The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-02-04
SEW norr ANp BUCKS couNrr. Pa.

NEW HOEE AND bUOAS OOONAAs kAs
The Bucks county Commissioners
have fixed the tax rate for the ensuing
year at 20 cents on the 800.
Unity Lodge, No. 800. l. o. o. F.,
New Hope, will celebrate their forty-first
anniversary on the goth of February.
AT Reed Fretz's sale of Kansas horses,
held at Doylestown, recently, eighteen
head were sold at an average price of
$l63l3.
The paper mill at Uhlerville, will be
in operation before long. Mr.. VIM. H.
Gaudey, of Lambertvillc, has been made
Superintendent.
William Ii. Moon, the well-known
Morrisville nurseryman, has been elected
President of the Pennsylvania State Hor-
ticultural Society.
Rev. John T. Gray will preach SER
mon to Lone Star Lodge, X. of P, of Lam
bertville, in the New Hope Methodist
Church, on Sunday evening next,
Prime Bucks county hay sells 10 the
South Bethlehem market at IS to $l2
ton; long straw, $40 to $ll. Corn sells
at go cents and oats 80 cents q bushel.
Senator George Ross has been placed
upon the following Committees of the
Senate Corporations, Railroads, Munich
pal Affairs, Congressional Apportionmeut
aud Legislative Apportionmcnt
The Rev. John T. Gray, pastor of the
New Hope Methodist Church, has only
four more Sundays to preach in the above
charge, as his time of service will then
expire He expects to so to Philadelphia.
john Carpenter, the employee OF the
Bristol rolling mill, who had red-hot bar
of iron pierced through his body on Tues
day, January goth, fingered until noon of
Friday, when one Ct the arteries near the
groin broke, and he bled to death.
Frank Carroll has sold his farm near
Breadysville, containing SO acres, to the
Reading Railroad, for $3.50 per acre. 1t
is said some 500 men will soon be put to
work in the quarry on the place, getting
out stone for the Philadelphia terminal.
The Janitorship at the Bucks county
Court House is worth 1920 per year, and
the Judgcship 81 900. To serve as Sena-
tor or Assemblyman is worth 81, 800 per
term. The Physician at the Almshouse,
Court Crier, Tipstaves of Court aud Coun-
sells for Commissioners have each 5000
per year.
The U. S. Government has granted
pensions to the following veterans Of,
Bucks county: Samuel G. Pennypaeker,
Chalfont Caleb Peters, Tullytown; Ma
thias Hitler, Pipersville ; Henry Bissey,
Dublin; Charles b. Betchel, Passer. An
increase in pension has also been granted
to james Ward, Bristol.
Some hundred Italian laborers are
employed on the Cutoff railroad in the
cut through Edge Hill near Oxford Val
ley, in getting stone for ballast. They
subsist on exceedingly plain food, and have
stores of their own, so that little of the
money they receive is spent in the neigh
borhood. They eatrcd peppers and bread
and such stuff. In the Summer they
would buy cucumbers that had passed a
salabe stage, and seemed to enjoy them.
have been Invested in Kansas mortgages
by citizens of the central part OF Bucks
county, mainly through the ''Showalter
Mortgage Company The company fail
ed, and''Sa ee1v5i J@a.e'appoin'ed. The
receiver now gives notice in the Doyles-
town Htelkigencer, that the officers OF
the company have destroyed or concealed
all the important books and papers of the
concern, and he has no knowledge Of
who holds mortgages. He, tn refore,
calls on all persons who have such mort
cages to transmit TO him their names, ad-
dresses, the numbers and amounts of their
liens, the names of the borrowers, &c.
From the Doylestown Democrat
The company drilling for oil at Nocka-
nixon, have at last come upon tangible
evidences of petroleum. The well has
now reached depth of nearly 1900 feet.
In the early part of the week the drilers,
who closely watch the successive strata
of rock which the drill pierces, detected
evidences of petroleum. They had reach
ed layer of soft rock, which was strong
ly impregnated with fumes Of oil.
A specimen OF the rock was brought TO
| Doylestown, by II NockamXon man,
named Fellner. A Democrat reporter ex-
amined the specimen, which Fellner car
ried in little velvet bag. 1t smelled
very strongly of petroleum, and looked as
though it came from black porous rock
through which oil had flowed at one time.
The discovery of this vein Of rock has
created considerable excitement in the
neighborliood, as well as inspired the COM
pany with renewed confidence in their
venture. At the request of the writer the
Democrat prints tue annexed letter:
WHAT AN EXPERT SAYS.
REVERE, Pa, January 20, 1901.
To the Editor of the "Lemocrat :"
We noticed an item in u recent issue Of
your paper, by some person who terms
himself geclogst. He says: "As u
geologst, we," etc. Now, why don't he
cpme out and tell US what we WILL and
what we will not get, which, if he is u
geologist, aud master of his profession, he
should be able 10 do. But neither he,
nor any other geologist living can tell us
what kinds of rocks VIC drilled through,
and at what depths we found them 10 the
well 10 Nockamixon township.
We have not found oil yet, but we
found an eight foot bed of anthracite coal,
although biologists (most of them, in fact
all but one) claimed II TO be impossible 10
fad coal in Bucks county. Not many