The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25


arated the sale of liquors and groceries.
A company has been formed to revive the
beet sugar industry in England.
The Chester-built steamship Reliance, 1000
tons, is total wreck off Bahia
A movement is said to be on foot to con-
meet Baltimore and Atlanta by new airline
railroad.
The French, under Gen. Millot, have occu-
pied Honghoa, after bombardment of six
hours.
The new Russian gold loan of ELS, 600, 900
has been concluded and will be devoted to
railway construction.
Newfoundland has local option prohibi-
tory law, and some sections have recently
adopted it by large majorities
We believe the end of the century will see
prohibition adopted over nearly our whole
country.-N. Y. Independent.
The Woodbury. council will issue no licenses
to sell beer. Court has charge of the grant
ing of licenses to sell rum, not the council.
1t is thought that work on the Wenonah
Methodist Episcopal church will be resumed
in short time
Rev. Mr. Hamilton the new pastor of the
Mullica Hill Baptist church, is graduate of
Crozier college.
Mr.. Rich's act, giving common councils
power to grant licenses, which passed the
house, has been reported adversely in the
senate.
The pope's forthcoming encyclical letter
will denounce free masonry, and the various
enormities by which the world is returning to
paganism.
A bill has passed the house repeating the
license act of March 23d, 1883, requiring
signers of licenses to describe the location of
their property.
The ladies of the Boonton w. G T. u are
rendering valuable aid to the temperance
men in moulding sentiment and in lines of
practical work
1t is stated that Dr. G. G.. Green has made
handsome cash donation toward the new
German church about to be erected in Wood
bury. Democrat.
1t is believed General Gordon declines to
heed the advice of the English government
advising him to leave Khartoum. The forces
of the rebels along the Nile seem to be break
ing up.
There are twelve manufactures of artificial
teeth in the United States, which make
10, 900, 900 of those useful articles per annum.
They are made of feldspar, kaolin, and rock
crystal.
Mays LANDING, April 18.-Robert Roehl
was yesterday acquitted in the Atlantic
county courts of the charge of murder in
killing August Rosenbush at Egg Harbor
City last winter.
P. Hall Packer has retired from the editor
ship of the Seabright Sentinel, and Samuel
G. Keim now has full control Sam is
Camden boy, and we wish him the best sue
cess in his venture
The graded license plan in Chicago is
hardly working the desired result, if reports
are true, which state that up to the present
date, out of $50 saloon licenses, SIG are for
wine and whiskey, and but "a for beer alone.
The w. G. T. U. of Vineland before late
meeting of city council presented petition
seventeen feet long, bearing the signatures of
over 800 citizens over fifteen years of age,
praying council to renew none of the licenses
for billiard and pool rooms
The porte having decided to put the new
tariff into execution on June 6, the govern
ments of England, France, Germany, Russia
Belgium and the United States have informed
the porte that they will not consent to the
abolition of their commercial rights under the
capitulations.
Swedesboro Methodists gave their pastor
Rev. G. F. Garrison, hearty welcome. There
was large number present at the reception.
New furniture is being put in the parsonage
1t would not be surprising if new parsonage
was built before long, in keeping with the
style of the church.
The report of the officers at the annual
meeting of the Woodbury. Baptist church
showed the church to be in a very prosperous
condition, especially SO with the finances.
The pastors salary was increased very ma
terially. The superintendent of the school
reported 285 as members, and seventeen con-
versions for the past year Constitution.
The law-abiding citizens of Woodside, L.
l., are up in arms against the liquor dealers
of that place. During the summer months
the place is infested with rowdies from New
York and Brooklyn who go there for the pur-
pose of getting drunk-and fighting. The
roughs steal everything they can and wanton-
ly destroy fences, flowers and vegetable
patches. The citizens few months ago or
gained law and order association for the
purpose of closing the saloons on Sunday, OF
which John S. Powers, one of the wealthiest
citizens, is chairman. Easter Sunday was
field day for the roughs. Ten members OF
the association had been sworn in as special
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