The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-10-06

ters from Phiiadelphia, south or west, IN TINS
mail)
The tax rate for Readington town.
ship is 81. 10 per hundred dollars.
The Sergeantsville Cornet Band fur
nished the music at the Pennington Fair.
The peach train on the Belyidere Di-
vision was taken off last Thursday.
Mr.. Elisha W. Opdycke, horse dealer
of Frenchtown, sold handsome pair of
roam horses at the fair on Thursday last
for $3.50.
During the present week Mrs. Stout,
of Coryell street, this city, received very
handsome Hazelton upright piano from
g. A. Barlow, the Trenton music dealer.
Philip Talon and Daniel Haggerty,
ID. A. COS delegates to the K. of l..
General Assembly, left for Richmond
Saturday, and Robert Sterling, delegate
of d. A. 160,- left Friday.
The next meeting of the New Jersey
State Homeopathic Medical Society takes
place at the City Hall, corner Albany and
Nelson streets, New Brunswick, N. j., to-
day, at IL o'clock, A. M.
All delinquent members of the Union
Steam Fire Engine Comp any, No. /, are
requested to meet at the engine house on
Thursday evening, October 14th, at 7:30
O'Clock. business of Importance.
On Thursday afternoon last, Miss Ida
Aller, daughter of the late Rev. N. s.
Aller, of Frenchtown, stumbled and fell
while walking, fracturing both bones of
her left arm, near the wrist
The New Jersey Baptist State Con-
vention and Educational Society win hold
their Anniversaries with the Baptist
Church of Pennington, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, October Goth aud 9th.
Mr.. VIM. L. Smith, of this city,
caught one day last week, in the Della
ware, the biggest rock fish of the season,
its weight being thirteen pounds. Others
of our Fl .hermen are having good luck in
catching these fish.
The total valuation of property, real
and personal, subject to ia xation in the
Borough of Frenchtown, for the present
year, is 1858, 297. The amount of county
tax apportioned to Frenchtown is SO, &c.,
As and the amount of school tax is ST.
444 90 Independent.
The following delegates to the Con-
gressional Convention at Pennington from
this city, were chosen at the primaries
last Saturday: LIST Ward, G. Llewlyn
Williams; I'd Ward, John Sproat, G. Her.
vey Skillman; Sd Ward, DIR. L. A. Read
ing, Elisha Stout.
Miss Susie Hunt and Master Horace
Il. Hunt, son of Mr. Thomas B. Hunt, of
this city, started for Burlington, Coffey
county, Kansas, on Monday last, where
they will visit Mr. Hunts brother, George.
They expect to be absent for about two
months.
"A large attendance is expected at the
Congressional Convention at Pennington,
on Friday of this week. 1t is the general
opinion that IL a straightforward, upright
Republican, such as this section of the
county proposes to present, is nominated,
the ticket will win.
Mr.. Jesse Fulmer showed US a day or
two ago a commission issued to his father,
Jacob Fulmer, by Governor Simon Sny-
der,as Ensign in the Fourth company, 18th
Regiment Penna. Militia, dated Aug. 8,
1911. The document was we'll preserved
and the writing had not faded in the
least.
Mr.. Freeman Ellis, farmer living
one mile west of Pennington, died rather
suddenly and unexpectedly from heart dis
ease last Saturday morning. He had been
complaining for some months past, though
able to be about attending to his work
He was in town the previous day. De-
ceased was brother of Mr.. J. T. Ellis.
Rev. G. II. Woolston will preach in
the Baptist Church next Sunday morn
ing, on the ''Christian's Relation to the
Church." The object sermon will be on
"Sgn Lessons" The pastor will con-
duct the G:30 P. M. meeting as usual. AT
the regular evening service the pastor will
preach on the subject, CONDEMNED to
Die" The public invited.
AT the Republican State Convention,
held yesterday, Lambertville was repre-
scented as follows: LIST Ward, G. Llewellyn
Williams; I'd Ward. Chas. A. Skillman,
Esq 4; Sd Ward, Clark Pierson. DR.. J.
Hayhurst, who was an alternate from the
I'd Ward, was chosen by the county dele
gates to represent one Of the unrepresent-
ed townships.
The Democrat Advertiser thinks it an
extortion for the railroad com panies to
charge II cents per basket to transport
peaches from Pennington to Jersey City,
inasmuch as they transport similar freight
from Chicago to New York at rate
equivalent to one-half cent between the
points first named. The peach-growers
should combine, as the railroads do, and
endeavor to secure better rate, by all
shipping on one line.
For Fancy Groceries, 60 to G. J.
Fisher.