The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-23
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at Port Norris.
A two-masted schooner was blown ashore
On Saturday south of the ferry house at
Gloucester City.
The Gloucester City Reporter has passed
into the hands of Frederick II. Antrim. the
former business manager.
Deerfield hotel received no license at the
recent term of Cumberland County Court,
Judge Reed holding that a tavern was not
needed there.
Chas. Dudley, of Linwood. Atlantic
county, has patented a force pump, which
at a recent trial threw a stream of water
thirty-six feet high.
Gloucester City Council has appropriated
an additional $50 to the Women's Christ
ian Temperance Union of that place for
the relief of the poor.
Joseph II. Reynolds, General Superin-
tendent of the West jersey Express Com
pany, died in Camden on Monday night, of
typhoid pneumonia.
Ten applications for liquor license have
been made to the Bridgeton City Council.
There are at present but two regularly Ii
censed houses in the city.
Willard Pugh of Camden, who was in
jured a few weeks ago by being caught
around a shafting at Reeves oil cloth
works, is reported recovering.
A libel suit has been begun against the
Philadelphia Press by James NJ. Scovel. of
Camden, on account of a libel which, it is
claimed, was published o II Monday last in
the correspondence from Trenton.
Robert H. Martin, a young man in the
employ of Thos. Carvin, q Clayton milk
dealer. left between two days recently.
taking 5000 of his employers money.
In Congress, OH the 10th instant, Mr.. Fer
rel presented a petition from citizens of
Clayton and Salem county, asking for the
passage of the Mexican Pension bill.
The 18th of February has been fixed
upon as the date for the dedication of the
new NJ. E. church at Pennsgrove, and the
22nd OF that month for that of the Baptist
church at Tuckahoe.
The annua meeting Of the Mullica Hill
Building and loan Association was held
on the 9th inst, and a new series of stock
was opened, 63 shares being taken. So
300 was paid i'll Withdrawals.
The NIoorestown Chronicle says the skat-
ing rink in that place has done as effective
temperance work as Maybee and English
could. The hotels and saloons are deserted
in the evenings by young men. From
Bridgeton we hear the same report.
The jury in the case of John Cheeseman.
editor of the Bridgeton Patriot, charged
with assault and battery Oh J. L. Van
SICKLE, disagreed and was discharged.
NanSyckle who was convicted of simple
assault, was sentenced to pay $50 fine and
costs.
A citizen meeting was held last night
at the Camden Court Honse, to take some
action on the violations of law in Camden
city. 1t is said that but eleven saloon
keepers have taken out their licenses this
year, and all the others, it is alleged, are
selling in violation of the laws.
Isaac Kaufman, a Philadelphia manu-
facturer OF wooden and cotton seamless
hosiery, has offered Egg Harbor City,
through its Town Council, $1,000 for the
purchase of the large building it owns
near the railroad and known as the piano
factory. He proposes to start a hosiery
factory which will employ fifty hauds.
Alfred Bradford, an oysterman, shot a
seal in Maurice River Cove last Friday,
NllltA was lNt lCct III lGI7Lu. utIh gray III
color and weighed one hundred pounds.
The seal was on exhibition in Bridgeton on
Saturday and was viewed by hundreds of
people. 1t is something unsual to catch a
seal i'll this latitude. A seal was never be-
fore caught in Maurice River Cove.
The West Jersey Game Protective So
ciety has been sustained by Judge Alfred
Reed in the Cumberland County Courts, in
, ,-sA .a,~l+ L. NJ Ill. ID 1900 ,-l.a
held a certificate from the Plainfield Game
Protective Society. The decision of the
court afirms the exclusive right of the
West Jersey Society to issue permits for
cunning in the six lower counties of the
State.
United States Commissioner, j. W. Nor
gan, of Camden, has received a letter from
Senator Sewell, saying that in an interview
with Attorney General Brewster he was in
formed that the pay for the Supervisors
and Marshals would be arranged in accord
ance with the service performed when GER
titled TO by the Court. As their claims
have been already certified to by the Court
the Supervisors and MarShals expect their
money in a few days.
At the annual election of directors of the
Salem National Banking Company, held
OIL lueSutN Oh last Netk, tue 1olloN NY
gentlemen were chosen: C. NJ. Eakin, II.
NJ. Rumsey, f. NJ. Acton, E. II. Bassett,
j. NJ. Carpenter, W. w. Miller, Joseph X.
Riley, William A.. Wood and Richard
Woodruff. The application for an extern
sion OF the Banks charter was signed by
all the largest stock holders. The old
officers We're reelected.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Swedesboro Bank, held
lately. the old Board Of Directors were re-
elected: |. II. Nanneman. J. c. Rulon,
Sam'l Black. Jas. l.. Plummer, J. 5.
Somers. John s. Batten, Chalkley Coles,
Sam'l Ashcraft and ]. c. Kirby. The Di-
rectors reelected Isaac H.. Nanneman.
President; J. c. Rulon, Cashier; Isaac p.
Dubois. Clerk. A very favorable report
of the condition of the Bank was read.
The trains ON the West Jersey and
Camden and Atlantic railroads are to be
supplied with a new device for establish
ing connection between passenger cars
and the locomotive. The connection is
made by means of air tubes, instead of a
bell cord. This new device, which has
been tried on the main line of the Penn
s~ylvania Railroad, gives entire satisfaction.
being not only more effective than the bell
cord, but more convenient in many re-
spects.