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

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growlers-it would be impossible to please
all.-May's Landing journal.
The authorities of MillvilIe are seriously
considering the purchasing of the water
works Of r. d. Wood & Co.. of that city.
When the works were first established the
city gave the Woods $685. 600 and released
all claim to the works or any revenue there
from, and also agreed to pay $50 per year
for each firs-plug furnished in addition to
the contract. There are now about forty
new plugs needed, which would cost $1,000
per annum, and at this rate City Council
thinks it would pay them to purchase the
plant outright.
The strange fatality attending that por-
ton of the New jersey sea coast between
Corson's Inlet and Townsend's Inlet, led
Hon. Thomas VI. Ferrell to investigate the
cause and effect of the matter recently.
He states that his investigation had re-
suited in the startling discovery that from
1866 to the present time sixty-five vessels
have been wrecked on the very small sec
ton of coast lying between the above
points. The peculiar formation of the
coast in the above locality is the cause of
these numerous disasters. Mr.. Ferrell
suggests that the inlets be surrounded by
sea walls, thus forming harbors of refuge,
and that the life saving stations on the
Jersey coast be kept open n ready for
service during the whole year.
Mr.. Job Bacon, Of Greenwich, is boring
an a~rtesian well at his canning factory.
The well has reached a depth of over 200
feet. and $1,000 has been expended in
the work, but the volume of water
sought for has not yet been reached. The
Bridgeton NeUs says: In boring the well
layers of all sorts Of hard substances were
gone through, and now, at the great depth
it has reached, mud has been found which
is more difficult to bore through than the
harder substances. Oyster shells were
found at a depth of a hundred feet.
The First shad of the season caught in
the Delaware river is always considered of
more than usual Importance by shad fish
ermen. and two or three OILERS are now
claiming the honor for this year. Captain
James Smith. of Chester, caught one OF
Thursday of last week which was sold to a
gentleman Of Philadelphia for five dollars.
James johnson also captured one on the
same day in Alloway's Creek, and sold it
to Benjamin 5. Hewitt, a produce dealer
in the Delaware Avenue Market, Philadel-
phia. Michael Collar captured one last
Friday III Salem harbor while fishing for
rock fish. 1t was Of the male species and
quite small, but was sold by c. E. War
ner & Co, the Dock street, Philadelphia,
fish merchants, for ~seyenty-fiye cents.
As Adam Graft was driving through Ell
mer, on Wednesday of last week, with a
large land roller attached to his ~wagon,tw two
small boys, without Mr.. Graft knowledge
climbed up on to it to get a ride. When
opposite the school house the boys got off.
just as soon as their feet struck the ground
they were thrown over, the roller passed
on over them, striking them at the
feet and passingoff at the head, face down.
ward. One was VIM. Longs and the 9TH
err Adam Handles son. Doctor Cheesman
who was standing but a short distance away,
ran and took up the Long boy and carried
him to his house and did all that he could
to dress the wounds. n an inch and a
half over the left eye, and a nearly-three-
inch cut down the back of the head. One
leg was nearly broken and the other was
badly swollen. The other boy was not
hurt seriously.
At the recent session of the New Jersey
Conference of the NJ. E. Church, held at
New Brunswick, Rev. W. Margerum, who
had been stationed at HGrffville, was APP
pointed to the old church at Pennsgrove.
So o as this was made public, it was
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by the Pennsgrove Methodists, owing
partly to the fact that they had set their
hearts upon another minister. and also to
rumors that had reached them of Mr.. Mar
gerums unacceptability at other places
where he had been assigned in the past,
although he was not personally known by
many in the vicinity of his new charge.
This feeling of dissatisfaction developed
into positive opposition and ended in a re-
fusal by the church to receive him as their
pastor.
These murmurings were brought to the
attention of Presiding Elder Gaskill, who
sought to pour oil upon the troubled
waters, and at once began an effort to am
icably adjust the matter. An exchange
with some other charge was suggested, but
this was not easily to be accomplished.
Rev. d. W. C. Mcintyre, who had been
returned to the Fillmore street church,
Camden, was first mentioned as a suitable
transfer. Mr.. Mcintyre was willing to go
and the Pennsgroye folks were satisfied,
but the whole arrangement was upset by
the Fillmore street church. at an official
meeting hurriedly called for the purpose,
refusing to part with their pastor.
Then Rev. T. c. Parker, a young and
fiery preacher, was named. Mr.. Parker
had been sent to Manamuskin, but would
have acquiesced in the change. \ barrier
to this, however, arose in the tact that Mr..
Parker went to his charge at Manamuskin
last Sabbath week and delighted the peo-
pie with his preaching. Hence they would
not listen to parting with their new pastor.
Last Sunday week Mr.. Gaskill went 10
Pennsgrove himself, preached for them,
and endeavored to reconcile the church, but
was not successful. a conference of the
several Presiding Elders was called last
week in Camden, and various plans sug-
gested, but nothing was accomplished, so
the matter rests as at first, and on Sunday
Mr.. Margerum went TO Pennsgroye, and
filled his pulpit, to the satisfaction of
at least four-fifths of his congregation.
He is said to be an able preacher
and has served some Of the best charges in
the Conference. 1t is further said that his
unpopularity is mainly due to plain preach
ing. as he insists upon a right to tell the
people of their sins and expose spiritual
wickedness in high places.
We have heard and read Of putting a
number eight foot into a number six shoe
and a gallon of molasses into a half gallon
Jug, bat Just how to crowd sixteen col
umns of set up matter into fourteen col
,v,Os IF SDana i neoa of +ha SacrpfS We