The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-14

making Al addition to his house.
The thaw came a little TOO soon 70
some Of our ice men.
Boys he careful about skating o.
htin ice.
Tie Pcdricktown band purchased
THEN instruments on Monday.
What has become Of the Hook an,
ladder Company? Has it been dis
bauded2
1t is again time to agitate the qucs
ton Of a FIRE department. Let some
thing he done. ADIdh1
Alfred T. LaJtbn went South OF
Wednesday with Mr.. BrdhnY Hen, Il
butcher for thai firm. III
Zebe1ee Greggs has houghtthe WA
lam Allen farm of forty acres nea.
Pedriektown, for $500.
Young men not engaged" should
remember that & good husband is ar
excellent present for a young lady a
this, or any other season of the year.
Now is ye time when ye young mar
lielh abed an extra hour and taketh
ye later train and soeth unto We head
of We firm .snd saith ~"verily | was de-
tainethby We fog'-and We other clerks
winketh, aye every Ole to another, but
We hoss tumbleth not.
About twenty of the sturgeon fishers
started South last Saturday, and ten
or fifteen more ON Wednesday morning.
Extra meetings are being held every
evening in both the NJ. Z. and Mari
ners' Bethel churches.
Joseph Abbott aged 20, was hanged
in the jail yard in Elmira, N. Y, on
Friday morning Of last week, for the
murder Of George Reed, a fellow con-
Wet, April10, 1880.
Martin Kankowski, the murderer of
Nina Muller, was hanged in the coun-
ty Jail III Jersey Cityat 10.I3 a. m. yes
terday week. He was firm and COM
posed, and died declaring his innocence.
1t may add somewhat to the beauty
of II piece of coin TO have a hole drilled
in il, but certainly does not improve
its value as any one may know on trial
at oHr stores.
The annual meeting Of Mural Lodge,
No. S6, L. 90. f., took place on Sat-
urday evening last, with open doors,
to elect the Incorporate Board for this
year. The following were unanimous
ly elected: President, William Tussey;
Vice President, III. NJ. Flatagin; Sec
Rotary, Z. z. Barnart; Treasurer, S. z.
Leap; Directors, james T. Layton,
james. G.. Murphy, Robert Merlin,
Gerard Sparks and John L. Burden.
Tie old year has passed and the new
year has begun. That past has bean
prov!dentially best, but the advanta-
GEES bestowed have not been wisely used
Our harvests have been good, but fool
ish speculation has taken from us some
of the advantages possessed. We have
not exported as much as might have
been done. and have lost the foreign
market in Part. Speculation, railroad
wars and other causes, have fri.trred
away advantages. All this has oper..
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been really conferred. Yet there has
teen much of business energy and pro-
gress. and the year has been marked by
much favor. The year before us is pc
culiarly promising. There are indi-
cations of much that is pleasant and
hopeful. Ii the nation shall have the
wisdom to properly utilize its blessings
the year upon which we have entered
will be prosperous and happy.
The firm of a. z. layton and Bro,
has been dissolved by mutual consent,
notice of which is given in another
column. Those indebted to the firm
had better call and settle at once and
same trouble and costs.
The schooner T. b. Garland arrived
here on Wednesday loaded with East
EN- ice for Henry Bruins. Several
teams have been engaged III the unload
ing of her.
On Saturday evening Capt. Daven-
port and wife celebrated their twenty
fifth wedding anniversary. with many
friends present. After partaking Of re-
frsshments, and u grand display If
music by the Penn's Grove Cornet
Band, Rev. J. b. Turpin made a speech
in behalf of the Captain and his wife,
which was followed by silent applause
led by 1. p. Simkins.
A complimentary supper was tender
ell William q. Casper, late Democratic
candidate for Senator in this county,
by his Democratic friends, at French's
hotel, WoodstoNn, last evening.
As January Is the time for paying al
the forgotten bills of the year he. ore,
it is not strange that February should
be the shortest month in the year.
Guiteau makes a great mistake if he
thinks he will get credit for being i'll
sane simply because he announces HIM
self a presidential candidate for 1884.
Lots OF people are in the sanae boat.
A wretched Hartford man points
out that the Shipton prophecy WAS, of
course, made under the old style,
which would extend 1881 until March
81, leaving over 20 days in which it
may yet be fulfilled.
What about that Doro ugh business?
It is about time something was done.
SO we can have the trees cut down out
of the sidewalks, and have them fixed
nm.