The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-04-17
south Jersey Notes.

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MilIville expects to have a busy season
in the way of new buildings and improve
ments.
At the late term of the Gloucester County
courts the grand jury found but seven bills
of indictment.
The widow of the late Uri Carruth, of
Vineland. died at Clinton. n. Y, on Tues
day of last week.
Woodbury. Park will be sold at public
sale, April 28th, by Messrs. N. Thomas &
Sons. Philadelphia.
Mr.. Charles Shinn, formerly of Wood
bury Steam Mil, has taken the Ballinger
mills near Mantua
William V. McGrath, ex-State Treasurer
of Pennsylvania, died at Cape May on
Tuesday afternoon.
A P~ittsburg syndicate has purchased the
necessary ground at Holly Beach as a site
for a large sanitarium.
Warren D. Wood, who died in Camden
on Sunday, was buried at Clarksboro, his
former home, yesterday.
The fish wardens of Camden. Gloucester
and Salem counties, have entered upon the
discharge of their duties.
The Yestry of St. Paul's 2. E. Church,
of Camden, have decided to erect their new
church building on Cooper street, above
Sixth.
Many acres of young timber land, near
the town of Chisilhurst. Camden county,
were burned over last week and the wood
destroyed.
The Ocean Grove Association has con
tracted with Mr.. Case. the builder of the
Long Branch pier, for the construction of
an iron pier.
The sulky to which Maud 5. was har-
messed when she trotted a mile in 2:0944,
was made by the c. G.. Caffrey Carriage
Company, OF Camden.
The Council of Ocean City has passed an
ordinance imposing a fine of $50 o II persons
who battle at that place on Sunday after 8
o'clock in the forenoon.
The rumor that Hires & Co., the Quin-
ton glass manufacturers, were negotiating
for the Standard Glass Works, at Wood
bury, has no foundation in fact.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Shoemaker
& Co. Bridgeton, is to be changed into a
willow-ware factory, and will be run in
this line Of goods the balance of the year.
Mr. Job Bacon, of Greenwich, who has
gone to so much expense aud labor to OBJ
tain an artesian well. has finally abandoned
the work, after having reached a great
depth.
Charles p. Robinson, a brakeman on the
Delaware River Railroad, living at Penns-
grove, was caught between the bumpers
of two freight cars on Tuesday and badly
injured.
CharlesI. Dupont Bird, of Woodbury., was
sentenced on Wednesday by Judge Parker,
in the Gloucester county courts, to two
and a half years in State prison at hard
labor for forgery.
The grand jury of Ocean county has in
dicted Cook Brown and William Hendrick-
son for the murder of Browns wife during
a drunken debauch in the woods near Cass-
Vile, six weeks ago.
The cadets of the South Jersey Institute,
at Brldgeton. are forming themselves into
a military mpa They are to be fur
nished with improved breech-loaders from
the State Arsenal at Trenton.
At the recent meeting Of the trustees of
the Cumberland County Almshouse it was
resolved to provide that institution with
improved fire extinguisherS and a safe
mode of escape i'll case OF fire.
On Thursday evening of last week, the
members of Emanuel NJ. E. Church, PENIS
grove, extended their new pastor, Rev. W.
Margerum, a most cordial reception.
About 100 persons were present.
Deputy Coroner Ashbridge. of Philadel-
phia, held an inquest on Monday upon
Jesse Patrick, aged sixty years, Of Salem,
who died at 1873 st. John street, Philadel-
phia. on April 18th. Verdict, death from
ursemic poisoning.
1t is said on good authority that Wood
bury is the only city or town in the United
States that is lighted exclusively by cleo
tricity. Arrangements will be made for
the introduction Of the light into stores and
private houses.
The project of running electric lights in
Wenonah by wires from Woodbury. has re-
ceived some consideration from parties at
each end of the line. The company esti-
mated that the cost per light in Wenonah
would be about $3.50.
Peter Harris, of Hancock 5 Bridge, has in
his possession the honorable discharge
which his grandfather, John Harris, re-
ceived at the close of the Revolutionary
War. after having served six years, five
months and thirteen days in the Colonial
Army.
Rev. w. Walton. Presiding Elder of the
Bridgeton District, in his report to the
New Jersey Conference, stated that in
thirty villages in his district whisky was
outlawed. and in a membership of ten
thousand only one had signed an applica-
ton for license.
The o ll-house, near Pitman Grove on
the Glassboro pike. was destroyed by fire
on Monday night. and for a time it was
feared the flames would spread to the
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