The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-05-12

Nefuict, guilty, Win RECOMMENDATION
TO mercy.
! There were two indictments against
Charles d. Coe for embezzlement. Ono
of them was quashed, and the other aban-
doned by the Prosecutor.
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A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE.
U. S., May I'd, 1885.
The Lambertville Bachelors Society
will next year make tour on foot
through Circassia, If the reports we hear
are true.
Grasshoppers have been very scarce in
the N. Y. market for several days, and
tho restaurants have raised the price OF
grashopper soup from ten to fifteen cents.
The oldest man in America is Jehosha-
plat Coldslaw. He was born in Sergeants-
vile, Nj, Nov. Q, 1905, and If he Is liv-
ing on his next birthday his years In the
land will be 1si, which lays over the al
lotment in the Bible of the ancients.-
Coldslaw's hair is fiery red, while his
whiskers are sort of combination, which
is best described AZ variegated. He has
raised four sets of teeth and is now cut
ting some eye-teeth above the last growth,
which viii make him o terror in any
boarding house where he may put up.
He has never worn pair of glasses In his
life, and is as risky as q young colt. lie
beat the champion canon ball thrower
best two In three, in a recent exhibition.
He recalls with vividness, the time of the
death of Gen. Grant, which occurred in
1885.
~ have mover seen anything like It,"
he says. ''Queer, people can't get up
any big things nowadays like we used to
In my time. In tho good old days we
had great men, great funerals, great
everything. The women were so much
more handsome then they are now, and
the young men were more honest and In
dustrious When I was a youngster we
had fun, too, good honest fun, and no.
body ever thought of staying down town
til midnight, or gambling with cards, or
going 10 Sunday pic-nics, or doing any
such wicked things as they do now. Oh !
l long for the good old times. When l
compare tho profiigate, reckless young
men of 1885, with the pious, upright,
evil.shunning young men we were In
1886, my heart aches within me-"
"By the way" continued the old man,
looking little brighter, "d'ye mind set
ting 'em up a''
Great distress Is reported from Switz-
erland, on account of the failure of the
American tourist crop.
We sle just informed that the Stras-
burg pate dc foie gras factory have re-
Gently imported two shiploads of Ken
lucky whisky, which will be fed to the
300, 900 geese now on their farms, in Or
der that the fowls may have fatty degen-
Grafton Of the. liver.
The Russian Congress will meet to-
morrow. We saw one of the leading
members of that Congress this morning,
and he told us this evening he would take
balloon No. 81 and arrive at St. Peters
burg about o'clock tomorrow morning.
We learn from the American Commit
tee of the Statue Of Liberty that the
Granite Pedestal Is nearly completed, and
the work Of erecting Bartholdi's Great
Statue. will soon commence. II the re-
naming $25, 900 can be collected.
All Theer, the millionaire Chinese
lanndryman, OF Pennington, N. j., re-
Gently gave grand reception, which was
greatly enjoyed by the headings citizens
Of that place. A feature of the enter
ment was the liberation Of two hundred
rats among the guest and the sport which
followed among the ladies. Later In the
evening the rats were served at table
mashed Ia Bonfield.
/. Democratic Press-"We think the Re-
publican party 10 dead" +. 5. NJ.