The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-01
ODDS AND ENDS.
Personal, State, and General News Briefs Of Interest
with Comments.


with Comments.
Philadelphia's new post-office will soon be
done. 1t cost $1,000 OO0
A trial in Martin, California, originating
in beer, cost the country $27,0 600.
Tennessee has 2O44 places where intoxicat-
ing liquors are licensed to be sold.
The headquarters of socialism in the city
of New York is the beer saloon of Justin
Schwab, in Fourth avenue.
Millville is to have two new glass factories
soon, one for the manufacture OF window
glass and the other for hollow ware.
Tie American Presbyterian and the Roman
Catholic missionary establishments in Canton
have been wrecked by native mob.
Morris county taxpayers, who think the
board of chosen freeholders have expended
more money than the appropriations, are
about to ask the Supreme Court to investigate
the affairs of the county.
A young miss of sweet sixteen asks what is
the proper thing for her to do when she is
serenaded by party of gentlemen at a late
hour We are glad to be able to answer this
question: Steal softly down stairs and unite
the dog.
There was never labor riot in America
that was not caused by alcoholic drink.
There was never riot of any kind in America,
in which blood was shed or property de-
stroyed the inspiration and impulse of which
did not come from drunkenness. -Eg.
A leap year society, for the protection of
young men, is about to be organized. Many
young man whose mother would not board
himself and wife will this year be lassoed by
some ardent young woman and dragged down
to matrimony. The society cannot get to
work moment too soon.
The first bill introduced into the Iowa
state senate was to repeal the wine and beer
exemption clause in the prohibitory law of
the state It was offered by Senator Dounan,
chairman of the Republican state committee,
and shows that the party intends to redeem
its pledge to give the people total prohibition.
Rev. Swayne Thackara, of Berlin, is engaged
in the development of a method for the ap-
plying of electricity to the motions of q
pendulum for the purpose of recording time.
Mr. Thackara thinks the new invention, if as
successful as he hopes, will entirely reyolu-
tionize time-pieces of all descriptions-even
watches.
The Newton Reform club has resolved that
list of the names of the signers of apphca-
tions for hotel licenses be published in the
county papers at each term of court, begin
ming with the April term, 1884, and that this
resolution be published in the newspapers now,
and Immediately before the April term of
court -Jerseynaan.
United States Senator Garland, the learned
lawyer from Arkansas, is teetotaler. Said
he 81 was passing by the cemetery near
my home one day. and | saw the graves of a
dozen brilliant men who began life with me,
every one of them fastened to his end by
whiskey. I made up my mind had drunk
my share, and stopped"
Eli Perkins says or makes somebody say:
81 paid 1925 taxes on my New York house
last year. What was this tax used for? 1t
was to govern city where three-f ourths of
the arrests were made on account of drunken
ness. I can govern myself but | have to pay
| 1926 year to be protected from the criminal
classes, made criminal through rum"
| They are trying hard to chain the tiger
in Brooklyn, but with poor success. The
citizens excise league of that city have pc
tltioned Mayor Low to appoint as excisemen
only those who will enforce the law in refer
ence to illegal selling of liquor. DR.. r. S.
Storrs and Henry Ward Beecher are among
the petitioners. The law in reference to
strictly enforced.
At North Carolina wedding six pistol
shots were fired within the space of one
minute. The best man was killed and one of
the groomsmen MORALLY wounded. AS the
happy couple was leaving the church the
bride handed one of the ushers a paper and
whispered to him: 'See the reporters at
once, give them the description of my dress,
say the bride behaved like heroine, and be
sure and get pas name spelled right"
KINGSTON, Ont, Jan. 2S.-When an under
dertaker was putting the body of Catherine
Malone, who died in a spree yesterday, in
coffin, he asked a daughter of the deceased,
Mrs Gray, if she desired to have the corpse
redressed. Mrs. Gray said: ''No, chuck
her in the way she is" She leaped on the
coffin and danced like maniac, and only
ceased her antics when compelled to by the
constable. The whole family were intoxicated.
story comes from Gridley that few
months since, when train passed Gridley,
wealthy passenger was struck with admiration
over the tender manner in which young
lady led her aged grandmother along patti
near the track Seeking an introduction, the
man of riches married her in few weeks,
and now every time train pulls into that
burg at least a dozen maidens can be seen
trotting their old grandmothers up and down
the track.
The following facts in relation to the rail-
roads IN the state are compiled from the rail-