The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-10-23
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY. "a.

AueIc arc tWeuty-SiX cOnVlctS con
fined in the county Jail at Doylostowu.
While digging potatoes, S. A. Calfe
of Erwinua, found Colonial copper da
ted 1922.
For the month of September, SO mar,
riage licenses were issued by the Clerk oil
the Orphans Court of Bucks county.
"A large number of circus horses be,
longing to Adam Forepaugh are now
wintcring at Knights farm, near Carvers-
vile.
Tho residence of w. Atlee Burpee,
on the Ford Hook Seed Farm, near boy.
lestown, was destroyed by fire on Thurs.
day afternoon.
Sarah Ely, of New Hope, received a
special premium at the Interstate Fair,
held in Trenton, N. j., recently, for mod
ern and antique curiosities
The Presbytery of Philadelphia North
has appointed committee to consider
the feasibility of marking the site of the
Log College by a monument.
Col. Joseph Barbiere has removed
from Doylestown to Philadelphia. He
will take the stump in Virginia for Gen.
Malone during the present canvass.
Bucks county was honored at the re-
cent State Convention Of the w. G. T. u.
by the election of Mrs. Cynthia S. Hol-
comb, as Vice President at Large. She
is in the line of promotion for the higher
office.
r Tho post office at Yardley was enter
ed by thieves and robbed on Wednesday
night. The loss amounts to some $25.
A number of letters we're rified. Joseph
H. Martins office was also broken open
the same evening, but nothing of value
stolen therefrom.
While engaged in melting lard and
surpeutnc over the stove during visit
to her bed-ridden sister, 10 Bristol, few
days ago, Mrs. Anna Hughes, of Trenton,
was seriously burned. Her clothes caught
fire, and but for the timely assistance OF
a neighbor she would have burned to
death.
The tiremen's parade at Bristol, next
Saturday, is expected 10 be great event.
Six companies from Burlington, one from
Beverly, one from Palmyra, one from
Lambertville, N. j., three from Philadel-
phia and one from Newtown, arc invited,
and Bristol itself has three companies to
extend the line.
BY an act of the last Legislature OF
Pennsylvania, each county in the State is
entitled to free scholarship in the Penn
sylvania Museum and School of Industrial
Art, Philadelphia. The appointment is
to be made by the Governor on the re-
commentator OF the County Superin-
tendent OF Public Schools.
ii. Watson Carver has exchanged his
Hillside House property at Gainesville,
for farm in Chester county. The new
owners of the Hillside House will change
its name to the Paunaucussing House,
and will expend several thousand dollars
upon 1t in improving the building and
grounds before the next boarding season
opens.
Joseph s. York, who developed the
Rockhill Granite Quarries, has sold oul
his interest TO Bethlehem firm at a pro.
ftitable figure. MIR. York has opened an
other quarry 6ear Belvidere, N. ]. TIL,
Rockhil quarries are now employing
one hundred men. They furnish the fines
curb-stone, twenty feet in length and Of
everlasting duration.
The annual convention of the Bucks
County Sunday School Association, will
be held in the Christian Church, Spring.
town, on Wednesday, the Both of October.
Different ministers OF the county will de.
liver addresses at the morning and after.
noon sessions and Rev. DR.. BarIows, OF
Philadelphia, will speak in the evening.
William Cobbele, q brakeman on a
freight train on the New York Division OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad, was stabbed
by an Italian near Cornwells Station,
Bucks county, one day last week. The
woundedeman was taken to the Presby-
terrain Hospital, Philadelphia. His wound
Is serious one and it was thought might
prove fatal. The Italian escaped during
the excitement which followed the stab
bing.
Frank Lewis, q gate-tender at the
Pennsylvania Railroad station at Bristol,
while under the influence of rum on We'd
nesday morning, made an attemptto shoot
the ticket agent, j. Merrick Brown, and
also the the telegraph operator, Miss
Hollinger. He was at once taken into
custody and placed under 1900 bail.
The company is open to censure for en-
ploying such men in responsible posi-
tons. = Erchange
The John b. Buchanan family has
been unusually unfortunate during the past
few days. One of Mr.. Buckman's cows
was killed by lightning on the 1st inst,
on the 9TH inst, while returning from
work one of bis horses attempted to leap
over wire fence but tripped and broke
its leg, and had to be killed, while few
days ago, during house-cleaning, Mrs.
Buchanan received painful wound In the
left hand by the discharge of an old pis-
tol found In bureau drawer where 1t had
been placed several years ago for safe
keeping. Mrs. B. is doing well, and we
sincerely hope that there will be no more
accidents befall the family, as they appear
to be receiving more than their share of
misfortune, which, an old proverb says.