The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-11-28

AOAV OotLhuotcI VI HANDWRITING, uOu I
you tell 'em.
County Clerk William d. Bloom has
chosen as his deputy P. 81. Murray, of
High Bridge.
The wide-awake business man will
now plant. his advertisement for the
holiday trade.
Tomorrow being Thanksgiving day,
there will be general cessation of bust
ness in this city.
Holiday goods are beginning to arrive
and are being temptiugly displayed upon
the shelves of dealers.
The Sussex County Agricultural So
ciety has concluded to sell its property
and wind up its business.
A six pound turnip was grown on the
farm Of Samuel B. Pickel, at Mount
Pleasant, the past season.
A Lay Judge for Hunterdon county.
in place of Judge Cullen, is to be APP
pointed the coming Winter.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Excise Commissioners will be
held next Tuesday evening.
The fortieth anniversary of the Bucks
county (Pa) Medical Society was held
at Doylestown last Thursday.
William Wagner, of Baptisttown, has
purchased the farm of the late Captain
Murfit, in Upper Wakefield, Pa.
1t has been decided by the Courts
that the March town meetings come
under the head of general elections.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of School Trustees will be held
on Wednesday evening of next week.
Thos. Ely has taken possession of the
blacksmith shop lately occupied byt
Thos. Stafford, deceased. in New Hope.
Moses X. Everitt, the newly, elected
State Senator, has been elected Treasurer
of the Hunterdon County Agricultural
Society.
Samuel Smith caught two shad in the
Delaware river at this place few days
since. They weighed about three aud
one-half pounds each.
The directors of the Hunterdon Coun-
ty Agricultural Society have levied an
assessment of $3.50 per share on the
capital stock of the Society.
The railroad station at Ringoes was
entered by thieves one night recently,
and small amount of money stolen.
Entrance was effected through window.
The 81 acre farm of Edward Ritten-
house, situate in Kingwood township,
near Frenchtown, was sold at public
sale last week to Jacob Lindabury, for
$2,O37.5O.
Rev. W. P. Hile has resigned the pas.
torate of the Baptist Church at Point
Pleasant, Pa, and will go to Snyder
town, Pa, where he will preach for four
congregations.
The railroad recently built in Hunter
don county, starting at White House
Station, is now doing paying business.
Steps are being taken to extend tine road
to Pottersville. So says the Milford
Leader.
The valuable farm of the estate of
Joseph G. Bovine, deceased. situated in
Delaware township, was sold at public
sale on Tuesday of last week. The pur.
chaser was Joseph H. Bovine, grandson
of the late J. q. Bovine.
The almanac makers are authority for
the statement that there will be five
eclipses next year. The first is q total
eclipse Of the sun, which will occur on
New Years day, at 500 o'clock in the
evening, visible at tie setting of the sun.
Mr.. Chas. s. Joiner, who for the past
three years and eight months has been
local editor of the Warren Republican,
at Hackettstown, has ceased his connec-
ton with that paper and returned to his
home in Trenton, to accept position in
that city.
1t is proposed to celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary Of the death OF
Charles Wesley, on the second Sunday
in December, by singing, in all the Pro-
testant Churches, some of his best
known hymns, ard having sermons or
addresses on Christian Song"
The Saturday Globe, of Syracuse, N.
Y, in referring to the death of James
r. McRae, which occurred in New Hope
on the 18th inst, says. "Death of
Globe Newsboy.-Jarnes W. McRae, Of
New Hope, Pa, one of the Globes
bright young agents, died November ID.
It is with regret that we chronicle his
death, as the deceased was most prom
ing young man." The Globes young
man was Sc years old.
A new use has been found for old
peach baskets. At the recent Mother
Hubbard parade in this city it was dis.
covered that the baskets made excellent
bustles, filing the requirements of fexi-
bility, spring and projection in beautiful
realization that the modern hustle is re-
quired to fulfill. Now, il this fact gets
noised around, there will certainly beta
great demand for old peach baskets !;
aye, even before the next gentle Spring
arrives.
To reach the North Pole has long
been the browning ambition of the scien-
tific navigator; untold wealth has been
expended, cold, hunger and suffering 10 q
thousand forms have been patiently en-
dured-hundreds Of lives have been sac
rificed, and still the North Pole is far
away 10 wonderland as at first The am
bition OF Job A. Davis was more practi-