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

STATE NEWS.
Burlington has raised its license fees to
$500 for hotels and 800 for saloons.
An attempt is to be made to establish a
national bank at Moorestown. with a capt.
tai of 800. 900.
The New Jersey Conference of the NJ. f..
Church will celebrate its -semi-centennial
anniversary at its next meeting in Bridge
ton.
The Secretary of State refuses to re-
ceieve. for filing in the archives, the
minutes of the last Assembly. because the
manuscript is mutilated.
The session of the Legislature just closed
cost the people about $40. 900. This is a
little less than the expense for last years
session, which lasted three weeks longer.
\ Millville merchant has offered an iron
firm of a ~neighboring state a site OF five
acres in that city fronting OF the river with
a wharf already built, free of charge, if
they will locate their work there.
The State House Commission met in
Trenton on Friday and decided to rebuild
the burnt portion of the Capitol as far as
possible. The vaults will be placed in the
cellar instead of on the first floor. 1t is
believed the Governor contemplates calling
an extra session of the Legislature to Sc
cure an appropriation.
Janeway & Co, of New Brunswick,
whose immense wall paper mandatory
was burned in the confiagration of jan
uary I, by the escape of burning oil from
tanks being transported through the city
over the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
track, have brought suit against the rail-
road company for $500, 900 damages.
New Brunswick and ~neighboring towns
were startled by a heavy explosion last
Saturday afternoon. Buildings were shaken
and it was the common belief that an
earthquake had occurred. investigation
proved that the explosion was of a large
quantity of nitro-glycerine stored on the
meadows below the city, to be used in
dredging operations in the Raritan River.
The following are the figures for the diff
ferent items in the minutes of the
last conference which met at New Bruins
wick: Members, 35, 943; Practitioners,
5,436; Churches, 2S3; Value, SIT, 455. 40.
Parsonages, 116; Value, 1901, $50. Cur
rent expenses, $40, AS. Sunday schools,
322; Officers and Teachers, $3.50; Benevo-
lent collections $36, 651; Ministerial support,
$151, 500.
County Physician Lalor, of Mercer, has
Just had his attention called to a case OF
shocking neglect on the part of a colored
mother named Sarah Mason, at Penning-
ton. Her child's body had lain dead on
the premises for five weeks. She said she
had no money to pay burial expenses. A
burial certificate was at once granted, and
the County Physician will look further into
the circumstances surrounding the infants
death.
The State Committee of the Prohibition
party, consisting of three members from
each county, met in Trenton on Thursday
of last week, to elect officers and prepare
for the work of the ensuing year. The
vacancies were filled and Clinton b. Fisk
was elected president: c. l.. Parker, of
Middlesex, vice president: II. 3. Howell,
treasurer, and II. d. Opdyke, secretary.
An executive committee was appointed
consisting of the officers of the State Com
mittee and Rudolphus Bingham for the
First district, r. c. Parvin for the Second,
William B. Maxon for the Third, Henry
johnson for the Fourth, William II. Dick
inson for the Fifth. d. II. Merritt for the
Sixth, and S. b. Ransom for the Seventh
district.
Governor Albeit on Tuesday morning
conferred with Assemblymen Hughes,
O'Connor and Harrigan, and with brewers
from Newark and Elizabeth respecting the
high license measure. Mr.. Hughes made
an affidavit that he did not vote for the
bill, although so recorded. Assemblyman
O'Connor showed that while tho total
given in the minutes was thirty-one, only
thirty names were mentioned, including
Mr.. Hughes, as having votedfor the measure.
The Governor postponed a decision until
Tuesday next. when he will hear further
argument. 1t is thought from remarks he
has made that he will sign the bill if he
is convinced that it fairly passed the Legis-
lature. 1t empowers local Excise Boards
to CHARGE any fee they choose from S25 to
$500.