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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-22

Dat Niger seed de zig was up. He
knOw'd 'tWan't no use any longer, and he
sing out, he did, i want ter cit on de Cos
pei ship. too He Sc skeered an got so
weak dat his bad heart done melt his
mule ways done lef i'm, and spite his
sinful ways, he was keered Tor by de
Cap'n in de gospel ship. Re was lifted up,
and jes as de shark made q pass fur i'm.
Mr.. Shark jump right spraHg on de bank
and into de lions mOuf, and was ct up
quicker'n you could say Jack ROberson.''
''Yaas, Lawd, deed he was" cried out
several sisters who had listened breath
lesslp at the discourse until the climax
was reached.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-22

APPROXIMATIONS PRIZES.
Approximation Prizes Of $3.50. 80. Sc, T5g
Approximation Prizes Of 800 49, 4 50U
Approximation Prizes of $50 49, 225O
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-22
CAPITAL PRIZE s75, 900.

L00,0 COO Tickets at Five Dollars Each. frac
tions in Fifths in proportion.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
Hurhville.

This is very small but pleasant village con-
tanning a church, schoolhouse, few stores,
twenty-five houses. and one licensed hotel. An
effort was made at this term of court to prevent
the present landlord from obtaining license. The
former landlord has left the business but in leas-
ing the house to the present occupant it was
stipulated as a condition of the lease that license
should be secured Our people believed that
there was no need of dramshop in this place
so they petitioned the court to grant no license
for the present year. The protest was not
against the man who had come to keep the
house, but against the house. The number and
character of the people who protested against
the dramshop were such that Judge Parker very
reluctantly granted the license. 1t is believed
that no license would have been granted had it
not been that number of respectable citizens
signed paper and testified to the effect that a
licensed house is needed. These people will no
doubt live long enough to regret their inconsid-
crate action.
A widespread feeling of indignation exists in
this community on account of this house having
received license. The tavern keeper will find
that he has come to very poor place for his
business. The people of this community say
that they can starve rumsellers out if they can't
prevent the granting of license
Rev. w. Margerum, pastor of our church, is
doing all he can to promote the cause of tenn
perance, and his good wife is not a whit behind
him in the work. The people have increased
the pastors salary this year.
The quarterly conference requested the pre-
siding elder to preach sermon on temperance
on Sunday night. The elder preached one hour
and ten minutes. His sermon was pointed and
radical and yet the large audience listened with
closest attention. The impression of the meet
ing will be felt for some time to come.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
Boonton.

Boonton is getting good shaking up on the
temperance question. The charter election oc-
ours Saturday, May Sd. There are four council
men to elect Five votes are necessary to grant
license Councilmen elected last spring were
for two years. Even if the rum power should
succeed in electng all four, yet it would fail to
have the requisite majority for at least one
year In ORDER however, to strengthen the
cause year hence, the temperance advocates
are determined to secure victory at the polls
next May, and to that end secured Major E.
T. Scott, who is now delivering temperance adj
dresses here. The audience which greeted him
at the Presbyterian church has never been ex-
celled for character and size here. 1t was a
representative audience. Three of the city
pastors were on the platform: ex-member of
congress, Hon. John Hill, judge and ex-judges
lawyers. business men of New York, residents
here, bankers, merchants, printers, and pub
fishers were present.
There is work to be done for the enemy is
active. The political whip" is being yigor-
ously and unsparingly applied. Some of the
temperance men show the necessity of more
starch to stiffen their backbone, retaliation and
even boycotting are threatened, money is be-
ing raised and it is intimated that the 50 Newark
Ring" will also supply the needful, SO the
advent of Major Scott was indeed opportune.
There is no abatement of interest among the
honest temperance men and women in the issue,
home VS.. saloon. The series of meetings were
to close Friday evening, but it is now probable
that grand Union meeting will be held Sun
day night when the major has promised to
give US his Footprints, or the nations peril"
We learn that crowded houses welcomed
| Major Scott again at Morristown and Mendham,
and that Chester dubbed over with enthusiasm
over him, when a unanimous vote of thanks
was rendered him, accompanied with request
to extend his time for week if possible, and as
he announced few nights since, he returns to
Chester the 23d inst, to give five more adj
dresses. Somerville, Raritan, and Bound Brook
have also sent for him. The "want" expressed
is for more knowledge on the subject. Ad-
vanced thought appears to be prominent in the
minds of those who go below the surface.
This is healthful sign.
1t is ludicrous to witness the agony of the
g high license" cranks and fanatics as they
writhe under the lash of Major Scott in his un-
compromising hostility to that cunning inven-
ton of the enemy, for he spares not and we
should judge that he would like to excoriate
them if he could. That craze just now seems to
be favorite with some of the representatives of
the press, for they are giving the major good
deal of free advertising of late in the way of
fixing his lecture fee, which they place at 800.
1t appears to work well, for he has recently
been invited to give an address, the writer say
ing, . we understand your terms are 800. but
we cannot pay more than $50, which we will
cheerfully do" The major laughed clear be-
hind his ears as he read this to US. 4" 1t is an i'll
wind that blows nobody any good" REFORM.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
SWedesboro,

We want to be counted in the rank and file of
the rapid forward movement of the temperance
column. We want to be where we can hear
the commands and be in position to obey them.
We know no better " temperance telephone
than the GAZETTE, and thus the Importance of
having it in every home. We have two large
rich, solid hotels, which Gas it would secm) are
here to stay but the liquor traffic is doomed
We have. also two poo-rooms. There is a
bad odor coming from these to say the least.
What is the law respecting these in such towns
as this? Has that bill before the legislature
this winter bearing upon such places become a
law? What is its purport? Can any party but
parents and guardians prosecute?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25

THE convention of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union held at Glassboro on the
18th and 18th of April was grand success.
The programme was carried out with but few
changes, and we were generously provided
for by the good people of the place.
The amount of work that is being done by
the various Unions is wonderful, and as Han
nah Whitall Smith said before beginning her
Bible reading on Thursday afternoon, we
feel each day more proud that we belong to
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
PENNSGROVE.

A rumshop was opened in our town on
Main street on Friday afternoon of last week.
Rumors had been afioat day or two previous
to that effect, but some thought them to be
erroneous, as many other reports, but the
true state of affairs was brought to light on
Friday afternoon when they saw a man
wheeling key of beer to the small building
owned by c. G. Turner. The town in few
hours was ablaze with Indignation, and women
and men were seen on the streets in groups
discussing the matter. Some said Lets
tear the building down." "He'll soon get
tired of this place" g Let's run him out of
the town." and many other such remarks.
The man paid no attention to the scornful
eyes upon him, but continued to cart the
poisonous liquids from the wharf A free
blow " was INDUCED in by some on that even
ing and then he was ready to make his for
tune. But not yet thank the Lord When
he rented the building of Mr.. Turner he said
he was going to keep restaurant, but did
not mention rum, and was told he could take
charge. Fortunately for the community in
general the lease had not as yet been drawn,
and when Mr. Turner heard of his intentions
he refused to give him lease and told him
to vacate the premises which he did on Mon
day. The community is now at rest once
more. Some serious trouble was apparent
judging from the Indignation of the citizens,
and had the man secured his lease and deter
mined to stay, no doubt some would have
followed the example of the disgraceful affair
at Cincinnati and run him from the town
The building received several volleys of
bricks. Such place cannot prosper here.
Record.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
The Presbyterian Church and Temper
ance.

The issue of the MONITOR, of April 18th,
contained summary of the General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian church on the sub
iect of temperance from 1912 to 1883. We
herewith give the action of the Synod of New
Jersey, and of the Presbytery of West Jersey,
at their last meetings.
The Synod of New Jersey, in session at
Orange, in October, 1883, passed the follow
ing resolutions:
l. That the Synod expresses its profound
sense of the importance of this subject, and
urges its ministers and people to more preach
ing and praying in promotion of the cause of
temperance, and that then all shall work
and act as they pray, and that, without
pledging ourselves to any political party, we
declare ourselves in favor of the legal prohi-
bition of the liquor traffic.
q That Synod cordially approves and COM
mends the work of the Assembly's committee
on temperance that all our churches are
urged to take an annual collection for the
cause, the half thereof to be sent to the Pres
byterial committee and the other half to be
sent to the Assembly's committee; and that
the Presbyteries are urged to scatter among
the people as widely as possible the tracts is
sued by the Assembly's committee.
g. That committee of conference con-
sisting of three ministers and two elders, be
appointed to confer with similar committees
of other ecclesiastical bodies within our state,
upon methods of advancing the cause of tenn
perance, taking this action for their guidance.
The Presbytery of West Jersey, at its recent
meeting in Unionyille, took the following
action
Resolced: LIST, That the Presbytery recon-
mends to the pastors within its bounds that
they frequently present to their congregations
the subject of temperance in all its phases, -
total abstinence, the abolition of the liquor
traffic, and the enforcement of law and order.
I'd, That pastors be recommended to urge
upon the voters in their congregations the full
fllment of their political duties in opposing
the election of liquor sellers and their sup
porters.
Sd, That they recommend to the churches
that they use only unfermented wine in the
sacrament
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
BRIO A BRAC.

GUNPowDER is more extensively used in
peace than in war. In the United States
there is said to be consumption of 100 tons
daily The coal mines use up the greater
portion In the excavation of the Hoosac
tunnel more powder was burned than during
the whole civil war. A quantity is exported,
and the rest is used in civil engineering. in
the manufacture of pyrotechnics, for sporting
and military purposes, and by the govern
ment for signaling and salute firing
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25

The PREVALENCE of carelessness in the
despatch of business, cannot be better exem-
plifed than by a computation of the enormous
amount of misdirected mail matter which
passes through the mails annually In the
Boston office last year there were 40, 900 let
tiers wrongly addressed, and in all these cases
the proper addresses were ascertained and the
letters forwarded to their destination. And
yet people wonder why their letters are de-
layed, although it is owing to their own care
lessness Of course the post Office officials
are not responsible, but many people fail to
see where the trouble lies In further evil
dence of the want of care on the part of the
public, it is stated that the number of letters
sent to the dead letter office during the last
year was nearly 500, 600, or an average OF IA,
500 per day. These letters contained no less
than $40, 900 in cash, and checks to the
amount of 81, 500, 00O
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25

+" Don't forget the poor, urges country
editor. 1t isn't very often that an editor puts
in a puff for himself, but occasionally he is
driven to it by necessity.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
r. CHEEsMAN,
@. WEsTcoTT,
j. ]. DuNHAM.
Fire N0nlmaitt.

:, = III VVVVV70u, " q
-Bridgeton Eoezaing Mems
The attention of our borough authorities is
called to the above advertisement, as it offers
an excellent opportunity to make an addition
to our incomplete collection of fire engines.
If the appropriation at the last election was
not sufficient to warrant them in making the
purchase for cash down, perhaps the Millville
people would exchange for slolo note. By
all means let us secure it on some terms.
BRIO BRAC.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25

Y To despond at difficulties discovers want
of stability to despair at danger shows want
of courage.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
TIL q M 9 n I L Q r.
Haddonheld.

George Rhoads is being employed by the HAD
donfield Temperance Aid to distribute tracts
The railroad station is supplied. Charles Will
Its, of the same organization, will supply Ellis
burg.
Joseph Ellis, keeper of the Ellisburg tavern,
says the temperance people have gone to sleep.
He will find out how much asleep they are when
donfield Temperance Aid, in conjunction with
Charles Rhoads, will oppose the granting of his
license.
The Temperance Aid will hold its next month
ly meeting at Benjamin Lippincotts.
The temperance men will hold convention
in Haddonfeld Town hall on this Saturday
evening for the purpose of nominating delegates
for the approaching State Prohibition Conven-
ton.
The Easter Offering of Haddonfield
Episcopal church was larger this year than
ever before. 1t amounted to over $41 last
year it was about $50.
The yearly meeting of Friends for Pennsylya-
MIA, New Jersey, Delaware and the eastern
parts of Maryland will be held in Philadelphia
next week. The meeting is a temperance So
cety within itself, the fourth query of its disci-
pline reading: Are Friends careful to discourage
the unnecessary dstillation and use of spiritu-
Gus liquors, and the frequenting OF tayerns; to
avoid places of diversion, and to keep to true
moderation and temperance on the account of
marriages, burials, and all other occasions?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
COMMUNICATED. |
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-25
A Suicidal Epidemic.

What does it mean? Is there any
special cause to be assigned for the in
creased and increasing number of sui
cides? Doubtless some persons deny
the increase, asserting it always has
been so, but more publicity is given to
the cases now than ever before. We
are not speaking with such skeptics.
We wish they were right. We know
they are wrong.
Greater publicity is indeed given to
the cases now than formerly and this
tends to increase the number News
papers with reports of suicides are very
wisely excluded from judiciously man
aged asylums for the insane, because
the suggestion tends to create passion
to 90 and do likewise. There is sense
in which every suicide is out of his
right mind, and when reason is par
italy dethroned and strong emotion
dominates the mind, the tGct that one
has found way out of the world I'M
doubtedly encourages another 10 fol-
low. 1t is not wholesome to society to
publish the details of suicides. If the
fact must be mentioned rs part of the
history Of the times we live in, let it be
with the least possible coloring and
with strong condemnation. It's great
sin, a great crime and cowardly act
if the victim be sane when the deed is
done.
Where the suicide is intelligent and
moral, the act is almost always the re-
suit of pecuniary or domestic troubles.
Except those instances in which intern
perance was the impelling demon, the
cause of suicidal despair may be largely
found in these two quarters. And he
must read the journals of the day very
carelessly who does not see that the
habits of business and the features OF
domestic life are loose to degree hith-
erto unattained. We are passing
through troubled waters in social and
business concerns. The foundations
are shaken. We have sown to the wind,
we are now reaping the whirlwind.
The moral epidemic is fierce and spread
ing, and we have not seen the worst
yet. There is a vast amount of wrong
doing unrevealed. Much of it may not
be. But we shall hear from time 10
time that mems hearts fail them be-
cause OF fear, and rather than bear the
ills that are, they fly into the dark, per
chance to hide themselves from an i'm
pending calamity.
A sound mind in n sound body is 6
great good, and he who has it with q
clear conscience will wait Gods time
to leave this beautiful world.-N y
Observer,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-25
Origin OF a PetticOat.

1t was at about the same date QS55-
So that our gracious queen set the
fashion of wearing scarlet under-pet-
ticoat, an idea obtained from the milk
maids at Balmoral. 1t is said that the
late Prince Consort, in admiring the
effect of the red potticoat in the land
scape, suggested that her majesty
should adopt one also. This sealed the
fate of white petticoats in England.
They had been worn, previously to
that, both in summer and winter, and,
of course, in order to make sufficient
warmth, several had to be put on, thus
adding to the weight TO be carried at
the waist. Since the introduction of
the scarlet skirt the fashion of tho col
ored petticoat has been maintained, and
the useful skirt lined with leather has
also been introduced for walking in the
country in muddy weather.-Lefsar
Hour.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-25
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A Northern Texas editor complains
that the number of marriages is ridicu-
lousy small when compared with the
time squandered in buggy-riding,
Restaurant keeper - John, run
down to the market and get ten pounds
Of sweet potatoes. Hurry up, now, be-
cause | want the cook to make batch
of squash pies.-B0Ston transcript,
"A reporter describes Il girl as being
''as lovely as y dream in light blue
silk" We never dream about the
silks half as much as about the bills
for them Chicago Times,
and so you have been to Europe2
Did you got to Switzerland? and did you
see the glaciers?" Mrs. Shoddy 20,
yes, we saw mechanics of all kinds;
but then, you know, | don't take any
interest in such vulgar persons-Chi-
caqo Tribune.
Waiter will you have,
Miss?" Customer Cooking over the
restaurant bill of fare) Permit me to
cogitate. In the correlation of forces it
is recognized property of atomic-'t
Waiter (shouts across the hall to head
server) -"Baked beans for one."-
Philadelphia cal.
Mamma, is it wrong to say 1T is
going to thunder?' " "Why, of course
not, Eddie. Why do you ask such a
question:" "'Cause yesterday pa said
wouldn't care. "-N Y. Mail and Ea-'
press.
Mamma" said the small boy,I
"that young man that comes to see
Edith is awful funny" "Why, childP'H
because he puts his watch in water.
Nonsense" eyes he does, cause L
heard him telling another man down
the street this afternoon that he couldn't
90 with him cause he had to 90 and
put his watch in soak. "-BoSt0n Post.
A Happy Clam.
am gay cOntented clam,
Yes | am!
/ will open my mouth and smile,
For q WHILE
For the fat and juicy oyster
Is now dragged from out his cloister
BY the rude and reckless holster,
Full of guile.
N Y. Journal y
When q Cape Cod landlord told a
Boston man that the people of Boston.
didn't know what blue fish was, and
was met by the answer: 90, yes, We
do: it is the temnodon saltator, an
acanthoptergian of the family of scom-
BRIDE" he Just went and laid down on;
the sofa and dreamed of death and
desolation. dorchester Herald.
She was young, and sweet, and
poetic, and he was young and mis-
chievous. They were sitting out on the
yeranda in the moonlight, and she
grew ethereal. go, how love to sit
out here in the moonlight" she cooed,j
"to be famed by the dangerous per-
fumes of the roses, and to be kissed by
the soft airs from the Southr' Then
he kissed her and she grew indignant
"How dare your she almost sobbed.I
"Why, I'm a soft heir from the South"
he replied contritely. She didn't say
anything when he kissed her again
Boston Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-25
The French and Their Clocks.

Watchmakers in dull quarters of
Paris derive good fixed incomes from
being employed to attend weekly to
the chimney clocks of prosperous bour-
geois. Punctuality is not y French
virtue, and half an hours law is given
at private dinner parties to those in
vited. At public dinners the guests sit
down at about an hour after the time
specified in the cards of invitation.
Railway clocks on the fasades of ter
minuses are five minutes in advance of
those inside. An appointment is
hardly ever punctually kept. Gam
BETA was one of the rare Frenchmen
who are always to the minute. But his
friend M. Spuller sometimes gives him
self couple of hours margin. Nj.
Clemenceau piques himself on the OBJ
servance of social duties, and is in this
respect a pattern Radical; but when he
makes an appointment he is not veXed
if the person he is to meet is half an
hour late. M. Barthelemv St.-Hilare
and De Lesseps keep time by marine
watches purchased abroad. | know
deputy who piques himself on his OBJ
servance of social duties. One day |
had an appointment with him for one
O'Clock. He came after two. When |
Ventured to reproach him with being
so late, his answer was: 81 am very
sorry you had to wait so long, but why
did you come so earlyph The way in
France is for each of the parties who
have made rendezvous unless as
duellists-to give the other half an
hours margin, which being taken on
both sides makes in all an hour. This
system of addition is analogous to what
a Californian said of big tree. 1t
grew so high that it took two men and
boy to see to the top.
The Prussians have been branded
since 1901 with the name of Voleurs
de Pendules. They were especially
/ tempted by the Misunderstanding gal
vanoplastic articles which are usually
protected from the air by glass shades.
Time pieces of severe style, and in
real bronze, were not so often looted.
, Prince Bismarck took a fancy to dark
! bronze clock, which stood in his sitting
! room at Versailles on an elevated
/ bracket. 1t represented the Fall of
Lucifer The defeated archangel was
more Byronic than Miltonic. When
negotiating the preliminaries of peace
NJ Theirs was placed at the table OPP
posite this timepece. He was nervous
and fatigued, and though not habitually
superstitious, felt very uncomfortable
whenever his eve caught the sardoniC
visage of Lucifer. Bismarck secretly
noticed his discomfort, and enjoyed it.
At last NJ. Theirs avowcd that he could
no longer endure the irritation which
the sinister-looking figure cansed him.
and asked to be allowed to change
places with the Chancellor. He woulc
have been glad if Lucifer had beer
taken out of the room. The propre
tress of the house was asked by Bis
marck to let him have the clock at {
valuation. He wished to keep it as {
souvenir Of the event which took place
under its shadow. 1t was reluctantly
sold to him.-London NeWS.