The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1890-07-16
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY. Pa.


OF forming bicycle club
John B. Young, section boss on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, at Bristol, died on
Wednesday of last week.
They are now working night and day
at the cut on the new railroad where II
rounds the bill near the Great Spring Mill.
Rev. Owen James. pastor of the
Hatboro Baptist Church, has resigned his
charge, aud will go to Hollidaysburg,
Blair county.
The employees of the Bristol Rolling
Mills, have resumed work. The officials
OF the rolling mill have signed the scale OF
wages which the men demanded.
AN inventory of the estate of Charles
NJ. Shaw, late of buckingham, brings it
up to about $3.50. 900, all of which he left
to his only child, Miss Annie E. Shaw.
-Bristors population has gained about
% per cent. since 1880, and is now 6,46O.
Several OF her mills have been shut down,
or the growth would have been greater.
-0ae day recently, as Albert Slower,
of Point Pleasant, was racking hay, his
horse in some maoner got over stone
wall near by, aud, getting tangled ia the
harness, killed itself.
John Holahan, of Upper Blacks Ed
dy, has. set out about $4,000 cabbage
plants. With fair yield their should
certainly be no scarcity OF saurkraut in
that vicinity next Fall
-Dr. Rose, superintendent of Judge
Paxsons possessions 10 Buckingham town.
ship, is counting on 200 tons OF hay from
bis place TO give the projected hay press
at the end of the mountain good send off.
"A ST. Bernard dog, belonging to
Jacob Bauer, Of Doylestowu, suffering
with an attack of hydrophobia, was shot
on Friday last by Wallace DUNCAN. This
is the season of the year for the exhibit
lions Of symptoms of this malady.
Bucks county is to have a ace-track,
and in all probability will be located at
Doyleslown. Prominent and well-known
citizens OF Yardley, Newtown and Doy-
lestown are interested In the matter, and
the track will be governed by the rules of
the National Trotting Association.
u. d. Scott Is now making new at
las of Bucks county, giving the bounda-
rics OF all farms, with the number OF
acres and names OF owners. 1t is some-
what remarkable that in Newtown town
ship fully two-thirds of the farms have
changed owners during the past fifteen
years. The lines of but one farm have
been changed.
Prof. o. G. S. Carter, Norristown
chemist, has sampled The supposed rich
oil, found on the farm of William T.
Eisenhart, near Doylestown and pro-
nounced 1t OF no value. The fluid found
he pronounces water charged with organic
matter with good deal of iron 10 1t. It
has black substance in suspension,
which settled in time and formed sedi-
ment.
"A goodly portion of The population of
Yardley, Is stirred up over the recent ac-
ton OF the Reading Railroad, in for
bidding the catching of fish 10 tho pond
opposite the station without special per-
nit. The company purchased the water
right In 1876, but those with property
about the pond, who have always been
accustomed to fishing, deny the railroads
right 10 the case.
Edward W. Twining and Augustus
Cadwallader, of Yardley. have each loft
OF carrier pigeons, OF which they feel just
ly proud. These birds are now entitled
to the George w. Childs' medal, having
made the journey from Concord, N. H.,
one day recently, distance OF 1924
miles. They were liberated at 5:35 p.
NJ, and reached home at o'clock. The
average speed was $50 yards per minute.
The contractor, who is to erect the
buildings and derricks for the Easton Oil
Company, in Nockamixon, has arrived,
aud is now making preparations TO begin
his part OF the work. The material will
be got on the ground as soon as possible,
aud the work will soon be in progress.
The place selected is on the farm OF John
Stem, Esq., near Revere, and in eight or
ten weeks, probably, the drill will be
started.
The new tunnel now in process of
construction into Mine Hill, Durham, has
already reached a distance OF two hum
dred feet. lis exact elevation above the
old tunnel Is about thirty-five feet. The
ore will be struck several hundred feet
from the surface In perpendicular line
and can then be mined with greater IA
cility and less expense. The ore from
this mine can be delivered 10 gravity cars
to the iron works without any extra hand
lihg, thus saving an enormous carriage ex-
pcnsc.
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