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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
DUELLING IN THE SOUTH.

The duelling code is certainly going out
of fashion in tho South. A case in point
occurred the other day. The city editor Of
great paper took a holiday and appointed
one of the reportorial corps his pro tenn.
This promoted reporter requested another
of the corps to attend to q certain matter,
which he refused, saying IL was the cit,
editors business, not his. Words multi
piled, blow was struck, a scuffie ensusd,
and they were parted. Noxt morning the
temporary editor, grandson of = famous
Napoleonic general, sent his brother repor-
ter what is termed a peromptory challenge,
i. G., one that leaves 10 room for apology,
instead of one that bears tho provision Of,
unless or If.
The challenged reporter, son OF famous
Southern Senator, was clearly in the wrong
from the start. His friends felt so, and would
have made him apologize, but no chance
of that was given. With ~ much secrec,
rs possible the meeting took place under
" The Oaks, as the old duellins ground Oh
the city is called, and where many famous
duel has been fought The seconds were
measuring off the ground when letter,
signed by some of the most prominent cit-
zens and old soldiers Of tho town, was
brought to them, praying a postponemon,
for day and submission OF tho matter te
their arbitration. The seconds decided "a
grant it, and placed their principals under
arbitramont. The result WAS that the com-
mittee ordered the Senator's son to apollo.
gize, which he did. Tho apology was ae-
ceptcd, and friendship reisned again. 81
much for tho progress of peace in Southern
society The long night Of brilliant bar
barism is passing away, and the day cometi
In which all men may work.-Nss OrIsan.
Lett p 10 Ndst0iiSe american
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
GIRLS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

The English women often mature into
The finest motherly faces without getting
sallow and fat or scrawny, like their more
Southern sisters across the channel The
young English women walk with stride
and pace that would quite alarm one OF
our dudes, while they have cold, indiffer.
snt air they don't mean. Oh, no, not Bit
OF it, l am told The Scotch girls are hand
some, hale and hearty, without being plenti
fully pretty or beautiful They have lofty
bearing, and when you see the best they are
a splendid-looking type of womanhood
with great force Of character in their
faces Brown, red and yellowish shades of
hair are thick among them. There is n red
dish-brown shade that seems to be the nat
ural color. But the Irish girls, when they
are pretty, and many OF them are can't be
beaten anywhere-on this side at least
Their compilations are simply perfect, and
would put peach to blush. Their features
tho good-loolSing ones, mark you--are
fascinating and they are modest and we'll.
behaved. l saw some of them in passing
through Ddblin that would be reckoned rs
beauties in Louisville or Baltimore, / am
sure. After all pretty sweet girl is that
Same divine lovely creature wherever you
find her, and this young man is too sus-
csptsble. Strange as II may seem, have
scarcely seen pretty girl over here in any
country whose counterpart have not seen
in the States. 1t looks like our girls are
cousins to all the pretty ones over here, aud
the resemblance is peeping out of their faces
and telling us what mixed race we are
Scotch, Irish, English, Welsh, Huguenot
and what not. The men are more marked
In their differences, but often among them
you see American similtude. London Let
Ter.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
DESERVED FOR SAVING LIVES,
A Boats Crew Drilled to Work With the
Aiacrity of Firemeu.

The recent accident to well-knovn
Sound steamer through collision at night in
gale and binding snow storm having
made of especial public interest the subject
of life saving appliances at such times, re-
porter called at the office of one of the most
famous of tho line steamers running upon
the Sound and asked for particulars on tn,
subject
A popularity Of our line" said one OF
the officials land feature which we take
much pride in, is life-saving crew. Each
boat is supplied with one such crow This
is boats company of Ave mon, who are
chosen especially for the service they are to
perform. Their whole duty. at all times
whom on passages, is to guard against loss
of human life, by accident or otherwise
This crew has small boat always at its dis
?osal, and they occupy quarters especially
designated rs most convenient and useful
Tor them. During trips they keep constant
iy together, and stand constant watch amopa
themselves.
-" When in port this crew does not do
any of the usual work of the hands of
the steamer. Their whole duties then ars to
look after their own boat and see to the
general efficiency of all the boats, overhaul
ing their outfits and seeing that they are in
complete order and in readiness for imrued-
late duty.
This crew can have boat in the water
in two minutes. Now and then We have a
crank jump overheard who Ia inclined &c
suicide, this crew is aroused from bed and
called to man their boat in hurry and il
has been found rowing in boat alongside
the steamer within six minutes of receiving
she alarm. No other duty la exaoted or OK
pected from this crew, and all its energies
arc bent in the direction OF ths most SUPER
Tor service as a life saving crew in smergsn.
cies."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
MARRIED FOR MONEY.
Bnt she Didn't Get as Much az She
Thought She Would.

An old gentleman with waving white hair
falling over his shoulders tottered up to the
bar of tho Jefferson Market Police Court to
answer charge of deserving his wife.
How old are your asked Justice
o'Reilly, as the old man stepped before
him.
Well, let me see,n said the aged prison.
err in feeble tone. +" cast my first vote
for Old Hickory I wasn't twenty-five
years old then. l guess am close onto
eighty years old"
A buxom woman about forty years
old then took the witness stand
My name is Elizabeth Brady and that
mna is my husband" said she; che Inns
gone TO live with one OF his sons and left
me to look out for myself; we were mar
ricd just eight months ago; I was lone
widow just after burying one of the best
husbands woman was ever blessed with.
Richard Brady was living in the same house
with me at No. 500 West Thirty ninth street,
and he commenced paying attention to me
as soon "a my other husband was dead. He
showed me four bank books, which con-
WINGED me that he had lots Of money. So l
thought l would have good home, and ]
consented to marry him."
Have you any money!" asked JustIc.
0'Reilly of the prisoner.
Comparatively little. have given II
nearly all away" answered the venerable
bridegroom.
81 think the old man is in more need OF
4 nurse than wife, said his Honor, and /
will discharge him, 80 that you can take
good care of him.
Mrs. Brady with tightly compressed lips,
marched out of tho court room by the side
of hor husband, whose wrinkled face wore
q cheerful smile.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
BRAVE SIGHTS IN THE siERRAs.
Of the Crent Sfsquoo Falls, the Thunder Of
Which Rarely Strikes Mans Ear.


Having heard so many conflicting reports
about the wonderful scenery at the head
waters of the Sisquoc creek, we, in COM
pany with Messrs Wheat and Forester.
concluded to make a thorough exploration
of that section, which has until lately been
almost n terra incognita to even the oldest
settlers, owing to the dense chaparral which
covered the mountains on all sides and
made it almost inaccessible until nm extern
i've fire swept over several hundred square
miles about three years ago, making is pos
sible to get in there We supplied our
selves with a necessary outfit, mainly blank
cts, Winchester rifles and salt meat, mounted
the hurricane deck of our favorite caballo
and the first day reached Mr.. Wheat's ranch,
thirty-fye miles from Santa Maria. After
passing the Narrows we had to cut q trail
Tor miles until reaching the burned country
above the main forks of the river. Ascend.
ing the southeast fork about twelve miles
rom the river we came to Ventura Falls
As we named it-from the great number of
them about there The gorge at the foot of
the fall was wild and picturesque in the ex-
treme. Huge boulders and fallen trees,
with occasionally a cascade varying in
height from ten to one hundred feet to
climb around. Grizzly bear tracks were
quite plenty, but no grizzlies came in sight
On the top, nor were we hunting any. W.
,limbed above and measured the main fall
and found it to be $50 feet in heieht-a
sheer descent, with about 80 miners inches
of water flowing over it. The stream falls
about 1900 feet in two miles and half.
making great number of beautiful cas-.
cades. The pool below the fall is so feet
long, 40 feet wide and upwards of thirty
feet in depth, clear and cold as ice, and so
sheltered by the overhanging bluffs that the
sun rarely shines in it.
Climbing the mountain above the fall we
found to be terrific work; the dense chip
srral, partly burned and partly grown up
again, was impossible to get through with
out chopping for miles. The slope is SO
steep TINT we could find no place level
enough 10 spread our blankets without
shoveling, except at the extreme summit OF
the mountain. There we had magnificent
view of the whole surrounding country. Tt
the south and west lay the Santa Barbara
Islands. Far out across the Mohave desert,
upwards of two hundred miles distant. the
Providence Mountains were painly seen,
To the northwest the wide sweep OF the
San Joaquin Valley, on the further side the
Sierra Nevadas, the snow-capped summit OF
Mt. Whitney and other lesser peaks, while
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
THE FOUNDATION OF A FORTUNE.
Hew an Accidental Advertisement Made n
Man Rich.

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famous Journals OF 'ne coun'ry--'he Amer
can Agrioultufsiist-he had an occasion one
saturday afternoon so the story runs 70
out OF town rather unexpectedly, put before
leaving ne TOOK oare 10 call MS once Doy
ana give MN .hs necessary money 10 pay
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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
Advice to Young Oreu on Marriage.

Get married, my son Look me in the
sye. If you never do anything else in the
world, got married. Don't be in too big
hurry about it, but don't be too deliberate.
II is your duty. Don't think the girls are
butterflies of fashion. If you want to marry
q laundess, do your counting in the laundry;
but If you want wife, marry the girl you
love. Be honest with the world; don't sail
under false colors. Don't repine over your
poverty; it is good for you. We get most
of our Presidents from Illinois tanyards and
farms and Ohio towpaths. Don't envy any
great men, my boy, The great man, with
bis weight of years and care, enyies you
avery time he passes you by. And if you
can't be leader, double-leaded, column
long, on the second page, you can be some
thing just as useful. You can be little
paying four-line solid nonpareil "ad." on
the inside, down under picture of Lydia
Pinkham, and that will help the makeup
and fill its place in the paper. Be anything
In the world, my boy, that is alive and use
sul Be anything but dead ad. "--Bur-
lette's Boston Lecture.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
POETRY.
Ths Communism of sor,o,~


say not "'Twas chance, passing thought
Born OF light fancy, not OF depth OF heart,
me few strange words that, falling on thy ear.
Made every hidden fear to being start.
Know this; thine anguish, howe'er deep its
smart,
However keen its power OF hurt might be-
has In some life unknown counterpart
An "oft-told tale yet told so silently,
That only in the solemn watch OF night,
When Heaven bends low the suppliant earth
to hear, ~ EIr5
sometimes we catch moaning in the breeze
And sounds of bitter weeping in the air.
Strange, too, that what to some seems strain o.
JOY,
To others but dim reyerberate song,
Is to thy soul and to these stricken souls
chord of anguish thrilling, deep and strong.
Hearts hide their secret Ill, for lips disclose
And gasp in fear at some stray word or tone
And eyes, forgetting all their arts, reveal
In one brief moment all the life has known,
And there, by some strange SPELL meet look fol
look,
And word for word unspoken seem to be
The mute responses OF life to life
United In grters mystic sympathy
-EdtH X: Perry in the Boston TrGnScript.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
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ARTIFICIAL JEWELS.
What They are and How They are Mass.
featured.

The ruby and sapphire have boon closely
Initiated by Frenzy and Fell, two French
,hemists, and the chief interest in this pro-
BOSS is the fact that tho artificial stones pos
'oss essentially the chemical composition OF
the real ones. To produce this, equal
weights Of alumins and red load are heated
to red heat in an earthsnware crucible. A
vitreous substance is formed, which eonsists
of silicats Of lead and crystals OF white co.
rundum. To convert this corundum into
tho artificial ruby II 10 necessary tG
fuse II with about two per cent OF bichro
mate Of potassium, WHILE to obtain the sap
phire, a little oxide of cobalt and a vsr,
small quantity Of bichromate of potassium
must be employed. Tho stones so produced
possess at least very nearly the hardness of
the roal stones, rs they scratch both quartz
and topaz. The French paste" which
initiates the diamond so closely 10 peculiar
kind Of glass, the manufacture OF which was
brought to great degree of perfection some
nifty years ago by Donault- Wieland, Of
Paris. The finost quality of paste demands
extreme care in the choice Of materials and
in melting, etc. The basis of ii, in til,
hands of the export manufacturer just nam
ed, WAS powdered rock crystal OF quartz
The proportions he took were six ounces OF
rock crystal, nine ounces two drains of red
IeAl, three ounces three drains Of pure car
Donate of potash, three drains Of borscio
acid and six grains of white arsenic. The
product thus manufactured was extremely
beautiful, but rather expensive, compared
with the prices now charged for artificial
Jewels. II has never been surpassed in
brillianoy, but Of late years the greater pur-
lty of the potash and lead oxide used, and
the improvements in tho furnaces and
methods of heating them, have sll tended
TO reduce the price OF the diamonds"
thus manufae .ured. -Cltambers' Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
The Kind Of Girl. they have in Kan.a.

The Kind of Girls They Have in Kansas.
Miss Matte Worley. a school teacher of
Greenwood county, Kansas, has earned
enough money by teaching to buy one hun
bred acres of land. She hired eighty acres
broke last year and had ten acres sowed in
wheat. She purchased stock and pastured
the rest of her land until she sold enough
to pay for il. She is now out of debt and
teaching school for $40 per month"; She is
not yet twenty years old.--S0utAsrn Kansas
Gasetts.
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specimen. AaerIon,, ~ p,oou.,e,.

Gentlemen" said an suc,ioneer, with
true pathos, :" II nv father and my mother
stood where you stand. aud did not buy
this stew-pan, this elegant stew-pan, going
at one dollar. should feelit my bounden
duty as son to tell both of them they were
false to their country and false to thew-
selves. San Francisoo Aryonaut.
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CnnK,c COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, for
OOOA y young ladies'. Advantages un-
surpassed GEoReR w. Cook, Phi. D., Principal,
Pougbkeepsie, N Y. jy. lS.-8m.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-12
British Generals Slain lin Battle
whitehall Review.

The death of General Earle calls to
mind how few instances there are of
British Generals being killed on the
field of battle Since Picton fell in
the hour of victory at Waterloo, the
cases have been very few and far be-
tween, no instances occurring until
S0braon, when that fine soldier,
Major General Sir Robert Dick, was
slain at the head of his division.
Some of the old school of officers will
no doubt recall General Dick, a hero
Of countless escapes in his days, who
had been wounded at Mazda, severely
before Rosetta IN the Egyptian cam
palgn of 1901, again in the Peninsula,
and a fourth time at Quatre Bras,
when he had command of the Black
Watch. The only remaining instances
are those Of Lieutenant General Sir
George Cathcart ''blest, to quote
Kinglake, with a soldiers death in
action" at the head of the Fourth
Division on the field of Inkerman /;
Major General Sir George Colley,
shot through the head on that awful
day at Msjuba Hill-a as yet uuayepg-
ed; and Major General William
Earle, killed in action at Dulka. That
fine old horse-artilleryman, Fox
Strangway, also killed at Inkerman,
held only Brigadier Generals rank.
The three general officers killed in the
Indian Mutiny campaign-viz: Sir
Henry Lawrence, Neill and Penny
belonged To the Indian army, as did
Sir Hugh Wheeler, slain in his old
age in the massacre of Cawnpore.
Havelock, Arson and Barnard all
three lamented victims to the dark
days of 1S57--were not killed in
action, but died of illness contracted
during the campaign.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-12
CRIME

A FATAL row occurred in Beliaire, o.,
Wedn day night, betweeK Casper Glass
and Henry Nenison, neighbors, over o
family difficulty Tho men were in
to2dcated, and Glass struck Venisou with
a piece of metal, crushing his skull so
that he will die.
AT Cleveland Wednesday night Geo
Street visited the residence of Professor
Esch, superintendent of German in the
public schools, and attempted TO shoot
him, bat after a fierce struggle Esch Sc
cured the weapon. Trouble arising
from a collision between Streets wagon
and Esch's sleigh led to the attempted
shooting.
TWO alleged private detech yes
Thomas Craig and Theodore Walden,
were arrested Monday at Albany on
suspicion that they entertained sinister
designs ON President Elect Cleveland
They were soon released, however, it
transporting that they were simply
shadowing a def utter, who had taken
up his residence in the vicinity of Mr..
Cleveland's house.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-12
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

I THOMAS O'COENOR POWER, member OF
/ parliament, 1.-The man for Galway" Is
to marry Texas woman now living in
London
ALL Nebraska towns with a popala
ton of from I, 500 to 1900 are required
to incorporate as cities of the second
class After one years trial they may
return to village organization.
WHEAT stocks throughout the coun-
try, embracing the visible supply, are
placed at 2CJ, 600, 900 bushels, against
100, 000,0c0 bushels at this time last
year.
STATE AUDITOR BROWN, of Iowa,
again refused Thursday to deliver up
the books and papers Of his office to the
Governor, was arrested and bailed IN
$4,000. Applications was made to the
Circuit Court for writ of mandamus
to compel Brown to relinquish his
Office.
THE Mexican customs receipts for
January show an increase of $4,000
over the preceding month. The Mexi-
can Central Railroad is carrying large
amounts of American corn to the City
Of Mexico.
WAR between Great Britain ana Rus
STA is deemed imminent over the extern
siou of the Russian frontier in Central
Asia. Two British regiments are under
orders for India.
ORDERS have been issued from the
War Office, in London, for an immediate
and thorough medical inspection Of
every regiment in the British army,
with a view of obtaining correct esti-
mate of the number of men available
for active sci vice.
SAMUEL r. KIRBY began suit at Cleve-
land Monday against w. G.. Wilson, Of
Chicago IL is averred that Wilson &C :
the plaintiff to purchase $25, 600 WORTH
of stock ia new sewing machine
venture on various promises that have
not been kept, and that Kirby has
thereby been damaged to the extent Of
$4,000.
GEN. FRANCIS DARR and other Cali
fornians ha 1e rendered Gen. Grant and
his family, as a loan, large bearing
vineyard in the state, which would be
conducted by a skilled viticulturist,
with a residence and necessary out
buildings All the expenses of the
General and his party to the Pacific
coast would be paid the Central Pacific
Road guaranteeing to send special cars
to New York for their conveyance
westward.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-12
DecreasIng snowfall ON the sIerras.
Nirglnia CltY ChronicLe

virginia City Chronicle
The snowfall on the Sicrras has
been very light the past winter. At
the Summit and Cisco the greatest
average depth falling at one time
this year has not exceeded six feet.
The average fall in former winters
has been over twenty feet In the
winters of 1867 s, when Cisco was the
terminus of the Central Pacific rail
road, the snow there fell to a depth Of
over forty feet.
This was before the snow sheds were
built-when the railroad company
had over 1000 men employed 10
shoveling snow from the deep cuts
between Blue Canyon and Cisco. The
passenger trains at that time consisted
of only two coaches end one baggage
car, and were drawn the last eight
.miles-from Emigrant Gap to Cisco
by eighteen ten-wheo] LOCOMOTIVES
over 500 tons Of metal-driving a
snow-plow as large as a two story
house in front OF them At that time
the line Of the road wound through a
trackless forest, over forty miles in
length, stretching from Truckee on
the cast to Alta on the west, trains
frequently being brought to a stand
still by fallen trees obstructing the
track
OF the vast forests that then cover
ed the sides and crowded the sammits
of the Sierras along the line of the
road, scarcely a vestige now remains,
Since the building of the road a wath
ever twenty miles in breadth has been
moved through the ancient forests
bordering the track, whose dark re,
recesses obscured by thick foliage had
never been penetrated by the rays OF
the sum before the advent OF the iron
horse. The decrease in t he snowfall
is said to date from that event, and
is mainly attributed to the fact OF
that portion of the country being en-
tirely denuded of timber.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-12
GABLEGRAMs

a DISPATCH from Teheran states that
the insurgent native cAiefs Of India
have already raised the fiery crCss and
proclaimed in favor of Russia.
TIE sign of discontentmclt among
the natives against British rule are in
creasing. Threats against the life OF
Cen. Stephenson, the English comman.
der, are frequently heard in the streets.
THE Pail Mall Gazette states that
Lord Derby, Colonial Secretary, has i'll
vitcd the Colonial Agents resident in
London to attend q conference on the
offers made by the colonies TO furnish
the home Government with troops for
the Soudan
THE North Gerwan Gazette says
1.-The publication by England of private
interviews between Nalet. the English
representative at Berlin. and Bismark
is a striking and regretable indiscrc ton,
and must stop all confidential exchange
o. views between the two countries
The object ct the publication was On
doubleday to make France distrust
Germany, ont il failed. The malevo
lence Of England is iuexplicable.'
lr has been decided tibet the mar
rlage of Princess Beatrice to Prince
Henry Of Gutenberg shall take place in
| Whippingham Church, Isle of Wight,
in July, while Queen Victoria will be at
I Osborne
The medical inspection of every regt
menti in Che British army, is in progress,
is undoubted, in some circles, that
war with Russia hangs by a thread
/ Negotiations between Russia aud Eng.
land respecting the Russo Afghan from
tier are said 10 have reached a very
/ delicate stage NJ, Le1sar the Russian
+ Commissioner has urged such sweeping
/ demands that England can not accept
anything approaching them, aud tn,
complete collapse Of the delimitatior
! project and an early advance OF tn,
Russian troops towards Herat IS ex
i pected.