The Monitor., 1884-02-15

The Presbyterian church at Blairstown has
sent call to Rev. M. Butler, of Clearfeld, Pa.
The Malaga glass works which were de-
stroyed by fire, have been rebuilt, and work
will be shortly resumed.
Work was resumed on Monday in the New
Jersey steel and iron works, employing
thousand men, at Trenton, shut down since
Christmas.
The death rate in Maine, under the health
full reign of the law of prohibition, has been
reduced from one in fifty -four to one in 300.
Rum must go.
Yankee has proposed to the Italian gov
ernment to construct tunnel IN the side OF
Mt Vesuvius for the purpose of letting the
super1uous lava run into the sea, instead of
squirting out at the top to the constant terror
of Naples.
James Donohue, of Bridgeton, a soldier
and sailor in the rebellion, who, of late years,
has been tramp, died Sunday in the Cam
den county Jail He had been committed for
vagrancy His death is attributed to the
sewer gas of the Jail.
The large body of land near yineland
known as the Cumberland tract" has been
purchased for colonization purposes, and
several thousand acres in Cape May viii be
turned into a sheep ranch provided proper
legislation can be secured.
| In the olden times Wendell Phillips was
in great demand as lecturer. Among the
stereotyped replies was: II will come and
lecture on literary subject for 800 night
and my expenses ON Slavery for nothing
and pay my own expenses"
| AsBuRY PARK, N j., Feb 9-Chancellor
Runyon has issued an order compelling
Henry Steinbach, of the firm of Stienbach
and Bros, to allow an account of the stock
to be taken in the store at this place previous
to a dissolution of partnership, and to show
cause why receiver should not be appointed.
| Old Judge Ochiltree, soon after his illustri-
Gus son had got his license to practice law,
went off on few days trip; and Thomas
said he, 'syou may as we'll have a sign of the
new firm painted and hung up over the office
door" When the old gentleman returned he
did indeed see neat sign over the Office door.
He examined it through his gold-rimmed
spectacles, and then took off his binoculars
and examined it again. The neat sign read
thus Thomas P. Ochiltree and Father,
Attorneys at law"
At station in Montana the other day a
Boston girl stuck her head out Of Northern
Pacific car and exclaimed "The bewildew-
ing womance which cwowns this twanscen-
dental sceneway with such indiscwibable
fascination and tinges its evewy featuh with
such overpowering interwest quite bweaks
me up" And number of members of the
local vigilance committee standing on the
platform looked grimly into each others faces
and muttered, "Oh if it was only man !"
Bismarck Tribune.
The story comes from Dayton, O., that it
has been discovered that young lady there
was recently buried alive. On the morning
of her brothers marriage, on January 10, she
was found in a chair apparently lifeless, and
was buried the next day. Some of her
friends expressing their belief that she did not
look like dead person, the coffin was opened
a day or two ago, and it was discovered that
the body had turned upon its right side The
hair had been torn out in handfuls and the
flesh had been bitten fom the fingers.