The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-18

over all his RepuDucan competitors
Dr. Newman's church troubles are ended
it seems. He has triumphed and all is peace
in Madison Avenue Congregational church
for the present.
Said the exasperated wife: 81 wish it was
custom for women to trade husbands, as 1t
is for men to trade horses. I'd cheat some
woman dreadfully before shutdown"
jay Gould's wealth is estimated by the New
York Morning Journal at $58, 795, Alb, and
his annual income at Sd, 64O,011. Thus his
fortune earns him $11, SSS.88 every day, and
S8 95 each minute.
The Independent Order of Good Tenn
pIars have undertaken to carry out the Crys-
tai Palace Iondon, Eng. } Temperance Fete
for the present year, and Tuesday, July 9Th,
has been fixed as the date of this great ma
tional temperance festival. Mr.. F. G. Ed
wards has again been appointed organist for
both concerts
colony of Friends consisting of forty FAM
lilies from Nebraska, Indiana and Pennsylva-
MIA, is moving into Crosby county, Texas, to
join the Friends already located there. There
are nearly thirty families now in Crosby
county and the church owns $4,000 acres of
the most productive land in Texas. The en-
inent preacher, Paris Cox, is at the head of
the movement.
PRINCETON, N. j., April 12th.-An i'm
mense prohibition meeting was held IN the
Second Presbyterian church here Friday
night Addresses were made by Dean Muir
ray. DIR. McCloskie, DR.. McLaren, DIR. Duff
field, John f. Hageman, Esq, Rev. John
Miller, Mr.. Harln and others. prohibi-
ton petition was circulated to-day and freely
signed, to be laid before the next meeting of
council.
The Presbyterian church of Titusville, Pa,
is the banner church in benevolence in Erie
Presbytery. During the past year it has con-
tributed 81, 100 to foreign missions, 81, $40 to
home missions, and 81, 1913 to other objects.
Five students in Lincoln university are sup
ported by members of this church. Thank
offering meetings were held by the women of
the church, at which 5000 were collected for
foreign and $483 for home missions.
w. G. Murphy ESQ.,, of Marysville, Cal,
writes the Ret0rmer. Prohibition in Cali
fornia means third party in politics 1t is
fixed fact with us, being here to stay. We can
have noamendment to our national constitution
without the consent of the requisite number
of the states: hence we believe in agitation
in the states, as such, with all the benefits
that may be acquired separately, and after
ward the grand rally. We have much in our
state to encourage prohibition.
One brewer in Toledo boasts that he owns
1874 saloons, and that he controls the votes of
the nominal proprietors and whatever of In
fuence they may have. Counting the saloon
keepers alone and those whose votes can be
controlled by beer judiciously administered a
week before an election, this one brewer may
safely be estimated at having voting power
equal to 400 citizens engaged in other kinds of
trade The brewer makes politics as much
part of his business as he does the purchase of
hops and malt, or whatever he substitutes for
Them while the other kind of citizen merely
votes himself. 1t is so vast power as to be
dangerous in the hands of men employed in the
most reputable business-in the hands of
men engaged as they are it is something in
tolerable. Toledo Blade.
The project for filling the desert of Sahara
with water is creating great deal of discus
sion among foreign, especially French, jour-
nails. Naturally the question has arisen, how
long it would take to fill the whole basin of
Sahara, and some startling figures are given
in connection Herewith. Five thousand
years, it is claimed, would be required to fill
up that vast sea of sand were the water to
flow through passage 100 feet wide and
twenty-five feet Deep with the velocity OF
four miles an hour. Under the same condl-
tons it would take 4, 900 years for the waters
of the Mediterranean to fill the valley of the
Jordan. With channel 100 times greater
capacity to do the work in forty years. At
the same rate it would take 400, 900 years to
fill the Caspian Sea to the level of the Medi-
terranean. Fortunately, it is only a portion
of Sahara which can be made into lake or
inland sea- and doubtless there are middle
aged men to-day who will live to see this feat
accomplished. -Dena0rest's Monthly.
Lord Beaconsfeld used to lift his jeweled
finger and point across the Atlantic and say
No American city is well governed" be-
lieve that is true of our twelve largest cities
now, each having more than 100000 inhabi
tants Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore and Washington, here on
the Atlantic slopes Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago, st. Louis, New Orleans in the Mis-
sissippi valley, and San Francisco on the Pa
ciic slope. 1t is very nearly true of Pitts
burgh, Buffalo, Toledo and Detroit, which
are just under 200, 900. 1t is becoming true
of cities of the size of Worcester, Springfield
Hartford, New Haven, Albany. Into what
are we drifting when nearly quarter of our
population live in great Cities and when mu
nicipal government is kissing and byword
with US already? You must spoil the whls,
key rings of their political power or they Will
not only corrupt your homes but undermine
the possibility of safe government under uni
versal suffrage in great cities.-Joseph C0o&
1 knew prominent New York lady who
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