The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-26
STATE NEWS.

Newark GAG elbows nave III COLtellp ld-
ton the erection Of a $3.50, 900 hall.
Jersey City has a debt of over SIS, 600,
900, and there is nearly 81, 900, 600 in
taxes unpaid.
One-fourth of Trenton's workmen are
said to be now out Of employment, but the
outlook is encouraging.
Miles Ross has been appointed Riparian
Commissioner of New Jersey, by Governor
Albeit, in place of General Gershom Mott,
deceased.
Mrs. William Ryle. of Paterson, has
given a lot in that city to the Presbyter-
ians. on which a large and handsome church
will be erected.
Portion of the Isaac Davis pottery in
Trenton. was destroyed by fire last week.
Loss $40. 600. One hundred and twenty
five men are thrown out Of employment.
Three postmastcrs have died in Bergen
county within as many weeks. Messrs.
Wortendyke, of Wortendyke; Esler, Of
Saddle River, and Van Dien. of Ridge
wood.
William II. Dugan, the incendiary who
attempted TO set fire to the residence of ex-
Attorney General Rawle. of Pennsylvania,
near Trenton has been sentenced to three
months Imprisonment.
The Mansion House, at Long Branch,
New Jersey. was destroyed by fire soon
after one o'clock on Saturday morning.
The loss is estimated at $50, 600. The main
building was unoccupied, and incendiar-
ism is suspected.
4 strong effort will be made at the
coming session of the New Jersey Legis-
lature, it is reported. to amend the laws SO
that the killing of songsters and bright
plumaged birds for millinery trimmings
can no longer be done under the cloak of
science.
Special Detectives Plat and Ore, of the
West Jersey Game Protective Society, have
during the present season destroyed over
1000 game snoods, and made a number of ar
rests for illegal cunning. Notwithstanding
the large amount of game killed throughout
the jurisdiction Of the Society, rabbits and
quails are still reported plentiful in some
of the counties.
A committee appointed by the Presbyter-
ian Synod of New Jersey appeared before
the trustees of the New Jersey State Reform
School last week to protest against the ia
vOrs which the synod says are shown by
the board to Roman Catholics. the latest
grievance being the appointment of Ira
Otterson, a Roman Catholic, as superinten-
lent of the school.
A comparison of the official returns of
the late election in this State shows heavy
Republican losses in the largest cities,
such as Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth
and New Brunswick, and heavy Republi-
can gains in the smaller cities. such as
Trenton, Camden, Bridgeton and Hoboken.
The only exception is in Paterson, where
the Republican vote increased II per cent.
Calathumpian bands bothered Frank Bias
sett of ~IIammonton, who has recently been
married. After trying variou means of de-
Tense, he laid a train of explosives from his
home tothe sidewalk One night last week,
just as the band was preparing to make
music, the train exploded sending a shower
of stones flying through the air. No one
was killed. Lawsuits will probably grow
out of the trouble.
The Morris County Sunday School Assoc
citation has inaugurated a movement te
erect Il monument over the grave Of Con-
gresham John Hill, of two-cent postage
fame. who was the first secretary of the as
sociation, and held the position ten years,
On a recent Sunday collections for this pur
pose were taken up in the schools of tho
county. They averaged less than 80 a
school, and aggregate about 800. The
committee is not satisfied that this will
erect a satisfactory monument, and will Ell
deavor to have it greatly increased. One
suggestion is that the field of collection be
extended to embrace all the Sunday Schools
Of the State. Another plan is to start a
general postage stamp subscription, with
the idea that everyone will send a two-cent
stamp i'll memory Of Mr.. Hill.