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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-04
POOH WORKING GIRLS.
How Some Of the Tofiers OF view York
are Treated.

If any person has desire to know Just
how much human nature can endure. and
yet live on, he has but to investigate the
actural condition of the working girls of
New York, and by that time it will seem won-
derful that the rivers are not full of despair
ing suicides. In one house live twenty-five
working girls, not all of one family nor all
of the same trade, and yet all belonging to
one sisterhood of suffering, so that the song
Of the shirt might with equal propriety be
mng of them all, as far as their misery is
concerned. In one room of this building
two young girls make their home together
paying 50 week for a room and alcove,
and they join in the expense of living and
taking turns in cooking. They are machine
operators on saddlery and have labor heavy
snough to tire strong man, running the
machines ten hours day They are fined
if they are ten minutes late, but they often
have to stay over the time for closing and
for this they never receive anything. For
this heavy labor the girls are paid 81 day
of ten hours. During the summer they are
laid off" frequently and the loss of time,
of course, falls upon the girls, who thus do
not average S. a week the year round.
Harder still is the labor of the girls who
work at the government mail bags or ore
sacks. Three of the inmates of this house
work at that and their physical condition Ia
very bad. They are pale and wan and
'toop painfully, and suffer from weak sides
or backs, as do also the saddle workers.
The government gives contracts to different
firms for the making of the mail pouches,
and they used to get from 8 to cents
apiece, but now the price has been reduced,
and the sacks for which the girls used to re-
ceive cents apiece they now must make
for one-fourth of cent each. This work is
the hardest that can be done by women, an
the material is so firm and closely woven as
to require terrible outlay of strength to
drive the machines, and when the hens are
turned by the men they have to be pound
cd by hammers to make them lie fat. Form.
erly the men who hammer the hens ON
leaden tables used to carry the work from
the cutting-room to each girl, but now they
must go to the cutting-room and get theii
own work and the loads are very heavy. In
| one of these factories the ventilation is very
bad and the sanitary arrangements are sim
ply outrageous, as there is no private room
set apart for the girls, and the foreman i,
most brutal in his treatment of the worl
girls. The utmost they can earn is $751; 9
week. This labor is so hard md strainine
that girls cannot work at it long. A few
years at most and they fall by the waysid,
and die, or grow weary of the toll and strif,
and go to worse than death
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-04
Prepared For the storm,

He came home very late the other night.
His wife opened the door for him and wal
preparing to take him secretly to task, when
Hush my DEAR said he, :" don't disturb
mo-" He went to the wardrobe, took out
an umbrella which he opened, and then
covered on the floor holding it over his
head. what sort of a pantomime is this ?"
exclaimed his better half. Hush |" said
be, with o smile T" know what am about.
The thunder storm may come on now; !
Am ready for It'll" Need less to say that the
good woman's wrath was completely dis
armed.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-04
POETRY.
Going to District school.

Going TO District school.
Barefoot boy and little girl,
She with rosy cheek and curl,
His forehead brown with tan,
Sturdy little farmer man.
Old straw hat, with broken rim,
Is the least that troubles him,
AS the dinner pail he swings,
Full Of mothers choicest things.
Happy little pair are they,
Chatting blithely on the way,
In the morning fresh and cool,
Going to the district school.
From the shady farmhouse door
Mother watches, till no more
She can follow-out OF sight,
They are gone, her hearts delight.
Can you see them sitting there,
On the benches hard and bare,
Tired feet swinging to and fro,
Coming Ger the lessons lowY
Sitting at the noon OF school,
BY the gurgling streamlet cool,
'Mong the brakes and bending trees,
Eating up the bread and cheese.
Or, with merry laugh and shout,
When the boys and girls go out,
Books and pencils cast away,
See them jump and swing and play.
Harkl the ferule ON the pane,
Rap, and rap, and rap again,
Rushing in with cheeks aglow,
Half reluctantly they go.
Happy, healthy girl and boy,
Till the warm suns western ray
Slant across the open door,
And the hours OF school are DER.
Happy, healthy girl and boy,
Full OF simple, careless JOY,
Free from tyrant fashions rule,
Going to the district school.
In the busy noon OF life,
Mid its restless fevered strife,
As your pathways shall divide,
From the roof-tree wandering wide
Memories OF those morning hours,
Songs OF birds and scent OF flowers,
Bleat OF lambs and song OF rili
VIII come sweetly DER you still
And your thoughts so yearning bacs
Der that simple childhood track,
When the longest road you knew
Was the one that led you 10
The schoolhouse, Just mile away.
Where tho birch and ruic held sway.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-04
IacIk,s ExpIanaton,

1t was at dinner table. His father was
saying something to his mother about dyna-
mite "Oh," exclaimed Jack, looking
across to Eloise with an evident desire to
impress her with his requirements, ~
know what dynamite is" what is itr
inquired Eloise. "It's something that you
blaspheme rocks WITH" Jack explained.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-04
Small T.hinr. os The,r kind.

The smallest bird of America is the hum
ming bird, and of Europe the golden crest
ed wren. The smallest quadruped in the
world is the pigmy mouse of Siberia. The
most diminutive plant is the arctic rasp-
berry, which is so small that six-ounce
vial will hold the whole, leaves and all.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-04

The safe recently used in the Post
Ofice-large and Of extra make-is for
sale. Apply to CLARK PIERsoN.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-04
NJ. l.. TRIMMER,
COU NSELOR AT LAW,

SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER,
REAL ESTATE AGENT, &c.
onice-Brdge ST., adjoining Lambertyille House,
LAMBERTvILLE, N. J.
All legal business promptly attended to. Special
attention given to the settlement of estates, fore
closures and collections
May 20, 1885.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
ROBBED OF &615,26O.
Treasurer Wilson Takes Flight Leaving a
 Written Confession of Guilt.

PHILADELPHIA, June 3O.-A hasty summon ing of the Board of Directors of the Chesa- pcake and Delaware Canal Company created & stir in financial circles. The report quickly flew about that heavy dedication had been discovered. It was learned later that an over. issue of bonds to the amount of $615, ,260 had been made under the thirty-year mortgage loan of the company of July, 1856, for $2, 800, ,OhO. The loan natures tomorrow, and, preparations having been made for it's exten- sion, the return of the bonds for certifcation at the office to-day would have revealed the overissue. Treasurer Wilson did not appear at the office to-day, but on his desk was 8 note containing a confession of guilty knowledge of the fraudulent transaction. He left the city last night, it is alleged, ill company with Henry V. Lesley, former Treasurer, under whose administration the overissue was made.
 J. A. l.. Wilson, the accused defaulter, ia about 65 years of age, and for over thirty years has been connected with the company. He has been it's Treasurer since 1883.
 At the meeting of the Board of Directors to-day the facts of the dedication were briefly announced by President GilDingham, who said that peremptory action by the Board would be necessary in view of the proposed extension of the loan, which was to go into effect to- morrow. The letter left by Treasurer Wilson was then read to the Board. Aldead silence fell over the room. The defaulting Treasurer gives full and melancholy account of the long time. He said the over issue was made when the loan for $200, ,000 Twas first nego- tiated, at the time Henry V. Lesley, his own first cousin. was Treasurer. Mir. Wilson, who was assistant Secretary and Treasurer at the time, was the only person outside of MT. Les ley who had guilty knowledge of the trans action. During the years he had held the po- sition of Treasurer of the company he had continued to k. ep the matter secret, but after to-day revelation could no longer be averted.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
THE POLITICAL FIELD.
Nominations Made for State Omcers. Plat
 forms, Etc.

The New Hampshire State Democratic Convention nominated Colonel Thomas Cogs- we'll for Governor. The platform endorses President Cleveland favors judicious lcei SC law, and pledges support of the soldiers. A resolution of sympathy with Gladstone and Home Rule in Ireland was adopted.
 The Pennsylvania Republican State Con- vention nominated the following ticket: Gov ernor, James A. Beaver; Lieutenant- Govern or. William T. Davies; Secretary of Internal Affairs, T. J. Stewart; Auditor-General, A. Wilson Norris: Congressman at Large, F. A. Osborne. The platform opposes the disfran chisement of the colored voter; approves the bill regarding commerce between the States; deprecates the infamous work of importing foreign pauper labor. criminal and contract labor and the products of European criminal labor, and demand the passage of a national law prohibiting such importation under any pretext whatever; opposes the Morrison bill. which it declares step towards free trade; favors conference and arbitration between capital and labor, and favors the submitting & prohibition clause in the constitution to vote of the people.
 The Arkansas Democratic Convention re- nominated Governor Hughes for Governor by exclamation, with the old State officers, and a resolution to indorse the home rule policy of MT. Gladstone and of sympathy with Ireland was adopted.
 The Iowa Democratic State Convention nom- Hdleo u otate tichet. Iue pldtIorm auopteu indorses President Cleveland and his adminis- tration; favors honest pension bills, but op- poses special laws; calls on Congress to revise the tariff laws so as to meet the needs of reve- nue only; declares in favor of the payment of the public debt and in favor of legislative ad- justment of the labor question; denounces the new Congre ssional District law; demands the investigation and conviction of all malfeasance in public offices; favors the repeal of the Pro- hibitory law and the enactment of local option law. extending to counties and cities, the license, if adopted, to be not less than $500.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
Getting n Quarters Worth:

This is the time of the year when the small boy tears around to the grocery store and says to the grocer: ...
 Alley, Mister, can't I carry parcels fur yer fur a whlle?"
 And if the grocer gives the small boy a job, the small boy yanks the parcels around at a very lively gait until he thinks he has earned quarter. Then the grocer pays the quarter, and the small boy hastens to the circus,. filled with a desire to learn the chestnut while it is ripe. And having arrived at the circus, he puts the quarter in his pocket, steals in under the canvas, and pays the quar- ter to stay for the bad minstrel show af- ter the circus. .-PucE
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
He Was Abscnt-Minded.

An absent-minded Congressman once lost the vote of an entire family by hls carelessness. He had way of saying II would be glad to have you do so, '" and one day constituent, with his fam lily, paid his respects. The Congress man was busy. and after some talk the visitor said "We will remain in the city several days" ''I should be glad to have you do so." replied the member of Congress as he fumbled pile of papers on his desk. "We will come in and see you every now and then" chirped the visitors wife. "I should be very glad to have you do so," said the Congress man. "And bring aroun our little boy you haven't seen," suggested the hus- band. "I should be glad to have you do so," still said the Congressman. Then they rose. 'Wel, MT. Blank, ' said tho visitor extending his hand, "we m st tell you goodbye and go back to the hotel. "l should be very glad to have you do so," said the Congressman and he wondered for a week what mad. his visitors leave so abruptly Masking ton Critic.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
THE STORY OF A CRIME.
The FOrtnfghtly Review Publishes 8 Yer
 Sensational Narrative.

LONDON, June 30, 1ss6.--A sensation has been caused by an article purporting to con- tain Important Fenian revelations" pub- lished in the current number of the Fort nightly ReUie,o. The article is captioned "Behlnd the Scenes," and is ostensibly con- tributed by an Irishman. It tells substantially the following story:
 Frank Byrne, secretary of the English branch of the Irish National League, occupied m office on Bridge street. opposite We thin ster Hall. in the spring of 1882 The office adjoined the rooms occupied at the time by the Irish Parliamentary party.
 MT. Payneu used Byrne's office for the trans action of private business, because, as he said, it was the quietest place he could get in the neighborhood. The knives used in the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and MT. Burke in Phenix Park were purchased with League money. These knives were then given to & Fenian cobbler to cover with leather sheaths and from the cobbler's shop they were delivered at the Leagues office by brother of Frank Byrne and were subsequent ly intrusted to Mrs. FI ank Byrne to be con- veyed to Dublin and there to be delivered into the hands of James Carey. Miss Maggie Byrne took f200 of money furnished from the Leagues treasury to Dublin to enable an or ganizer of the League implicated in the assas- sinations to escape to America. MT. Patrick Egan. who was then the treasurer of the League, bolted the country shortly afterward.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
BATTLE WITH A LUNATIC.
I hrillihR Scene in a Passenger Coach of tn
 Michigan Central Railway.

DETROIT. Mich, June 28, 1886.-Among the passengers on the Michigan Central local train were John Kolb, an attache of the De- troit Poor Department, who had in his charge Frederick Tubering and Leo Levi, two insane patients, on the way to the asylum at Wayne: he patients seemed rational as they boarded the train and excited no attention as they took seats in crowded coach. It was necessary for the party to separate in order to get seats, and in this way Kolb's eye was withdrawn from a constant surveillance of Tutoring. The lat ter is powerfully built German, with iron gray hair and beard and dark eyes. Shortly after the train drew out of Springwels. ...kolb was attracted by the cries of women passen- gers. He had only time to look up and see Tubering with his hands raised to deal mur- derous blow at him. The insane man was armed with 8 large iron spike and brass faucet Kolb ducked in time to avoid the blows and the pair at once clinched. Tho frenzied patient fought desperately and his cries of murder rang through the car. Women screamed and fed from the coach. They were followed by the men, leaving the keeper and tue lunatic in their struggle up and down the aisle. For time the frenzied madman had the best of the fight, but Kolb managed to avoid the iron missiles until the train hands arrived to help him. The combined strength of four men finally overoame the patient and he was ironed until the train reached Wayne. Then he had another desperate fight with his keeper, but with the assistance of bystanders be was finally overpowered and taken to the asylum.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

A large number of women work in the mines in England, and it is a curious fact that as class they seem to be stronger and healthier than the average woman.
 Remains of wheat seeds are found in the ruins of the houses of the lake dwell lers. The Chinese have records of it's culture as early as 27o0 B. c. Compared with wheat, rye is modern plant.
 A young man is living in Nebraska who is twenty-six years old, thirty-sevcn inches high, and weighs but fifty pounds. He has lived at his present home for twenty years unbeknown to more than fifty people.
 The driving-wheels of the first loco- motive engine of New York and the third one constructed in America are interest ing relics. Each wheel measures five feet in diameter and weighs $50 pounds. The workmanship is very crude.
 During the later periods of Roman his- tory the men and women reclined at their repasts; but the Greeks considered such posture indecorous for females; i; their women, therefore, either sat at sep arate table or upon one end of the couch on which the men only reciined.
 In the Santa Paula Valley, Ventura County, Cal, many wild animals are caught and killed by getting into small streams of thick mineral oil or pitch. which flow from the mountains during the summer down ravincs and river beds which are water courses in the wet sea- son.
 In Italy living scorpion is often dropped into wide-necked glass bottle containing few drops of olive oil of the finest quality. More oil is poured on in- stanty until the bottle is filled and the scorpion dead. In its struggles to free itself it ejects all it's poison into the oil, and this poisoned oil then becomes a sovereign remedy for the sting of a scorpion.
 The ancient Britons had great rever- ence for running streams, trees and ser pents. The tree they most hoDored was the oak, and, still moro than the oak, the mistletoe which grew on it. Whenever plant of it was found on an oak tree there was grand ceremony. A solemn procession was formed, two white bulls were sacrificed and the sacred plant cut with gold knife.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07

An instructive instance of woman's de- votion to man in difficulties is furnished by the case of the convict, Bendit, in Chicago, just convicted of embezzle
 mcnt and sentenced to the peniteniary for three years. He was engaged to be married to two young women, and though he magnanimously consented to release one of them, both insisted on becoming his wife before his hair was cropped. He married one, and the other was pros- trated with grief at what was really a good deliverance. As a background against which to place this picture of female fidelity it may be mentioned that in Justice Dutfy's Court in New York, one day recently, there were warrants is- sued for the arrest of twenty-four hus- bands for abandoning their wives, which elicited the remark from the worthy Jus tice that sshalf the women in the country should not get married.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
Hints to ConsusnDtlvess

oonsumptives should use food as nourishing ss can be had, and in 8 shape that will best agree with the stomach and taste of the pa, tient.
 Outdoor exercise is earnestly recommended. If you are unable to take such exercise on horseback or on foot, that should furnish no excuse for shutting yourself indoors, but you should take exercise in . carriage, or in some other way bring yourself in contact with the open air.
 Medicines which cause expectoration must be avoided. For five hundred years phy- s,cians have tried to cure Consumption by using them, and have failed. Where there is great derangement of the secretions, with enqoreement of air-ceils, there is always profuse expoctoration. Now Piso's Cure re- moves the engorgement and the derangement of the secretions, and consequently land in this way only) diminishes the amount of mat ter expectorated. This medicine does not dry up cough, but removes the cause of it.
 When it is impossible from debility or other causes to exercise freely in the open air, apart ments occupied by the patient should be so ventilated as to ensure the constant accession of fresh air in abundance.
 os sss4y of as trs spd day ed any other3 After thoroughly drying. use friction with the mana ulOlSJeuCU WlI1l Olls Cod-Liver or Olive Is the best. This keeps the DO, es of the skin in soft; pliable condition, which contributes materially to the unloading of waste matter from the system through this organ. You will please recollecf we cure this d sease by enabling the organs of the system to perform their functions in normal way, or in other words, we remove obstructtons, while the recuperative powers of tho system cure the disease.
 We will here say & word in regard to a cough n the forming stage, where there Is no con stitutional or noticeable disease. A cough may or may not foreshadow serious evil takc it in its miIdest form, to say the least, it is a nu sance and should be abated.
 A cough Is unlike any other symptom Of dis ease. It stands a conspirator, with threaten ing voice, menacing the health and existence pers unintelligible, and at first too often un. needed but in time it never fails to ma @ itself understood-never fails to claim the attention of those on whom it calls.
 If you have q cough without disease of the lungs or serious constitutional disturba so much the better, as few do es of Pisos Cure will be all you may need, while if you re far advanced in Consumption, several bottles may he required to effect permanent cure.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
Insect Sense of Smell.

In an extensive series of experiments by Prof. Graber, insects and many othe, invertebrates perceived odors much more quickly and acutely than the vertebrates tested Cbirds and reptiles). The anten. nae proved to be not the only organs of smell in insects, although these appear tc be essential to the perception of some fine odors. In some cases the palpi of the mouth organs are more sensitive than the antennae, but perception of smell through the stigmata or respiratory organs is not rapid nor important.
Connecticut western news., 1886-07-07
How Stanton eTapped'' the Tele-
 graph. 5.r


 was Secretary Stanton's confidential clerk, said the other day: "About one of the first acts of great importance which Stanton did was to establish the head quarters of the telegraph of the United States in the War Department. This meant that all the telegraphic communi- cations with relation to the war should pass directly into the hands of this amaz- ing Secretary. At his orders l made record of every telegram from and to the President, from and to all the Secre- taries, from all the generals in the field, to any and everybody. A record was kept of all the dispatches sent by Gener- al-in-chief Hallecl, by General Grant, and all the commanders of the army of the Potomac, and by General Sherman and all the generals of the army of the West. The dispatches of the Secretary of the Navy and all the movements of his gunboats were put on record, and all cipher dispatches received at the War Department deciphered by General Eek ert, and recorded by me. Every wire in the country was tapped and its contents run into the War Department and made matter of record if it in any way related to the war or was in cipher. The tele- graph operators of the department, un- der this censorship, became the most ex- pert, probably, in the world, and they now hold high positions in their profess sion. They were Bates, Tinker and Chandler. Some of the dispatches in cipher intercepted were from corps com manders in the field relating to gold speculations in New York. "- Washing i'm I&fnr