The Monitor., 1884-02-15

heeVeS, OF the Dee Hive store was about to
close for the night, Lewis Mattson, residing
in Newtown, came in somewhat intoxicated
and told him that his sister, who was also a
sister-in-law of Mr.. Reeves wife, residing in
Camden, had requested him to see Mr.. Reeves
about taking her little boy for short time
and stating that the boy was then at his
(Mattson's) house. and that he would bring
him to Mr.. Reeves on the next day. After
closing his store Mr.. Reeves, at the sugges-
ton of his wife, went to Mr.. Mattson's house
after the child but did not find Mattson at
home, and was informed by Mrs. Mattson
that the child was not there, and had not
been there. At this juncture Mattson came
home disposed to be quarrelsome and after
some words with Mr.. Reeves struck him
twice, and after he left the house renewed
the assault, but was repulsed. Mr.. Reeves
started in pursuit of an officer to take Mattson
in charge, and Mrs. .Mattson, meanwhile, had
gone for her father, who, with Charles Go
forth, came to the house and tried to quiet
Mattson, and were in turn assaulted, but sue
ceeded in overpowering him, and the borough
marshal appearing, he was taken to the lock-
up until Monday morning, when Esquire Co.
forth held him to bail.
The surveyors of the highways met on
Tuesday and viewed the proposed new street
to the railroad opposite Watermans bakery,
and after hearing arguments for and against,
decided the street to be necessary and useful,
and laid the same three rods wide, to be
opened April 1st. Mrs. Sarah H. Bridgman
was awarded $50 damages for what part of
her land taken by the road, and Joseph Kelley
and Edward B. Riley one dollar each. John
W. Dickenson being an applicant for the
road, no award was made to him.
| Elizabeth, wife of Joshua Hewitt, of Sharp
town, died on Friday night last, and was
buried on Tuesday.
Jacob Davis, an old resident of Sharptown
died on Tuesday last.
1t is stated that the petitions to the West
Jersey Railroad for a midday train from
Salem to Philadelphia has been successful,
and that the train will be put on February
18th. Good, if true, and almost too good to
be true.
| No sheriff of Salem county has ever been
more attentive to the welfare of the prisoners
under his charge than Sheriff Coles, but oc-
casionally he has in custody an individual SO
lost to all sense of gratitude and the pro-
prieties of the situation, as to wish to forsake
the comfort and protection of the sheriff IS
stronghold for the snares and temptations of
| the world at large. Such an one was Louis
Miller, who was in Jail awaiting trial for
larceny, and on Wednesday evening of last
week, by means of dummy fixed up in the
bed of his cell,
"The same with intent to deceive
he succeeded in imposing on the warden of
the Jail and making his escape. Miller will
have better luck than he deserves if Sheriff
Coles don't nab him again.
Last Saturday morning, John H. Edwards
had hearing before Squire Dickinson upon
charge of maintaining disorderly house by
permitting card playing and gambling at his
tailor shop over Ruf's shoe store. Several
young men, most of them married and with fam
| lilies, were charged with frequenting the place
and gaming for money, and were subp@naed
as witnesses, but when sworn they displayed
most gratifying (if genuine) ignorance of
such unlawful recreations as were charged
against them, and Mr.. Edwards was dis
charged
E. S. Fogg has removed his law Office from
East avenue to the main street, second door
below John H. Turner's furniture store. We
called upon him in his new quarters and found
him very snugly fixed and ready to receive all
requiring his services.
Joshua Moore calls the attention of the
public in our advertising columns, to his
stock of goods in North Woodstown. Mr..
Moore is az obliging gentleman and seems to
give satisfaction. He makes specially of
wall papers, and will hang them for you too,
and from personal experience of his work in
that line, we can say that the paper hanger
who can beat. him hasn't moved into Woods
town yet.
The Young Mems Christian Association at
Mullica Hill has disbanded, and presented to
the w. G. T. q. of that place their furniture,
fuel and funds on hand.
Rev. A. j. Hires, formerly pastor of the