The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-20
STATE NEWS.

\ law recently passed by the Legisla-
ture and signed by the Governor prohibits
the loan or sale of the deadly toy pistol.
John p. Hutchinson, of Burlington
county, has sold his Jersey bull Duke of
Cloverdale, (No 1894, ito Clarence Rams
den, of Morton, Pa, for So, 900.
John Smith, a Reading Railroad brake
man, died at Red Bank on Friday from in
juries received by falling under some coal
cars at Asbury Park. He had just inher-
tied $50, 900, and was to have given up his
position as brakeman the day that he was
hurt.
DR.. Thomas Dunn English, of Newark,
who has been suffering from a tumor in
the throat, was operated on by five ply
was an inch long. was successfully removed,
The operation occupied two hours. The
patient will doubtless recover.
The directors of the Sussex County .Agri-
cultural Society had voted to sell the build
ings, pay the debts and premiums incurred
last fall and then disband. but they have
been met so literally that they have finally
reconsidered their vote and decided to open
the next exhibition on Tuesday. Sept. ed.
4 Young Mems Christian Association is
in contemplation for Mount Holly, but one
of the Methodist ministers of the town de-
clined to read the call for a meeting there
fore from his pulpit, giving as his reason
that he did not propose to encourage any
thing that would attract the young people
away from his own church.
While workmen were engaged in cutting
down a cherry tree in Beverly last week
they cut from the heart Of the tree a piece
of wood in which IN auger hole had been
bored and the cavity filed with sulphur
and then plugged up. The sulphur was
put there over twenty years ago and the
tree had grown over twelve inches at the
trunk.
The centennial of the establishment of
the Episcopal Church in the State of New
Jersey, will be celebrated in Christ
Church, New Brunswick. in the second
week in May. Rev. DIR. Garrison. of Cam
den, will preach a historical sermon. The
arrangements are in charge of a joint COM
mittee of the Diocese of New Jersey and
Northern New Jersey.
The last State census in New Jersey was
taken in 1870. and as it is required that the
census shall be taken every ten years. it
becomes necessary to perform the work
during the present year unless the Legis-
ture should deem it unnecessary in view of
the census taken in 1880 by the National
Government. 1t is probable that the cen
sus will be taken, however, In 1875 the
Assessors of the various townships did the
work.
The great hogs killed by Joseph Carter,
of Burlington county. were shipped to
Trenton from New Egypt on Monday.
The prize porker of the lot of thirty, which
tipped the beam at 1,059 pounds, is be-
lieved to be the largest hog ever raised in
the United States. 1t was II inches long.
76 inches in girth, and weighed 80 pounds
to the square foot. The next largest weigh
ed / obs pounds. and measured 69x69 inches,
or was as large around as it was long.
The average weight ottwenty of the thirty,
as they were weighed, was S43 pounds.
The breed was the common Jersey Red.
There has been quite a rivalry between
Garter and Taylor Divinney, of Wrights-
town, and oil Tuesday Divinney killed nine
teen of his largest which averaged 9I2
pounds, thus coming out ahead in the race
for heavy porkers. Four Of Diyinney's
largest weighed 1919, 1865, 1885 and 1925.