The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27
souti, Jersey Notes.

The ice on Salem creek is nearly ten
inches thick.
Thoroughfare and Centre Square each
have skating Kinks.
\ Young Mems Christian Association
has been formed at Mantna.
Two new ice houses are to be erected
near Daretown in a short time.
Messrs. Mabee and English began their
temperance work in Bridgeton last We'd
nesday.
Work will be resumed at the glass
works of Fisher x Morgan, at Clayton,
next Tuesday.
\ tract of land at Cape May Point has
been purchased by a religious society for
camp meeting purposes.
The engine and boiler for the new
Swedesboro glass factory will be built by
the Agar Machine Works of Salem.
1t is reported that BENZ. c. Clark of We
nonah has bought Plummer' hotel, Swedes-
boro, paying 80, 900 or $40, 900 for it.
A resident of Bakersville. Atlantic coun-
ty. who recently invented a carpenters
plumb and level, has received an offer of
SO, 900 for it.
The corner stone services announced last
week to take place for the new Baptist
Chapel at Tuckahoe on the 25th inst have
been postponed.
Improvements at and near Pitman Grove
have gone forward all through the cold
weather. Several new cottages are now in
course of building
The House Committee at Washington on
Monday, decided to favorsbly report a
bill appropriating $4,000 for a public
building at Camden.
The bathing establishments OF Charles
Seymour and the cottage of Edward
Buchholtz, at Sea Isle City, were burned
down on Tuesday morning.
The Presbyterians of Mays Landing
nave extended a call to Rev. II. C.. Hines.
of Princeton Theological Seminary, from
which he will soon graduate.
The barn and outbuildings on the farm
of John Rainear, near Fairton, Cumberland
county, were burned early on Sunday morn
ing, together with two horses, two mules
and farm implements.
John w. Westcott, the newly appointed
Presiding Judge of the Camden county
SouTIS, TtCtlhtu US NOiiiiiiSoioh
Governor Albeit last Friday night and
was sworn in on Saturday by Deputy
Clerk Morgan.
A member of one of the largest glass
firms in Bridgeton informed a Aers report
err that they had already lost, since the last
meeting of Council, as a result of promis-
cuous license, as much as the City receives
as revenue for a year.
Joseph NJ. Rammel. of Mays Landing,
has shipped one hundred and twenty-five
carloads of salt hay over the West Jersey
Railroad the past year, and has about
twenty more loads. 1t was sold to glass
factories at Clayton and Glassboro.
In Camden it has been suggested to en-
act an ordinance dividing the saloons into
classes and then reversing the ordinary
method of regulating the license fee. That
is. instead of charging the highest fee for
the first class exact the lowest, and
charge a very high fee for the low dens of
vice.
The troubles which have long existed in
Atlantic City regarding the Water Com
pany of that place. growing out of prices
demanded of the city for a water supply,
&C., has led to the formation Of another
company. which is about being authorized
by the City Council to lay its pipes through
out the city. Artesian wells are to be relied
upon for a supply of water.
Twenty years 9 Sheppard Candy, of
Sayre's Meek, Cumberland county, swal-
lowed a pin while eating dinner. The pin
lodged crosswise at the root of his tongue.
He felt no inconvenience from its presence
while eating. but when drinking it gaye
him considerable pain. While drinking
coffee a few days ago, the pin became loos-
ened, and Mr.. Candy secured it.
Last Friday evening a fire broke out in
the building used for drying wood n
ed with the glass house of Hires X Co., at
Quinton, and the building was entirely de-
stroyed. together with about twenty cords
of wood. The Union Fire Company, of
Salem, came over with the steam engine,
but the cold was so severe as to freeze the
pump of the engine, rendering it useless.
A lad fifteen years old, named Charles
Brown, was arrested in Woodbury. last
week and sent back for commitment to the
Salem Jail for forging the name Of Samuel
Callahan, ST., to an order for goods to the
value of SEQ, which he successfully palmed
upon a merchant of Salem. The goods
were found in his possession when arrested.
He was committed to jail after a hearing
before Squire Wood.