The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-30

and Hudson streets, a department to be
known as the David S. Brown Reading
Room and Coffee House."
The ladies of Mantua organized a Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union on the
Goth inst, and thirty-three members are
already enrolled. Miss Sallie Logan is
President and the other offices are filled by
earnest Christian women of the town.
The vacancy caused by the death of J.
II. Reynolds, General Superintendent of
the West Jersey Express Company, has
been filed by the promotion of Robert
Stretch, who has been the Philadelphia
agent of the company. Mr.. Stretch is a
former Salem county boy.
A temperance lecture, under the auspices
of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, will be held at the court house, in
Salem, on tomorrow evening, at 7:30
o'clock. The address will be delivered
by Rev. Mr.. Sembower, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, of that city.
The Baxter Overland Telephone Elk
change in Bridgeton has been temporarily
discontinued, an injunction having been
served on the company by the owners of
the Bell telephone. The Bridgeton com
pany will now endeayor to make arrange
ments to continue the exchange.
Says the Bridgeton Nems: st is rumor-
ed that Michael Potter, the Willow Grove
ce~ntenarian. has received a letter of con-
graduation from President-elect Cleveland.
The old man, it will be remembered, had
expressed a desire to live to see another
Democratic President elected, and rejoiced
greatly when he learned that Cleveland
had won."
The little one-year-old daughter of James
Compton, a Port Norris FISHERMAN, was
bitten on the neck, back of the right ear,
by a black spider while sitting at the din
ner table last Tuesday week. The child
uttered a scream of pain and the mother
killed the spider. The child was immedi-
ately taken sick and died on Saturday. It's
death was caused by the spiders bite.
Lewis Hitchner, of Deerfield, has pur-
chased the Buck property on the road run
ming parallel with the road from Shiloh to
Watson's Corner. $4,000 was the price
paid for the ninety-nine acres. The prop
erty was offered for sale the Saturday pre-
vious at Salem and a bid of $1,000 was re-
ceived, but refused. 1t adjoins the lands
of Nathaniel Burt, Samuel Mickle and
Robert Loveland.
Mr.. Alfred Holmes, a prominent farmer
of Hopewell township, Cumberland Co,
recently had a serious accident happen to
him, which, it is said, is likely to prove
fatal. He was assisting his workmen in
cutting timber when the accident occurred.
While dressing a log, his workmen were
telling a tree near by. Mr.. Holmes had his
back turned to them. and when the tree
fell it struck him On the back of the head.
He remained unconscious for several hours
after the accident happened. At first it
was thought that he was not seriously in
jured, but he has been grow ing worse and
now. it is said, he will not recover.
James VI. Seovel. of Camden. on Mon
day brought suit in the United States Cir
cult Court in Philadelphia against the
Press Publishing Company, limited, to re-
cover damages for alleged libel.
The Press on January 10 printed a COM
munication from Trenton referring to a
New jersey politician who. it was said,
was sentenced to State Prison for embezz-
ling a clients money No names were
given. but Mr.. Scovel declares that the
circumstances taken together convey the
impression that he is the person referred
to. He denies that he was ever convicted
of the crime mentioned.
George Tomlinson, a farmer. of Roads
town, three miles from B~ridgeton, brought
a load of pork to that city on Thursday
morning. On his return, while crossing
the New Jersey Southern Railroad, he was
struck by the passenger train and seriously
injured. His horses were not injured, al
though the wagon was badly broken up.
Tomlinson was hurled a distance of
several feet and sustained a compound frac-
ture of the right leg. 1t is said that he
was injured internally also. The crossing
where this accident happened is a
very dangerous one and several casualties
have occurred there within a few years.
Miss Georgianna Merrill. a teacher en-
gagged in the South Jersey Institute, at
Bridgeton, took fifteen of her pupils to
East Lake one day last week to skate.
The ice was but an inch thick and unsafe.
The party had been skating but a short
time when the ice gave way and all were
precipitated into the water, which at that
point is ten feet deep. Their screams at
tracted the attention of the employees of
the Ferracute Machine Works, which are
near the lake, and they rushed to the
scene. The ladies were all rescued, but
not without difficulty, and a number were
taken out unconscious. Miss Merrill re-
fused assistance until all her pupils were
saved.
Frank NJ. Riley, the assistant cashier
in the Cumberland National Bank, is a de-
tective as we'll as a financier. Ever since
the man Hamilton forged a note on that
bank for 81, $50. which he did a week ago
last Saturday. Mr.. Riley has been pursu-
ing him and Tuesday night his hunt was
rewarded in the capture of Hamilton at
Melville. The president of the bank was
te~legraphed to and Officer Ayars was sent
to Millville after Hamilton. He was
brought to Bridgeton and lodged in the
County Jail. 1t seems as though Hamil-
ton made no effort to escape, for he has
been in Cumberland county ever since he
defrauded the bank. The name of 5. V.
Hamilton. which he gave when he got the
note cashed. was fictitious. His real name
is Sherman Hager and he lives at Port
Norris, the great oyster shipping place of
that county, He is a ~well-known charac-
ter there and up to this time has borne a good
reputation. The bank has recovered the
greater amount of the money which was
advanced on the note.
A mass meeting OF the citizens of Cam
den was held in the Court House on Thurs
day night of last week to express their
views upon the enforcement of the high
tariff liquor license recently passed by the
City Council. Rev. William Getty, gen
erai secretary of the Young Mems Christian
Association, spoke of the evil effects of rum