The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-15

Barnum's sacred elephant is named
Toung Taloung.
The West Jersey Game Protective society
will liberate 1000 quails in short time
The Semple thread mills, at Mount Holly,
will soon resume operations on larger
scale than before.
A new industry at Hammonton Is the cut
ting of umbrella sticks for New York and
Philadelphia dealers.
Prisoners in the Morris county Jail are now
compelled to saw wood and break stone dur
ing their confinement
In drunken row at dance at KNOXVILLE,
few days ago, Samuel Erving was shot
through the head and instantly killed by two
drunken associates.
There are said to be over 1000, 900 bushels
of corn on the river banks between Evans
vile and Paducah, Kentucky, most OF which
will be swept away by the food.
A significant fact comes from Liverpool
Eng, in the announcement that shares of the
cocoa temperance rooms, opened there in
1875 are now at 100 per cent premium.
Leap-year is good time to engrave indel-
IDLY upon the hearts of the young men that
much misery is caused by not saying sno"
at the right Philadelphia Chronicle.
At Edinburgh last month Jane Kirk, con-
victed 2O3 times of petty offences, was sent
to Jail for the thirty fourth time. She had
already spent $50 days of last year in prison.
After many years of earnest work prohi.
bition has at last been secured in New Jersey.
The house has passed a bill prohibiting the
sale of oleomargarine, unless the packages
are marked as SUCH"
An Indian editor was sued for breach of
promise, but when he explained that the girl
had mania for making scrap quilts the
court excused him and imposed the cost on the
plaintiff. -Arkansaao Irdoelter.
| colored women, who had stolen $400
from her New York employer was found the
other day by detective at Plainfeld, where
she was dressed in male attire and living as
the husband of a colored woman.
The Mullica Hill Y. M. G. A. has dis
solved organization and transferred their
surplus funds, furniture, etc., to the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, in order to
carry on the good work that they commenced.
! Stanhope, Sussex county, has population
of only about 600, and there are only about
| ], 400 in the township, yet it is said ], 800
persons signed the pledge there as the result
of Messrs. Mabee and English's temperance
work in the town.
| CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Feb 8.-A despatch
to the Republican from Eldora says: Mrs.
Mix of Steamboat Rock, standing over the
| open grave of her husband ro-day, remarked
that they might as well be buried in one
grave, drew pistol and shot herself. She is
not likely to live"
George V. Morris. of this city, has won q
| five dollar prize offered by the Philadelphia
Eceatng Call for the first correct answer to
the question. "What word is of six letters
which, when written, are all loop-letters be-
| low the line?" The word was 'syZygy,"
the initial IS" being written in the old style,
with loop-Ireaton Times
| NoRwALK. Conn, Feb. 8.-Fifteen liquor
dealers here were arrested this afternoon at
the instance of prosecuting attorney Baker,
of Bridgeport charged with selling liquor
without license. In justice Bouton's court
they gave bonds for their appearance. Their
cases will be investigated tomorrow. The
statutory fine for this offence is $50.
The Newton Herald gives a mounful &C
count of a dog who deliberately committed
| suicide because of consuming jealousy. The
Herald says the dog could not endure to see
his master fondle another more-favored
canine "a recent acquisition so he threw him
self under train of cars and was killed.
The unfortunate suicide should have emulated
the example of his two-footed brethren and
first shot his rival, before killing himself
The New York excise commissioners have
obtained record of 1000 convictions for
violations of the liquor law. The persons
convicted in two-thirds of these cases were
licensed saloon keepers, and accordingly come
within the jurisdiction of the excise commits
sioners About 800 blanks have been pre-
pared which read as follows, and which are
being filled in and mailed:
''SIR Your license has been revoked as
you have been convicted in the court of gen.
eral or special sessions for violation of the
excise law An inspector of this bureau will
call for your license, according to law. You
will be returned to the police as unlicensed"
Artemus Ward gave the following advice
| to conductor while travelling in the south
soon after the war. The road was in wretched
condition, and the trains consequently were
run at phenomenally low rate of speed.
When the conductor was punching his ticket
Artemus remarked: "Does this railroad
company allow passengers to give it advice,
if they do SO in respectful manner" The
conductor replied in gruff tones that he
guessed so. Well" Artemus went on, I" it
occurred to me it would be we'll to detach the
cow-catcher from the front of the engine and
hitch it to the rear of the train. For you see
we are not liable to overtake COW, but what's
| 10 ctro1lipry into Tho and