The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27


Egypt farmer, weighs only twenty-five
pounds.
Elijah W. Haines, of ~Eincentown, this
season fattened and killed 100 hogs which
weighed 81. 600 pounds.
Burlington has four skating Kinks. and
it is estimated that 81, 900 worth of skates
have been sold there this season.
Anew law prohibits the killing of doves
from January / to August 81. under a
penalty of - for each bird killed.
The bill to punish wife heaters at the
whipping-post, passed the House of this
State on Monday. by a vote Of 80 to l3.
The State Board of Education met on
Tuesday of last week and appointed Hon.
E. o. Chapman State Superintendent to
succeed Prof. Apgar.
The New Jersey Conference has decided,
if possible, to raise 5000 for the enlarge
ment of Pennington Seminary. the work >
be completed as soon as possible.
\ new mandatory is about to be started
in Plainfield for the making of rubber
goods by a new process, in which all disa-
greeabie odors are to be avoided.
At a meeting of the Board of Commits
sioners of Asbury Park, held last week, it
was decided to sink a~rtesian wells for the
purpose of supplying the city with water.
The boring for eight or ten wells will COM
mence in a few days.
John Smith was recently committed to
jail from Bordentown as a vagrant. He
is a son of John and Il nephew OF Thomas
Smith. who formerly owned Smiths Is
land. now Ridgway Park, in the Delaware
river, and at one time was well off.
\ Board of Trade has been organized at
Mount Holly, with Robert b. Engle as
President. About fifty prominent citizens
nave promised to join the organization
and measures are to be taken to induce
manufacturers TO locate in the town.
Wesley B. Norcross, a well-known resi-
dent of Burlington county, committed sui
eide on Friday at his home, by taking
Paris green. Two days before he made
an Intellectual attempt to take his life by
hanging. Financial troubles are supposed
to be the cause.
The Committee on Revolutionary Claims
of the New Jersey House of Representa-
tives Wednesday morning reported favor
ably a resolution for the removal ofthe State
Capitol from Trenton to Newark. 1t is
said that more than half of the members
are ready to vote for the resolution
The Delaware river is frozen over again
both above and below Trenton, and affords
a sight that the oldest inhabitant is said to
have never known before in March. y
number Of steam freight propellers were
and Raritan canal and are frozen tight at
different points along the route.
The front of the State Capitol at Treu-
ton was destroyed by fire early on Satur-
day morning. The fire started in the Quar-
termaster Generals office, and soon after
it's discovery two explosions took place,
said to be from samples of powder kept in
the office. The Chaneery Office, Geological
Museum. and the office Of the Labor But
reau were burned, The loss is estimated
at from $50. 900 to So. 000. The insurance
i, s250.O00.
Governor Albeit sent to the Legislature
on Monday night a special message giving
formal information Of the damage to the
State House by Saturday 5 fire, and recon-
mending urgently the erection, in the place
of the burned wing, of a building large
enough for all the state departments, that
are now crowded in small quarters in rented
ROOMS outside. He also recommends that
the work be put in the hands of a commits
sion Of state officers. The expense of the
building. the Governor says, can be met
without any additional taxes being put
upon the people. Both the Senate and
Assembly appointed a special committee
OF three to consider tie subject. Later
Mr.. Jewett introduced in the Assembly a
bill appointing the Governor, Comptroller,
Attorney General and State Treasurer a
commission to so alter, enlarge and rebuild
the State House as shall seem best in their
judgment.