The Monitor., 1884-11-14
STATE NEWS.

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Photographs of attractions at Cape May
will be exhibited at the New Orleans Ex-
position.
Charles Ludlow, colored died recently
at Headden's Corner, Monmouth county,
aged 10 years.
A machine in Stout's canning factory, at
Red Bank, Monmouth county, peels six
teen tons of pumpkins day.
The Cape May Porpoise Fishing Com
pany is about to remove the scene of its
operations to southern waters.
Frank Patterson. of Asbury Park, has
pleaded not guilty to the charge of forgery
and has been released under so bail.
The Trinity Episcopal Church at Tren-
ton was reconsecrated last Thursday after
having been enlarged and made one of the
handsomest Epscopalian edifices in the
state.
The Rio Grande sorghum works have
sen. TO New Orleans for exhibition at the
great fair soon to be opened in that city,
samples of their sugars.
On Monday the Camden, Gloucester and
Mt. Ephraim Narrow Gauge Railroad was
transferred to the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad management
1t is currently reported that the vener-
able poet of Camden, Walt Whitman, is
meditating the advisability of visiting
Europe on lecturing tour.
Mrs Barrie r. Woodman of Camden,
who was injured by being thrown over
car seat. on the Pennsylvania railroad at
Jersey City, is to receive $500.
A number of whales have been seen off
Atlantic City by fishermena short distance
at sea with the last week AS many as
twenty have been seen i'll one day.
Judge Paneoast has been engaged to pros
ecute helibel suit of Rev. J. b. Graw, d. d.
editor of the Temperance GazeHe, instituted
against the publishers of the Atlantic City
Rerien.
! a crew of surfmen, picked from the Life
Saving crews along the Jersey coast, will
be sent to the New Orleans Worlds Ex-
position to illustrate the workings of the
service.
The wife of James Payne, Newark hod-
carrier is lying in a critical condition in
hospital at that city, from the effects of a
severe beating administered by her hus-
| band while drunk
! Morristown has Women Employment
Bureau, sustained by charitable ladies of
the town, who receive orders, for all kinds
of sewing knitting, and fancy work, and
distribute the work among needy women
Two boys named Compton went gun
ming near Cranbury, Middlesex county, on
Saturday. While getting over the fence
one of the guns exploded, and the younger
brother received terrible wounds in the
head. from which he died
Mr.. Jacob Liber, of Port Norris, killed g
deer at Hunters Mills, Atlantic county,
recently which weighed over 200 pounds.
The deer is said to have been the largest
and to have had the finest pair of antlers
ever seen in South Jersey
John L. Mason, of North Yineland, is
the inventor of the Mason Jar. 1t was in
vented and patented by him in 1857. The
first year he sold twenty gross only, but
the jar rapidly grew i'll popular favor until
now 130, 900 gross per year are sold
Near Deckertown, a few days since,
some boys discovered a small cave contain
ing the skeleton Of an Indian rare speci-
men of Indian pottery, a flint arrow head,
some portion of the antlcr of stag. and
some claws, supposed to be those of a
bear.
An effort is being made on our shore to
raise oysters from the seed. For this pur-
pose vast quantities of shells have been
dumped in selected spot to which the
spawn will adhere, and the growers will
have their plants. native and to the manor
! born
The Board of State Canvassers will meet
at the State Capitol on Tuesday, the 25th
inst, twenty-one days from the date of
election. The Governor is required by law
to summon five Senators to canvass the
votes for Presidential Electors and Con-
| gressmen.
| BY a most careful series of levels, run by
the United States Coast Survey from Sandy
/ Hook and the mouth of the Mississippi
river to st. Louis, it has been demonstrat-
ed that the Atlantic Ocean at the first men
toned points is forty inches lower than the
Gulf of Mexico.
\ branch of the West Jersey Railroad is
being laid out to East Point, the mouth of
Maurice river. starting off from Manumus-
kin down by Port Elizabeth and other
river villages. 1t will secure share of
the large oyster trade from the river, and
prove a great convenience to the section
through which it runs.
An inspection ofthe official returns shows
stupid blunder in several townships of
this State, which would have defeated one
| Blaine elector. had the vote in the State
been close. Israel r. Adams withdrew
from the Republican electoral ticket
several weeks before election and Mahlon
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