The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-06-12
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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 70, 1889.

MI OeFVaS Ely mas been chosen
President of our Board of Health.
The wife of Alex. Nelson, hotel
keeper at Washington's Crossing, died
on June list.
Money matters will be, touched
upon at the 4 o'clock meeting in the
: Gospel Tent next Lords day afternoon.
There are in, this county 298 PEN
sioners, and the amount of quarterly
payments to them is So, 100.
On the first inst, over seven hun.
dred thousand young shad were put int o
the Delaware, near Washington's Cross.
ing.
The Baptist Church at Stockton
will hold strawberry festival adjoining
the meeting house, this "wednesday
and to morrow evenings.
"A local traveller will notice that this
is remarkable season for bloom on
wild blackberry briers. A large crop of
this healthy fruit is promised.
Prof. W. R. Evans, Principal of
Little York Public School, will succeed
Prof. Thompson, as Principal of the
Public Schools of Frenchtown.
The lightning struck the New Hope
Delaware Bridge, about the centre,
during the shower Sunday evening.
Some slight injury was done.to the roof.
John Butler, aged nineteen years,
who was injured recently, at Riegels.
vile. while attempting to jump on a
moving coal train, has since died of his
injuries.
-Charlton A. Reed. of Pennington,
passed a highly creditable examination
before the Supreme Court at Trenton
last Thursday, and was duly licensed to
practice as an attorney.at law.
The Ringoes Baptist Church have
changed the time of holding their straw.
berry festival from the 18th to next
Saturday, the 18th inst. It will be held
in large tent, afternoon aud evening.
Shoes for Men. Boys. Youths, La
dies, Misses and Children, at the Peo-
pies Store. If. S. S. VAN HORN.
During the Rebellion New Jersey
furnished the army and navy 1854
men. The proportion of white soldiers
who enlisted to the width population
was one to nine; proportion of colored
population, one to twenty-one..
The COMMANDMENT. Chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic is smaking
an effort. secure reduced rate of fare
on the railroads for delegates who will
attend the National Encampment in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in August next.
The Rev. John II. Boswell, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal Church of this
city, will preach next Sunday morning at
1890 O'clock on the subject, 1.-THE
Worlds Dilemma" and in the evening,
at 7:45, subject, 1.-The Johnstown Calami-
ty, or Voices of,the Flood
You can now get DR.. Reading S
Tooth Powder at his office, from his
original formula. sept.5
The ordinary earth worm is said to
possess an instinct of unfailing accuracy
in regard to the weather. If, during q
rain, they come from the ground and
remain on the surface the rain will con-
tinue, but if they come ont and go
directly back it means that the shower
is over
A recent publication says that the
Fifteenth New Jersey Regiment lost
twentysix per cent: of its members at
Spottsylvania. There is but one greater
per centage recorded-that of the First
Minnesota, at Gettysburg, which lost
% per cent. The 10Th New Jersey was
recruited in Pennington.
In the case of VIM. Thomson, of Car
pentersyille. sentenced to the Huntington
Reformatory, Pa, for shooting Aaron
Wismer, at Bridgeton, Pa, the Court
at Doylestown has reconsidered its sem
tence, ami imposed fine of $75 and
costs of prosecution and set Linn at
liberty under bonds to keep the peace.
The grocer that sells Tulip Soap ca
tiers to the interests of his customers.
Mr.. Arson Marshall, of Sunnyside,
was driving fine three. year-old colt
one day last week, and probably over
speeded the animal. Soon after return
ing to the stable the colts fore legs and
neck began swelling to prodigious size,
and finally one of the legs burst in three
places. Such case has never before
been known in that section.
The law recently enacted in New
York prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
to minors under the age of 16 will
doubtless prove about as effective as a
similar law enacted by the New Jersey
Legislature five years. ago. There has
never been prosecution in this State
Tor it's violation and it is doubtful if
there will ever be one in New York.
There is a paragraph floating through
tie columns of the New Jersey journals
which states that Gov. Green has signed
a bill that gives every soldier from this
State so per day for every day they
spent in Southern prisons. This is
mistake. 1t was simplya joint reso-
luton that the Governor signed recon-
mending Congress to pass such law.
The Philadelphia papers announced
last week that Mr.. Albert Jones, of this
city, travelling agent for Joel J. Bailey
& Co., of Philadelphia, was missing in
the Johnstown disaster. Fortunately
for him. he got off the fated Pennsyl.
yania express train that was wrecked at
Johnstown Friday week. at station
before reaching that city, and so escaped.