The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

Inc Cumberland county DOdfu Oh AS
SCISSORS las fixed the net property valua-
ton Of the county at s12, T45, 900, an in
crease Of S342, 600.
The forty-fourth session of the annual
conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church Of New Jersey is to meet at Fair
haven on the 18th prOximo.
Captain Charles Clark, the Atlantic City
life guard, has during the summer rescued
one hundred and fifty persons from what
might have been a watery grave.
Mr.. Isaac Diament, of Bridgeton, has
had a large eantaloupe which measured
three feet eight inches in circumference
and weighed twenty-five pounds.
The schooner Ireland, which was sunk
in the Delaware below New Castle. Del,
some time ago. has been fioated by a wreck
ing steamer and beached at ~Pennsgrove.
The Philadelphia police on Saturday cap
tured Harry Y. Sharpe and Charles Gilday,
charged with counterfeiting and passing
the spurious coin at Cape May Point about
a month ago.
The corner stone of the Baptist Mission
Chapel. at Sewell City (Barnesboro Sta
tion) will be laid next Monday, at 2 o'clock,
p. NJ. Prominent speakers will be present
to deliver addresses.
A company of distinguished Americans,
authors, journalists and artists. John G..
Whittier heading the list, presented Walt
Whitman, the good gray poet of Camden,
with a fine horse harness and phaeton, Tues
day. The gift was greatly appreciated.
The Prohibitionists of Camden on Tues
day night nominated William Jennings, of
the First Ward. for the First Assembly
District, and Benjamin Wilson. of the
Eighth ward. for the Second Assembly
District.
The trial of William H~endrickson, in the
Ocean county court, for the murder of Liz
zie Brown. in March last, reveals the fact
that two pint bottles of whisky are at the
bottom Of the trouble. Hendrickson and
the woman were hard drinkers.
The Cape May County Prohibitionists on
Saturday nominated Rev. Edgar Page
Sites, of Cape May. for State Senator, and
Rev. James Van Zant, a -superannuated
Methodist minister, who resides on a farm
at Petersburg, for Assemblyman.
An anonymous hand-bill attacking
General William j. Sewell for his efforts
to have the ordinances authorizing the oc-
cupation Of certain streets in Camden for
freight railroad purposes passed by the
City Council, was posted about that city
on Monday.
Assistant Passenger Agent Boyd, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, is authority for the
statement that the 50 cents excursions will
be run regularly next summer to both Sea
Isle and Cape May, and that the $500
weekly excursions from Washington will
be run to Sea Isle as well as Cape May.
An interesting discovery has been made
ON the Rio Grande sugar plantation in
Cape May County. 1t was learned that
the seed of the Chinese variety of cane,
which is grown extensively on the pianta-
ton. is used for food in China, and one of
the hands boiling some of it like rice found
it to be an excellent food. 1t is now much
used in that neighborhood.
The Annual Reunion of the surviving
members of Co. A, Sd Regiment, n. J.
Vols, was held at Bridgeport last Monday,
eighteen of the old veterans answering
r~oll-call. Frank B. Ridgway was elected
President n. Allen, Treasurer Frank H.
Coles, Secretary, and Charles Parker, As
sistant Secretary for the ensuing year. The
next reunion will be held in Woodbury..
Frank Brown. aged 20. employed on a
farm a few miles out of Bridgeton. was
s~avagelv gored on Sunday by a bull he
was endeavoring to bring up from pasture.
The animal was known TO be vicious,
and Brown had a pitchfork with him by
way of protection, but ii managed to wrest
the instrument from him and then gored
him in a frightful manner. His recovery
is uncertain.
Judge Van SyekIe, in the Ocean County
Court. has sentenced William Hendrick-
son. convicted in the second deg rec of the
murder of Lizzie Brown, to seven years at
hard labor in the State Prison. Stephen
II. Grant has been sentenced to ten years
for burning the house of Mrs. Matilda
Robinson and various burglaries. and
David Graham for bigamy and atrocious
assault and battery to three years.
To prevent the possibility of acct
dents similar to the one which befell
a train at the Camden depot, when it
ran off the end of the track and butted
the gates down, the railroad authorities
have placed at the end of each track
there d patent automatic car a~rrester.
1t is a heavy iron arrangement. firmly bolt
ed to large beams just inside the gates.
The car strikes against a truck, which
slides up end ways; two heavy cOiled
springs resist the pressure and stop the
momentum of the train, which is then
pushed back by the recoii Of the springs.
The annual meeting of the West Jersey
Game Protective Society was held in Cam
den. on Wednesday. Mr.. Barnard, Sec
rotary, reported that the expenditures
from April 18th to September 10Th, of the
present year were 5000. "a; amount paid
during the year from September 10th,
1884. to September 10th. 1885, for police
services, si9S. 90: for bounties on hawks,
SOFAS ) for the purchase of quail, $3.50. 93.
Total. s2120.3s. Balance ON hand.
S1211.39. The bounty of fifty cents for
the capture of hawks was continued. Jer-
emiah Watson was chosen director for
Salem county.
The Salvation Army people in Bridge
ton against whom a preliminary injunction
had been obtained by jackson Bryant, a
hotel keeper of the place, from the vice.
chancellor, appeared ia Camden on Mon
day before Vice Chancellor Bird. Their
attorney represented that they were exer-
cising a constitutional right of worshipping
God according to the dictates of their own
consciences, and resented all efforts to
prevent them from doing the same.
Mr.. Bryant on the contrary alleged the
antics of the army were much to the detri-
ment of his business and annoyed the
guests of the hotel. Instead of an orderly
worship he declared that the pretended re-
ligious services were turbulent and dis
orderly. TambOurines and trumpets, drums
} and shouting joined in creating q frightful
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