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Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-01
IMPROVEMENTS.


1t is with great pleasure that we OBJ
serve the interest and zeal manifested
by city officers, and citizens as well, to-
wards improving our already beautiful
city. We now have two parks, fast APP
preaching completion, while few
months since we had none. One is To-
Gated in Scott place, and named after
our late citizen and veteran, General
Scott; the other, called Jefferson park,
is situated on Jefferson avenue; when
completed, these parks will, 10 doubt,
not only beautify the city, but become
popular resorts.
OF our streets, we can, with a very
few exceptions, feel perfectly satisfied J;
and indeed, some of them cannot be
excelled by those of any other city.
Jefferson avenue has recently been
paved, in handsome style, and now there
is no finer avenue in Elizabeth. There
are some most desirable sites for resi-
dences, in this vicinity, and property is
increasing in value every day. It's GER
tain, that no city in the state can ex-
hibit finer styles of architecture, ormore
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., than are constantly
being erected here. At this time, many
new buildings are in course of construc-
ton, not only dwellings, but churches,
stores, &c.
The new hotel, next to the Court
House is nearly finished; it viii add
much to the popularity of our city and
to the accommodation of the public,
and place us, in this particular, in adj
vance of Newark.
The fine edifce of the Broad Street
Baptist Church will probably be dedica-
ted in few months, and for beauty of
style, elegance and comfort, equal any
house of worship in Elizabeth. We are
not to be outrivalled now by any of our
neighbors, and if our enterprise and
present rate of progress continue, as in
all probability it will, we shall yet take
the load in wealth, enterprise and infu-
ence.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-01

Under this caption the FREEDMAN of
New Brunswick has long article show
ing how, by decision of the Chancel-
lor, the business interests of the city
are being curtailed and the rights of pri-
vate enterprise interfered with. 1t
seems that a young man OF great indus
try of character, Alfred J. Butler, pur-
chased some six or seven years ago, the
business concern, already well establish
ed in New Brunswick, of manufacturing
earthen ware. He has been successful,
and greatly enlarged the business, and
Herewith his buildings Suddenly,
some persons for some cause or other,
conceived that the Smoke of an increas-
ed business would injure the city orthe
drellings contiguous to his factory, and
so applied to the chancellor for an in
junction preventing Mr.. Butler from
pursuing his business unless he should
promise to use certain kinds of fuel.
We wonder at the decision OF the chan
cellor, and rather think she will hear of
it in an unmistakable way"
We tender Mr.. Butler our assurance
that if he will transfer his mandatory
to Elizabeth he will find no interfering
with his rights, or the interests of the
city, by the repetition of such decis-
ion as now does injury to his trade and
indeed to the business life of others.
Come to Elizabeth for enterprise; your
presentlocation istoo near Philadelphia.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-01
Cheap job Printing at this Office.
CHURCHES IN THE SOUTH.


The work of church reconstruction in
| the Southern States since the close of
the late conflict of arms, has been one
of vast Importance and extent, although
eclipsed in the public eye, by the more
prominent measures of public recon-
struction AS is we'll known, slavery,
before the war, was the cause of the di-
vision of some of the principal churches
of the country, but since the repression
of the rebellion and the overthrow of
slavery, nearly all the northern churches
have sent missionaries South in order
to extend their respective organizations
in that direction giving all who desire,
both black and white, the opportunity
of disconnecting themselves from the
Southern churches.
A recent article in the New York
Evening Post, presents some interest
ing facts in relation to this church re-
construction movement. 1t appears
that the Friends are the best known of
the few anti-slavefy denominations
which found it possible to maintain
their ground in the late slave States be-
fore and during the war. They are TAX
ing a very active part in the education
of the negroes. Several other anti-sla-
very churches have since the war ex-
tended southwark, as the United Breth-
rem in Christ, who have organized con-
ferences in Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South
in 1860, had about 700, 900 members, of
whom 1884, were colored. Besides
these there were were about $4,000
Southern Methodist Protestants. The
Northern Methodist Episcopal Church
had only congregations in Maryland
and Delaware, with few in Virginia,
Kentucky, Missouri and Arkansas. In
all the other states it had become ex-
tinct. Since the close of the war, the
old anti slavery Methodist Church has
however, become one of the leading
and most numerous denominations in
the Southern states. It has member
ship of not less than $50, 090-a gain of
about 1000 since 1860.
The African M. E. Church and the
Zion Church, in 1860 had about 26, 900
members, while in 1868 they number
more than $4,000, through Southern
colored accessions. The two African
churches are now seeking union with
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Should they succeed the Methodist
Episcopal Church will have in the late
slave states membership of not less
than 5O0,000 with fair prospect of be-
coming, in point of numbers, the lead
ing denomination in those states.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-01
ng it, PAID INTO THE TREASURY

ing it, PAID INTO THE TREASURY
one hundred and twenty five dollars. 4
Not single Democrat voted against
passing the bill over the Governors
veto Senator Clark has nothing to
reproach himself with in this counec-
ton. The manly and honest course
pursued by him entities him to the re-
spect of all honorable men. Senator
Clark scorns every species of piifering,
whether in high or low places.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-01
$4,000 Reward.

GTOLEN on Tuesday night light GRAY
- HORSE, almost white, spotted with small
brown spots and about Is hands high. A coal
box cut under BUGGY painted claret color and
striped with gilt and light set of silver mounted
HARNESS. open bride, with letter IL on
britehen collar and gilt IL" on roset
Half of the above reward will be paid for the
rest aud conviction of THIEF, or thieves.
Address JOHN KERON,
oct1* Chief of Police.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-01

Beg The Hunterdon Republican says
that Judge Robert S. Green, of Union
county, addressed Democrat meeting
at the Court House on Monday evening
last. Under all the circumstances, we
were much surprised that so few were
out, being less attended than any meet
ing before this season, on either side.
The Judge spoke well Of Hon. Amos
Clark, Jr., our candidate for Congress,
as a gentleman and most estimable
citizen, butcautioned his hearers against
supporting him, because of his vote on
the Incidental Bill, "a very remarkable
objection, indeed, for democrat to
make, that voting with erery democrat
in the Senate, should render him un.
worthy of support by the people. This
is an honest confession, but as it is the
only time Mr.. Clark voted with them,
we hope he may be forgiven, especially
as it is quite sure he will never repeat
the experiment.
Judge Green does Senator Clark an
act of injustice. 1t is true that Mr.. G.
voted to pay the debts contracted by
the officers of the Senate, and also true
that he received his allowance of sta
tionery-as did every member of the
Senate. But Senator Clark, on recciv-
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-01

THE ELIZABETH D4mY MONITOR is pub
ished at 155 Broad street, next to the Post
Office, by DRAKE AND Cushing, Editors and
Proprietors. Mail subscribers five dollars a
year, in advance. Single copies two cents.
MADISON DRAKE,
FOSTER VI. CUSHING.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-01
County aud State.

A German named William Wright,
while walking upon the Central Rail
road track, between Somerville and
Raritan, on Monday evening, was
struck by milk train and killed. He
had wife ana one child living in Ger
many, to whom he had just written. -
The letter was opened aud the fact OF
his having been killed added by the
Coroner. and it was then remailed.
A. ID. Hope has been added to the
Republican State Executive Committee
from the Third District to fill the va
cant occasioned by the appointment on
the part of the President of the late
Republican Convention of j. G.. Ship
mon as member at large.
Another first class hotel, capable OF
accommodating one thousand guests,
is to be built Mt Cape island in time for
the business of next season. 1t will
cost 100000, and is the project of
Philadelphia capitalists. The West
Jersey Railroad Company loans them
one-third the capital required.
Large portions of Ocean and Mon
mouth counties have suffered badly
during the present season from grass
hoppers, rose tomato worms, and vari-
Gus other pests. The worms destroyed
many fields of potatoes completely, the
rose bugs ate the foliage from the APP
pie trees, and also the young grapes
from the grape vines The grasshop-
pers ate everything green in their way
and are especially destructive to cram
berries. eating the fruit by the whole
sale. Fruit trees are plagued with a
greater variety of bugs, insects, CATER
pillsrs, &C., than has been known for
snany years. Crickets are found by the
million.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-13
THE GRECHAN BEND AND
DISEASE.

Every psychologist is hourly panied by
the exhibitions of vanity ofwhich a large
mass of females are perpetrators. To OBJ
tain what is called "the Grecian
bend" they are ~torturing nature to such
a degree. that thousands of them Will
become the victims of disease. Tight
lacing drives the vitals from their natural
position, displaces some of the most I'M
portant parts of the organism, and rem
ders those who suffer unfit for the most
ordinary duties of life. 1t is a crime to
iniure. by any artificial appliance, the
beautiful mechanism of nature, and the
invariable result of so doing is deformity,
which the eye of taste cannot endure.
The young lady who thinks she can m
prove her form by constraining it within
boundaries less than those which nature
demands for its service is not only
thOughtless, but she is criminal. She
will find in a few years, or perhaps
months, that she has with her Greclan
bend. a disease that never can be wholly
eradicated and those who so to extremes
in the absurd fashion of the day will as
suredly find themselves sufferers from a
complication of disorders. The wise
Young ladies ofthis metropolis, we trust,
will not be misled blythe cruel inventions
of modistes to adopt any fashion which
restraints the natural movements of the
vital organs, or other parts of the admi-
rable organism which is the gift of the
Deity, and cannot be too sacredly re-
spected.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-13

THE Engraving and Printing Bureau
of the Treasury, according to official re-
turns, recently employed over SIX hun
dred hands, about half of them females.
It's EXPENSES for the calendar year end
ING December 80, 1867, were for the pay
of employees, s6O0,023 "a; for mate
rails. D ink, chemicals, freight, fuel,
light, etc, s26O,O85 "a, making a total
of sS6O,1O9 IS. 1t manufactured dur
inc this period of ten-forty bonds, cou-
non and registered, S27 ,450, 900 of FIVE
twenties. S723, 069,8 800; Pacific Railroad
bonds. S38, OOO, 900; gold notes, $780,
900, 900 three per cent. certificates,
sI60.O0O, 600 fractional currency, S23,-
33O.651-making a total of SI,Zll,o5O,-
451. OF internal revenue beer stamps,
$50, PCS 900 of cigar stamps, $780,
900. 1t also f~nished-that is sealed,
numbered, trimmed and sepsrated-le-
Gal tenders and national bank notes,
printed in New York to $40, 93o, 200
worth. The Bureau also prints the cir
cular blanks. etc, for the Treasury and
its Bureaus, and the confidential printing
49,
of the Executive and State Departments.
1t also makes and prints the envelopes
used by the Treasury Department, man
ufactures the paper used therefor as well
as that used for circulars aud bank note
work. and rules and binds blank books
for the department from paper made and
printed in the bureau, and performs va
rious other services for the different bu-
reaus, and makes and repairs its own
engines and machinery. The work done
by the bureau during this period, if done
elsewhere, and paid for at current mar
ket rates, would, it is said, cost about
two million of dollars. The bureau is
now engaged in manufacturing bonds
for issue under the act of March s., 1865,
in making fractional currency, the aver
age quantity of which is over a half
million of notes daily in printing cigar
and beer stamps and the various drafts
and certificates required in the Office of
the Treasurer of the United States in
printing circulars and blanks making
blank books, envelopes, ETC., for the
Treasurer's stationer; in engraving and
r~e-entering plates, ETC., and in sealing
and finishing the legal tender and ma
tional bank notes printed in New York.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-13
THE WORLD OF WONDER.

This world of ours is filled with won
ders. The microscope reveals them not
less than the telescope, each at either ex-
IRENE of creation. In the insect creation,
particularly, there is so much to know
that has never been dreamed Of-wheels
within wheels, without computation or
number. Let us take a rapid glance at
the proofs Of this statement. Thoypus
it is said, like the tabled hydra, receives
new life from the knife whiehfs lifted
to destroy it.
The Ay-sPider lays eggs as large as
itself. There are four thousand and
forty-one muscles in the caterpillar.
Hooke discovered fourteen thousand
mirrors in the eye of a drone to effect
the respiration of a carp, thirteen thOus-
and three hundred arteries, vessels, veins,
bones, etc, are necessary. The body OF
every spider contains four little masses
pierced with a multitude Ofimpereeivable
holes, each hole permitting the passage
of a single thread all the threads, to
the amount of q thousand to each mass,
Join together when they come out, and
make the single thread with which the
spider spins its web so that what we call
a spiders thread consists of more than
four thousand united. LeuwhenOck,
BY means of microscopes, observed spi-
ders no bigger than the grain Of sand,
and which spun threads so fine that it
/ took four thousand of them to equal in
magnitude a single hair.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-13
OPERATION.

A Chinese shave and shampoon is thus
described by a correspondent "The
operator took a razor, and strapping 1t
upon his leg, began to cut the beard from
nv face without having lathered it.
Upon my suggestion that a little lather
would prove beneficial, he replied that
it was entirely useless, and had a tend
ency to make the hair stiff and tough,
and was therefore never used by persons
who had any knowledge of the human
face divine and its appendages. l, per
force, aequiesced in the opinion express
ed. but would rather be shaved twice
with soap than once without. After the
beard had been taken of, and it was
done in a very short time. the barber
took a long, sharp, needle-shaped spoon,
and began to pierce my ears. He ex-
plored every avenue, and brought up,
from numerous little creyiees, bits of wax
and dirt which had been aeeumulating
there since my childhood, for L never
submitted to such an operation before.
Having become satisfied with picking
about nv ears, the barber suddenly
twisted my neck to one side in such a
manner that it cracked, as if the vertebre
had been disloeated. Hold on |
shouted, alarmed for the safety of my
neck. All right replied the tonsor,
me no hurt you, and he continued tOjerk
and twist my neck until it was as Timber
as an old woman's dish-rag. He then
fell to beating my back, breast, arms and
sides with his fist, and pummelled my
muscles until they fairly glOwed with
the beating they had received. He then
dashed a bucket of cold water over me,
and having dried my skin with towels,
declared that his work wal done. |
dressed myself, and having paid my two
cents, walked away, feeling like a new
man. The sensation of soreness was
gone, and one of elasticity remained. l
really never felt better in my life, and
must say that half an hour under the
hands of a Chinese barber would be far
better than a glass Of soda after a
nights debauch."
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-13
FINEST HOUSE IN LONDON.

Dorchester House, situated in Park
Lane, London, is one of the most beauti-
full, internally, in the English metropolis.
The owner, Mr.. Halford, the Court Jour
nal tells US, has made it a special study
for many years to make Dorchester
House vie in substantial ~splendor, and
interior beauty, with any residence in
London. In this, many think, Mr.. Hal
ford has succeeded, but our readers may
Judge for themselves from the following
description Externally the building is
a we'll known architectural feature Of the
locality, and attracts attention by its
grandeur and withal elegant simplicity.
1t is in style Italian of the fifteenth cen
fury, from designs by Vuliiamy. On the
north and west sides of the house are
terraces, with stone balustrades, ETC., laid
out to harmonic with the architectural
style of the building. Internally the
transformations character is also preserved.
The entrance hall is plain and massive,
and has four solid pillars, supporting an
arched and groined roof. This opens
into the staircase hall, which is one of
the great internal attractions of the
house. The steps, landings and balus-
trades are of solid white Italian marble /;
the balusters are Of colored alabaster,
and the walls are lined with Spanish,
Flemish, and Italian marbles Of various
colors. The columns and pilasters,
amounting to more than ninety, are of
single pieces of Italian RavaciOni) mar
Bile, with Parian capitals. On the ground
story the columns are of polished Aber-
deem granite. The arches and cornice
over the upper columns are of solid
Italian marble. The lower floor of the
staircase hall is formed of inlsid marble
in patterns. Of the yestibule, at the
stairs, there is a recessed room, the walls
and ceilings of which are ornamented
with painted decorations, in imitation of
the Pompeian rooms. The splendid suite
of reception Dom are, as usual, on the
first floor. They are finished and
decorated in a style of chaste mag
niicence the ceilings are painted by
Italian and English artists, and these,
together with cornices, architraves and
m~ouldings are in part gilt. There are
three drawing-rooms, the walls Of which
are hung with silk damask the first have
red, the second green, and the third.
crimson. The floors of these are in par.
queterie, and formed of inlaid woods
The decorations of the dining hall arr
not yet completed, but it promises to b
the largest and most beautiful saloon O
the kind in the kingdom.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-13

by r. b. cAsTLRE.

-
Plying FatherI I am weary. Is there no rest
with bands Immortal. star bright. beyond
NJ totterlnE limos are bending meath this
heavy load Of care
I'm helpless hopeless! desolatel with yield
ing 10 despair.
I've waited duteous, OH so long now cease
less murmurs moan,
And tear my soul, aud Yeti wait, oh God and
SIN sweIIeriSg at the sorge OF sin, I fashion
h gold they be, they rivst fas, my soul to
~torturing pains.
Alone / walk esrth's dresry waste no flower
NauehT- richiy wrought, or fair, or bright,
Hdorns with besuteons hue.
Yon surgiug waves white, dancing foam, but
seems 3 heated bath,
Prepared for my poor QuiVering nesn, seethiHs
in mighty wrath.
Few gentle words-no lissom OILS & snnoint the
gaping wound
The world makes in our bleeding hearts no
ointment irsgrant. bound .0ld
To feel bruised by the cruel hints nlehoss oopu
neglsctful, give
But WHITING frowns, and little care how bitter
lis 20 i've.
Wesried, I long 70 leave the strife, and IKE
some tired child, 80
Lie near cool, gushing waters, Whefs He
whitening blossoms Wild
Nursed by The breeze, send odous sWeeSo EEee'
Freed fSom the heated race ofHfe-thus. Father
would I die.
So weary, plying Father! ali TO lisp the COOL
oblivion tii my thirsty soul could feel that rest
Gives to is guests, driven by the blast to seek
I'm beIpiess hopeless desolats! Oh, Father!
give me rest!
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-13
NIRISH LANDLORD.

Scullv. the Irish landlord, who was
shot while serving notices Of eviction up
on his teuantry, belonged to a family nOtO-
rious throughout the length and breadth
of Ireland for hardness of heart and bru-
tai treatment of the unfortunate people
over whose welfare and happiness they
exercised u~ndisputed sway. The father
of the present generation of Scullys was
the celebrated counsellor of that name,
whose work on the penal laws gained for
him a popularity second only to that
of 0'Connell. His sons were unworthy
of their sire. One of them went to Par
lament, another was shot-it was gener-
ally believed, by two of his brothers,
who inherited his estate, and n of
whom was the victim of the tumult Of
last week.
This man had Just served eighteen
months in Jail for killing a woman, the
wife of one of his tenants. She
at the time eacieate, and in one of
those disputes between landlord and en-
ant. so common in Ireland, she foolishly
said something which exasperated him,
and he struck her on the head, killing
her and her unborn babe. For this he
was arrested and committed to jail for
nearly six months. All this, of course,
does not justify the shooting of the man ;
but it indicates that he was one of the
worst specimens ofan Irish landlord, the
majority of whom are in all conscience
bad enough.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-13
FATHER.

A wealthy gentleman of Boston, sew
eral years ago, gave the editor OF the
Worcester Palladium a short narration
of his " experience. He had an in
come of $4,000 a year "a large sum
then. but not considered SO now a house
in town, and a country seat a few miles
out. He had several Children coach,
fine horses and a driver and took pleas
ure in riding every day with his children.
One day, when ridinS, the thought struck
him that each one of his children would
expect to have a fine house, and coach,
and horses, and a driver, as their father
had before them, and to live as he lived;
and if they did not they would be un-
happy. He did not think that all Of
them could have things as he had them,
or live as he was living and he rode
home; sent his coach and horses to mar
ket and sold them bought a cheap
carryall, and became his own driver.
With emphasis he declared that no
amount of wealth could induce him to
return to his former mode of living, for
if any of his children should happen to
be poor, as in all probability some of
them wonld be, they should not suffer
in their feelings by the reflection that
father rode il his coach while they had
to rough it on foot. The example ne
gave them afforded him a satisfaction
greater thar his wealthhad to bestow.