The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-12-25
NEW HOPE AND nuoKs COUNTY, PA.

NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY, Pa.
Work still continues at the Lumber
ton quarrics.
The New Hope aud Lahaska Turn
pike Company has declared dividend of
o. per cent.
Delaware Castle, X G. e., Of New
Hope, will hold public Installation Of
officers the first Thursday evening in
January.
The teachers of New Hope, Upper
Wakefield and Solebury held their second
monthly meeting at New Hope, on satur-
day last.
s-Jacob Wismer, of Upper Blacks Eddy
is the boss hunter of the season. He has
shot and killed l04 wood cock, 10 pleas
ants and % rabbits.
The Union Fair will open on next
Monday, the Esd inst, and continue each
evening during the week.
Joshua Tonlllhsou, of Doylestown,
has purchased the Lumberyille hotel pro-
perry of Thomas Doyle, on private terms,
and will remove thereto next Spring.
IT. o. Atkinson has sold his sS.acre
farm in Doylestown township, known as
the Yost or Bonsal place, TO Benjamin
Schuyler, OF the same township, for $50
per acre.
Presents suitable for the Holidays
will be found on the tables at the "Unionn
Fair,
Morgan b. ReInert, of Doylestown,
has been arrested for passing forged
check for $500 on Coopersburg firm.
He has recently served term in the
Doylestown Jail.
Jonas, son of James Ridge, of Point
Pleasant. died at the Institute for the
Blind, Philadelphia, one day recently.
| His remains were brought home for inter-
ment at the Marshall burying ground.
He had been at the institute for blind
children nearly two years.
| Steps arc being taken to petition Con-
gress for an appropriation to remove the
obstruction in Durham creek, between
the Delaware and Durham SO as to make
1t navigabe for schooners TO ply TO and
fro. Congress has frequently appropriated
money for much less important streams.
If there is anything in the hardware
trade that you want, call at Gandcy's, 81
Bridge St. and you will get 1t at reason
able prices. A special lot of holiday
goods suitable for presents. ct.
IA wagon containing four men was
struck on Saturday evening by an east.
bound express train on the Pennsylvania
| Railroad, at the Langhorne street cross.
ing, Tacony, and three of the men, one 81
whom was Henry Morgan, aged ~ years,
of Bristol, Bucks county, were instantly
killed and the fourth was supposed to be
fatally injured. The horse was killed and
the wagon demolished
Ben Butler advises young men who
wish to get rich to invest their money in
improved real estate aud Tulip Soap.
One in position TO know says the
Reading Railroad officials have agreed to
accept the amount subscribed-$6l, 100
and will build the extension just as soon
as the stock is paid In. The attorney for
the Reading road said that no mortgage
could be negotiated until the stock was
fully paid in. The proposition is to issue
sufficient stock iu addition TO whit is al
ready on the built portion of the road to
make $500, 900 A mortgage will then be
created for the same amount, $4,000 OF
which is TO be taken TO build the road in
addition TO the stock subscribed by the
| citizens along the route, and the balance,
| 100000, will be reserved to redeem the
mortgage of that amount now on the
| lower portion of the road and which falls
due in 1892 The road when completed
will be about SO miles long and its stock
debt willbc $500, 900, and mortgage $780,
000-.$80o, 600 in all. This would be
about $22, 900 per mile, very much lower
per mile than most OF our railroads. Ill
thought possible 10 have the road COM
pleted by the 4th of July next II every
body comes to time promptly so that there
will be no bitches 10 the arrangements. -
Bucks County Mirror.