The Penn's Grove record., 1885-07-11

| Of Faith, of Wilmington, will make an
| excursion to Prnnsgroye on u-Nt Mon
day, and tie Sunday school Of the Re
formed Episcopal Church Of the Re
4 dsener will be here on Tuesday.
The P~ennsgrove Cornet Band will
hold their Picnic in Divers Woods
on Tuesday July 14th. a special in
vitalion is extended to all the Sunday
school and the public in general to
cone out and have Il good time.
On Tuesday morning John W. Dick
inson and Nathan i Lippincott, landed
n ye,y large flock of sheep off the
steamer Delaware and drove them to
WoodstoWn. Mr.. Dickinson has been
West in the state Of Ohio several weeks
where he purchased them.
Capt j. D. Whitaker and wife and
Harry Adams arrived home On We'd
nesday after being goita since May 9TH.
| They have been on Il trip to Savannah,
| Ga. His schooner brought a cargo of
rock fertilizer from Charleston and is
now unloading at Philadelphia.
The walking match il Bridgeton on
the Fourth, conducted under the aus
pieces of the knights of Labor, was a
success financially, over 500 being
| cleared. PAGE came in first, having
| made 81 miles; Vineyard ID, SO miles;
Mead 81, 81 miles; Hess 4'h, 50 miles,
aud Porch 18th, 81 miles.
A law suit for trespass and damages
| To the amount Of $1G0, came up before
Squire DeGr9fft on Thursday morning.
| James Lawrence plaintiff, Cilas. Leap
| defendant. A requested ADJOURNMENT
Of two weeks was granted in order
| that defendants counsel might have
time to prepare.
Just now the proper thing to do is to
fluid four Ms on the silver doIdt.
One is in america, " Il in "Uuum
| and there arr two others-the in iti3lS
of the man whD carved the die
| that can only be found by the strongest
| and keenest pair of eyes. They are
| there, plain and well defined.
1t is said there is pest destroying The
| water melonphnts of same the farmers
in the township. II is a long slender
white worm which eats into the heart
of the root of the plants causing them
| to wilt and die in q very shot time.
| The patch Of JOHN 4 .i5an, who lives
on Thomas Weatherby's farm, and Of
Charles Sheets are attacked by them.
Some Of the courts 0 fihs State have
! decided that farm boundary fences can.
| not he made Of barbel wire without
|. the consea. of the parties owning the
| adjacent land; and any maj who patsa
barhed wire fence along the highway
rendering himself liable for all injuries
+ sulliag to stock passing along said
highways.
Mrs. r. 7. Lore lectGred in Ezra u9i
Chrlch on Wednesday evening on the
| manners and customs Of India and
and South America and the good work
the Women Foreign Missionary Socle-
IS is doing in those hoatIlen countries,
She and another Lady from Whining.
ton will be at Emanual church ON Sun
afternoon at 3 o'clock to speak on mis-
SION work and also at St. Pauls church
in the evening.
1t is consid red tha' Fl hing parties
Of other states to the canal and Sal n
creek near Hawks bridge are becoming
100 numerous for the best interest Of
our home sportsman. 1t is said that a
boat carrying on fishing for living
comes up the canal and takes the fish
away in a live car. There is spien !id
fishing there but it takes an eXoerten-
eed person to know where to throw the
line to catch them.
On Thursday Capt, Thos. Eaylor
heard from his schooner Rillie 8. Der
by which left Pennsrrovo on May 19th
with n load of coal for Martinique.
She-arrived Oh June 10th all well ex-
ceptfng the capita n son Charles which
was slightly indispo5ed. II took a let.
ter thirty days to come from there.
Charles said the French girls were
unfolding the coal. The womcn do
all the work in the West Indies and
in Spain aaI men lay back. The
schooner lefton June 81 for Pedra Key,
Jamaica. where she vas loaded with
a cargo of guano for New Bedford,
Mass.
d. P. Leonard, the genial manager
Of the Pennsgrove agency for marble,
granite and white bronze, pat up on
Monday a very handsome cradle tomb
of the best Bianco t italian marble
over the grave of Mary p. wife of John
Summer.ll. The head piece represents
Il scroll of parchment on a coral rockey.
The top of the scroll is entwined with
vines and the bottom supportsa bsauti-
fully carved boquet of flowers, between
which is the inscription Of the name,
birth, and death. The foot is made solid
upon which sits a beautifully carved
urn with a movable top.
There were some street hawkers of
Medicine in toHn last Saturday. They
were not very successful in d|isposing
of tleir stuff "for the good Of human
ity'' so they left for Woodstown IN
the evening where the Fourth was
more glorious. The corn doctor
with a Jolly round belly use to re-
side neal Auburn. Some residents of
that place knew him. He said that he