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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10

=" One Of the delegates from the Della
ware and Belvidere division created some.
thing of sensation by declaring that he
represented men who were not only in
favor of the relief fund as proposed but
were willing, if the basis of contributions
was not sufficient, to be assessed at
higher rate. One of the other delegates
from that division said that this state
ment was not true, and that in express
ing such an opinion his colleague only
represented himself. When the delegate
attempted to reply TO this contradiction
he was Missed down by the Convention
and could not be heard. "-Phila. Record.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10

TOHN e.. GARRISH, Staple and Fancy
ID Groceries, Teas Coffees. and Spiees speciality
Corner Main and York 6fss Lansbertetltes
N. u. m21ty.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10

Tho ordinance that was passed last
evening by the Common Council of this
city to established an Excise Board will
be published next week, it being too
long to set up in time for this issue. The
ordinance contains, among other features,
the following: Not more than three of
its five members can be from one political
party. Each member of the Board will
receive $25 salary per year. The mem.
bers are elected for three years. The
Clerk of the Board wi i'll receive $50 for ser.
vices. The Board has power to grant and
revoke licenses, fix the fees, &c. An In
spector is also to be appointed, whose
duty it will be TO visit the places and see
that the laws are enforced.
The election of the Excise Board will
take place at the time of the charter
election.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10

Nov. Is, 1885. ssm.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10

List of letters remaining unclaimed
in the Post Office at Lambertville, Hun
terdon county, N. j., for thirty days,
February 81, 1886:
Chas. E. Holcombe.
Mrs. Sarah e. Holcombe.
Miss Maggie G. Luff.
Charley r. Sorter.
,JoHN FoRAN, p. NJ.
List of letters remaining unclaimed in
the Post Office at Lambertville, Hunter
don county, Nj, for 80 days, March Q,
1886:
Josiah Connell
Ray Sullivan.
john FoRAN, p. NJ.
March 10, 1886.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10

The following is just as true to-day as
when first written. Try 1t, my friend, IL
you lack coal or meal, or -four or money:
Temperance puts coal on the fire, meal
in the barrel, -four in the tub, money in
the purse, credit in the country, content
mont in the house, clothes on the child
rem, yigor in the body, intelligence in the
brain, and spirit in the whole constitu-
tion. = Franklin.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10

licensed TO make strong man weak
Licensed to lay wiee man low;
Licensed q wife's fond heart TO break,
And make her cbildren's tears to flow.
Licensed to do a neighbor harm
Licensed to kindle hate and strife
Licensed TO nerve the robbers arm
Licensed to whet the murdercr's knife.
Licensed, where peace and quiet dwell
To bring disease, and want, and woe
Licensed TO make this world hell
And fit men for hell below.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10

"Young man, that is the gateway to
hell" said an earnest Christian woman to
young man lettering on tavern step.
He started, turned, and went off I; began
to reflect, to pray, to be Christian.
The saloon door Is the gate to perdition.
For your life, for your soul, don't 60 In
II is the top of that inclined plane which
is smooth as glass, slippery as ice, and
ends in the blackness Of darkness. In
there are bad company, vulgar talk, the
idle game, the drink of fire, the begin
ming of the horrible, treacherous, deadly
appetite, which will bind your soul with
letters Of brass and hooks of STEEL
Esstange.
DR.. N. s. Davis, President Of the Chi
cage Medical College, says:
"Aicohol as found in any or all Of the
fermented and distilled drinks, Is neither
stimulating, strengthening, nor nourish-
ing to the human system. Consequently,
it cannot be used in health without in
jurioQs effects proportional to the quanti-
ty used and the frequency of its repeti-
ton. Its applicability as remedy in the
treatment of disease ID extremely limited;
SO much SO that 1t might be wholly dis
pensed with, without any injury to the
sick, every intelligent physician being
able to supply its place with other reme-
dies Of equal, II not greater value in the
limited number OF cases in which 1t 10 ap-
plicabIe."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10

During 1884 the people of the United
States drank on an average 100 gallons of
beer, II gallons of spirits and ! gallons of
wine.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13
The Supreme Issue.

There is one thing above all other
things that Democratic editors and wTi-
ters will need TO avoid in the coming
campaign. They must avoid permitting
themselves to be sweTved to the right or
TO the left from the plain and imperati Qe
duty of compelling public attention to
the one really supreme issue of the
can vass.
The constitution of the state is an
anti monopoly constitution. The Dem
Ocratic party is an anti-mOnOpOly party
and wants it enforced. The Republican
party is the monopoly party and does
not want It enforced. That is the issue.
1t could not be more important issue.
The position OF the parties with refer
ence to it could not be defined mole
clearly.
The chief aim of the Republican cam
paign will be to befog and belle it. to
turn public attention away from it. The
chief aim of the Democratic campaign
should be to prevent that icing success
fully done. The Republicans will talk
tariff, and civil service reform, and pen
si0ns, and surplus, and Oleomarg arine
bill, and everything else but the one
thing as to which the peOnle are most
interested, and as to which the result is
to be vitally i'm portant. The Democrats
must, of course, meet their misrepresen-
tatious and ISLANDERS as to these questions
manfully, but they must at the same
time prevent any fOTgettulness of .he
fact that above and beyond them all, in
present Importance, is the fact that the
state is suffering because of the non-en-
| fOrcement of the provisions of the Con-
stitution with reference to aEti.dis rim.
inatiOn and anti-monOpOly, and that to
insure such enforcement there must be
Democratic success. - WjlbeSBa In.
ion Leader.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

THE colored Democrat, James G.
Matthews, of Albany, n. Y, who was
nominated by Mr.. Cleveland early last
spring to be Recorder of Deeds for the
District of Columbia, in place of Fred
erick Douglass, and who was rejected
by Republican Senate, not because he
was not entirely competent for the place,
but for the reason assigned by Mr..
Ingalls, a Republican Senator from Kan
sas, that it would be bad politics" to
confirm for the office a colored man who
is Democrat, was on Monday last re-
appointed and commissioned by the
President for the same office. Mr.. Cleve-
land, as Mrs. Grant once said about her
husband, is "a very stubborn man, - and
is determined TO give Matthews, even
though he is as black as the ace of
spades, an opportunity of showing that
when he. the President. selected him as
Douglass successor, he didn't make any
mistake. The country, we think, will
endorse this display of courage on the
part of the President.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

BELFAST, Ireland, has been the scene
Of riOting and blOOdshed ever since the
late Parliamentary election which
reached its worst phase between last
Saturday night and Monday morning
The participants IN these TiOtOus demon
stration5 we're OTdngemen and Catholics
who have been the sworn foes of each
other ever since the battle of the Boyne.
How many men, women and children
have been killed and wounded on both
sides during the last three or four weeks,
it is impossible to say. An estimate may
be made from the fact that from last
Saturday night until Monday morning
eleUen persons were killed and one hun
dred,and thirty wotinJed. Their origin
is attributed to the incendiary speeches
delivered in Belfast before the election
by Lord Randolph Churchill, one of the
Tory leaders, who seems to think that
the best way to dispose of the Irish
question is TO inaugurate civil war
Belfast is an Orange city, and its
police force is of the same hue, so that
a Tory demagOgue like Churchill had
admirable material on which to operate.
1t was thought on Tuesday night that
the riOting and blOOdshed were over
The military have taken the place of the
police and martial law has been declared.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13
The Surplus In the State Treasury.

There are signs that the operation of
the new law for discovering money at
interest and taxing it three mills on the
dollar for state purposes, will result in
bringing into the treasury an unexpect-
edly large amount of money, and a very
considerable surplus. The first impulse
of the average legislator will be to pro-
vide new modes of expenditure and the
sO-called charities which lobby at
every session Of the Legislature !Or appro-
priatiOns, will prepare for fresh raids on
the money in sight.
The wise economist under this state
of affairs will give his atteRtiOn to
methods of lessening taxation. There
is no occasion for tightening the burdens
of the corporations, which at present
provide the greater part of the state
revenues; for the reason that though
they already pay most of the state tax,
they are exempt from the more serious
local taxes and upon the whole get off
with less than their just share. The
farmers and real estate owners in towns
find their city anG borough OF road tax,
their school tax and the county levy the
weightiest they are called to pay and
whatever lightens these is a substantial
relief. If therefore the present state
money than the states expenses require,
it is time to inquire what diversion may
fitly be made Ot th7 present state income
10 local purposes. Surely the liqnOT Ii
censes may with prOpriety be so applied.
The liquor traffic is under the regulation
of the county courts if ills result from
it. as is charged, and the proofs of them
are to be seen in the almshOuses and
jails and quarter sessions courts, the
cost of their maintenance is paid out of
the county treaeury wherefore it is
altogether just that the receipts from
these licenses go directly into that
treasury.
It is not certain that a differently
graded license system, imposing higher
fees. OF varying them according to sales
and place of location, would produce
more revenue. It might decrease the
number of licenses. But, be it more or
less. whatever money is raised from this
source of taxation ought to stay in the
county for its uses. When this was
proposed, in the Legislature of 1888, it
was argued that the state treasury could
not stand the depletion. Time aud ex-
peTience have proved this untrue. The
new tax law makes it still easier to
spare this revenue to the counties, and
it should be done, to the ameliOratiOn
of their present tax Tates.-LdncaSter
IltelltQencer.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

MANY Of the most important bills be-
fore Congress at its late session failed,
although some of them had passed either
the House or the Senate. Of the bills
that failed of final action we've the bank
ruptCy bill, the Blair educational bill,
the inter state commerce bill, the Mex
ican pension bill, the several land forfeit
ure bills, the Eads ship railway bill, the
electoral count bill and the Pacific Rail.
road funding bill. We have strong
doubt whether Congress will ever pass a
bill to pension the Mexican soldiers. AS
session after session passes away the
services of Gen. Taylor's and Gen.
ScOtt's little armies that fought the
most brilliant and successful war Of
modern times, seem to be fading out of
the Congressional mind and will soon be
entirely forgotten. Surely the men whose
courage on a foreign soil conquered an
empire for the Union infinitely larger
than any of the Kingdoms of Europe,
deserve some substantial recognition at
the hands Of the representatives of the
people. The citizens of the Republic
are not ungrateful however faithless
Congress may be in the performance Of
what ought to be a plain and patriotic
duty.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13
Beavers Store Orders.

There was great excitement among
our Republican friends in town on Tues
day evening, when the Philadelphia
Tunes came in with the exposure of Gen.
Beavers store order system published
in full il its columns. The Times gave
a cut of the various orders, from one
cent up, told all about how the men are
paid in them instead of cash, aud then
printed the State law positively forbid
ding the issuance of any kind of store
order under a heavy penalty. A large
crowd collected in front of M'Farlane's
store to read and discuss the matter, but
it was evident they felt badly about it,
and didn't know how to excuse the
General, who, as a lawyer, must know
that neither he nor his nail works com.
pany had any right to issue such shin
plasters The excuse will be made, of
course, that they we're issued merely for
the convenience of the men, but this
won't do, as there is certainly nothing
more convenient than the cash. We
understand that paper has been gotten
up, to which the signatures of the nail
works men have been sttached, testify
ing that the shinplasteTs are matter of
convenience to them, but they all signed
it because they knew If they did not they
trOuld be discharged That is what some
of them have stated in conversation with
reliable persons who have communicated
with US.
Another excuse will OF course be made
fOT General Beaver in this matter. And
that is, that he was overruled by his
partners. The General is the largest
stOckhOlder in the concern and is the
president of the company. He is law
yer, too, and claims to be a good one
and he knew very well that it was a
violation of law and an outrage upon the
labOTeTs to even offer or suggest to them
such a means of payment The penalty
prescribed by law is 500 for each of
fense, (or for each order, to 90 into the
common school fund. This is the situ-
alton that General Beaver and his COM
pauy now find themselves placed in.
1t was not for the accommodation of
the men that these orders were issued.
That Is all nonsense. II was for the
purpose of combining the trade of the
men to the Company store, and thus
making money off their necessities. That
was the reason and nothing else.
VIII the labOTing men of the State
vote for a candidate for Governor that
will thus knowingly violate a positive
law of the State he aspires to govern ?
Let them think this matter over coOlly,
and we think they will arrive at the
conclusion that if General Beaver will
thus take advantage Of his woTkmen in
his own nail works, he is not the sort of
mar to have in the executive chair at
Harrisburg. g.-BelIefOnte Wdtchmd1.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

TIE probability of a war between
this country and Mexico on account Of
the arrest. trial, conviction and sentence
to one year s Imprisonment Of a citizen
Of Texas by the name of a, X. Cutting,
which has been extensively discussed in
the newspapers during the last three
weeks, will, we think, disappear and
she dispute be amicably arranged by the
two governments. The case lies iI a nut
shell. Cutting edited a paper in Fl Paso
on the Texas side of the Rio GIande
and also a paper IN Paso del NOrte
which is on the Mexican side of the
same river and directly opposite the
Texan town. A Mexican, named Med
ina, started an opposition paper in the
MEXICAN town, whereupOn Cutting pub
lished a lbellous attack upon him in his
Texas journal. The next day or so af-
terwards he crossed the river 10 the
Mexican town, and Medina had him ar
rested. alleging that Cuttings paper
containing the libel had been circulated
on Mexican soil, and that he was there
fore amenable to the law of Mexico as
we'll as the law of Texas. Mr.. Bayard
Secretary Of State, denies the validity Of
the Mexican claim. and demands Cut
sings release. THIS IS the whole case.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

a reporter of the Pittsburg Post had
a lengthy interview at Bedford Springs
on last Saturday with ex-senator Will
lam a. Wallace on the subject of that
gentleman's candidacy for the Guberna.
tOrial nomination by the approaching
State Convention. In the interview Mr..
Wallace reviews bis past public record
from his entrance into the State Senate
in 1863 up to the close of his term in the
Senate of the United States in March.
1881. Mr.. Wallace is positive man and
he speaks freely and without reserve on
all the important subjects of legislation
with which he has been more or less
identified. Being one of the authors of
the nti-discrimination bill which was
before the last Legislature he takes a
firm stand in favor of the enforcement
of the provisions of Article XVII of the
Constitution relative to railroads. On
other subjects he is equally explicit and
speaks like a man who feels a conscious
pride in all the details of his public
career. On the Prohibition question he
says wise legislation recognizes the
habits and customs of the people to be
governed, and reformation can better be
effected by that recognition than by an
enactment that will become a dead let
ter. Men cannot be made moral and
pure by statute. I do not believe that
Prohibition prohibits" 1t is seldom
that public man shows so much candor
and want of concealment as Mr.. Wallace
does in this interview. He has made it
very plain that if the Convention wants
to nominate him it will not have any
difficulty in knowing exactly what are
his views in regard to certain important
questions that will occupy a good deal
0t the time Of the next Legislature.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

THE remains of the late Samuel J.
Tilden, after the conclusion of the relig-
ious ceremonies at Graystone on Satur-
day morning last, were taken by rail up
the Hudson River to New Lebanon, his
birthplace, Columbia county, where they
we're inferred in the afternoon. The
President went from Washington to
Graystone and was present dCrIng the
ceremonies at Mr.. Tilden's late resi-
dence. He did not go with the funeral
party to New Lebanon, but started i'm
mediately on his return to Washington.
Among the pall-bearers were John
Bigelow, who was Secretary of State
when Mr.. Tilden was Governor of New
York, Mr.. Manning, Secretary of the
Treasury, Samuel J. Randall, Charles
a. Dana, of the New York Sun, and
George J. Miller, of Omaha, an old and
valued friend eff the dead statesman
Gov. Hill, Hon. William NJ. Evarts and
many others prominent and distinguish
ed in the state were present at the
funeral. Mr.. Tilden' s wealth is estima-
ted at from seven to ten millions. In
his will he makes liberal provision for
his only sister. Mrs Pelton, and for his
nephews and nieces, and invests his
executors with large discretion in dis
posing of the residue of his estate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

OF all the distinguished men in civil
life in this country who have died during
the last few years Mr.. Tilden was beyond
all doubt the greatest, and his death
indelibly iInpresses upoh the American
people the shameless outrage that was
perpetrated upon them by the installa-
ton Of Rutherford B. Hayes in the
Presidency to which a clear majority of
the people had elected Samuel J. Tilden
Other political crimes which have been
committed in this country in the past
may be forgotten, but the recollection
of the murder of popular sovereignty in
1877 in the person ot Tilden, will remain
forever.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

In the stomach develops an acid which
stinPs the upper part of the throat and pal
ate, causing heartburn" 1t also evolves a
gas which produces wind on the stomach -
and feeling and appearance of distension
In tnat organ after eating. For both this
acidity and swelling Hostetter's Stom ach
Btters is a much better remedy than aka
line salts, like hartshOrn and carbonate of
soda. A wineglassful of the Bitlers, after
or before dinner will be found to act as a
reliable caIminative or preventive This
fine specific for dyspepsia, both in its acute
and chronic form, also prevents and cures
malaral fever, constipation, liver complaint
kidney troubles, nervousness aud debility.
Persons who observe in themselves a decline
OF vigor should use this fine tUnic without
delay.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

IT is an old and true saying that ''the
world is governed too much" and al
though the number of bills that passed
both houses during the recent session of
Congress was by no means large, the
enormous number of bills that was intro
duced with the intent, of course. OF
enacting them into laws, illustrates the
truth of the adage. Thirteen thousand
two hundred and eight bills were offered
in both hOuses-ten thousand and four
teen and two hundred and fourteen Joint
resolutions having beeu introduced into
the House, and two thousand eight
hundred find ninety-one together with
eighty-nine joint resolutions into the
Senate. 1t is difficult to conceive the
purposes to which this vast amount of
legislation related. Only eleven hundred
and one bills passed both houses and be-
came laws. OF this total eight hundred
and six became laws with the Presiden-
tial approval. One hundred and eighty
one, nearly all of which were private
pension bills, became laws by the Presi-
dent failing either to approve or disap-
prove them within ten days after their
presentation TO him, and one hundred
and thirteen were vetoed. The River
and HarbOr bill proved to be, as it al ways
has heretofore, stumbling block to
many measures of important public con-
cern, not from any lengthy discussion of
the bill itself, which scarcely ever takes
place, but owing to the fact that from
the beginning to the close of the session
each member was 5lindly intent upon
getting in his work in behalf of his own
favorite scheme of plunder. with a
criminal disregard TO legislation touch
ing other important public interests
which were consequently permitted to
slumber and eventually to die. With
an inflexibly honest man like Cleveland
in the White House, no action of Con-
gress would so effectually protect the
public treasury and block the game of
River and HaIbor statesmen who, first,
last and all the time, are after appropri-
ations for useless purposes. as the sub
mission to the people of the different
states of an amendment to the constItu-
tion comforting power on the President
to disapprove of certain items in an ap-
preparation bill while giving his sanction
% others. Why Congress refuses to do
so is incomprehensible to a man of
ordinary intelligence.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

MICHAEL DAvITT arrived at New
York from Ireland on Sunday last. He
comes to attend the meeting of the Irish
National League at Chicago on Wednes-
day next, He will deliver several lectures
In several OF the large cities before re-
turning 60 Ireland.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13

THE delegates from this county to the
Democratic State Convention which
meets at Harrisburg on Wednesday next
are William II. Rose and John w.
Wonders. OF JOhnstown CarOn Leahey,
of Lilly, and Henry ]. Hopple, of Barr
township. They are uniDstructed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13
RIO.OoO Awarded.

81 was so sick and low spirited thought
| would give anything to get we'll and If
any one had ensured me the good health
produced by using Simmons Liver Regula-
tor, and charged me a thousand dollars, 1
would willingly have paid it If ! had had it
in fact, $4,000 would be worth less to me
than what it has done for me.--Geo. F. Bar
rett, Macon, Ga"