Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-08-26
TIMELY TOPICS.


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An article in the New York Sun says
that Holyoke, Mass, is the great center
of the paper trade of this country. The
town contains 10000 inhabitants, of
whom 1900 are employed in the seven
teen large paper mills of the place. The
capital invested in the paper trade at
Holyoke is estimated at about S5, 900, 900,
and there are annually produced about
36, 500 tons of paper. The mills are run
by water power.
Henry Face killed the young man who
had wronged his daughter, at Clerken-
well, England, and public sentiment
favored him so strongly that fund was
raised to support his family during the
year and half of Imprisonment to
which he was sentenced. His escape
from worse punishment was regarded
as lucky, and he went to prison in good
spirits. But his daughter taunted him
with being murderer, and in conse-
quence of that he hanged himself in his
cell:
An association, under the name of the
" Jasper Monumental Association y has
been formed at Savannah, Ga, for the
the purpose of erecting a monument to
Sergeant Jasper, who on the 9th day of
October, l779, fell in the attack of the
American forces on Savannah. The
sergeant's exploit in leaping over the
ramparts of Fort Moultrie, Charleston
harbor, during the hottest part of the
British attack at that place, and fixing
anew the flag which had been shot from
its staff, will be remembered as one of
the most stirring episodes of the Revolu-
tionary war.
A Missouri farmer has been figuring
on the damage done by dogs in that
State. In tltirty-twO counties l0,602
sheep have been killed He estimates
the number of dogs in thirty-two co1ln-
ties to be 1852, 900; that a hog will thrive
on the food necessary to support an
able bodied dog, and at the end of the
year weigh 200 pounds; therefore, if the
food for these 462, 600 dogs was given to
the hogs, it would make 93,000,0u
pounds of pork, worth at least six cents
a pound, or $4, $50, ,000-nearly twice tile
value of all the school-houses in the
State, and more than twice the amount
used by the State for school purposes.
The classification of q company at one
of the seaside hotels, by p child who
had not troubled herself to remember
names, has great deal of significance.
To her they were g the lady who whines,
as if she were going to cry;n ''the lady
who talks abotlt her headache;n & tile
lady who scolds the children for making
a noise, and who plays the piano so
much herself;" the kind lady who
speaks to all the strangers !" the happy
lady who draws pictures and lets us look
over lief sf1oulderi'' '''the young man
who thinks he is hahds0mei" and the
boy who always offers to take you out in
his boat when nobody else will take
YOU" Truly, many things which are
thought to be hid by the wise and pru-
dent are revealed unto babes.
Even princes sometimes starve to
DEATH Recently, the St. Petersburg
papers announced the death from sheer
starvation of Prince Serge Michaelovicl /
Galitzin, employed as censor of books,
and removed By "suureme orders" to
Odessa, where he took lodging in the
house of a carpenter, occupying dark,
damp room, of such limited dimensions
that his coffin could not be got into it.
An inquir elected the fact that for
months be had subsisted on dry bread,
with occasionally norsel of cheese or
an apple He left no effects save the
rags on him when he died. His mother
is wealthy dame, resident in Moscow.
where she owns several houses. a fine
mansion surrounded by park and a
fashionable nunnery. His wife-for the
unfortunate nobleman was married
hastened from Moscow to attend the
funeral, but was too late.