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

The Office of Jail Warden in Hudson
county is worth $4,000 year.
p. 7. Barnum says that the receipts of
his show for the season of 1884 were ST.
400, 900.
Captain Beecher son of Henry Ward,
wants to be Collector of Customs at Port
Townsend, Washington Territory.
Egg Harbor City makes 100, 900 GAL
Ions of wine annually. There are about
quo acres in grapes in and about the
town.
Full official returns received by the
boston Globe from the Secretaries of
State of every State in the Union, show
that Clevelaud's plurality over Blaine is
32,073.
Every day fresh batch of Mugwumps
are compelled to walk the plank by dis
gnsted Republican associations in New
York and Brooklyn. Make them step
lively.
The fatal scourge that prevailed in
Kentucky is now pretty we'll determined
to have been malignant malaria, induced
by the drouth and the bad living of the
inhabitants.
Colonel Dudley S. Gregory, a we'll
known Jerseyman of large wealth, at
tempted suicide by swallowing laudauum
on Wednesday evening, at Brick Church,
ID, but the pIompt application of re-
storatives saved his life. Colonel Gregory
has been very morose since the death of
his wife about six months ago.
Grant Furman, of Hopewell, shot an
American eagle day or two ago, on the
farm of Daniel Cornell, in Ewing town
ship. Tho bird, measuring seven feet
from tip, to tip, was purchased by Geo.
Lawton, proprietor of the Center Street
House, Trenton.
Henry Ward Beecher delivered his lee
ture on the ''Reign of the Common Peo-
Pile" on Wednesday evening, in the Opera
House, New Brunswick. The attendance
was very meagre, in marked contrast to
the crowds that he used to draw in for
mer years.
The Murphy temperance ival which
started in Pittsburg. Pa, two weeks ago,
is growing rapidly, 6000 persons having
already joined the blue ribbon army. At
a meeting last Sunday evening nearly 1000
persons were present, and 100 signed tho
pledge.
The wind storm of Saturday night
caused considerable damage in Philadel-
phia, principally the blowing down of
chimneys and signs, aud the rolling up
of tin roofs. The walls of the tower of
the Fifth Baptist church, Eighteenth and
Spring Garden streets, were found cracked
and the tower forced out of a perpendicu-
lar, necessitating its taking down. An
other church tower in course of construc-
ton was blown down. The damage has
been considerable throughout this region,
but no loss of life is reported.
Tho enforcement of tho new tax law in
Elizabeth is creating good deal of ex-
oitement there. 1t forces tenants to pay
the taxes OF owners in arrears and charge
the payments up against their rent dues
Constables are busy now in making their
rounds, and collecting rent moneys from
the occupants of places owned by delin-
quent Taxpayers. BY operation of the
law, the city has received large sums of
money which could not otherwise have
been collected.
Something for the Baby.
What terrible affection about the
house is cross baby A young man on
the very edge of matrimony might easily
be frightened from his purpose by having
too much of that sort of music at the
homes of his married friends. Yet babies
cry commonly only when they are sick.
One teaspoonful of Parker's Tonic given
the little one, will bring rest and sleep to
the baby and all in the house. Only 80
cents at druggists. nov. 26..4w
The Improved Sewerage and Sewage
Utilization Company have commenced
laying pipes in Atlantic City, and ex-
pect to have the work completed by June
LIST, 1885. The system, which is known
as the West SYSTEM gives the grade of
the pipe fall of seven feet to the mile,
and no pipe must be placed nearer the
surface than three feet. The sewage will
first be received into a large well on the
north side of the city, aud pumped from
there to the rendering sheds, which will
be located on the meadows, when it will
undergo the processes of deodorizing into
a fertilizer.