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Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17
oRoHA' D STREET SEWER.


From Morris avenue to Chiffon street.
COMMISSIONERS NoTICE.-Notice Is
" hereby given, That the Commissioners
report and estimate for constructing and
building sewer in Or, hard street, from
Morris avenue to Chiffon street have been
deposited in the Office Of the Comptroller Of
the city OF Elizabeth for inspect on, and all
parties having objections thereto a,e here
by required to make the same to the Com
missioners, on Friday, the 21st day Of Nov
ember, A. D. 1878, at u O'Clock in the eve
ming. at the Office Of said COMMISSIONER, at
the City Hall, in said city.
WILLIAM II. LII TER,
q ARLE II. WATERBURY,
FRANCIS HARkIS,
Commissioners OF Assessments,
Elizabeth. November is, 1878. mis- iw
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

EVERY description of job printing
done at The Monitor office, 205 Broad
street, at short notice and at the lowest
cash prices
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

Hon. Amos Clark, ir., Hon. A. r.
Corbin. and Colonel Drake represented
Elizabeth at Congressman Hslsey's re-
ception to the President Saturday
niohk
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

The masons, employed for a long
term at tine Singer works, were dis
charged Saturday-there being nothing
more to do.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

A GENTLEMAN having his hair cut, was
asked by tho garrulous operator, -" How
would you have it done p III pos
sible, in silence" was the reply.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

Mr.. William Waters will represent
the interests of Noahs Dove encamp-
ment of Odd Fellows at Trenton to-
morrow, in the grand encampment.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17
SELLING nuTI

TWENTY PER CENT. BELOW COST.
Your only chance to get good bar
gain. Don't fail to secure some of W.
II. Brooks's fine stock of house furnish
ing goods. This opportunity only until
the oath.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

PROF. Norton, of Chicago, formerly of
this city, was in town yesterday, and
went to Washington this morning.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

THERE were indications OF snowto day,
but the demand for new sleighs and
sleds isn't half as earnest as is the cry
for lower taxes.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

WE learn that number of men in
the oil-cloth factories ION the hill" were
discharged on Saturday.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

WE are to have Thanksgiving day, as
usual, in New Jersey. Governor Parker
has issued the customary proclamation.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

Essex division Sons of Temperance,
OF Newark, will tomorrow evening pay
fraternal visit to Lincoln division.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17
neSQay evening.

A YOUNG man at musical party being
told to ''bring out the old Tyre, brought
out his mother-in-law.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

AT the Peterstown mission school,
this evening, q regular weekly meeting
will be held. Exercises interesting.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

lnsureA Buildings and Merchandise Asainsu OBS OF
damage by Fire, on the most favorable tsrrcs.
DIRECTORS;
amos CLARK, jr.. Joseph cleveland,
samuel Bonnel,, Jfn Benjamin Ogden,
Edward G. brown, Moses o. Winans
Wiliisni p. Thompson, John Keau
SAMUEL Al. Clark. a. Q. Thompson
A. u. &uiford David Milford
JACOB LAWS, Joseph Cory.
John .. Malde. Joseph A. Dayjs,
Edward p Williams, james II. Cory.
4. W. Foote, ST., Horny r. Cannon,
William j. Magic. Samuel Huntsnan.
Ohae. j. Howell, James O. Denmsn,
Moses F. Cory. William A. Morrell,
John b. Norton, William Mckinley,
u. W. Pruden. Joseph u. Durham.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

THE MONITOR is served in all parts of
he city at twelve cents . week.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17
Toys, ConfectiOneries &c.

A L.. ALLEN,
FASHIONABLE CoNFECTIoNER
No. 843 Broad street, Newark, and 206 Broad
street, ARCADE Building,) Elizabeth,
Takes pleasure in informing the citizens OF
Elizabeth that he is fully prepared for the
season, TO attend Weddings and Parties with
his usual care and expedition, and in style
not to be excelled, either in taste or elegance,
by any other establishment.
CHOICE CONNECTIONS,
OF Chocolate Caramels, &C., OF lis own
manufacture, fresh every day.
Also, his celebrated Ice Creams and Water
Ices.
Ladies' and Gents Dining Room, equal to
any first class resort in the state.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17
DEYENDORF.
ARE Ynn rNsuREn

ARE YnU INSURED
If not, go to the Germania fire insurance
company, No. 1876 Broad street, (gas
company builaing), reliable home in
stitution. Rates liberal. u13 I'd
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insurance.
NATIONAL
FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE CO.,
FIhsI NATIONAL BANK BUILDING.
ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

AMOS CLARK, JA., President JACOB DAvIk
Vice President. III. +. CORY, Secretary
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-17

r. @H'
No. i9i BROAD STREET,
Where you will find splendid sssor tment
of the following goods:
Hats, Caps, Men and Boys' Underwear, Fur
nishinS Goods, Dress Shirts, Fancy
Shirts, Wool Skirts, Canes, Trunks,
Valises, Umbrellas, Silk Hats, Felt
Hats, Cloth Hats, Fur Caps,
Cloth Caps, Glazed Csrs,
Collars, Bows,
Ties, &c.
Kid Gloves. Cloth Gloves, Dogsnn Gloves,
Bucl Gloves.
Fvsrvtbipo Po,. Mo,.sa We.,. my, Ia. r.,,nd ~
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CIGARS.
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01
A Cure for Girdled Trees.

SINCE the winter of 1867 and 1865, there
have been none more favorable for field
mice. says the NetD York Tribune, than the
one Just ended. Over wide range of
country the ground was covered with
heavy body of snow in December. This
VAS added to by frequent storms, and it
remained during the entire season. In
closely planted orchards, the snow was
piled in places several feet in thickness
for eight or nine weeks, and afforded Just
the conditions most propitious for these
active pests.
Under such circumstances it will be
strange if, on disappearance of natures
fhlanhet, thousands of fruit trees are not
in or near grass iand ireha ehoSs .s, st"nGinG
the bark has been gnawed all around and
six to twelve inches in width, are sure to
die within year unless prompt measures
are taken to make connection between
the bark above and that below the wound.
The prescriptions which have been pub
lished from time to time are as numerous
as flies in midsum ner, and most of them
as unsatisfactory. Where only third or
half of the circle has been made, leaving
a connecting strip. then, by covering the
bare part with a coating of COW droppings
and yellow clay, the young bark will
grow over the wound much sooner than
if left exposed. Where there is no such
CODlltcllOl, NOWcNcI, lIlc DcSU anu IiloSu
simple method of forming one-and the
method that never fails-is to insert scions
Zone, two, or three, as the case may re-
quire), bridging over the barked part.
| The method is simple and rapid, and most
any one can do the job without difficulty.
Take the scions OF last years growth OF
wood, from young healthy trees, cut them
the right length, bevel each on the same
side at both ends. Then, with budding
knife, make an incision in the bark of the
tree above and below the injured part,
and carefully press the scion in place.
Cover over where the incision was made
with grating wax, and then wind around
the stem of the tree, at both ends of the
scions, some narrow strips of bass mat
ting, which will keep them firmly in
place. For trees from which the bark has
only been gnawed half or two-thirds the
way round, one or two scions will be
sufficient; but when there is no connec
ton left, it will be found advisable, par
ticularly on large sized tree, to put il
three SciOnS,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01
The English POisOner.

In a late paper read the trial and con-
victien of the woman Cotton, who, L sup
pose, has poisoned twenty persons some
husbands and many children of her own
among them-under circumstances of the
most serene and complacent selfishness.
1t is difficult to imagine that this woman
should be fellow-creature, ard almost
makes one wonder whether some OF us
are not devils already. With respect to
to contradict very striking remark that
| once heard made by Mr.. Delane, the
editor of the Times, and one who by his
social position must needs be as well ac-
quainted with our aristocracy as most
men. He said that more murders were
committed-quiet puttings away of faith
ers and elder brothers-in the few acres
on which stand our most fashionable
squares than in any similar area in Eng
land, because the position of the inhabi-
tants places them above the reach of u
coroner's inquest. The obsequious fami-
ly physician sees the necessity of avoid
ing "exposure," and of "shielding no.
BILE house from scandal; :" and giving the
fullest benefit of his doubts to the case in
question, he signs his certificate of I" died
from natural causes" This may perhaps
be the case; but certainly it seems that
the very poverty of household may also
thelilpb WHdI OCCURS Ill IL lIOlu publiO III
quiry, since Mary Ann Cotton has been
at her deadly work for these twenty years
with perfect impunity. There was no
pretense of Jealousy, hate, or passion to
account for any of her crimes they were
all committed because the victim was
more or less burden to her, or was in
sured for few pounds in benefit club.
She is described as comely, quiet-looking,
and almost lady-like, yet very resolute-
much the sort of person that one would
picture one of Miss Nightingale's gallant
band of hospital herones to be. God
help the man or child, however, who
trusted to her tender mercies!
She who had seen so many little chill
dren die in agonies, and tended them from
first to last with her cruel, careful hands,
was, we are told, excessively affected"
by her own sentence, and protested
against it in her quiet, sullen way. Quite
otherwise did certain lively young rep
rebate behave on his conviction at the
Central Criminal Court last week, who,
by his careless abandon and close imitation
of "the Artful Dodger," won more of my
sympathies than l care to own to. He
was sentenced, Notwithstanding all his
gifts, to seven years penal servitude; and
after he had heard his doom pronounced
made this astounding proposition to the
judge, "Look here, my lord, I'll toss
you, double or quits, whether it shall be
fourteen gears or nothing r'-London Cor.
Hd7perS Bdzar.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01
Concerning DOor-Mats.

IT is reported from Philadelphia that
the noble little boy who, during the late
appalling winter, stole three hundred and
ten door-mats, and with the proceeds
thereof maintained his infirm and ire
proachable mother, is at present seeking
some new opening for honest industry.
In calling attention to his case, we desire
less to advertise his individual worth than
to remark that his theory of life is by no
means unique. Indeed, IL appears to us
that American society, just now, has re-
solved itself into a vast organization to
encourage the lifting of door-mats for ben
evolent purposes.
Eminent business men who lend their
names to strengthen a rotten speculation,
and sell their preferred stock at pre-
MUM, putting the money into the contri-
bution-boX, are following the footsteps OF
| the filial little boy. Traders who sell dis
honest goods, and who live cleanly and
build churches young women who, With
out love, marry for money or position
or ease, and never forget morning prayers
nor the claims of Sunday-school, nay, who
help INDECENT parents and forward the
prospects of fair and needy sisters; cler-
gymen who, though God-fearing men,
scruple net to fill their pews by charla'
tanry, and raise church funds by world
|
whole greedy public which banker;
for money and gets it how it may
justified to itself by the self-assurance
that the base store shall be spent only fol
humane and useful ends-each and all o
these are taking the door-mat, and thank
ing heaven for their fine intentions con
corning its disposition.
There is something tragical In tn
! present blindness of society to the value
moral obligations. The belief that tn
, end iustifies the means is the worm at tn
root of the social tree. The carelessnes
! of unimportant engagements, the pos
: poning Of the payment of bills, the spen(
ing of money for nothing-all these habi
in the most well-intentioped people al
very dangerous. Society rests ON abs
Lutte integrity and honesty. lfyea become
S nay, and nay yea, II public man or
d take an iota which is not truly his ov
n without general reprobation, we ha'
v started on that road which leads to ge
h eral chaos. No great trade can be healt
le ily maintained without an absolute !
Q. ciprocal reliance on the mere word
ID masters and men. Commerce would
le disastrously hindered if commercial @
l. legations were lightly held.
Mt Horace Mann used to say that the
IS, miliar maxim, "Let justice be doI
er though the heavens fall" ought to
lg rendered, Let justice be done, Test !!
is heavens fall" since it is only justice Il
lis keeps the eternal arch self-poised: A
lp justice means absolute honesty. Each
of us knows for himself wherein he is @
at victed of the habitual taking of door-m
for noble ends. 1t is for each Of u;
wv make private restitution, and to abjure
ne pleasant peculations.-Hearth and Ho
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01
kissing the Bride.

A sTALwART young rustic, who wss
known as formidable operator in "free
fight" had just married a blooming and
beautiful young country girl only eighteen
years of age; and the twain were at party
where number of young folks of both
sexes were enjoying themselves in the
good, old-fashioned pawn playing style.
Every girl in the room had been called
out and kissed except Mrs. B, the
beautiful young bride aforesaid, and al
though there was not youngster present
who was not "dying" to taste her lips
they were restrained by the presence of hei
herculean husband, who stood regarding
the party with look of sullen dissatis
faction. They mistook the cause of hi
anger, however, for, suddenly rolling uI
his sleeves, he stepped into the middle o
the room, and, in a tone of voice that a
once secured marked attention, said;
Gentlemen, have been noticing hov
things have been working here for som
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01
LOTS WIFE.

THREE of us held joint possession of
"claim" in one of the rural districts OF
the placer mining country. AT first we
had excellent success; the sand seemed
rich with dust, and several small nuggets
of the pure ore attested our rising for
tunes. In short time, however, the yield
began to diminish; somehow it didn't
seem to "pan out'' well. Our scanty
Washings of dust grew scantier every day.
There was little chance for romance in
the life we led. We worked hard in the
"diggings" all day, taking our cold snack
at noon; and morning and evening "took
turns" in our culinary duties, and the
keeping of our little shanty. Upon wash
ing days-"few and far between'-after
wrestling nightly with soiled garments
and creek water, augmenting considerably
therein the alluvial deposit, we were wont
to lounge in triune council, smoking our
pipes OF peace, and viewing complacently
our renovated apparel, dripping and sway
ing upon the tops of the neighboring
brush.
The surrounding "claims," with the
exception of one adjoining, had been
worked out and abandoned long ago; but
with pertinacity born of necessity, we
had clung to ours. We had put in every.
thing we had, here; and it must be hard
struggle which should cause us to throw
it all up, and leave empty-handed. The
boys in the next claim were either "hardel
up" or more easily discouraged than we
for after trying in vain to sell out, they
abandoned their claim and left the mines
entirely-all but one man, who, for som,
reason best known to himself, decided t.
remain behind.
There were no other occupied ''claims'
within space of three miles; and ou
nearest point of obtaining supplies being
days Journey out, one can easily imag
inc that in our isolated situation the gail
of comrade was not merely nomina
consideration.
Tomkins, the newcomer, or "Lot," a
he was Familiarity called, was character
Originally New Hampshire man, an
shiftless as only degenerate scion fror
the thrifty New England stock can be, b
had emigrated from the ''land of stead
habits" first to the West, and from theme
to our American Ell Dorado" Fate
to disappointment he had drifted abou
hither and thither, led by one freak an
another, until finally he had settled dow
in the mines. Lot was famous story
teller, abounding in legendary lore, an
rich in store of quaint old-time ballads. l
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01
Changing Clothing.

HEALTH and sometimes life itself is
often lost by laying aside winter clothing
too early. Laying ilannels aside in the
spriug is a most pernicious practice.
They are as necessary in July as in Janu-
ary. We can better do without woolens
next the skin in mid-winter than in mid
summer. We do not get overheated in
winter; we do in summer; and the most
frequent exciting cause of coughs, colds,
and consumption is a rapid falling of the
temperature of the body. All are famil-
lar with the fact that a sudden checking
of perspiration is always dangerous; very
| little exercise causes us to persplre IN
sumner, and a very slight draft of air
checks the perspiration; hence, eminent
French physicians have stated, that colds
taken in summer excite the most incura-
BILE forms of consumption. White wool
en- flannel is a most efficient guard against
these sudden changes, because it keeps
the heat of the body in, while it repels
the excessive heat from without; it con-
veys the water of perspiration to its out
side, while the surface next the skin Is
drier. We all know that silk, cotton, and
linen next the skin get saturated with
water, and If, for an instant, the slightest
draft of air gets between the skin and the
/ material, there is charnel-like chill
, when that material touches the skin.
The rule should be to wear white wool
en- flannel next the skin all the year
: round thick in winter, little thinner in
April, gauze material on the first day o.
e July on the first of October resume
= what was laid aside in July; on the frs
of December put on the thickest, extend
= ing to ankles and wrists.
}, These rules of changes are especial,
e necessary to all old people, to all invalid
e and young children; day laborers and a
It outdoor workers would be incalculabl
d benefited by the same observances.-
Of Halls Journal of Health for april.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01
length of time, and amt half satisfied.

length of time, and l amt half satisfied.
l don't want to raise fuss, but"
"What's the matter, JohnP' inquired
have we done anything to hurt your feel
ings?'
ayes, you have, all; all of you have
hurt my feelings, and I've got just this
to say about it: here's every gal in the
room been kissed nigh dozen times
apiece, and here's my wife, who consd-
er as likely as any of 'em, has not had a
single one tonight, and L just tell you,
now, ifshe don't get as many kisses the
balance of the time as any gal in the
room, the man that Sights her has got
me to fight, that'sal. Now GO ahead with
your plays"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01

PICKLES, according to DR.. Hall, are
good foG those who crave them. He rea-
sons that often the system needs an acid
that acids promote the secretion of bile,
and that when a person Graves something
sour it is nature calling for remedy for
fever, or biliousness, or Indigestion. 1t
is the vinegar that does the good. There
fore it is necessary that pickles should be
made of pure vegetable vinegar.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01

PROF. HENRY says that fifteen tons of
anthracite coal burned in the furnace of
one of our best engines, exerts an energy
equal to that of an able-boded slave
working ten hours day for thirty years
of his active life.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01

THREE American gardeners will be
allowed to raise vegetables in Austrian
soil to compete for the agricultural pre-
miums at the Vienna Exposition.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01

TEXAS is the third State in the Union,
"a wheat-growing State. The wheat
crop of Texas was, in average per acre,
just equal to that Of California last year,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-01

The police of New Haven are no longer
to be permitted to carry umbrellas,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-17
MHITEFlEL.n.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-The wood
shed Of M, sr5. A. l.. & W. G. Brown
& Co., situated about 100 rods north
easterly from their mill, llled with dry
edgin9s, WAS set on fire Saturday
morning by sparks from the company
Locomtive,"D Ordway", which was
running on the side track leading from
the b. g. & NJ. r. r. to the company's
mill. The fire communicated with
some barrels Of Kerosene standing in
the she'd, and was soon beyond con-
troll. Nearly 100000 feet of lumber,
stuck up near the she'd, was consumed
before the fire could be checked.
Messr>. Brown & Co.'S new steamer
was called out AMI got to work in
twenty minutes, doing good service.
II is believed that the steamer was
the means Of saving two dwelling
houses and other property, valued ut
several times its cost. John +. Dus-
tin, foreman on the engine, stood ut
his post continuously during the fire,
and directed the operations OF the
company with promtncss and ability.
There was but little wind, what there
was blowing in the right direction to
keep the fire from spreading to the
Mills. or the one side, and bindings
of the b. G.. d W. Railroad on the
other, otherwise the destruction OF
prop erty would have been much
greater. The loss is estimated at
nearly $r5, 900. No insurance.