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Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-05
Gay Job Printing at this Office.
CITY OFFICERS,

Mayor-P Phillip II. Grier. ..
President City Council james I. Wiley.
Clerk-Jacob Seiple.
Treasurer-Archibald s. Woodruff.
Attorney-Joseph Award.
Receiver of Taxes-John Engcl.
Clerk of Market james Rollo.
Chief of Poiice-John Keron.
Captain james Garland.
Lieutenant Waters Furman.
Surveyor Ernest L. Meyer.
Street Commissioner--Luke III. Higgins.
Deputy Street Commissioning. McGrath.
Assistant Street COMMISSIONER. Byrne.
Health nspector-Leonard Henning.
Overseer of Poor. Peter Ritter.
Sealer of Weights and Measures-C. Solo,
mon.
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SONS OF TEMPERANCE.

Lincoln Division, No. 81. Meets every
Tuesday evening, at Library Hall. John j.
Ludlow, R. 8.
Star of Hope Division, No. SO. Meets at
Manvol's Hall, First ward, every Monday
evening. H. G. Ellis, r. s.
Central Division, No. 81. Meets every Mon
day evening, over the Post Office, First ward.
Elwood Phares, II. s.
Ark of Safety Division No. LOG. Meets every
Thursday evening, at Library Hall. Morris
Williams Il. s.
James Gale, Deputy G. W.P.
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SOCIETIES..
FREE AND ACCEPTED MAsONs

FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS.
Washington Chapter, No. .16, Royal Arch
on the first and third Mondays of each
month. James Gale, Secretary.
Washington LODGE No. SO, meets every
Friday evening, at Masonic Hall, Broad street.
S. II. Faulks, Secretary.
Essex Lodge, No. 40, meets at National
Hall, First street, First ward, every Wednes-
day evening. George N. Potter, Secretary.
Hermann Lodge, No. 81, meets every Tues
day evening at Washington Hall, Elizabeth
avenue. Fred. Faulkenreck, Secretary.
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INVEST JERSEY sTREET.-coRpo-

Y ItAIlON NOIICI1'
Public notice is hereby given, that it is the in
tenton of the City Council of the city of Elizabeth
under and by virtue of the provisions of the act
titled "An act to revise and amend the charter of
the city of Elizabeth" approved March 4th 1868,
to order and to be constructed in
West Jersey street, from the ito be construct
ed) in Dehart place, easterly to point at or near
the summit.
suclfpersons may object thereto, request
ed to present their objections in writing at the Of
flee of the Street Commissioner, on or before the
expiration of two weeks from the date of this no.
tice.
By order of the City Council.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1863. as 1w
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HI NOTICE.
Public notice is hereby given, that it is the in
tention of the City Council of the city of Eliza
beth, under and by virtue of the provisions of the
charter of the city of Elizabeth" approved March
4, 1868, to order and cause Rose Hill place to be
regulated and graded, from South street to Grove
street.
Such persons may object thereto request
ed to present their objections in writing at the
office of the Street Commissioner, before the
expiration Of two weeks from the date of this
notice.
By order of the City Council.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81 1869. as 1w
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COUNTY OFFICERS.

Presiding Judge-David A. Depue.
Associating Judges-H. II. Bovine, d.
milford, W. Gibby.
Prosecuting Attorney-Wm. ]. Magic.
Sheriff-Edgar Pierson.
Clerk-Henry r. Cannon.
Surrogate-Addison s. Clark.
Director of Freeholders-R. A. Russell.
Clerk of Board-Oliver Pierce.
Collector-Thomas B. Budd.
Keeper of Jail--Abram A. Ward.
Coroners--L Braun. s. Jackson, A. Leeson
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ODD FELLOWS.

Noahs Dove Encampment, No. %, 1. o. Of
o f., meets on the first and third Thursday
evenings of each month at Collet Hall. Oliver
Pierce, Secretary.
Franklin Lodge No. 9 meets every Monday
evening at Collet Hail. James A. Petrie,
Secretary
Elizabethport Lodge. No. 116, meets evory
Tuesday evening, over the Post Office, First
F. H. Drake, Secretary
Oliver Pierce, r. W. D. D. Grand Master.
Oliver Piorce, r. w. D. D. Grand Patriarch.
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SNoBs. The Long Branch cores
pondent of the New York Sun writes
thus of snobs: "They can be detect
ed by the ridiculous airs which they
assume and are not able to carry out.
The female portion of the species are
previously afflicted with the Grecian
Bend redivivus, and are actually una
BILE to sustain an ordinary intellectual
conversation in plain Anglo-Saxon.
The men wear eyeglasses, and pass
their time in sucking the knobs of their
canes. Some of them eat with their
knives, drink out of inger-glasses, and
blow their noses at the table. Many of
them are magnificently dressed, and
some of the ladies have satin toilets
worth hundreds of dollars, and are
decked with priceless diamonds"
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r INDEN sTREET.-coRPcRATroN No,

4 4 TICE.
Public notice is hereby given, that 1t is the nten.
ton of the City Council of the city of Elizabeth un
der and by virtue of the provisions of the act en-.
the city of Elizabeth" approved March 4, 1863 to
order and cause the sidewalks on the westerly side
Of Linden street, from Magnolia street to Anna
the centre of The sidewalk, where the same has
not been done, and where a suitable board walk
has not been laid, at least four feet wide.
Such persons as may object thereto arerequested
to present their objections in writing at the office
of the Street Commissioner ON or before the expi-
ration of two weeks from the date of this notice.
By dor of the City Council.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1869. as 1w
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QRIER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NO

W 11CC.
Public notice is given, that it is the intention of
the City Council of the city of Elizabeth under and
by virtue of the provisions of the act entitled, An
act to revise and amend the charter of the city of
Elizabeth" approved March 4, 1868, to order and
cause Grier avenue to be laid out opened and ex-
tended, from South street to Washington avenue,
as follows: Beginning in the. northerly line of
South street. where the center line of Grier avenue
as now opened, would inttrsect the same, if con-
tinued, thence southerly in straight continuation
of that part of Grier avenue as now opened, nine
hundred and forty feet, more or less, to Washing
ton avenue said line to be the center line and said
street to be sxtysi feet WIDE and to take and APP
propriate the land and real estate necessary there
for.
Such persons as may object thereto are requested
to present their objections in writing. at the office of
the Street Commissioner on or before the expira-
ton of two weeks from the date OF this notice.
By order of the City Council.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1862 as 1w
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STORAGE FOR STOVES.

WYE are now prepared to take down, store in dry
Nv lofts for the season, and black and put up in
the fall, Stoves and Parlor Furnaces, Pipe, Fire
Boards, &C.. at reasonable rates.
E. NJ. HERRICK & CO.,
2lQ road street.
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ALAS Pooh YoncK Since the fall o,

ALAS Pooh YoRIoK Since the fall Of
Cardinal Wolsey. it may be doubted
whether there has been in England any
instance of a tumble down from great
ness like that of Hudson, the once
mighty railway king. His rise was
rapid, his ruin was remediless. One
day dictator in the stock market, max
ing and unmaking the fortunes of mil
lions, and the next day beggar.
Hudson has lately been brought again
to the public notice, after years of OBJ
security. There is sort of pathos in
his last appearance that always belongs
to the Date obolum BeliSdrto. His for
mer fellow citizens of York, where he
began his life as hosier, have set on
foot subscription which has reached
twenty odd thousand, dollars, to relieve
the former monarch of the railway from
destruc ionr He is thus more fotunate
in adversely than many other deayed
magistrates who have pointed moral
or adorned q tale.
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nd AHWAY AVENUE. = CoRPoRATIoN

71O NOTICE.
Public notice is hereby given that it is the inten
ton of the City Council of the city of Elizabeth I'M
der and by virtue of the provisions of the act ent
tied, " An act to revise and amend the charter of
the city of Elizabeth" approved March 9TH, 1868,
to order and cause SO much of Railway avenue as
lies without the lines thereof established to be
vacated and to alter the said in conformity
with the lines thereof and to take and appropriate
the lands and real estate therefor.
Such persons may object thereto are requested
to present their objections in writing, at the Office
of the Street Commissioner on or before the expi-
ration Of two weeks from the date of this notice.
By order of the City Council.
l.. II. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1869. as 1w
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OsE HILL PLACE.-CoRPoRATIo

Dos T. HILL PLACE.-CORPORATIO
HI NOTICE.
Public notice is hereby given, that it is the in
tenton of the City Council of the city of Elizabeth,
under and by virtue of the provisions of the act
titled Gan act to revise and amend the charter of
the city of Elizabeth" approved March A. 1868, to
order and cause Rose Hill place to be curbed and
tagged four feet wide in the centre of each side
walk from South street to Grove street.
Such persons may object thereto are requested
to present their objections in writing at the Office of
the Street Commissioner before the expiration
of two weeks from the date of this notice.
By order of the City Council.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81 1869. as 1w
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NEW YORK AvENuE.-coRPoRA-

NEW YORK AVENUE.-CORPORA
IN TON NOTICE.
Public notice is hereby given, that it is the in
enton of the City Council of the city of Elizabeth
under and by virtue of the provisions of the act
titled An act to revise and amend the charter oe
the city of Elizabeth, approved March 4th, 1868
to order and cause New York avenue to be regu-'
street.
Such persons may object thereto are requested
to present their objections in writing at the office
of the Street Commissioner before the expi-
ration of two weeks from the date of this notice.
By order of the City Council
L. H. HIGGINS. Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1869. a3 Ivy
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MILITARY COMPANIES.

eA-Capt. John B. Lutz. drills Tuesday
evening.
[Zouavesl-Ca Leonard Henning, drill
every Thursday evening.
Capt. VIM. II. DeHart, drills Friday
evenings.
Montgomery Guard Capt. James Donnelly,
drills Monday evenings, at the City Armory.
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GOOD TEMPLARS.

Rising Star Lodge No. 90, meets at Man
wells Hall First street, evory Friday evening.
H.C. Ellis, r..
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MISCELLANEOUS

Temperance Beneficial Association. Geo
O. Ford, Secretary.
Journeymen Masons Union. Meet at Col
let Hall on the last Wednesday evening in
each month. Henry Carpenter, Secretary.
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N ORDINANCE for the issuo of cit

A ORDINANCE for the issue of city
IN bonds, to provide for the payment of the costs
and expenses OF regulating and pa ing Cherry
street, from Railway avenue to Jersey street, with
wooden pavement.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and City Council of
the city of Elizabeth
Section l. That twenty bonds of the city of Eliza
beth, called Improvement bonds of the city of
Elizabeth, be issued in anticipation of the collec
ton of the assessments to be made for the payment
of the costs and expenses of regulating and paving
Cherry street, from Railway to Jersey street.
with wooden pavement, under and in pursuance of
an ordinance duly passed by the City Council of the
city of Elizabeth, and approved by the Mayor on
the second day of June, 1869.
Said bonds each to bear date on the first day
of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty
nine; to be conditioned for the payment of
the principal sum of one thousand dollars
each, in six years from the date thereof,
at the Farmers Loan and Trust Company
in the city of New York, with interest thereon al
the rate of seven per centum per annum, payable
semi-annually on the first days of January and
July in each and every year, on the presentation
of coupons for the amount of the nstalment of in
terest due thereon at the time the same is payable
the coupons to be attached to each bond when
issued. as 2w
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NROvE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NO

VI I1CE
Public notice is hereby given, that it is the in
tenton OF the City Council of the city of Elizabeth,
under and by virtue of the provisions of the act
titled An act to revise and amend the charter of
the city of Elizabeth. - approved March 4th, 1868,
to order and cause Grove street to be curbed and
tagged four feet wide in the centre of each side
walk, +. ON Washington avenue to New York ave
nue..
Such persons as may object thereto are request
ed to present their objections in writing at the Of
fee of the Street Commissioner or before the
expiration of two weeks from the date of this no.
tice.
By order of the City Council.
L. II. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1869. a3 1w
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TEMPLE or HONOR.

Rosolnte Temple of Honor, No. Is. Meets
at Library Hall, every Monday evening. John
]. Ludlow, W. II.
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j. 1t. HIGGINS, btreet COmmIbBIOner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1869. a3 1w
Anew YORK AVENUE. : CoRpoI

NEW YORK AVENUE. - CORPORA-
IN TIoN NOTICE.
Public notice is hereby given, that it is the in
enton of the City Council of the city of Elizabeth,
under and by virtue of the provisions of the act en-
titled An act to revise and amend the charter of
the city of Elizabeth approved March 4th, 1868,
to order and cause New York avenue to be curbed
and tagged four feet wide in the centre of the side
walk on the easterly side, from Dehart place to
Grove street.
Such persons may object thereto are request
ed to present their objections in writing at the of
fee of the Street Commissioner before the
expiration of two weeks from the date of this no.
tice.
By order of the City Council.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizababeth July 81, 1862 st as Ivy
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MUSICAL UNIONS.

Elizabeth Musical Union meets every Mon
day evening. at Court House, John Paul
Morgan, Director.
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ENRANKLIN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

III NOTICE. n. --7I-|
Public notice is hereby given, that it is the nten-
ton of the City Council of the city of Elizabeth
under and by virtue of the provisions of the act
entitled ''An act to revise and amend the charter
of the city of Elizabeth" approved March 4, 1868,
to order and cause the sidewalks both sides of
Franklin street, between First and Third street. to
be tagged with stone four feet wide in the centre
of each sidewalk.
Such persons as may object thereto are request.
ed to present their objections in writing at the
office of the Street Commissioner or before the
expiration of two weeks from the date of this no.
tice.
By order of the City Council
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1869. as lw
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UNITED AMERICAN MECHANICS.

UNITED AMERICAN MECHANICS.
Eagle Council No 16. Meets every Thurs
day evening, at Odd Fellows Hall, First street
Americas Council, No. rs. Meets every
Tuesday evening, at Collet Hall W. II.
Hagesheimer, Secretary.
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NROvE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NO

HROVE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. No
W TICE. ....-...... e.. e..4
Public notice is hereby given, that it is the in
tenton of the City Council of the city of Elizabeth
under and and by virtue of the provisions of the act
entitled An act to revise and amend the charter of
the city of Elizabeth" approved March 4th, 1868,
to order and Grove street to be regulated and
graded, from Washington avenue to New York
avenue.
Such persons as may object thereto are requested
to present their objections in writing at the Office
of the Street Commissioner, or before the expi-
ration of two weeks from the date of this notice.
By order of tile City Council t#
L. II. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1869. as 1w
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R1DeE srREEr.-coRponAr1oN

Public notice is hereby given, that it is the inten-
ton of the City Council Of the city of Elizabeth
under and by virtue of the provisions of the act
entitled, can act to revise and amend the charter
of the city of Elizabeth" approved March 4, 1863
to order and cause Bridge street. from the south
side of the iron bridge to Pearl street. to be regu
lated. graded curbed and guttered
Such persons as may object thereto are requested
to present their objections in writing at the office
of the Street Commissioner. on or before the ex-
piration of two weeks from the date of this notice.
By order of the City Council.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Dated Elizabeth, July 81, 1869. as lw
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FOUNDRY AND MACHINE BUSINESS.

i VUIuUxIK 114sU 1NxAV1N1Au4l 10 DA1tAIbNi
TIME undersigned still continue at their old-es-
/ tablished place of business, at
No. 81 BOND STREET, ELIzABETHPoRT.
We are prepared to make Castings of Iron or
Brass. In our Machine Department we are prepar-
ed to turn or bore Steam Cylinders of forty inches
diameter and other heavy turning, Mill Gearing.
Mill Spindies and Shafting of all lengths and sizes
in general use. Also, patent Saw Gummers. House
Moving and other Screws always on hand. Pile
Hammer Nipples, Manhole Tops and Basin Covers,
round and square, Hitching Posts Locomotive
signs, Hand Car and Truck Wheels '-'
Iron Bridges, Iron Beams and Girders, of all
sizes at short notice, and all kinds of Hydraulic
Machinery. Q. L. n s. L. MOORE.
CHARLES f. MOORE, sAMuEL L. MOORE.
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CENTRAL RAILROAD OF N. ].

Ga I'M a Easssss LIN
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V,HIs ROOFING is particularly adapted for the fiat
1 part of French rooted Houses, and any other
roof having not four inch pitch per foot Leaky
Tin Roofs made tight with ono coat of our Elastic
Cement.
CONCRETE SIDEWALKS LAID DOWN AT SHORT
NOTICE.
FELT FOR SALE.
oFFICES-C. Graham & Son, Architects, Eliza
beth 296 Broad street. Newark.
REFER NCES-Ex-Governor Marcus L. Ward
Newark C. Graham & Son, Justus Morris, Thomas
b. Budd j. c. Van Fleet, II. E. Kicker Superintend-
ent Central Railroad of New Jersey, Elizabeth !;
Meeker & Hedden Builders Hewes \ Phillips. and
Samuel Atwater, Newark Woodruff Il Durham,
John Degraw, Thomas Marsh, Samuel Sanders, Het-
field & jackson, j. Gatchell, and c. d. Marsh, Rah-
way Job Mail Morgan Bird, Builder, William c..
Ayres, Builder, Plainfield; Charles Anness, Perth
Amboy.
Agent for the sale of WILLIAMSBURG LUMBER
by the car load. This Lumber is superior TO any
other In the market for building purposes.
bill Timber cut to order and delivered to any
point On the line of railroad.
Orders received for Locks Glass, Drain Pipes,
Stone, Brick, Lime. and other building materials.
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Statistics of Prussia

The Nora German fbTFegD0gEsnE
says: /. There are few things in Pru5-
STA which foreigners are inclined 10
admire more unreseryedly than her
educational system. The government.
however, tar from heing content with
what has been already accomplished
are u~nwearying in their endeavOrs to
improve and perfect it. Thus we learn
that from the present year GOO. coo
thalers per annum are to be employed
in raising the salaries of teachers in
elementary schools in the eight older
provinces of the kingdom Since 1852
q gradual increase has been made, so
that in lS66, $50, 364 thalers a year more
than at the earlier date were expended
for this purpose. Thus in all one
million and a halt thalers per annum
are now devoted by the state to i'm
proving the position Ofthe teachers Of
the poor
" According to the late official re-
turns there are in Prussia 1881, 926
horses and 3S1,S91 one and tWO-year
fOals, 7,9S6,SlS head of cattle, 22,262.-
0S1 sheep, 4,S75,14 pigs and l,343, SIS
goats. Horses are most numerous in
the provinces, Prussia, Schleswig-
Holstein, SaXOny and Silesia, which
contain from 305 70 $50 to the German
square mile, exclusive of fOas. Cattle
are generally more numerous in the
new provinces than in the older ones.
The average for the whole country is
I210 head per square mile. Sheep
breeding has been much improved by
the Introduction Of the merinOs, which
now form above fifty per cent. of the
whole. The average number per
square mile IS 3371; in POmerania
there are so many as 6161, and in
Posen 5569. Pigs average in the whole
country 773 per square mile, but the
province of Saxony has 1880, Nassau
1I04, and Westphalia 947.n
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Col. YeFgeF Attempts to Escape
from h Is Prison.

y dispatch from Jackson, Miss, of
the 18th, says that an attempt was
made by Nerger to effect his escape
from the guardhouse last evenin0
By some means, as yet unexplained,
be haG attained Possession cf : ~
Witn'WHien he eoald unlock hs hlsTF
ecles. His handouts have. for the
tist week or more, been removed BY
aay, and only fastened on at night,
Yesterday the guard, who was sta
toned Inside, noticed Yerger, while
mounted Oh a box, which served for
a Washstand, and on the top of which
he occasionally mounts to look
through his grating, in the act of con-
eealing a key in 3 creYige about tns
sEating. Finding that he was de-
teeted, he admitted 10 the Sentinel
that it was a key with which he could
unfasten his manacles, He further
stated, so says the guard, when he OBJ
tanned his confidence by professad
sympathy, that he expected other
keys from which he should be able to
obtain one that would unlock his
handouts; and If the guard should re-
turn the other keys to Mr.. Yerger he
should be well paid. When the dis
cOvery was reported to the officer OF
the guard, IeFger said Mrs. Yerger
had furnished him with the KEYS.
To-day in the presence Of Mrs, Yer
ger, he denied il, and denied having
said so, From various circumstances
1t IS believed Mrs. Yerger was utterly
Ignorant of his possessing the key.
The probability is that a bride OBJ
tanned it from one Of the guards, or, as
Herger has since stated, that he OBJ
tanned it from prisoner who swept
out his cell, on a promise of five dol
lars in the event of his escape. The
matter is yet surrounded with some
mystery.