The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-07-24

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NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY. Pa.
-Millers have plenty water this Sum
mer.
What Is known as the yearly Meet
ing" viii be held at Ringing Rocks on
the FIRST Sunday in August
Last Thursday the Directors of the
Bristol Improvement Company declared
a quarterly dividend of II per cent.
According to State Geological Sur
vey recently made, Newtown is found to
be 14z.5 feet above the mean level of the
Atlantic Ocean.
REV. William A. Patton, of Doyles-
town, has received unanimous call to the
pastorate of the First Presbyterian
Church Of Camden, N. ].
The paper mill on the Delaware, at
Uhlertown, which has been lying idle for
a number of years, will be PIT in readi-
ness for operation in few weeks.
Howell McEntire, who has been in
the mercantile business at Erwinna, Pa,
for the past 20 years, died on Wednesday,
after an illness of about two weeks.
Ex-senator G. s. Vandegrift has been
appointed Masonic District Deputy Grand
Master for Bucks and portion of Mont
gomery counties in place of B. F. Gilke-
son, resigned.
David Munday, of near Rieglesville,
was fatally injured recently. by dynamite
cartridges exploding in his pocket, blow
ing off his hand and tearing his body In a
shocking manner.
Dean Carey, of Lumberville, while
engaged in hauling hay on Friday last,
stumbled and fell 10 front of the wagon;
both wheels passed over him. He was
severely injured, but 1t is thought not ia
tally.
An effort is to be made In Pennsylva-
mia, to strip the law of its nonsense. Law
yers declare that deeds, warrants and all
other legal papers can be cut down one
half 10 the amount Of "whereases" and
"wherefores.
by the burning of the canal stables
at Bristol on Friday morning last, Mr..
Taylor Uhler, (son of Michael Uhler, of
Uhlertown), lost eleven mules and lot
of corn, oats and hay. The FIRE is sup
posed to be the work of an incendlary.
There was trot among number of
local horses at the Doylestown Fair
Grounds on Friday afternoon last, but
Augustus Cadwallader's sorrel nag took
all the conceit out of the horsemen at the
county seat by coming in ahead in $40.
Michael Ferris, painter, of No. 81
Monroe street, New York City, stole
watch from James Lanes, of Langhorne.
while two accomplices held Lanes. Judge
Cowing on Friday sentenced him to 10
years and six months IL the State Prison.
Capt. John s. Bailey, Of Bucking-
ham, has invented an automatic tack
hammer There Is receptacle alongside
of the hammer containing the tacks, and
every time the hammer comes down an
other tack drops down a slot, business
end down, ready to be driven in at the
next stroke.
All Pennsylvania soldiers who fought
at the Battle of Gettysburg will be fur
nished free transportation thereto on
September 18th and 18th, and all who re-
ceive transportation will DO required to
parade. 1t is expected that sixty five to
seventy. five monuments will be dedicated
on the occasion.
While several employees of Riegel s.
Sons paper mill, at Riegelsville, we're en-
gagged one day last week In changing the
gearing on the water wheel, owing to high
water, the wheel began to reyolye. All
the men jumped safely except George
Rice, who was carried round by the pom.
derous wheel and SO badly injured that
death resulted In an hour. He was mar
ried, had q large family and was thirty
seven years Of age. This is the first fata
accident In the old mills history.
Tho Proposed Railroad.
The proposed extension OF the Harris
vile Railroad to New Hope, seems t
promise something more than talk. Mr.
Jameson, of Bloomsbury, Pa, railroad
contractor, has been in New Hope TO-
some days past looking over the grount
and preparing to make estimates for |
contract. The company have about de
cided on the lower route, on the soutl
side Of Buckingham mountain, cominl
up toward New Hope past the UnioI
Paper Mills. This route is one and three
quarter miles shorter than the route b.
way of Centreville, and is an easier grade
It can, therefore, be built for less money
The route as surveyed Is twenty-eigh
miles to Philadelphia from New Hope, thu
making it twenty miles shorter than b.
the Belyldere Delaware Division road t
Broad street.
Edward Magill, Esq, of Philadelphia
has been in New Hope this week In thu
interests OF the road. He Is pretty SUR
that 1t will DO built, and believes that i
will be extended In due time to New
York.
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