The Penn's Grove record., 1882-08-05

y. ~ unt, tOT tue past lew ,HOnihS ahc
the principal of Wilmington High
School, declines q = e-slection. The ed
Vocational facilities in Delaware are
too far behind the age to suit a live
MAJ Ike Mr.. Ra.De." We thought
rs much when we learned that Chas.
had accepted the POSITION.
The Excelsior Cornet Band of Salem
made AN excursion to this place on
Wednesday OF last week. During the
day they visited / ivtr's vi DDS where
the NJ. L. Sunday-schools were picnic
ing aud ehlivened things with some ex
cellent music. They were highly com
plimrnted for their proficiency.
A lively crab causes more c%onsterna-
tion in a boat filed with women than
a mouse in the parlor, because there
are no tables to jump upor.
At Mickleton, Gloucester County,
tHo chestnut trees grow from an Old
stump, entirely seperate and distinct
from each other, with room enough to
walk between them. At "a height of
eight feet they join together and form
one perfect round trunk, without ridge
or seam, ana much larger than the
] yer part of the trunk Of either. The
{ &c is about f0rty-fve feet high aud
thrifty growth.
Avast e~xcursionists and pleasure
seekers! Consider what tLou art do
ins. The Boys III Blue under the aus
pieces of the &. a. r., cIntemp attd
making an excursion to Cape May by
the Mommoth Iron Steamer RI pub
lic," between the 18th and 31st oil This
month. Acton Post No. 81, extends
al Invitation to all those that are i'll
8 mi athy wi the G. A. r., to go with
them. ComfUrt, pleasure and ceugen-
ia 'ity Will be the prevailing motive
that will actuate and govern the ad-
visory committee. The event will be
p~lacardsd at an early date giving full
particulars. Fare for adul s IS cents.
Proceeds for the benefit Of the relief
fund of Acton Post.
There is more truth than poetry in
the following: Ask some men for All
advertisement and they will answer
that they don't believe in Advertising,
a paper is never read. Let . man he
caught kissing his neighbours wife, or
trying TO held up the side of = barn
some dark night, and his tone changes
Immediately, aud if . printing Office is
in the garnet Of = seyenteen-story |
building he will climb to the top to beg
the editor to keep quiet-''don't pub
lish i'll"
We still hear complaints of the alb
sence Of fnger-boards in some Of the
townships of this County. A State
law requires commissioners Of high
ways 10 erect and keep III order, at
functions of all public highways, guide
or iinger-boards, pointing out and CIV
ing the distance 10 neighboring villages
and hamlets. In several of the town.
ships this law is ignored. In other
townships guide boards have been
erected, but they have been destroyed
or mutilated so tina: they are of 10 use.
The law says they shall be kept in good
order by the township authorities.
The penny-wise and pound.foolish ac-
ton may in the end cause the loss Of
many.dollars to the taxpayers, as some
of these days suit will be brought to
O the fines which are imposed
for noncompliance with the law. Gto d
authority says that every dollar in
fines can be collected.
Mrs. Mary Smith, the wife of henry
Smith, "a well-known butcher Of Bor-
dentown, became the mother Of a child
with two heads, last Sunday. In order
t. save the life OF the mother, the oper
alton of embryotomy was performed
and the nonitrosity only lived a few
hours after being brought into the
world.
The owners OF a farm near Holmdel,
Monmouth county, a few days ago dis
covered an immense column OF army
worms advancing in the direction OF
their corn fields. All tie availab Q
force Oh the farm was at once called
out, and a deep ditch was dug along
the side of the field, between the corn
and the worms, aud when the ditch
was filed with the pests, kerosene was
poured in and Rred. Tie flames, Of
course, CONSUMED the occul ants of the
ditch, but did not check the advance
of those behind, nor urn aside the
line of march. The fire Was kept up
until The rear guard had tumbled into
the d tch and been consumed. A
~neighboring farmer, whose premises
were invaded, die not have time to dig
a trench, so be scattered straw in front
of the advancing hosts, sprinkled ker-
os~ne over the straw and fired that.
Quite an excitement was GRATED in
Giassloro, on Monday ; fterRoon eflast
week, by the discovery CT the body Of a
man in the woods a short distance
from The town, who was supposed to
have been murdered. Henry Keeler, .
teamster in the employ of Whitney 4
Bro. glass manufacturers, WAS attrac-
ted by a strorg smell coming from q
little hcllsw in a lonely spot where
brush is growing thiekly. He vent in
to see hat caused it, when a flock of
buzzards Jew away from the place.
Keller Was considerably startled TO
end the mutilated remains of q man,