The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

The Hunter street bridge at Woodbury.
IS nearing completion.
The foundation walls for the Baptist
| Chapel at Sewell are up.
The Washington Light Infantry Corps
broke camp at Cape May on Monday.
The Salvation Army will have a ten-days
camp meeting in Nineland, beginning
next Friday.
Tie West Jersey Baptist Association
will hold its seventy fourth anniversary
meeting in the First Church, Camden, Sep
TENDER Sth.
Camden has the distinction of having a
factory-the only one in the world where
the manufacture OF men's and boy shoes
from porpoise hide is exclusively carried
on.
Adrian Spear, one of the passengers on
the steamer Samuel NJ. FELTON, at the time
of the recent explosion, died at his home in
Camden last Friday from injuries re-
ceived ON the vessel.
Acting Postmaster-Gener Stevenson
has appointed the following Democratic
postmasters in Cape May county. Harrison
J. Carson, at Petersburgh, and lchabod c.
Campton, at Rio Grande.
The General Superintendent of the Life
Saving Service has directed the Superin-
tendent of the several districts on the At
lantic and Gulf coasts to open and man all
their stations on the LIST of September.
Sam'l Garrigues will at once
the erection of the skating rink building
on Broad street, Woodbury.. The building
is to be 52x140 feet, and will contain all
the improvements known to skating rink
builders.
Bids for building the Gloucester county
| Court house were opened last week and
ranged from s53. 600 to $65, 900. Tie Free
holders had expected that 800 would be
enough and no more had been provided, so
the contract was not awarded.
4 heavy thunder storm visited portions
| of Gloucester county on Sunday night, and
in the vicinity of Pitman Grove several
trees and three houses were struck by
lightning. The barn of Charles p. Carly
was also struck and burned to the ground.
We were informed on Tuesday that the
lightning struck IN thirty different places
in that county during the storm.
Divers are searching for the bell of the
Major Reybold, lost in the Delaware dur
ing the cyclone. The steamboat company
has offered a reward of $50 for its recovery
If sound, and the price of bell metal (about
$40) if cracked. The bell is highly priced
for it's quality, and especially in the Rey-
bold family. 1t having been cast in 1858 at
Troy, n. Y, by order of Major Phillip
Reybold, one of the first steamboat men on
the Delaware.
Joseph Honeker. living on the Fairton
road, had an experience last week which he
does not care to have soon again. He had
been engaged in cutting oats, and sat down
under a tree and fell into a light slumber.
He was aw ikened by a large black snake.
probably four feet long, which was lying
across his breast. its head in such close
proximity to his face that he could feel the
breath of its mouth. Mr.. Honeker got
upon his feet in a hurry, and the snake
wriggled away into the oats.
A largely attended meeting of Cape May
County Prohibitionists was held at Sea
Vile, August Goth. While a large portion
of Cape May County's voters are strong
temperance men, there has never been a
prohibition organization with political
proclivities in the county. Dissatisfaction
at the movements of the representatives in
the Assembly on prohibition questions
led to the meeting. Said one of the men
present: There's no use trying to get any
thing from either party. We have tired
long enough, and now it is time to take
separate action and name our own can
didates." Arrangements were made for
holding a convention on September II.