The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-01-07
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY. PA.

scales al I45u POUNDS.
1t looks as II there was going to be
plenty of moving in the Spring.
r. B. Schermerhorn took the oath of
office as Clerk of Quarter Sessions, this
week.
The newly elected public officers Of
Bucks county took charge of their Offices
on Monday.
-Thirty-six marriage licenses, were is
sued from the Orphans Court Office, at
Doylestown, during the month Of De-
cember.
! -Doylestownis becoming agreat mush-
room centre. This species of fungi is
largely propagated there and consigned to
the New York market.
MIR. VIM. Worthington, of Aquet ong,
who was injured by a premature explo-
sion in MAYORS quarries, few weeks
ago, is able to be about again.
The Italian workman employed on
the N. E. p Extension, had merry
Christmas. The pay car came through
on December Oath, just in time to make
many happy.
MIR. Thomas Beaumont, OF Browns
burg, captured white muskrat, on his
place, one day last week, which is some
what OF curiosity. II is 10 the hands of
taxidermst.
MIR. Riegel, the paper manufacturer,
of Riegelsvillr, has the largest aud one of
the finest diaries of milch cows in that
section, his stock consisting chiefly of
Attorneys and Guernseys.
The annual meeting of the Bucks
County Historical Society will be held in
their room, in the Court House, Doyles-
town, on Tuesday, January goth. An in
arranged for the occasion.
Elias Eastburn, ESQ.,, of Solebury,
and T. T. Eastburn, Esq, of New Hope,
twin brothers, celebrated their fiftieth
birthday on December 9th, at the resi-.
dence OF the latter, at which were many
of their relatives and friends.
-Workmen were engaged yesterday in
putting down timbers, preparatory to lay
ing the rails on the railroad bridge In
New Hope. The rails will be down to-
day or tomorrow. The ballasting is CON-
plcted to Whiteley's cotton factory.
Some New Hope wag gets off the fol-
lowing joke: T. N. r. at dinner, address
ing his boarder Jacob. 'Jacob, your APP.
petite is increasingly shall be compelled
to raise your board" Jdcob-"I wish
you would, for it is very hard work for
me to raise it."
Justice Torn, at Doylestown, has
given William Robinson, of Solebury
township, verdict for $l2 against Butch
err Lewis Hagamsn, of Rush Valley. The
plaintiff sold $s4 worth of hogs to Haga-
man, who found them spoiled and refused
to pay. The verdict represents their
value for soap fat
Miss Matte Reeder, of New Hope,
read an essay before the recent Farmers
Institute at Macungie, Pa, entitled "Have
a Care" which is described as conveying
''many practical and useful hints to farm
ers and their households. Eastburn
Reeder spoke before the same body on
''Fhe Organization of Farmers.
The old paper mill at Uhlertown,
built by Peter Uhler, but subsequently
owned by Sydenham Uhlcr, has been pur-
chased by Camden On. J.,) parties, who
are retitting it with new machinery for
the purpose Of manufacturing tissue pa
per. Among the new machinery is an
immense 102-inch Fourdinier machine.
James Kane and L. E. Myer, OF the
Edison Electric Light Company, have
come to terms and electric light is assured
in Doylestown. They have closed con-
tract by which Mr.. Kane will build a
plant with a capacity of 40 arc and 750
incandescent lights. The most improved
and modern apparatus only is to be used.
President A. A. Mcleod, Gen. Pas
senger Agent G. G. Hancock, and other
officers of the Reading Railroad, came up
in special train, from Philadelphia to
New Hope, last Saturday, to look at the
new railroad. Judging from some re-
marks dropped by them, it is their inten-
ton to extend the road up the river to
Lumberton at once.
On Christmas day four of our sporting
citizens, left New Hope for days sport,
hunting terrapin. They had the required
trappings and plenty OF refreshments.
They got as far as Neely's mills, when
they found one that weighed about 175
pounds. II was the largest aud heaviest
ever caught in this secton--so the boys
say. Try it again, Robbins it may not
effect you SO, next time.
The Soebury Mutual Protective Co.,
LOT tue detection OF horse thieves ana
other villains, held its annual meeting at
Solebury Hall, Centre Hill, on Saturday,
December 9th. Officers elected were:
President, William M. Ely; Secretary,
Watson F. Paxson; Treasurer, William
j. Biles, and seven Directors. This CON-
pany pays three-fourths the value of pro-
perty stolen if not recovered, on amounts
of not less than ten nor over two hundred
dollars, except on exempted property.
1t is now announced that the drill at
the Nockamixon oil well has penetrated
the last strata of red shale rock, and by
all appearances has reached point where
the work will no longer be interfered with
by coming into contact with water. A
depth of fifteen hundred feet will soon be
reached, which is the limit of the present
contract. If no oil is found at that depth,
| il is expected that there will be q new