The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-04-29
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY. Pa.

-Anos. Stlnsman and Geo. Slack are
sick with the grip"
Frank Bush, of New Hope, is build
ing new frame dwelling.
-Rumor has it that the Solebury Deer
Park will be fitted up for pleasure re-
sort.
The Solebury Farmers Club will hold
their goth anniversary in solebury Deer
Park, on May 23d.
AT Reed Fretz's horse sale in Doyles-
town, on Saturday last, nineteen head
averaged about $780,
The new res idence of Watson Belts,
on the new lots, n.ar the river, in New
Hope, is nearly completed
Horses in many sections of Bucks
county are again afflicted with the pink
| eye, and number of them are temporari.
ly out of service in consequence.
Charles S. Atkinson, of Solebury, lost
good horse on Tuesday of last week.
The animal got fast in the stable and kill
ed itself in its struggles for freedom.
The hay press at Buckingham station
has been in operation for several weeks.
There are two presses and giant hay
cutter. The baling capacity of the presses
is 8, 400 pounds per hour.
An Italian, while engaged with a
gang of workmen at Buckingham station,
on last Wednesday afternoon, clearing up
wreck, was run over by the wrecking
train aud had one of his legs crushed
He was removed to Philadelphia hos.
pital.
Edward Carr, an inmate of Doyles-
| town Jail, sent there for year for steal
ing an umbrella while tramping through
Bristol, under tho influence of liquor,
turns out to be an artist and poet, and
| represents himself to be cousin of Bret
| Harte
The growing wheat looks very fine in
some pats of Bucks county. Grass is al
so quite forward, and some farmers have
turned out their cattle. There appears to
be an unusual acreage planted with pota-
toes this Spring, though the seed is quite
high, some 81 barrel for good varieties.
Farmers say that so cents a bushel for
potatoes in the Fall will pay quite as well
as any other crop.
Thomas Hibbs, man forty I've years
of age, OF New Hope, who has always
lived within two miles of railroad, had
his first ride on the cars on Saturday, and
this is how it came about. While nn-
loading slate from a car on the new
railroad, at New Hope, the freight car on
which he was working Was drawn out
from the siding for the purpose of making
drill. II was not very long ride, but
1t will be memorable 10 Mr.. Hibbs as his
first.
Mr. George w. Smith, of New Hope,
an old soldier who enlisted at Mount Car
mel, Ohio, on July 18Th, 1861, in Co. L,
39th Regiment Ohio Vols, for three years,
and was discharged at Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, Aug. 18th, 1864, having served in
the Army of the Cumberland, died at his
residence on Thursday, April 23d, aged
55 years and was inferred in Mount Hope
Cemetery on Monday last. The comrades
of Major G. a. Angel Post, No. 20, acted
as bearers.
The matter of the exceptions to the
auditors report in the estate of DR.. John
W. Scarborough, deceased, was the first
case argued at the April adjourned court,
at Doylestown. Ii. b. Eastburn, Esq,
appeared for the exceptants, and Henry
Lear and Harry P. Gill, Esqs., for the
widow. The cxceptants claim that the
widow Of John w. Scarborough was d.
vorced in California, and that, by her SUBJ
sequent actions, has forfeited her claim to
any part of her husbands estate. The
| counsel for the widow denies these alega-
| tons. Her divorce In California was in
Pennsylvania null and void, and further,
the divorce, obtained by default, upon APP
plication Of her husband, was set aside /;
also, that desertion, and even adultery, is
no bar to the widows dover. The Court
stated that there was nothing to warrant
the Withholding OF the widows dover,
and the exceptions were dismissed, and
| the report confirmed