The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-04-10
south Jersey Nefes.

During the year ending April l there
have been thirteen fires in Melville.
Six hundred dozens Of quart jars are
turned ont daily by Moore Bros, at Clay
ton.
The steamer Jersey Blue has been placed
on the route between Bridgeport and Phila-
delphia.
The Grand Division Sons of Temperance
Of New Jersey will meet in East Orange on
the 22d inst.
Jas. Butcher, near Bridgeport, has a BOW
which gave birth to three fine, large calves
last Monday.
The town of Woodbury. was lighted by
electricity for the first time on Wednesday
of last week.
The fertilizer works of Coe & Richmond,
near Paulsboro, are being pushed to their
utmost capacity.
The roller-skating rink at Bridgeton was
broken open on Sunday and a quantity of
skates, ETC., stolen.
Joshua L. Bailey of Phila., will deliver a
lecture on temperance in Woodbury. about
the 28th of this month.
There is trouble among the workmen of
the FISHER Glass Works, Clayton, and there
is danger that the fires will be put out.
The Borough Council of Holly Beach
proposes to stop the sale of intoxicating
drinks at the small places and to license
one hotel.
A valuable horse belonging to Ernest A.
Washington, of Elsinboro, was seriously
injured recently by running into a barbed
wire fence.
The Millyille Republican states that dur
ipV the mast rinfar fharn xrarsa % Stlnpr
falls-five more than during the winter
preceding.
Ex-Governor st. John, of Kansas, is
booked for eleven addresses in the First
Congressional district during the coming
~camp-meeting season.
A black bass was caught in a seine net
in Alloway's creek a few days ago. These
fish were put in these waters a few years
ago by the State Fish Commission.
The schooner c.. Leslie Smith, COM
manded by Captain Charles Brown, is
reported to have sunk last week at Penns-
vile. Her masts are barely visible.
Three deer were observed by a teamster
in the woods near Pleasantville one day
last week. He states that they were rough
and thin, having evidently passed a hard
winter.
Melville City Council has, in view of a
probable visitation from cholera, appro-
priated $50 to pay for the services of a
special health officer, to he appointed by
the Board of Health.
Since the advent of the Salvation Army
in Millville it is claimed that there is a de-
cided falling off in the number of kegs of
beer arriving there. The work of the
Army seems to have reached such a class.
The jury in the Sellers poisoning case at
Camden agreed on Tuesday that the deaths
of both Joseph w. Sellers and his wife
were due to natural causes. They exon
Grated from suspicion all persons previous
~ accused.
Miss Mary Broome, a young woman
living at Woodbury., on Monday dropped
dead OF heart disease in the railroad station
at Haddonfield, while purchasing a ticket
for Camden. In rushing for the train she
had oyer-exerted herself.
The Millville Manufacturing Company
have an order for five thousand pieces of
Grape, and are running the dying depart
ment day and night. The expectation of
General Grants death soon is what has
created this extra demand.
The Board of Health of Camden has is
sued a circular to the citizens, calling upon
them to use all precautionary sanitary
measures in view of the possibility of the
city being visited by an epidemic of cholera
or other contagious disease.
The unusually dry weather of March has
allowed fires to catch from locomotives,
and all along the railroad are burned places
in the fields and woodlands such as may
often be seen in very dry time in midsum-
mer, but very seldom at this time of year.
George Simpson, a boy about Is years
of age, while playing On "a hay stack iii
Moore Bros. yard, Clayton, last week.
fell and broke his ankle, causing the bone
to protrude through the flesh. 1t was
feared at first that amputation was neces-
sary.
II. Duffield. of Watson's Corner, who
for over twenty years has been sexton of
the Nazareth NJ. E. Church, at that place,
has worked a number of household uten-
sis from a hickory 102 years of age, which
was recently cut down en- F. P. keen's
maple Farm near Swings Corner.
Joseph Penn. a ~glassblower of Melville,
was found dead in the rear of an oyster
saloon in that city Sunday night. He had
been drinking heavily during the day, and
it is supposed that whisky was the cause
of his death. The COroner's verdict was
rendered in accordance with the facts.
The old Brick Mil" in Upper PENIS
Neck, ON the road to Pennsgrove, is proba-
bly, the oldest mill in South Jersey. 1t was
built some time i'll the early part of the
last century. In former times it was a
splendid paying property, where the grain
through 2 large farming district was
ground.
A Bridgeton woman was struck on the
arm by a small top which fell from her
boys pocket while she was shaking his
coat. 1t made a slight but painless bruise
and no attention was paid to it. \ short
time afterward her arm began to swell and
there is now danger that she will lose it,
from b~lood-poisoning.
The body found floating in the Delaware,
a mile above Pennsville, on Sunday week,
has been identified as that of John ID. Mil
lick. of Philadelphia, who was knocked
overheard from a yacht above Red Bank
last December. A brother of the deceased
came to Pennsville on Wednesday of last
week and had the body dug UP and shipped
to Philadelphia.
William Pfuhl was employed in holding
a pair of horses, attached to a wagon, be
longing to a Mr.. Cattell, near Wenonah,
on Friday. when a team which was passing
frightened the animals and they became
FESTIVE. Pfuhl caught hold of the horses
heads when they jumped forward and the
tongue of the wagon struck him or the
chest and ninned him To q tree. Pfuhl