The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-11-22
FROM THE FIRST WARD.


stood the wear and tear of thirty five
years with little or no repair. Nc
doubt when it has thorough over.
hauling it will be good for another
thirty five years
The ilagstone walk ON s. Main
street, after ten years of good service,
is beginning to show some of the hard
usage which it has been subjected to.
Of course no impression is made upon
the stone itself, but some of them have
become loose and out of place One
man for one day could attend to all
the little defects and make them rs
good as new again, And now per-
haps since the Centennial mill has
changed hands, the little connecting
link between the Mann paper mill and
the Water Power Company property
may receive some attention from the
former, as this is one of the places
that has been sadly neglected for the
past ten years There is also another
place ON s. Main street, but as we
have spoken so often concerning this
place, We think it unnecessary IL
so into details concerning it, There
foro we will pass it by and prepare
ourselves to wade through il when the
snow and slush como.
Several small robberies have been
committed of late in our city, and il is
to the interest of everyone to look
after the locking of doors and win
dows. Remember that il is too late
to lock the barn door after the horse
has been stolen.
Christmas will soon be here again,
and the liberal man will soon be tax
ing his brain in making up his list OF
presents. This giving of presents has
become quite burdensomo of late
years. A person is hardly satisfied
any more at the receipt of gold
watch or diamond ring and the liberal
donor is supposed to give ont few
brick houses OF an upright piano.
In recent communication from our
friend and late comrade in arms, John
Burns, he wished me to correct tho
statement made some timo ago in this
column concerning himself and two
others who tried to silence the whole
rebel army ut Srottsylvania Court
House. 1t was only J1ckson's hi
vision they engaged, and after both
his comrades mot instant death, John
ceased firing and fell bnck in disorder.
This he was compelled to do, ms he
was being flanked and n continual
cross fire was kept up on him.
Some time ago we sad III this col
umn that the Democrats could not
stand prosperity. and now we can ex-
tend this same assertion to few Re
publicans IA we'll. A certain Repub-
liean in the Second Ward refused to
vote owing to rush of business. The
same individual can easily look back
three or four years, when he could
have found time enough to vote half
dozen times. And it is just such neg
ligence as this individual is practieing
that may throw the balance of power
back again into tho hands of that party
which viii set him To thinking agnin
of the past.
When | was out IN Minksyllle, Gov
arnnr Abl1tt annniuinJ ann sc ,ay
nei /. hbofs TO mn honorary position ON
his stan aud bestowed upon him the
dignilicd title of colonel | was with
him Mt the time when his title came
up from Trenton by freight, and !
watched him closely to note the trans
figuration Tint was to change him from
IL corner groceryman into II skinful Of
sweet blue pomposity, with wind gals
of compound glory growing all over
him like wens onn bald headed deacon.
But nary change could ! see.
Dressed i'll his blue oyernIls and
jumper and last years straw hat, this
new title had no more effect ON him
than gnat bite would have on side
Of smoked bacon. He was still plain
Larry O'Riley, with eczema scabs ON
his head and his shoes run down Mt
the heel and cracker crumbs in his
lovely rcd whiskers. Time rolled
along and extended out into the future
like the tail of scared mule backing
away from traction engine, and the
big Fourth Of July parade came around
on date with the exactness of II judg
ment note, and riding at the head of
that parade in all the awclled up glory
of peacock with II brand new tail
was Colonel Lawrence O'Re-lay in n
gaudy new suit Of military blue and
wearing II cooked hat with great white
plumes noddinS III the zephyrs like II
cockade on the brow Of pale Dun
Dromsdorg III circus parade. That
transformation and metamorphosia
absolutely took aWRy my breath
breath that was lnden with the fra
GRANGE Of hard tobacco and root beer
and ! stood rooted to the spot for
more than two minutes, with about
two pounds of my heart wedged in my
throat and the perspiration oozing out
Of every pore Of my feet, and wanted
to die and go straight mp to heaven
while my soul was big enough TO be
seen with the naked eye.
The Democrats have been success
full in electing the last two Sheriiis in
Hunterdon county by very small mn
iorities. Both Of these Shcrifi's should
have been Republicans had any specia
effort been made in the Republican
ranks. We will venture to say that
fifty more votes for johnson could
have been polled in the First Ward il
any endeayor had been made with this
end in view, as the election was very
quiet and no one seemed to take ans
interest in getting out the vote.
Our soldiers in Luzon will notice lha