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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
Senator'S Autographs.
rChioa-o fTir,nar

Few are, perhaps, aware, whose at
tention has not been specially called to
it, how large business is done in auto
graphs in Washington. The pages of
the United States senate consider the
collection of those of senators one of
their perquisites, and frequently receive,
it is said, as much as SO for carrying an
autograph book through the chamber
while the senate is in session.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
Washington Not an Angler.
fPhiJadalnhia Call.

Jones-What an enthusiastic old
angler George Washington was!
Smith Washington! Why he was
not fisherman.
Jones-Indeed he was great lover
of the sport. He wrote book about it.
Smith-Are you not thinking of
Izaak Walton?
Jones-Izaak Walton! Why that's q
fact: SO was. It was not Washington,
of course. He was not an angler.
Smith-No, indeed; Washington
could not tell lie.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
Using the "Ankus" on an Elephant.
[RarraS' Hunting in India

The native Hindoo, from want of
thought, keeps up constant drumming
on the beasts head with the goad, or
"ankus;;" therefore hoped not to use
it at all. Such an improvement all at
once, however, proved more than the
elephantine mind could grasp. He be-
gan really to enjoy himself, going his
own way more than mine, till at last he
marched straight into an immense forest
tree of the banyan species, and COM
menced to browse. He seized the
boughs above his head, and tugging
violently at them, brought them down
on my devoted skull. This was too
much. raised the ankus and brought
it down on his head with blow that
brought blood through the skin. This
had the desired effect, and he at once
bundled off by the road he knew I
wanted to go. He merely took with
him branch about the size of small
apple tree to discuss as he went along.
From this moment we were friends, and
I do not think ever had to use the
hook again so as to bring blood.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
The Arizona may Market.

I
Every morning about 9 o'clock hay
train arrives at Quijotoa, Arizona, con-
sisting of from twenty to thirty Indian
squaws with regular mule load of
straw on their heads. They go into the
public square and sit by their bundles
until some one comes to buy. They
then lay in stock of tobacco and
whisky, with which the bucks will re-
gale themselves the next day while the
wives are gathering another load OF
nickel hay.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
Turned the Laugh.

There was an amusing occurrence on
the corner of Cherry and Church streets
which was witnessed by passers by. A
printer, nicnamed Little Breeches, "
from his diminutive size, met a colored
man of Jack Falstaff order. The
former began laughing at the latter,
when the huge proportioned colored
individual, said: Look-a-heah, white
mau, don't you make fun oh de work
OBJ de Almighty. He done finished me,
but He stopped on you before He was
half done"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
On q Death-SDree.
[Cor. n. o. Times-Democrat.

T saw young man to-day who had
$4,000 to spend, and only three months
for the job. How was that? Why, he
has consumption, and the doctors as
sure him that he will die about the 1st
of next July. He is rounder, and has
figured up his finances SO as to exactly
leave enough to bury him. The rest he
will spend in riotons pleasures. read
of such case, and didn't believe it;
but this one is fact, and isn't it horri-
BILE to think of death-spree?
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
TChicago Herald. ]

Samuel w. Baker, the African ex.
plorer. is quoted as saving that camels
will cross a desert with load of 400
pounds at the rate of thirty miles a
day, in the burning heat of summer,
and require water only every third or
fourth day. In the cooler months the
animal will work seven or eight days
without water, and if grazing on green
foliage, without labor, will only drink
once fortnight.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
They shall Lie Down Topetbar

There is q museum in the Winder
building in Washington of war troph-
les. in which is to be seen one of John
Browns pixies tenderly intertwined
with the carbine found on jeff Davis
when he was captured.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
Mild Hnms

Hogs sent to the market from Cali
fornia have to be trapped in the woods
In about the same manner as bears On
most of the ranches, it is said, the swine
are rs wild as deer through the woods,
and if cornerel they will place them
selves on the defensive and fight like
tiparS
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21

A patent medicine manufacturer adj
vertises for bald men who are willing
to have advertisements painted on the
tops of their heads "for high pecuni-
ary recompense.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21

NJ. j. Savage: However much room
there may always be at the top. only
few can ever get there. Society is q
pyramid, broadest at the base.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21

Met. L. Sa1ey: There are not the
chances Of money-making in staid old
Boston that there are in rushing Chi
cago; one reason being that Boston is
like an old mans frame-setfIed.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21

George William Curtis is reported
to have said that there is no important
literary project afoot either in Europe
or America.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
a Health Hint.

Don't call very large, strong, sinewy man
prevaricator If you are sure he is pre-
varicator, hire another man to carry the
news to him.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
RnSns Rufter Rest.
IC,,;ca on Herald

Oleomargarine is preferred to butter
by yachtsman who cruise in southern
waters, because it keeps sweet and
fresh, while butter gets rancid.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21

Servian: When you are guest to the
wolf, see that you have hound with
you.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
MulIica Hill.

If YOU wish to see a handsome display OF
goods, attend the fair and festival that's be
ING held by the w. c. T. I. 1t will be
continued until next Wednesday night.
Their goods are supertine.
The members of the Baptist Sunday
school will give an entertainment in the
Town Hall on New Years Eve. Proceeds
to benefit the school.
Frank b. Ridgway, Mrs, Julia Ridgway,
David Borton and Mrs. Lydia Borton were
representatives at the State Grange OF New
Jersey. held at Trenton last week.
William Allen sold his farm last Monday
at pubIic sale. Mr.. Care, of Mantua, be-
inc the highest bidder, became the owner.
It is rumored that it was purchased for his
son. Frank Carrie, who has been farming
for one year at Cross Keys.
At the Centennial exhibition at Phila-
delphia i'll 1876, 95 per cent. OF the teach
ers in New Jersey and 1000 pupils were
represented. 1t is a question now among
the teachers of Gloucester county. whether
the display at New Orleans will exceed
that of 1876 in Philadelphia or not
Although the pupils of our schools have
not been allowed to let it interfere Will
their regular course of study, they have
done well their part, and much credit Is
due them for their extra effort.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
The Fare TO New Orleans.

The Worlds Industrial and Cotton Cen
tennial Exposition opened at New Orleans.
La, last Tuesday, and will continue until
May 3lst, 1885. For the benefit of the
large number of visitors who will be at
tracted thither, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has placed N sale at all the
principal stations of its system excursion
tickets to New Orleans, good to return I'M
til May 31st. 1885. In consideration of the
reduced rate at which the tickets are sold
they are subject to certain conditions as to
limitation Of trips going and returning.
These conditions are simple and will be eX-
planned in detail by agents. The tickets
are of two classes: Those covering the
same route i'll both directions, and those
covering one route going and a different
route returning, The round-trip rate of
tickets going and returning the same route
from Philadelphia TO New Orleans is S43. 90,
and going by one route and returning an
other. 81. IS except where the trip is made
in one direction via Atlantic Coast Line, in
which case the rate is 500. 80.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
Relic! Hello!

In an interview on Wednesday with John
G.. Reeves, who is obtaining subscriptions
for the proposed telephone line to Woods
town. he gave us the following particulars
Of the enterprise. which is one that should
commend itself to all our citizens.
Our readers are probably aware that
Muliica Hill already has telephone conmu-
n~ication with the outside world, and the
people of that village are generally pleased
with the facilities afforded. Two or three
instances Of its practical value have come
under our own observation at that place.
Mr.. Reeves tells us that the matter is in
charge of the Bell Telephone Company:
that they propose continuing the line from
Mullica Hill through H~arrisonville and FL
bridges Hill to Woodstown: and. after the
line is built. will establish their office in
some central and convenient locality. The
amount required to build the line is seven
ty-five dollars per mile or six hundred dol
lars in all. All the company asks is pledg-
ed subscriptions to that amount in shares
Of ten dollars each, and they Will forthwith
build the line, and subscriptions are not
payable until the line is completed. Each
subscriber will then, upon payment of his
subscription. receive for each ten dollars
subscribed and paid, a book of forty coupons,
each emitting him to one twenty-five-cent
message; SO that, practically, his subscrip-
ton costs him nothing, as he receives it
back in use of the line at his convenience.
The plan is equivalent to guaranteeing to
the company that if the line is built. it will
do sufficient business to defray the expenses
of construction. A subscriber sending a
message costing less than twenty-five cents
and rendering a coupon in payment, will
receive the difference IN money.
There is III risk for subscribers to run.
and the only question is as to the advantage
of a telephone in our town, about which,
we imagine, there can be but one opinion.
1t will bring us into direct and easy COM
munieation with nearly every town of any
size in South Jersey, as well as with Phila-
delphia; aud, as the system is constantly
being extended to new towns, its facilities
will be more and more valuable every year.
Mr.. Reeves had on Wednesday some
thing over $3.50 subscribed, and we hope
that in our next issue we may be able to
report the full amount secured.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
About Sullivan.

Over eight hundred citizens assembled
last Sunday evening in the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church at Melville to listen
to the discourse of the Rev. Mr.. Westwood
on THE Fate of Sullivan, the Murderer =
He did not wish to leave the impression
that his sermon was sensational. and left
the congregation as judges ofwhat the ver-
diet should be. Mr.. Westwood's sermon
was thoroughly practical in tone. and re-
lated to those who violated other COM
mandments as well as the one which says
thou shalt not kill" He talked to the
hearts as well as the heads of his hearers,
and preached one OF the me which if
not sensational ought to create a reason
able sensation. There was little in it to
sanction the delusion that all murderers
who are executed go from the gallows to
heaven, simply because it is comfortable for
them to do so.-HalriHe Bulletin.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
Malicious Mischief.

Thomas Whitaker and Harry VANS
lev. two lads from Camden, visited
Woodstown on Tuesday remaining all
night in the Borough. The next day they
started for the house of a relative of one of
them living near Auburn, and ON the way,
when near Josiah NJ. Batten's farm house
near Auburn, they set fire to a lot of stalks
stacked along the fence belonging to Mr..
Batten. The flames consumed a quantity
of the stalks and destroyed some of the
fence. Mr.. Batten had a warrant issued
for their arrest but Whitaker escaped.
The other was brought before Esquire Go
forth on Wednesday evening and commit
ed to the lock up to await a further hear
inc in the morning. Next day after a hear
ING he was committed to Salem Jail to
await the action of the Grand Jury.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
rEODA

c. G. Dickinson, Esq, Of Camden. was
visiting in Woodstown this week.
We are glad to see n. r. Smith out
again, fully recovered from his recent Sc
rious illness.
John Manning, son of Patrick Manning.
IS learning the art typographical in the
MONITOR composing ooms.
John A. Dialogue, Proprietor of the
Camden Ship Building Works, was in
town on Monday, visiting his friend, Jehu
i. Allen.
&. F. Lewis, principal of our Public
School, was summoned to his home in
Pennsylvania to-day on account Of the Sc
rious illness of a sister.
Smith Bowen, an old resident and a large
property owner here, spent Saturday and
Sunday in Woodstown. Mr.. B. contem-
plates a trip to Florida this winter.
Col. J. w. Dickinson, of Woodstown.
held the position of Secretary of the State
Grange, p. of H., for seven years. His
successor is also a Woodstown man as also
was his predecessor in the office. the late
VIM. c. Hates.
Frank P. Harris, our druggist, and his
brother, ID. W. Harris, who is staying
with him through the holidays, are both ac-
compliShed musicians and proficient on sew
eral instruments. They will assist at the
Christmas entertainments at the Methodist
and Presbyterian churches with cornet
and baritone horns.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
Petit Jurors.

Judges Plummer, Wood and Hitchner,
County Clerk Coles and Sheriff Kelly, met
at the Court House Tuesday morning, and
selected the following list of petit Jurors
to serve at the January Term of Courts:
Elkanah Powell, Quinton.
, Edward W~addington, Elsinboro.
3 John +. Thompson, Salem.
4 Thompson y. Carton, ~Pittssrovc.
> Elmer sparks, Oldmans
& William Chase, AllowaY.
Joseph Crispin, LII Neck.
s Daniel Dixon, l.. \. Creek.
Q James c. Bivin, Quinton.
10 Paul Erhardt, salem.
II John W. Finlaw, L.. \. Creek.
II Cooper Layton, T.. +. Neck.
- samuel Carney, Pilesgrove.
II Alfred -. Richman, Upper PittsgrOve.
ID james Abbott, Pilesgfove.
Il Edward Garrison, Pittsgrove.
II Asa Turner, Oldmans.
is c. 6. Bailey, salem.
10 Thompson Hinchman. Warrington.
20 William Diver, [. Z. Neck.
p David PauIin, l.. p. Neck.
- Henry V. Foster, Pilesgrove.
% Patrick Manning, Warrington.
2i Clark G. Hewitt, Pilesgrove.
p W. II. Walker, L. p. Neck.
26 David u. Leap, I. 2. Neck.
p Henry b. Coles, PittsgrOye.
d samuel Justice, I. Neck.
- George Boggs, Salem.
30 John =. Fox, Elsinboro.
81 Benjamin Featherer, L. P. Neck.
- Henry NJ. Wright, l. p. Neck.
30 Charles He'll, Warrington.
81 Thomas Stretch, l.. ~Pittsgrove.
30 Henry Ridgway, Oldmans.
% w. H. sheppard, Salem.
81 Richard Lawrence. LII Neck.
- samuel +. Alien, Warrington.
80 Charles Sickler, Alioway.
10 benjamin D.. Brooks, [. Pittsgrovc.
II William II. Acton, Huntington.
u William Nallen, Quinton.
81 Albert Remster, .Ailoway.
II Archibald shrimp, Alloway.
10 James Lawrence, Warrington.
46 samuel Locuson, PilesgroVe.
AZ Josiah NJ. Batten, Piies9rove.
- Patrick Deaugan, oldmans.
Sheriff Kelly has selected the following
constables to serve at Court William Car.
ney and John Buckalew, Salem Charles
B. Robinson, Pilesgrove Enoch Garrison,
Pittsgrove Lorenzo Wood, L. p. Neck
William B. Titus. Oldmans Firman Went.
zell, Alloway Jacob V. Harvey, L. Pitts
grove; Charles Morrison, l.. \. Creek
William Manyan. L. 2. Neck.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
Changes and improvements.

David F. Broadway is building a house in
Newtown on the lot between the proper
ties of Charles Green and Jonathan Bee.
Mrs. Ruth Stow has had Il very pretty
iron fence put in front of her residence on
Salem street. VIM. B. Foster, the marble
man on Salem street, did the work and
furnished the fencing.
i. B. Humphreys is arranging for the
building of a large two story brick store
on Salem street adjoining John II. Wrig-
gins residence, to be 70 feet in depth by 40
feet front. 1t will be occupied by the firm
of E. B. Humphreys & Co., as a branch of
their present establishment, keeping some
of the same line of goods as at their old
store and probably other lines i'll which
they do not now deal. The buildings now
standing on the lot will be moved to the
other side of G0forth's barber shop and
segar store.
Mahlon D., Dickinson this week removed
his office. which for % years has stood on
the lot south of Isaac Ballinger's residence,
to the yard attached to his own residence
on Salem street. The rear part of the
building many years ago stood on the lot
attached to Henry S. Wright's residence,
opposite George b. Grier's store and was
occupied by VIM. VI. Cawley, surveyor and
~conveyancer. who then owned and lived in
the Wright property. He moved the Of
flee to its uptown location in the autumn
of 1862 and added the front to it, occupy
ing it until his death.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
scraps Along The Strands.

Some time next month two of Upper
Neck's best folks will have a silver we'd
ding and a grand good time is expected.
| hope they will be alive, healthy and
happy when the next golden morn dawns
a quarter of a century from now.
Albert Risner's horse ran away in Ped
ricktown the other day and hurt his, His-
ner's, head, but his wife was not injured.
This horse has hurt him before. a I'M
away horse is not cheap at any price and a
kicker ditto. 1t is not a pleasant sensa-
ton to find yourself elevated by a horses
heels, to the caves of the cowshed, every
three weeks.
The farmers laugh and grow fat with
their $500 potatoes.
There is plenty of good pasturage N the
meadows.
A hired girl in South P~ennsgrove has
fallen heir to SIS, 900 they say by death of
her brother. He had his life insured.
The girls repeated the broom brigade at
P%ennsgrove on Saturday night. 1t is a
happy thought for our girls to learn to
flourish the broom.
George Shannon has gone to the sunny
south to prepare for the fishers. Seth
Leap, Jr., has moved to Camden, and
Norvel Leap has left Pennington and COME
pack to P~ennsgrove.
Abner Simpkils is preparing to leave his
farm near Pennsgrove and will go in the
green grocery business at Camden with his
son, Jonathan. Mr.. S%impkins will make a
vendue soon. He has two colts that can
not be told apart five rods of. David
Perry, Jr., will take his farm on shares.
Mr.. Simpkin's son George, who had his
foot torn off by the engine early in the
Fall, hopes to walk with crutches on
Christmas. Last week he smoked his first
cigar since the disaster.
Anna Barber, to the joy of everybody, is
nearly well. Il. 5. X.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
The Concert.

The Musical Entertainment given by
Professor Pierce last Friday evening, the
occasion being the commencement of the
Woodstown branch of the Musical Acad-
envy, was highly successful. The concert
was not intended to be a display of talent,
but simply to afford the parents and friends
of the pupils an opportunity to judge of the
progress made during the quarter just end
ed, consequently the performers are not
properly subject to criticism if, indeed,
there was room for any. The audience,
composed of the friends and families of the
pupils, specially invited, was large and at
tentive and expressed great satisfaction
with the manner in which the lengthy pro-
gramme was rendered, which bore ample
testimony to the efficiency of the instruc-
ton received in the Academy. Professor
Geibel was present and rendered several
selections, noticeably a violin solo imita-
ting different sounds and instruments.
which was heartily applauded.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
Holiday Excursion Tickets.

As has been for years customary, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will place
on sale during the Christmas and New
Year holidays, excursion tickets betweenall
principal points on its main line and the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, Baltimore and Potomac Rail-
road, Northern Central Railway, and West
Jersey Railroad. These tickets will be
sold on December 23d, 24th, 25th, Both.
and 31st, 1884, and January LIST, 1885, and
will be good to return until January 9TH,
1885. inclusive. For any additional infor-
nation inquire at the ticket offices of the
y
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
Another Rail Road MIshHp.

The train from Salem due here at 1:24,
on Wednesday morning, was delayed near
Middleton by the bursting of a boiler tlue,
which let the water out OF the boiler into
the furnanee, e~xtinguishing the fire. The
train was obliged to lie helpless on the
track till the next train due here at 6.13
came up and the latter train pushed the
disabled one to Woodstown, where the
locomotive was left and the cars hooked on
to the rear of the late train, which pro
ceeded ON its way considerably behind
time.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19

FR~IENDs-Serviees on First and Fifth days at
1890 A.. NJ. Monthly meeting first Tuesday
after last Monday in the month. Society meet
ing, Thursday before last Monday. Sunday
School meets at 8 o'clock every sunday morn
ing.
Services at 1900 A. NJ. and 100 z. NJ. Prayer
meeting Wednesday at 40 =. VI.
sunday School at 200 y. NJ, &. III. Itichman,
superintendent.
BAPrGsr-Rev j. L. Wilson.
Services at 1000 \. NJ. and 100 p. NJ. Prayer
meeting Thursday at 100 p. NJ.
sunday School at 200 p. NJ, Joseph Turner,
superintendent.
PREsBYrERIAN-Rev o. b. McCurdy.
Services at 1890 a. NJ. and 100 p. NJ. Prayer
meeting Wednesday at 40 p. NJ.
superintendent.
CATHOLIC
Services third sunday in the month at HOO
4. NJ.
WoMAN's CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
Meets every Thursday afternoon ut 80
o'clock. President, Mrs. ID. Ware Correspond
ing Secretary, Miss Annie Macaltioner.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-19
LOCAL WIS.

Snow.
Winter.
Christmas.
Pay your AK.
Turkey-time again.
Apples are good and cheap.
The c~heapness is lucky for us.
The squeal of the dying hog is heard.
Shoe the setting hen out of the old sleigh,
If Won have any setting hens this time of
year.
Vendue season coming around, We
print vendue bills,
Or anything else i'll the printing line, you
may happen to need.
Before you chose your Christmas present
Gallon our druggist, f. +. Harris, where
YOU will find a fine assortment of suitable
articles at cheap prices.
The mill property at Daretown was pur-
chased last week by William Avis, of Ell
mer. for $1,000. Mr.. Avis intends to rent
his store property at Elmer and move to
Daretown i'll the Spring.
Many of our citizens are busy gathering
moss, laurel and other greens for Christ
mas trade. There are hundreds of barrels
of greens shipped from here every year,
and the aggregate sum received from them
will amount to hundreds of dollars.
The fair and festival now being held by
the W. c. 7. T., of Mullica Hill, in the
new reading room building, is probably
one of the most attractive things ofthe sort
ever held in this part of the State. You
should be sure to attend. 1t closes next
Wednesday evening.
Rev. VIM. w. Johnson and Jesse John
son, of YORKTOWN, are about to give a
series of entertainments consisting of illus
trated views of Bible and miscellaneous
scenes, including a series of views from
''Ten Nights in a Barroom. The frst
entertainment will be given at Yorktown
tomorrow evening, and the succeeding
ones at such places as they may make ar
rangements for.