The strikers at the Trestle Works continue to stand out for the twenty-five cents additional pay, making their wage $2 a day. Nothing is doing at the work. The strikers are preventing others from going to work.
Mercer County's proportion of the State tax, at the rate of one half mill on the dollar, the sum named in the bill passed at the last session of the Legislature, will be $50,397.
Charles Lindauer, who has been confined in the Essex County Jail for nearly two years, sentenced for passing counterfeit money, was on Tuesday the 1st, pardoned by the President on account of his turning State's evidence. Lindauer was bequeathed $15,000 last month by a deceased uncle.
The Trenton American says: "From what we hear, it is likely that advantage will be taken of the General Railroad law by numerous companies, for spur roads, and thus parts of the State be opened up for improvement, which; hitherto, in consequence of lack of railroad accommodation, have not progressed so rapidly as the inhabitants desired."
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$15,000 in 1873 would be equal to $327,000 in 2021.
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Charles Frederick Lindauer (1836-1921) in the Jersey Journal on April 12, 1873