The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-07-17
SOnth Jersey NOfes.

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The body of William Parker, of Philadel-
phia, was found in Woodbury. Creek, on sat
urday.
vineand is putting down It monster well
from which it hopes to obtain an ample water
supply.
The Mayor of Ocean city has forbidden the
sale of newspapers on the streets of that resort
on Sunday
The Cumberland National Bank, of Bridge
ton, has delighted its stockholders wtha semi
annual dividend of seven per cent
There is an old coIored woman in the GIou-
cester County Ainshouse said to be los years
old. She was formerly a slave in the south.
The Government dredger al work ri MIL
vile is very powerful machine making cut
eleven feet deep and lifting six tons u minnie.
$lj, 200 have been paid in forlicenses in Allan
tic City during he month OF June. from sev
eral hundred persons and represenlineas many
rum holes.
Arrangements are said to he completed for
starting u hosiery factory in the brick build
ing formerly used n canning factory mt
Woodbury..
\ jury summoned by sheriff Packer ON satur-
day last adiudged Maria L. Salisbury of Pauls
boro TO be OF unsonnd mind and unfit TO have
the care of her property. guardian will he
appointed.
The passenger department OF the West Jer
sey Railroad has abandoned the system OF
numbering and reserving seats ON its fast
shore trains Trouble last season over the
system necessiated The change.
The opening of the Cooper Hospital, Cam
den, has again been postponed, this time until
September /. Meanwhile II stone morgue and
frame building, in which are to be treated
eases of epidemic and contagious diseases, will
be built.
The yinelana .Netcs Times says: another
Sunday train has been thrust upon those
goody -goody people of Bridgeton. They oh
iect To sunday trains over there. but they will
sit on the banks of the river all day sunday and
fish, and think nothing oft.
A colored camp meeting under the auspices
of the North Woodbury. a. L. r. c. NJ. r.
Church will be held in Pearce's woods, half
way between Woodbury. and wenonah, on the
line of the West Jersey railroad, next sunday
and also the following sabbath
The barn and out-buildings attached TO the
residence of Bartram Bonsal, editor of the
Camden Post, mt Pensauken, were con
spmed by fire ON Wednesday The loss is
about $500. partially covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire is not known.
1t is reported that the Woodbury. Electric
Light and Power Co. contemplate making
experiments on the streets with few Edison
electric lights If they work satisfactorily, the
report goes that the Company will favor their
substitution for the present are light
The Pennsylvania Kaolin Company filed
articles of incorporation ON Monday in the
Camden County Clerks office. The capital
stock is $4,000 divided into shares of slOeach.
The object of the concern is to search and dig
for fossils in the mari beds of our state.
Rev. j. +. Lake, pastor of the Grace Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. of Camden, in order to
save the building from the hammer of the
Sheriff and extricate it from its heavy indebt-
edness has made over to its creditors sea-
shore property valued at 5000, and personally
assumed the debt for the organ.
The forest fires which have been burning
for about u week in Burlington and Camden
counties and which have burned over, it is
| said, about 10000 acres of wild and cultivated
cranberry boys, besides destroying hundreds
of acres of timber lands, are now reported ex-
tinguished by the rains of Monday night.
c. G. Green now owns all the stock of the
| standard window Glass Works of Woodbury.,
having purchased not only The large interest
of the :. p. Loudensiager estate but also the
shares held by II. C. Loudenslager. The fac
| tories will he run again next year ana The
work of rebuilding the furnaces will he com
| menced in a few days.
| Al IA recent meeting of the Woodbury. Tenn
| pernce Reform Climb, the following were cleo
| ted officers for the ensuing six months: Presi-
dent, Joshua Dawson: Vice Presidents, Joseph
Morgan sr.. John W sparks. Isaac johnson;
| Secretary Miss NJ Jennie Bender; Treasurer,
| Capt. II. Il. yanneman; Chaplain, ReN Dan'l
| Thac kara: organist, Miss Mary Allen: Janitor.
| Beni. Dilks.
The state census. now completed, gives the
| population of Cumberland county ut 4l.9sl.
being an increase OF GIG in the five years since
| lss0 In that time Millville's population has
| increased 2Sl Bridgeton'S l,243, and Lands
townsh hin O0i; so that the three largest settle
ments in the county have pretty well kept
apace in their growth i'll population There
are in the county 9 4.S families, ana s.sl9 dwell
| ings
| The new ferry house in course OF erection
| by the Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Com
| pany AT the foot of Federal street Camden.
will cost when completed 81, 600. II is TO be a
| frame structure, running loo feet north and
south, by GO feet in width. Three bridges or
| Sims will be built, 60 feet long by - feet in
width or 10 feet longer ana feet wider than
| the present slips. 1t is to he completed
| by the first week in september.
| Sometime in April last Prehs Woodbury.
| coach being driven through Camden, either
| ran against Emma W. Eyles or she ran against
| it, M least being struck and receiving some in
| jurie- Shit was brought against the owner OF
| tho coach for $4,000 damages, John W. West
| colt being employed by the plaintiff. Mr..
| Prehl employed r. ). Clymer to take care of
his side of the case and the lady compromised
| and settled with Mr.. Preh for 500.
| A sea Isle attraction of Il semi-national
! character is shipwrecks. More vessels are
wrecked in the neighborhood of Townsend's
| Inlet, probably. than at any other point on the
| North Atlantic coast. Sixty wrecks have oc-
| Cured there during the past few years and
| five within month. The wrecking steamer,
at work a few days ago in taking of the cargo
of a schooner lying high and dry near where
the masts of another large one showed above
water. was called away to pull of Il third YES
sci that was blown into the breakers right in
| front of sea Isle City. The fact that few lives
are lost in wrecks in this neighborhood, while
detracting from the sensational nature of this
branch of entertainment for summer visitors
is probably not after all, serious detrimen'
to the visitors en- joyment
| Godey's Ladys Book for August is a delight
| full number, handsomer in appearance, and