman'g milk. ATLANTA Constitution.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
PROFESSIONAL BORROWERS.
BroISeR-down Capitalists who still Con.
tInue TO Negotiate Loans.


Ono of Cincinnati's most prominent hog
annihilators, after spending several days in
this city, left for his Western home with an
uncomfortable feeling that he had gained
the reputation of possessing bigger heart
than head. As he sadly paid his bill at the
Hoffman House, he remarked in the un-
vanished language of Porkopolis, that here
in New York he had met more g busted"
acquaintance in one day than he would in
his native city after q spring overflow.
+" This town is fall of Western people,"
said he, and every one of them is
strapped. Nice fellows, you know, only
down on their luck, and it would never do
to refuse them dollar or two. If did I
would be called stingy. / had callers all
hours of the day and night They all came
ON business, though-to negotiate a loan.
Next time come to New York will regis.
ter under an assumed name.p
That is what happens to half the rich
men who come to New York. said the
clerk, alphabetically, and l don't see
how it can be helped. This town is full of
people who make it their business to loaf
around the hotels and borrow money. I
know several who are professional borrow
srs. They have a large acquaintance all
over the country, which was probably form
cd while they were in good circumstances.
OF course they are all good fellows and
their friends are generally glad to meet
them. A man is invariably sociable to old
aequaintances when in q strange place if at
no other time. OF course many of these
borrowers are men who have lost all thei,
money in Wall street and hope to get it back
some day. They still have some of their
good clothes left and manage to keep up
respectable appearance. But the majority
Of these loan negotiators are men who came
here strangers, and when they get broke in
speculating, gambling or legitimate business
they naturally stay around the hotels. where
they are liable TO meet friends from home.r
!" There is an old fellow who lays around
here said the clerk at the Windsor Hotel
and depends entirely upon borrowing
money. He used TO be o politician in New
Orleans, in the good old carpet-bageina
days. This man knows every politician in
the country and many others who are not
He is almost n regular boarder here. Every
day he is invited by some guest to take din
ner with him. There are lots of others of
the same kind who manage it in such
clever way that We cannot find M excuse to
kick them out of the house,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
ASTRONOMICAL INVENTIONS.


Astronomers formerly knew nothing of
the constituent elements of the heavenly
bodies. Had La Grange been told of the
wonderful achievements of the times later
than his own, he would have pronounced
them impossible. Think of Herschel, as
he sat through those wintry nights, with
the faithful Caroline at his side, recording
the results of his own observations. How
little could he have dreamed that the
actual gases of the far away planets which
he was studying would one day be presented
for analysis. The Origin of Species
was presented to the world in 1859, and it
was soon after this that gigantic stride
was made in astronomical science in the
series of spectroscopic discoveries. Tycho's
crude machine did noble work. II was not
q telescope ut all, but the suggestion of
what was to come. The inventor of this
crudity so stimulated his scholars that much
was accomplished, and one of them became
such an enthusiast that he could not be di-
yerted from his close observation Of star
by the alarming tidings that his house was
ON ire. will come to the house wher
this more important matter is determined
Rejecting telescopes are much larger than
refracting telescopes because it is difficult
to get glass which is pure enough for the
making of large object glasses. The earli-
est of the colossal instruments ever turned
upon the heavens was Herschel's monster
Ao-foot reflector. A rejecting telescope is
great funnel catching all the rays of light
in its compass, and concentrating them into
one ray small enough to enter the pupil of
the eye. This telescope was erected in the
clear atmosphere of the Island of Malta.
The wonderful reflectors of Lord Rosse had
mirror six feet in diameter, with tube
sixty feet long When the telescope was
in horizontal position, man could walk
inside from one end TO the other. The mir.
ror IN rejecting telescope il metallic, being
composed of two parts Of copper to one oj
tin. But the greater part Ct the work Of
astronomers is performed by smaller and
refracting instruments. The meridian
circle Is the most practical of the teles-
copes in the great work of science. by the
use OF these instruments, foundation is
laid for mathematical researches of the most
exalted character. Practical astronomy Is
thus brought into immediate contact with
the affairs of daily life. In most large cities,
there are astronomical obseryatories, and
these are generally connected by electricity
with the clocks of the city. Uniform time
is thus secured. PREF Balls Boston Lee
tulTa
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
THE OYSTERS ENEMIES.
Parasites That Prey Upon the hi, aivs
and Suck Its Life Away.


"Oysters are attacked by number OF
different parasites" said Delaware avenue
oyster dealer last week. "Great care is
needed, not only to keep their enemies
away, but to destroy their eggs. Among
the worst of these foes is the drill, small
crustacean, who is supplied with tiny resp
or file, with which it bores into the young
oyster and sucks out the contents of the
shell. Its eggs are something like apple Oh
pear seeds and are found in heaps or
punches. Each egg contains from twenty
to thirty embryos. As soon as these are
matched they attack the shells of the baby
oysters and kill innumerable quantities.
The oyster barnacle is another deadly
foe. This little creature gets inside the
shell of the oyster and, fastening on to
the upper valve, breeds there and feeds
apon the oyster itself. Then there are
oyster tube worms, which make their tubes
of sand and lime, lie upon the oyster until
they become firmly fixed to his outer shell
and then bore their way through and feed
upon him."
F" Are any of these creatures found in
oysters that are offered for sale 2"
No. The only parasite we find is the
tiny crab. That is harmless to consumers,
in fact is considered a delicacy, and besides
is really an assistance to the oyster In help
ing it to obtain food. But the barnacles
and worms have spoken about absolutely
destroy the oysters in the bed and If VIC
occasionally receive an empty shell or two
in our consignments that is the way we &C.
count for it,"
g Is there any known way of getting rid
Of these parasites Z"
" Oh, yes, by great care and cleanliness
Oysters that have been sent to Europe for
relaying have been known to introduce the
pest, but by flushing and carefully draining
and going over the beds they have been
eliminated almost entirely. The destruction
of the eggs is the surest way and that
method has been fairly successfully carried
out hear that Professor Baird, of the
Smithsonian Institute, Is now at Crissfield
Md, making series of investigations into
the cause of the great fatality among the
oysters of Chesapeake Bay and its triba-
taries. No doubt that if he has discovered
new parasite he will soon find the eggs.
And when he has found the eggs he will
destroy ssem,n
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
LOyern Unified.

There is boy in Altoona that should be
killed. Last Sunday evening he crawled
under the sofa and when his big sister and
her best young man were sitting as close to-
gether as possible, rugged slip knot around
their feet. When the old gentleman came
into the parlor TO look for his cigar stub
they thought they would occupy separate
pews. The young man fell over tho centre
table and Mary sat down upon the floor
with two hundred TO the square inch con-
:ussion that dislocated her adjustable
bangs. The old gentleman thought that
Adolphus was drunk and hit him with his
cane sixteen times before he could got him
SELF loose and fall out Of the window. The
match is declared off.-Ahoona Sunday
CAL.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
rhe cnllfornIa xlld nlustard.

In the new novel by H. H. appears the
following description of wild mustard, which
is as hateful TO the farmer as the g white
weed in New England; " The wild mus
tard in Southern California Is like that
spoken Of in the New Testament. in the
branches of which the birds of the air may
rest. Coming up out Of the earth 20 slender
a stem that dozens can find starting point
in an inch, It darts up slender, straight
shoot, five, ten, twenty feet, with hundreds
of fine feathery branches, locking and inter-
locking with all the hundreds around it, till
it is an inextricable network like lace. Then
1t bursts into yellow bloom still finer, more
feathery, and lace-like, At times il looks
like golden dust. With clear blue sky
behind 1t, as it Is often seen, it looks like q
golden snow-storm."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
POETRY.

Bill Long.
So here you lie, Bill Long,
Dead, with mocking sheer
Froze on your ashen lips;
Dead with no friends near.
Were you ever, l wonder,
An innocent little child,
Who lie dead here with hooking sneer,
Alone on this Texan wild
Ere the lead crashed through the bone,
And the mighty change had come,
Did there flash Ger your brain your mothers face,
Did you picture your olden home?
You, who have shot SO many
In drunken brawls, now still
shot down like dog. Bill Long Bill Longi
o maker of your own III.
You have played your very last card,
And drawn your latest breath;
An ace you know is a very poor thing
To play in the game OF DEATH AHa
But there is time TO dig
A shallow grave, and to place
Your carcass there, and to cut on a board
Your name, and the year OF grace
And out of this wood carve
A cross for your poor grave there;
foryou, that for many long, long year,
Have never prayed prayer.
Sleep well on the grassy plain.
And I-who am to upbrald9
iifeless sinner living sinner
Turns from thy grave afraid.
Let me kneel by thy side, Bill Long,
There Is room for us both ON the sod;
To this dead man here, and this living one
Be pitirul, God
Laurie Hat, in the Teras Strings.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
Her Modes, midget Travelling Trunk. :

Baggageman-A check for Mountainyille,
Miss ? l should like to accommodate you
but hadn't you better change your route
Fashionable Miss-Change my route, in
deed What do you mean, sir oh, ]
don't mean no disrespect no indeed, Miss.
But there's good many tunnels on that
road" "well, suppose there are. I'm not
afraid of tunnels" "Of course not, Miss
but don't see how they're ever goin' to get
that trunk through 'em. Philadelphia Gail.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17

If you want good satisfaction, a per-
feet fit, and the lowest prices in the city
of Trenton, go to Mc'Cains Boot and
Shoe Store No. 12 North Greene Street,
Trenton, N. J.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17

Tone up the system by the use of Ayers
Sarsaparilla. 1t will make you feel like
new person. Thousands have found
health and relief from suffering by the
nse Of this great blood purifier when all
other means failed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-30
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1884.
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District Convention.

The democrats of the 18th district
are hereby called to meet in convenN
ton in the Mayors office, of Milan,
Tenn, on Saturday, the 30th day Of
August, for the purpose of appoint
ing delegates to a county convention,
to be held in Trenton 1st Monday in
September, to appoint delegates to
the democratic congressional conven'
tion, which meets in Dyersburg Sep
TENDER 9th, to nominate candidate
for Congress of the 9th Congressional
district and elector ON the democratic
Presidential ticket,
JOHN r. TUCKER,
= Ch'm'n Dist. Com.