The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-11-22
OVER IN BUCKS COUNTY.

,erilf Irwin Aaron ON Monday
81 dportion Of the personal property
of the Lumheryille Granite Company
when 100000 granite blocks were sold
Mt public sale Eight or nine exeeu-
tons had been issued and judgments
allowed by suit for labor. The 100,
600 blocks sold brought but $3.50, al
though the cost of manufacturing
them is $50 a thousand All the other
4 property brought good prices and the
whole amount realized from the sale
was $t6S4. 80.
Lime dealers at Uhlertown have
sold to ex-President Grover Cleveland,
Princeton, n. j., 900 bushels of lime
for his New Jersey farm, near Prince
/ ton.
Harry Ruos, of Doylestown, has
2000 barrels Of apples and 600 barrels
of keiti'cr pears stored in the cold
storage rooms of +. Y. lla2er's leo
manufacturing plant at Lansdalo II
is said he will ship them to london
about tho first of the year
John W. hooker, of Now Hope,
has opened the pork season and is do
ing rushing business. In the last
week he cut up and sold in New Hope,
Lambertville and Philadelphia, 10, 900
pounds of pork, including 3, pounds
of sausage.
Navigation on the Delaware Di-
vision Canal closed for the season on
Monday last, November goth. The
season has not been IL profitable one
to bontmen.
Alfred II. Worthington, proprie-
tor of the Wrightstown roller milla,
had his hand badly mangled by the
bite of vicious horse.
The largest output of pig iron cast
in day i'll the history of Durham fur
nace was made ON November @, when
over 100 tons were cast. In single
run made ON November s, AZ tons woro
cast
AT the annual meeting of the Lum-
bcrvillo Bridge Company officers were
elected rs follows: President, Wat
son i. PnXson; treasurer, II. b. Read
ing; secretary, IL. w. Slower; direct
ors, Albert Johnson, of Stockton,
Henry Johnson, of Raven Rock; John
Il. Johnson, II. w. Rice, Daniel Tins
man, of Lumberyille, and A. w. Rich,
of llolcong. Over $500 were added
to the sinking fund, making it about
$500 and an annual dividend of per
cent. was declared payable on and
after November 18TH. Samuel Preston
was continued rs toll collector.
Thore is much excitement among
some of the colorcd inhabitants of
New Hope oceasioned by dream of
one of the female population. A few
nights ago Mrs. Mary Steele, an old
ago Indians buried IN immense guam
tity of gold in her hnek yard. Whom
she awoke the next morning tho dream
made such mn impression on her that
she consulted II fortune teller, who
told her That the dream wns undoubt
eddy true and advised her to dig for
hidden treasure, admonishing her To
dig only in the night time md only ON
certain nights. The Instructions were
followed and sumc colorcd men from
n distance have been digging for tho
gold ever since. Crowds of people
have been to sec them digging, but
cannot engage them III conversation
while at work. An immense hole has
been made, 80 TINT tho back yard Of
Mrs, Sieclc'ahoHseresemblea more the
Appearance Of large quarry. If the
stuff il not soon located, Mrs Steele
will run out Of ground TO die into
There is great rejoicing in the
Herman family III New Hope. Early
in May of last year, George Tier
nan bndo good bye to his father
and mother and went TO Philadelphia,
whore he enlisted in the Twelfth U.
S. Infantry Company NJ. They were
ordered to Cuba, but only reached Hs
far MS rampa, Florida, owing to the
close of the Spanish war. From there
they were transferred to Montauk
Point and on February 18th Of this
year embarked for Manila. Tiornnn
was later promoted to sergeant. While
his regiment were charging the Fill
pinos in their trenches near San Isidor
on June 18Th, Sergeant Herman re
ceived Mauaer bullet in the right leg
which pissed through his hip, shatter-
ing the bone and leaving nu ugly
wound. He was removed TO n field
hospital and afterwards transferred to
Manila, where he lay until the middle
of October, when he was sent to San
francisco on the transport Warren,
which arrived there on October 9Th.
He was there discharged from the ser
vice and came directly home His
relatives saw by the newspaper reports
that he had been wounded, and hear
ing nothing further from him con
cluded he had died On Wednesday
evening last he arrived here on the 8
p. NJ. train, and with the aid of II
crulch walked to his home. When
asked why he did not send word Of his
Homecoming he replied TINT he did
not care to have any demonstration in
| his honor.