The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-08-26
John B. Cough has just turned his e8th

John B. Cough has just turned his 6Stl
year.
Miss Cleveland already has made $50
600 from her book.
The free traders remedy for home
competition is to add foreign competition
to it.
Six hundred prescriptions are daily
compounded in the drug department Of
the asylum at Morris Plains.
The surviving veterans of the First
New Jersey Brigade, First Division,
Sixth Army Corps, will hold their annual
reunion at Elizabeth, on Monday, Sep
TENDER 14th.
President Cleveland is said to be very
successful as sportsman and fisherman.
He wears flannel shirt, SLOUGH hat and
top boots, and wades through mud and
water as recklessly as he rides over spoils-
men.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
are now engaged laying new steel rails
from Jersey City to Philadelphia. These
rails are about one hundred and sixty
poundy heavier that any yet put down by
the company.
The entire amount of $40, 900 was sub
scribed at the meeting in Mount Holly on
Tuesday night for the purpose of starting
a shoe factory there. The matter was
brought about through the exertions of
the Board of Trade.
1t is said that General Grant, during
his illness, received 5000 letters from
Southern Contederates alone. The mere
business of reading these letters must
have been immense. They were all kept,
and will one day, perhaps, be published.
Kemble, Widener and Elkins, of Phila-
delphia, in combination with Jacob Sharp
and others, are about to assume control of
several New York city passenger railways,
and have them run by cable. These roads
include the one on Broadway.
Beer is more dangerous than whiskey
That is the verdict of the Scientific Ameri-
can, which sets forth that the use of beer
is found to produe species of degenera-
tion of all the organs; profound and de-
ceptive fatty deposits, diminished circula-
ton, conditions of congestion and perver-
sion of functional activities, local inflama-
tions of both liver and kidneys, are con-
stantly present. A slight injury, severe
cold, or shock to the body or mind, will
commonly provoke acute disease ending
fatally in beer drinker.
Ten cases of typhoid fever have de-
veloped i'll the Morris Plains Lunatic
Asylum, and some alarm is felt among
the employees. There were thirteen
cases in the asylum last week, six of
them attendants, and it is stated that
two deaths have occurred among male
patients, while others are likely to die.
On Saturday one of the Oldest female
attendants sent in her resignation on ac-
count of the fever. A meeting of the
Board of Directors will be held on
Thursday, when the matter will be con
sidered.
The citizens of Phillipsburg are greatly
agitated over the proposition to have the
free delivery system extended to that
place. The town Is peculiarly built, and
post office cannot be located at point
generally convenient. Easton has had
the free delivery dozen years. On q petit.
ton of thousand residents of Phillips
burg the post office authorities have sent
an agent there, who, after looking over
the ground, decided to recommend the
change, which would be that three car
riers would be appointed to serve Phil
| lipsburg and branch office would bt
located there, the main office being il
Easton. Business men and residents il
the north of the town object those in thu
south and much more thickly populated
district, favor tho plan.
During q discussion at Hackettstown
recently, over the question of what consti
tutes "horse power, a local sportsman
offered a wager that twenty men coult
pull more than horse. The offer wa
accepted by John Sliker, and on Saturda,
last the trial was made. The stipulation
were that single horse should pull twent
men off their feet that a rope thirty fee
long should be used; that the men shout,
secure whatever foothold they could o.
the level ground, and that the men shoul
be placed as near to the horse as possible
The men won easily, and thefe are me
about the town willing to bet that to
men can outpull an ordinary horse. Their
were about eight hundred persons at th
pulling match.
The business outlook is improving
We learn, from various sources, that fur
naces, factories and various other indus
trial establishments, are getting ready t
renew operations. This will be goo
news to all, to the workmen and the pre-
prietors alike If the business world wi
only believe revival of business is a
hand, ii will do much toward bringing
about. In young, vigorous country Xix
ours, depression cannot last long, and th
periodical alarm on this account is out @
place. In the resumption of business a
should remember that its continuanc
will depend upon tho extent the law &
supply and demand are violated. If on
manufacturers make moro goods tina
they can sell, and keep up the productio
at this rate, there must come time whe
the market is overstocked, and depres
sion follows as matter of course. Thei
come strikes of workmen and other trou
b.es. The sharp competition in all branch
es of business leads to this condition G
things, and we do not see how it can b
prevented. Business men should lear
wisdom from the lessons of tho pas
Will they do it?
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