The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-30
The merchants of Belyidere. in this State,

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citizens who do not pay their bills.
Louis Gaugain, the young Frenchman
from Paterson. who, in a fit of frenzy,
jumped from a railroad train in Vermont
a few weeks ago has had both hands and
both feet ~amputated, and yet is likely to
recover.
A prominent New York taxidermist in
formed a reporter of the Sun that New Jer-
sey supplies nearly all the birds used for
o%rnamenting ladies' hats. This fact has
been realized by an Assemblymsn from
Monmouth who has introduced a bill into
the Legislature making it a criminal offence
to kill birds for this purpose.
Commissioner Rudolphy, of Hoboken,
has a curiosity in the shape of a check for
a small sun of money, drawn by him,
which passed through the hands of eigh-
teen different men before reaching the
bank. Each of the eighteen endorsed the
check and as each is a personal friend, the
| COMMISSIONS has framed it as a valuable
collection of autographs.
Among the requests made in the will of
a bachelor who died in Spotswood, this
State, recently, was one giving $500 to a
church, provided that annually, on the an
niversary of his death, the bell be tolled,
and the same number OF strokes struck as
he had attained years. The residue of his
estate he bequeathed to another church on
condition that the family burial plot be
kept in good order.
The moyem3nt for a Cabinet position for
Attorney General Stockton has received
renewed impetus by the circulation of a
petition in favor of Stockton among the
Democratic Senators and Assemblymen at
Trenton. The petition is being generally
signed and when the roll is complete the
petition, directly or indirectly, will be
brought to the attention of President
elect Cleveland.
A recent petition received by the United
States Senate from the New Jersey Prohi-
bitionists, and signed by r. Edgar Hunt,
of Glen Gardner. states that the temper
ance movement in New Jersey sis no
child's play and that the cold water clans
of the State ''are organizing for the COM
ing local Spring elections and manifesting
additional interest, which is but the legis-
lature fruit of the late campaign as an ed
ucation."
Thomas Barbour, the head of the firm
owning the three mills at Paterson,
which produce three-fourths of all the
linen thread used in the United States, died
at Lisburn, Ireland, a few days ago, at the
age of fifty-two. He was the grandson of
the man who introduced into Lisburn, from
Paisley, Scotland, the manufacture of linen
thread. In 1919 he came to this country to
enter the house of his fathers commission
agents in Philada. In 1864 part OF the
FIRMS mills We're located at Paterson, and
nave since grown rapidly.
In making a search at the Court House
one day last week a Newark lawyer found
a defeasance deed with the following pc
culiar conditions: ''If, at the second COM
ing of Christ, the dead shall inherit the
earth, said property shall revert to the
%grantor." 1t was drawn in 1910 for some
n who was probably laboring under the
Millerite excitement, but who fully under
stood the advantages of property owner
ship and was determined not to get left if
there should be a resurrection in the flesh
after he should be laid away with his fore
fathers.
The report of the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction has been filed. 1t
states as the amount appropriated by the
State for the support of public schools, ST.
496, 96S the township school tax, $50. $780,
05 surplus revenue, S32, 551.31; district
and city tax for teachers salaries, 1923,
1856. 90 district and city tax for building
and repairing school houses, 1924, S45. IA
total amoun for all school purposes, So
AIS, 716. 10. The value of school property
is Sc, $50, S01 the number of school dis
tricts, 1 ,351 ; the number of school houses.
!, 500 ; the number of private schools, hay
ing % pupils or more, 216 the number of
teachers-males, S31; females, 1850; aver
age salary per month paid to male teachers,
SOL .36. and to female teachers, $35. GA !; cost
education per pupil, based on total
school census, $3.50 and the number of
children the school houses will seat, 193,-
SO3.
The West Jersey Railroad and branches
their gross earnings for December
as $50, 100, an increase of 81, 664; the oper-
ating expenses were $50, 2S3, a decrease of
s.. S37; and the net earnings We're 50, SAT, a
gain of $40, 500. For the twelve months
December 31st, 1884, the total re-
ceipts were 81, 319. 64S, an increase. com
pared with 1888, of S91, 1914. The opera
ting expenses were 1916, 343, an increase of
$50, $50 and the net earnings We're SOB,
305, an increase of S61, 40S. The total ex-
penses and obligations were 81, 115, 719,
increase of s48, 663. The net income
for the year, after payment of all obliga-
lions and expenses, was 5000, 929, an in
crease of s15, 907,. In 1884, two dividends
were paid; one of 3 per cent, payable in
scrip, and the other per cent. in cash.
The sinking fund was increased by the
addition of $12, 800.
Among the papers handed over to John