The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-05

A new W. C. T. [. has been formed at
Harrisouville.
Last week the wind blew down the new
Italian Catholic church at East yineland
The Pioneer is the name of a weekly pa
per recently started at Bridgeport Glouces-
ter county.
The last barbecue in Salem, previous to
the one of last week was in 1882, to eele-
brate the election of Andrew jackson to
the Presidency.
The Sea Isle City Branch of the West
Jersey Railroad, which connects with the
main line at Sea Isle junction, has been ex-
tended up the coast to Ocean City, a dis
lance of ten and nineteenth miles, and is
now open to trade and travel
The Woodbury. Loan Association have
sold the Mautua Chapel property to a re-
preventative of Bishop Scarborough. of the
Diocese of New Jersey, for $50 The
building will now be repaired, and devoted
again to its original purpose as a place Of
worship.
Engineer AbercroInbie of the West Jer-
sey Railroad Company last week notified
the Chosen Freeholders from Woodbury.
that the bridge over the railroad at Hum
ter street in that city is in an unsafe condi-
ton. The Freeholders will give it their
attention in few days.
Rev Mr.. Hoskins, rector of TrinityP E.
Church, Swedesboro, the centenary of
viii ii was celebrated recently, has aceep-
ted the professorship of Homiletics in the
Seabury Divinity School at Faribault,
Mimi. He will leave Swedesboro about
the middle of this month.
Harrisonville have made permanent or
ganization, with the following officers:
President, w. w. Dye: Secretary, A. W.
Madara: Treasurer. Michael Swigert: Lo-
cal Executive Committee, T. Clun, A. H.
Tice. The club will meet once week.
At special meeting of Gloucester City
Council last week $50 was appropriated to
be used in relieving and caring for the poor
of that city. 1t was decided not to distri-
butte the appropriation by orders from the
Sanitary Committee, but to give it TO the
Women's Christian Temperance Union for
disbursement.
Jos. Daniels, of Mantua, has in his posses
sion an interesting relic in the shape of a
cooking spit which was formerly the prop
erty of Thos. Carpenter, the founder of
Carpenters Landing. now Mantua. The
implement is probably one hundred years
old 1t has a clockwork movement, by
which it was kept turning automatically.
As the cold weather approaches rock fish
and perch move further up the rivers where
they remain during the cold winter months
1t is said that the waters of the Great Egg
Harbor and Tuckahoe rivers now TEEN
with thousands of fish. and the fishermen
are anticipating a profitable season. Tn
like the fishermen of the lakes of Maine
who fish with hook and line through holes
in the ice, the fishermen of South Jersey
set gill nets under the ice, which is said to
be less work and more profitable.
A force of workmen are engaged at pres
ent in banking up the old section of Big
Timber creek, east of Westville, ON the
| ''Crispm farm, which was abandoned by
the small boats that nayigated that stream
over fifty years ago when canal was cut
through the blend" The cutting of the
canal shortened the distance greatly, and
] became the main channel, the former chan
mel rapidly filling up. The banking out of
the water, which covers the meadow at
high water, will reclaim about p acres.
! The Wainwright murder is the only i'm
| portant case which will come before the
/ grand Jury of Ocean County at the term of
court which opened ON Tuesday Justice
/ Eansickle delivered the charge to the grand
4 jury Referring to the murder, he said:
1T is the place of the grand jury to inyesti-
| gate the case 1t is not to try the case, but
/ to inquire faithfully into the circumstances,
and bills of Indictment should be found
against all to whom reasonable suspicion
! points" Elson X. Rockwell and the wife,
daughter and tive sons of the murdered man,
/ who have been held under arrest since the
discovery of the murder, six weeks ago,
seem perfectly happy and eontented in their
cells They will probably all be indicted.