The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-03
GENERAL NEWS.

John B. Cough will vote for st. John.
Pittsburg proposes to prohibit the cree
ton of wooden buildings within the city
limits.
The vessels recently owned by Warner Il
Merritt, of Phila. were sold at auction on
Tuesday.
Cath, in the Cincinnati Enquirer, says:
GAS slavery bluffed too long. whiskey may
bluff too late
The charter of Atlanta Ga, forbids any
person from holding the Office of Mayor for
two consecutive terms.
The Maine prohibitory constitutional
amendment will go into effect the first
Monday of January next.
A rolling mill in the Dupont powder
yards. near Wilmington, Delaware, blew
up Monday afternoon. No person was in
jurcd.
John p. St. John has written letter
dated Olathe, Kansas, September goth,
accepting the Prohibition nomination for
President of the United States.
The eleventh annual meeting of the Wo-
mans National Christian Temperance
Union will be held in St. Louis. Mo-,
commencing the 22d of October and con-
tinuing four days.
The steamship Ell Dorado. the last of the
three vessels built for the Morgan Steam
ship line, running between New York and
New Orleans, was launched from Cramps
yard on Saturday morning.
Forty-five years ago the Brttannm was
considered remarkable snip. She was
POI feet long and her tonnage was 1,155.
The new Cunard vessel just launched at
Glasgow is 520 feet long, and her tonnage
is nearly 5000
The Methodist Episcopal Conference Of
Illinois has formally resolved to give its
support as a body to st. John. The de
nomination has about 1900 churches i'll
that State. with membership considera-
bly, exceeding 100000.
\ caisson of the Baltimore and Ohio
bridge over the Susquehanna river at
Frenchtown, Cecil county, Maryland sank
on Wednesday morning in over 60 feet of
water carrying down with it six men.
The caisson was floated, after great ex-
ertions by means of air pressure, and the
imprisoned men were rescued i'll an cx-
hausted condition.
Postmaster General Gresham received a
telegram from the President after eleven
clock on Wednesday night last week. in
forming him of his appointment as Secre-
tary of the Treasury. He Immediately
sent to the President his resignation as
Postmaster General and qualified as Secre-
tary of the Treasury First Assistant
Postmaster General Hatton becomes acting
| Postmaster General.
General B. F. Butler addressed large
meeting in Springfield, Massachusetts, on
/ Saturday night. In the course Of his speech
he said "a young man goes into bank
ing Office he sees those above him specula-
ting and gambling and is drawn into it
himself. Why, only few days ago Ar
mour & Co., of Chicago, made 81, 500, 900
/
OH the rise in the price of pork. They
made it and boosted of it. They stole it.
If a miserable creature should steal a pig
we would put him in the House of Correc-
ton What shall we do with people who
steal 50 500, 600 worth of pigs all at once ~
At Muscatine, Iowa, on Tuesday Judge
Hayes charged the Grand Jury i'll the mat
ter of indictments under the new prohibi-
tory liquor law. He charged the Jury
that while selling liquor is indictable,
buying it is equally violation of the law:
that all persons testifying to having pur-
chased liquor are indictable, and that in
case of any persons being induced or en-
couraged by any organization or body to
buy liquor for the purpose Of eliminating
the seller, such buyer would be indictable,
and such body would be guilty of conspir-
acy and subject to Indictment. Under this
ruling there is little hope Of the enforce
/ tpnpt of ba In