The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-03-27

1871, which can be found on page 1877 o
the session laws of that year. There ha
been no law passed repeating or annullin,
that act.
The Forty Hours Devotion " wa
observed in St. Johns Church. in thi
city, commencing at the first mass las
Sunday morning and ending with appro
pirate services at 10 o'clock yesterda,
morning.
-Anti-toxine is proving an ef1icaciou.
remedy in cases OF diphtheria. Out O.
twelve recent cases in Trenton, ten werC
cured, and the two that proved fatal were
probably so owing to the lateness OF the
treatment.
The semi-annual meeting of the Hun.
terdon County Farmers Alliance, which
was postponed on account of the storm,
will be held in Alliance Hall, Pennington,
on Saturday, March 30th, commencing al
10 O'Clock, A. NJ.
Subscribers who change their loca.
tlons, and their post Office address with
them, will please inform us at once, that
there may be no interruption in receiving
their paper. Please give the old address
as well as the new.
"A public library is to be organized in
Frenchtown, Ia connection with which
there is to be magazine and periodical
exchange. A committee of six is now at
work getting the books and making other
necessary preparations.
AT an adjourned regular meeting OF
the Common Council, held last Monday
evening, the contract for keeping the legal
poor of the city for one year from April
LIST was awarded to the present keeper,
Geo. P. Wilson, for the sum of 5000 90.
-Workmen are busy preparing for the
erection of the new brick houses on the
property of Joseph Watt, in this city.
Five of them will be finished as soon as
possible-three on Coryell street and two
on Church street. They are already
rented.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Common Council will be held next Mon
day evening the Board of Excise Com
missiouers on Tuesday evening !; the
Board of School Trustees on Wednesday
evening, and the Board of Health on
Thursday evening.
Special offer at Frank T. Frltz's
Photo. Rooms. Customers having one
dozen cabinet size photos taken and paying
the regular price, which is $500 per doz-
en-, are entitled to one 1920 portrait by
paying 81. 90 extra. This offer is for a
limited time only. 81
The Legislature of Connecticut has
passed bill which should become the
law everywhere, providing for the pun
ishment of any person guilty of docking
the tails of horses, by imprisonment for
one year or fine of $500. An effectual
stop should be put to this cruelty.
The warm contest over the Republi.
can Mayoralty in Trenton practically clos
ed with the election of delegates last even
ing. Yard carried seven of the wards,
the First, Second, Third, Sixth, Ninth,
Tenth and Eleventh, and S!ckcl the other
four, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth.
AT the election in Delaware township
on Tuesday, the 18th inst, for School
Trustees, nearly four hundred votes we've
polled. Three trustees were chosen
David Lawshe, ]. V. c. Barber and George
Moore. The money appropriation for
free books was defeated by thirty-four
votes.
The remains OF the late Chancellor
A. V. Van Fleet, which were placed in a
vault in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Fleming
ton, have been laid in their resting place
in that graveyard. A fine monument is
to be erected. 1t will be of the choicest
granite and will weigh nearly $4,000
pounds.
1t is an old saying that cold Winters
prevent sickness. The last Winter can
not be said to support the adage. The
Winter was cold enough to suit the most
exacting, bnt sickness was never more
prevalent or fatal. 1t is rare, indeed,
that we have so much sickness during the
Winter season.
The production of "Uncle Hiram "
will be worth seeing, as it is seldom we
get company of such artists to come to
our city. They will positively produce
the saw. mill scene and railroad train, just
as advertised. They will appear at Hol-
combe Hall, in this city, on Friday even
ing, March 29lh.
tiona Banks Of Hunterdon county, just
made public, show these financial instilu-
tlOuS W bO III a prosperous
The figures disclose an enormous amount
of money on deposit, showing that the
people of the county have faith In the
stability of their National Banks.
The Democrats OF the Second Ward
will meet at the Fleet Wing Hook and
Ladder Company's truck house this WED
nesday) evening, at 1880 o'clock, TO nomi-
nate a Ward ticket. The Democrats OF
the Third Ward will meet at the house OF
the Columbia Hose Company the same
evening, at the same hour and for the
same purpose.
"A Baptisttown correspondent says j:
Joseph e. Hampton lost nice COW, after
complaining two or three weeks under
rather singular circumstances. After she
died they made an examination and found
two nails and several small stones in the
stomach passages. The nails had caught
fa.t and closed the channel and she SIM