The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-08-26
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY, PA.

been granted charter by the State De
partment at Harrisburg.
"A good programme was presented
at the musical and literary entertainment
at the Solebury Deer Park on Thursday
The attendance was large.
John D. Drummer, the Doylestowl
carriage manufacturer, has just been grant
ed letters patent on new carriage spring
which is claimed to snrpass all others now
on the market.
Joseph Wood, son of Jonathan
Wood, of Doylestown township, on Thurs
day evening shot fine crane, measuring
feet g inches from tip to tip of wing, al
Alex. Rich's dam.
Complaints are being made by tho
people along the new railroad from New
Hope to Hartsville that the rates are en-.
tirely too high for short distances; con.
siderably above the legal rate.
The Doylestown fair and the civil SEES
sion of September term of court fall in the
same week this year. This will tax the
hotel and boarding house accommodations
of the town TO their utmost capacity.
There are said to be several clergy
men in Bucks county who have repeated
ly made themselves liable to fine of $50
by falling TO report marriages within
thirty days after they have been perform
ed, to the clerk of the orphans court.
During the present year County
Superintendent Slotter has granted total
of 157 certificates in Bucks county, which
is under the average number. Mr.. Slotter
says good applicants for certificates are
scarce, owing principally to the small sal
aries paid teachers.
From eating poisoned sardines for
supper on Thursday evening, E. p. Bar
Der, his two sons, Ray and Willie, of
Doylestown, and Howard Flack, of
Buckingham, who was visiting Mr.. Bar
ber's sons are quite i'll. 1t is not known
whether the sardines were poisoned by the
tin box or became so after being opened.
Last Monday evening, novel and
serious accident occurred in New Hope,
just opposite Parsons lane. A Mr.. He'll
er, of Centerville, was driving into town
with valuable horse and Geo. Beaumont
was driving a mule on bis way home.
1t being very dark, the animals ran into
each other, a shaft of the vehicles pene-
trating respectively tho horse and mule
and both were killed. Mr.. Heller values
his horse at 5000.
During the berry season just closed,
Asher r. Lear, proprietor of the Point
Pleasant stage line, brought into Doyles-
town 1850 quarts of blackberries, 2SS
quarts OF raspberries and 81 quarts of
huckleberries, making altogether over 1873
bushels OF berries. Besides this he has
also brought considerable other fruit to the
town and the passenger traffic has been
heavy during the summer.
On Thursday morning about 4 o'clock
destructive fire broke out in Bristol, in
the planning mill of Sherman & Pierce.
This mill was entirely destroyed, as also
the carriage works of VIM. Mathews ad-
joining. The tiremen worked hard, ard
saved the Wilson's s. Fenimore paper mills
and the Harkins foundry. The loss is es-
timated at between 500, 900 and $23, 900,
with only partial insurance. This is the
largest fire that has occurred 10 Bristol for
many years.
&C. O. Burleigh Johns, the polite door
keeper at the Solebury Deer park, has in
his possession small, white, fringed
shawl and silk pocket handkerchief,
which may be had by the owners II they
call at the store Of Cook g. Johns, New
Hope. These articles were found in the
ladies' dressing room after the ball on
Thursday night. Mrs. J. A. Wilmot, of
Lambertville, lost valuable white crepe
shawl the same evening, which 1t is
thought was taken from the dressing
room. The shawl was over hundred
and fifty years old.
The annual hop at the Solebury Deer
Park, on Thursday evening, was attended
by very large crowd. There were at
least two hundred couples in the large
pavilion, and it may readily be imagined
that even that spacious floor was too
much crowded for comfort. Keller's ia
nous orchestra furnished the music,
which was perfect. The managers were
William Watson, Edward Blackfan, E.
Lawrence Fell, Alvan w. Atkinson and
Harry P. Breban. The pretty programme
comprised twenty numbers, aud included
about all the fashionable dances. Every
thing passed off pleasantly, and the hop
was regarded as a success by everybody
who attended. This will probably be the
last hop under the present management,
as it is reported that the park is to be sold
to the Philadelphia parties for summer
resort. -D0yiestotOn Democrat.
A Store Washed Away.
Last Monday afternoon tremendous
rainfall in the vicinity of Point Pleasant,
Pa, raised Geddes Run Creek to such a
height that it washed out the foundations
OF the store and dwelling house of Mr..
Solomon Fulmer, located along tho creek,
and let the building into the water, where
1t broke up and was carried out into the
Delaware.
The house went down within five min
utes after the family got out of it. Mr..
Fulmer got bis books out safe and part of
his money, but did not have time to get
1t all. His family escaped with what
they wore; his wife however
seizing two dresses as she fled from the
tottering building. The unfortunate fam
lily are left with but few dollars in their
and everything is gone that