The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-07-28
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and $50 chickens in SPACE of frfy
by twenty feet, has been arrested and
held on charge Of maintaining
nuisance.
The barns of the Honeywell place
at MADDEN Centre, near Red Bank,
Monmouth county, were destroyed by
fire on Thursday morning, with loss
of $1,000, insured for $4,000 in Lon
don companies.
Alexander Adamson, a New York
merchant, was arrested in Jersey City
on Wednesday night, for kidnapping
his 6.year-old daughter and threaten
ing to kill his son Frank. He was
fined SO, but was given the custody
of his daughter.
A complaint is made that the fish
10 Hackensack River are dying in
large numbers from the leakage of the
pipes Of the Oil Pipe Company.
A new silk factory-2OO by Al
fcet-is being erected at Boonton,
Morris county. The building will be
Of brick, four stories high.
Martin Edwards, Of Vineland: had
one Of bis fingers bitten off day or
two since while feeding bis dog.
Mrs. Jones, the wife Of the keeper
Of the Gloucester County Almshouse,
also lost one Of her fingers recently by
horse she was petting
II the South becomes fully recon-
ciled and the North ditto. Grantism
dies with the Staiwart cause 10 New
York, civil service reform is quietly
brought about by practice and not by
theory, protection against "a tariff for
revenue only" becomes fixed fact,
and the President RECEIVERS full health
and strength, about the only issue we
will have in 1884 will be JAMES A.
GARFIELD ineland Independent
Mayor Wright, Of Vineland, having
rendered his resignation to the Coun-
Gil and left town, Justice Mason was
elected Mayor in his place.
Thomas L Brayton, Deputy Col-l
lector Of Internal Revenue at Central,
South Carolina, was killed on We'd
nesday morning by illicit distillers
John M. BookwaIter and Colonel
Edgar M. johnson, the Democratic
nominees for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, on Wednesday
telegraphed from Saratoga their ac-
ceptance Of the nomination.
Mrs. John Tichtner threw concen
trated lye into the face of DR.. G. w.
Priest, a dentist, at his Office in
Louisville, on Wednesday and it is
feared that his eyesight Is destroyed
She alleges that he betrayed her, but
he denies the accusation.
Sitting Bull and the remnant Of his
band surrendered on Wednesday at
Fort Buford, to the United States
military authorities. There were |
about 200 followers with the fallen
chief.
Levi p. Morton, our new Minister
to France, sailed from New York on /
Wednesday for Havre, in the steam
ship Amerique.
Nils Peterson, committed in Brook
Ign for vagrancy, and who attempted
to kill q companion 10 the same cell, L
hanged himself with piece Of rope
taken from his bed. He was to
have been sent TO the insane asylum
ct Auburn, on Thursday.
A gang, Or gangs, Of thieves APP
pear to be 10 the southern section
fthe State, stealing almost anything
they can lay their hands on. The
following report ofthsir doings within
the last ten day has been cleaned /: |
A house in Cooper street, Woodbury.,
was entered and all the tools Of
number Of carpenters stole therefrom.
An ice-house, In the same town, was
broken open quantity Of ice carried
of. The front door Of the Odd Eel
lows Lodge Building, also in Wood
bury, was forced open but nothing
taken.
A house on Weymouth road, near
Newfeld, the family being absent, was
entered aud robbed of stove and
quantity Of household goods. The
house Of William Somerville, in the
same vicinity, was robbed Of a bureau
bed-clothing, wearing apparel, and a
quantity Of household goods, deeds
and other legal papers. The thieves
afterwards set Ere to the barn on the
premises, and il was totally destroyed.
In Shiloh, Cumberland county,
there was stolen from w. Fl. Barrett's
stable, set Of harness, whip, brush,
fly nets, &c. and from William
Hitchuer, q set of harness, blankets,
10.
A few nights ago three dogs got
into flock Of Southdown sheep be-
longing to- Daniel P. Derrell, at Al
Youngstown, and Killed twelve of them,
On Wednesday afternoon tho bur-
ial Of Rev. Timothy Thorney, aged
eighty-one years, took place, the SER
vices being performed in the Third
street Methodist church, Camden. 1t
was largely attended, as he had been
local exhorter in that church for
several years, and a member of much
activity and usefulness.
Justice Cassidy, of Camden, on