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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-05-15
The uome of the Sturgeon.

Bayside, which is located at the termi-
nus of the New Jersey Southern division
of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, is
the principal fishing centre of Cumberland
II Nineteen firms are engaged in
the business of killing and shipping stur-
geon at that place. Each firm has a char
tered vessel, for which is paid a rental of
from$l00 to $50 a month. One hundred
and fifteen skifis are used in fishing for
sturgeon, and the firms employ about
400 men, who have steady employment
from April | until September /, and who
earn on an average from $50 to $50 a
month beside their board. Each chartered
vessel will handle, during a fair season,
from 1000 to 800 surgeons. The meat
and the roes are shipped to New York prin-
cipally, although there is quite a market
for sturgeon meat in Philadelphia. The
meat sells at 81 a cwt., and the roes. which
are packed in kegs. sells for $40 a key.
The head of the sturgeon is boiled and the
oil which comes from it is valued at from
35 cents to 40 cents a quart. Other por-
tions of the fish are converted into a val
liable fertilizer and meet with a ready sale
among farmers. The season this year has
been very dull. The fishermen nave been
able TO work but two weeks. The uncer-
tainty of Delaware's stand toward the
Jersey fishermen kept the men from work
during the first two weeks of April. Now,
however, they fish every day and Delaware
fishermen do not interfere with them in the
breast. Some very large surgeons have
been caught this year. One that was
caught the other day weighed, dressed,
260 pounds. The original weight was $50
pounds. Old fishermen anticipate "A big
run this month.
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-SMedesbOrO NOtcs.

Fire was kindled in our glass factory last
Monday. The flint wa> struck by Mr.. James
Flulnmer, the oldest man among the directors
of the company. Ifall i well the blowers Will
be on hand to gather the first glass next week,
on Wednesday. under the management OF Mr..
John Moore. The buildings, with modern i'm
proNememtS, completeness and ncaineSS, have
been successfully pushed forward. MI. Hurff
Weatherby, who donated the land to the COM
pany. hats extended the street through his
farm, set ont shade trees, and completed a dou-
bic house two and a half stories i'll height, and
walls up for another of same dimensions. Mr..
Weatherby is one of our most cnterprising cit
liens and successful farmers.
The Ladies Mite society OF the VI. +. Church
gave Il social entertainment AT the parsonage
on Tuesday evening. consisting of music,
readings. recitations. chaIade~. with refresh
ment-. cakes and coffee. About fifty partici-
pated. and after voting thanks To th- society,
expressed "A desire for II continuance OF the
same.
The W. c. +. L. of this place celebrate their
anniversary on Friday. May I'D. Mrs. :. J. C.
Downs. State President. and Mrs. Or. stokes.
of Woodbury., are expected tobe present. The
evening address will be in The Presbyterian
church.
Mir. Al. Taiman, of The firm OF 1aluian n SON,
returned ON Tuesday from his r-egularbnsiness
trip through south Jersey, quite sick.
Mr.. Mark sparks has brought the improved
Champion single-generator vapor stove into
stock. This is certainly AN Improvement over
the old mode of starting each burner sepa-
rafelV y
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Spilled. Milk.

Joseph Borton, living above Eldridge's
Hill. while ON his way Il the creamery on
Wednesday morning in a market wagon.
stopped at the residence of his father,
Samuel Borton, i'll the upper part of our
town. for a few minutes. unreining his
horse and hitehing him by a chain. The
animal. in reaching down for some grass.
wrapped the chain around the post. and,
~endeavoring to free himself, tore off his
bride and started down Main stree at Il
rapid rate. Turning up East avenue, he
went into the yard at the railroad station.
turned around, came ont aud continued on
his way up the Pole Tavern road. When
he reached the road leading to the cream
cry, he turned to the left and started for
home by the way of the new road leading
through Rutherford's Neck. In going into
Mr.. Borton's lane, the animal ran the
wagon on a bank, %overtuIning it and spill
ling ont the cans of milk that had been
destined for the creamery. Beyond this
and some slight damage to the wagon no
injury was done.
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James I. MaVhew. our e~nterprising t,crman-
American butcher and auctioneer, II by
the way, speaks two languages fucntly, Unit
ed states and Dutch, is becoming very assres-
sive of late in the way of business, and having
decided upon a war of conque>t-eonquest of
some butchers territorS-haS already extend
ed his lines rs far a Denmark ON the northern
border of the enemies country. and proposes
to extend them beyond any point yet reached
Dr. 1. ;. Fogg and part OF his family, and
Evan f. Fogg and entire family were visiting
relatives in this neighhorhOod in the early
par of the present week.
Neal u. Avis, principal of the Quinton semi
nary, WAS ut home on saturday, attending The
funeral of Mrs. Harrison johnson, and enjoy
ing II short visit to his parents. We would cas-
ually mention, right here, that il Is our opinion
that Neal is reaching for the top round OF the
ladder of his profession, and our simple. child
like faith Is he will reach it, too: for he hasn't
much further to go. He will merit il. for he has
gone all the wa~ up alone.
The ladies OF the Presbyterian church intend
holding another of their celebrated fairs, This
time under the title of Apron Bazaar. We
predict for them a repetition Of their former
successes.
Rev. DIR. johnson, Il missionary 10 fir-off
India, of twenty-five years experience, occu-
pied the pulpit of the Presbyterian church ON
sunday the 81 inst. Not delivering sermons.
he gave come exceedingly Interesting talks on
matters respecting the work OF Christianizilg
that benighted race whom the Lord has prom
ised his son for an inheritance
Mrs. Harrison Johnson, whose sudden and
unexpected death saddcncd this community
early last week, was the last member OF Il fam
lily prominent for at least two generations in
-. III .-l .a;.s.l Il. - 49,. lbttsa.,....
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In Woodstown's male quartette the alto
has enjoyed married life for several years
and at the approach of the ninth anniver-
sary of his marriage last Friday the other
members of the organization bethought to
surprise him with a little set-out. Ar
rangements were therefore made for the
requisite amount of ice cream. cake, lem
onade. etc, sufficient for four hungry
singers. Everything was arranged salts
factorily. but imagine the surprise and
ehagrin depicted on the faces of the men,
bars when they arrived at the residence OF
the alto and found the house already oc-
cupied by a dozen or more of his friends,
gathered to surprise L ON this occa-
sion. What to do with the refreshments
which they had ordered to be sent around
was the only thought of the trio, but the
boys were equal to the emergency and
sending one of their number out, increased
their order at the ice cream makers and
the bakers. and when refreshment time
came around surprised both the alto and
his first party of friends by a liberal repast.
Everything passed off all Wright. Nc one
called for Moore and Lewis happy.
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4 Sad Accident.

Last Sunday evening about six o'clock,
Frank and Charles, sons of Joseph X.
Hackett, living in Warrington township,
on the road leading off from the Jesse Bond
road, went down in the field to bring the
horses up, as has been their practice during
the pasture season. Securing the horses
with halters fastened loosely, they each
mounted and proceeded to ride them to the
house. Frank led the way, and while in
the road. about 200 yards from the house,
the horse he was riding took fright at
something, stumbled and fell with him.
throwing him heavily upon the hard
ground, where he landed upon the side of
his head and upon his shoulder. Mr..
Hackett, his father, who had seen the acct
dent, hastened to his son. who was still
conscious and able to walk for a short dis
tance, but, becoming faint, he was carried
to the house and DR.. Souder sent for. The
fall had proven Il serious one. however, and
the services of the Doctor We're of no avail,
the little sufferer dying about nine o'clock
the same evening. From an examination
of the hurt made by DR.. Sender, he is of
the opinion that the fall caused conclusion
of the brain. resulting in death. Frank
was in his nth year. and in the morning
had attended services in our Baptist church,
full of youthful hope and vigor. The
funeral took place on Wednesday, the
services being held in the Baptist church,
Rev. ]. 4. Wilson preaching the sermon.
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At the regular monthly meeting OF the
Pilesgrove Prohibition Club. held i'll the
hall of the W. c. T. I. last Monday night,
the attendance was fair and a very inter-
esting meeting was held. After the reg
ular routine business of the club, Mr.. j.
VI. PARCELS, of Newark, gave an earnest and
entertaining talk on the temperance ques-
ton that was thoroughly enjoyed by the
members and ladies present. Mr.. Par
cells has promised to address 4 public
meeting of the club sometime during the
first part of July.
At their next meeting, to be held some
time next month, Rev. Z. /. McKeever,
former pastor of our Baptist church and
an earnest temperance worker. will deliver
a lecture. At this meeting the public will
be cordially welcome and il is desired to
extend to Mr.. McKeeyer q hearty recep-
ton on this occasion. The exact date will
be announced later, as will also the sHb-
ject of the lecture.
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sunda..scnool eon,en,,on.

The State Sunday-school Convention for
the Fifth District, comprising the counties
of Gloucester, Cumberland, Cape May and
Salem. will be held in the Presbyterian
Church in Salem. on Wednesday evening
and Thursday, June 18th and 18th, under
the direction of Rev. $. W. Clark, the Cor
responding Secretary of the State Associa-
ton. An interesting programme will be
prepared. to embrace some Of the best
speakers and practical workers in the Sun
day school cause. 1t is to lie hoped that
the Sunday-sehool workers of the several
counties comprising the district will be
present to make the gathering a success.
Further particulars as to speakers, etc,
will be given later.-StQRd0rd.
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Our Sidewalks.

The following, taken from the chattel
mortgage basis up the street. is very peril
nent in these days of muddy sidewalks and
growing -non-taXpayers.
..Tile sidewalk at the corner of Main
street and West Avenue. in front of VIM.
p. Lippincotts warehouse. is in bad condi-
ton, and the rain storms make it horribly
muddy travelling for loot passengers. 1t is
possible that this walk may be III private
property. and will be fixed up when the
owner thereof gets ready 10 permit repair
ing or will do it himself. the inconvenience
of the pedestrian public notw ithstanding-
bat rather gloated over
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4 aeIligerent Female.

For sometime past the residents Of the
townships of Upper and Lower Penn's
Neck have been considerably annoyed IL
excited over the strange actions of 4 wo-
man, who has appeared in some localities
disguised as a man. On Thursday night
last an attempt was made by some one TO
enter the house of Samuel Callahan, ST.,
in PennSville, but being unsuccessful an
other attempt was made on Friday night.
Mr.. Callahan, however, anticipating an
other visit. induced Joseph Armstrong to
remain with him all night to watch for the
supposed burglar. About half-past nine
Mr.. Armstrong heard some one at the side
of the house, as if trying to get i'll. and m
mediately got up and went out of the back
door and walked around the house to the
place where he heard the noise. Here he
was met by a person who pointed a revoly-
er at his head and threatened to shoot him.
He grappled with his assailant and found
it to be a female in mems clothing. whom
he recognized to be a woman known as
Mrs. Whitesall. He accordingly had a
warrant issued for her arrest. and had her
taken before Squire Moore, who gave her
a hearing and, in default of 5000 bail. COM
mitted her to Salem jail, where she was
lodged early Saturday morning. Though
the woman seems to be known by several
names. she now gives her name as Hannah
Fox.
The lady who recently played the prank
en- the hostler at Lanning's livery stable,
Pennsgrove, and the woman now locked up
in Salem jail, are thought to be one and
the same person. 1t is also thought that
the prisoner is the widow in distress
who called upon James j. Redstrake.
of Salem, and induced him to purchase
with cash a quantity of bogus notes
amounting to 1868.
When placed in the Jail on Saturday she
refused to eat anything, SAYING she could
fast at least half as long as Tanner did.
Her fast, however. did not last that long,
breaking it Tuesday afternoon, when she
ate her first m%outhful since her imprison-
ment. She denies every charge that is
made against her, and on Monday when
her sister offered to furnish bail for her she
refused to accept it, preferring to remain
in Jail. When the warden went to her cell
on Monday evening, he found her lying in
a perfectly motionless condition, and
thought that the woman had probably died
from starvation. Calling to his assistance
Nightwatchman Fleming, he tried TO rouse
her. and failing in this he sent for a physi-
clan. BY the time the doctor arrived, how
ever, she had revived, and refused to allow
him to touch her when lie attempted to feel
her pulse.-SaHddfd
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PprsOuaf.

W. \. F%lanigen, of the firm of Comfy &
Flanigen, Wholesale grocers. Philadelphia,
was in town OF Friday.
j. c. Applegate. the teacher of Harmony
school. at Mullica Hill. will quit teaching
when his term expires, to become a student
of medicine at Jefferson College.
We understand that IIews Crispin, OF
Sharptown, is seriously i'll, having had a
h~emorrhage on Wednesday. We hope to
report his speedy recovery.
Rev. Chas. ID. Parker and Samuel Hitch
ner, residents of Daretown, will start next
Monday on a trip to Washington, and will
view the points of interest at the Capital.
Ex-Mayor Lawson, of Salem, is men
toned for the position Of [. 5. Marshal
for the First District of New Jersey. Mr..
Lawson is well fitted for the position and
a better maj could hardly be named.
Mr.. I. II. Vanneman(irm Searle. Nanne-
man & Co., Phila., well known to many
of our residents, will sail for Europe in
a few days, to remain about three months.
He will combine business with pleasure.
Edward Wallace and E. s. Fogg Wis
tied Crescent Lodge, No. 1913, F. A. NJ, at
the Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, last Mon
day evening, the guests of DR.. l. s. Fogg,
who is W. NJ. of the Lodge. and were right
royalty entertained by the DR..
w. d. Buck, former proprietor of the
restaurant now kept by Benz. Abbott, was
in town on Monday and gave our office a
visit. Mr.. Buck has an oyster and ice
cream saloon at 81 Kaighn's avenue, Cam
den, and reports business as very good.
DR.. |. S. Fogg and f. F. Fogg, of Phila.,
with their wives, visited their mother, Mrs.
Elma Fogg, in Woodstown last Saturday
evening, remaining over Sunday. Mrs. E.
+. Fogg spent the week in Woodstown.
4 small party of the friends had the pleas
ure on Tuesday evening of listening to
Mrs. Fogg, who is a very brilliant and ac-
complished singer, having a voice Of I'M
usual clearness and under perfect control.
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An ola ulnssre,.s Autoiioyrap,.y.

Colonel Samuel sanford, who will be
we'll remembered by many Of our amuse-
mel loving citizens. one of the oldest min
strels in the United States. has written an
autobiography, giving an account of his
career as a comedian since 1858. when he
opened the first opera house III Philadel-
phia. at the corner Of Tenth and Chestnut
streets, Mr.. Santord's wide acquaintance
with theatrical people and his own cx-
perienee as actor and manager have en-
ab!ed him to make his book extremely i'll
tereSting. The volume will be issued by
+. Weeks, l002 Walnut street. Philadel-
phia.
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anamakcr
PnllApELrHIA. May II. ISIS

A summary of cotton
dress-stuffs, what they are,
how they differ and how we
sell them, if we can make It
Ineligible, is likely to be as
acceptable as any news OF
the store. Begin at the bot
tom.
Calico or chintz, as every
body knows. is everywhere.
Not everybody knows that
styles come first to the
quickly changing stocks OF
the popular city stores and
work their way to country
merchants slowly; SO that
calico here and calico there
are different printings. THE
same is true of every sort OF
merchandise The lowest
grade of calico, white ground
with small figures, AZ cents
a little finer, white, light and
dark grounds, all SORTS o.
figures, 5 cents still tacr,
various grounds and figures,
cents-at are the simp-
son linen-fnish prints ju.t
out. They do not look Fl c
chintz. The linen finish IS
merely a gloss the PRINT IS
the feature. They lock ilkt
the finer cottons. The CO..
ors, figures, effects, are sug-
gestive of costlier stui4s.
The Eddystone caliooes are
7. All the finest and pref
test chintzes are T.
Cambrlcs, white grounds
and little figure printings, s
cents.
Foulards or cretonnes Of
light effects, 10 cents. Last
years, dark, styles are s.
Indigo grounds, dark and
light-blue, with white and
colored figures, 10 cents. A
finer fabric with dark and
light : indigo grounds and
white figures, imitation OF
French Penang, 20 cents.
Cheese-cloth natural col
or, ) to 20 cents. Ditto
dyed pink, light blue, violet,
buff, drab and cream, known
also as "cotton nuns veil
ing 10 cents.
Percale, white ground and
pretty little figures, i2E
cents. Shirting," stouter
than Percale, white ground
and dainty figures, Is cents
used quite as much for
dresses as for shirts.
Furniture cretonnes, I2H
cents. Large-twill cretonnes
have pushed the chintzcs
down to 6 and 8. Armurc
cretonnes at 10.
Batiste, fine and sheer, 10
cents grounds white, ecru,
garnet, navy-blue, army-blue;
a hundred figures perhaps,
and every figure in several
colors.
Lawns, 5 to IaH cents for
American French. IS 1t is
early for lawns.
Crepe, a finely crinkled
elastic stuff of hard-tWistcd
fine thread, loosely woven
rough but fine and soft and
rich, 20 cents cream, light
blue and pink, and stripes Of
the same.
French Penangs, some pat
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Multjca Hill.

Extensive preparations are being made by
the Grand Army Post for impressive ceremo-
mics on Decoration Day.
The new Reading Room viii be dedicated
next Thursday. May 2lst. An address Will be
made by Mrs. :. j. {. Downs. STATE President
of the We. T. Z. Mrs. Downs will speak in
the evening. All arr cordially invited to be
present.
Mrs. Ruth Iredell. 81 Newtield, formerly one
Of the most promising and successful teachers
of Gloucester county. WAS buried on Mednes-
day last in the Friends cemetery. Although
she j. dead the name. Miss Ruth. ~ she was
famiiiarly called. will ever live among her
pupils. Her last school work WIS done ii
Harmony. OF this place. Al token of respect
for her the school attended the funeral in II
body.
The members of the Baptist sunday school
will hold II strawberry festival on Friday and
saturday evenings, May Goth aud Seth.
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Yearly Meeting of Friends.

The yearly meeting of the Society Of
Friends was opened last Monday in the
meeting house at Fifteenth and Race
streets. The Philadelphia yearly meeting
is composed o eleven constituent branches,
Philadelphia quarterly meeting. Abing-
ton. Bucks, Concord, Calm, Western,
Southern, partly in the states of Delaware
and Maryland; burlington, Haddonfield
and Salem, this state, and the Fishing
Creek (Pa.) half-yearly meeting.
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dresses and some for both.
White ground (some are
mostly covered with tint, 50
cents; dark and light-blue
grounds and dainty white
figures, IS cents.
Ginghams.--A little while
ago we sold a large quantity
OF 18-cent ginghams for 10
cents. The market hasn't
recovered but that rate OF
loss is not maintained. Last
years and unsuccessful new
patterns Of common ging-
hams are going for 6 cents
as long as they last. At 10
are pretty plaids Of a COM
mon fabric; and finer fabric
of solid small checks--beau-
tiful checklist was these
that broke the market a
month or two ago-they are
mostly gone. At I2H cents
are still finer, block pat
terms, the finest American
g~inghams-25 cents till now
Scotch gingiiams, I2H, IS,
Is and, Anderson's 5, 40 cents.
Jacquard ginghams, that is,
with a little broche in the
weaving, American, IS and
IS and, Andersons S, Scotch,
50 cents.
Seersuckers have come
into a new importance 10,
Is, IS and Is cents. At 10
is the old smooth seersucker,
plain and fancy stripes. At
IS is a finer fabric, plain
stripes and small checks. At
is is the crinkled stripe, imi-
tation of the India fabric,
three widths of stripes and
many colors. At Is is the
finest fabric, a great variety
of Undesirable effects, from
narrow stripes and small
checks to inch-wide stripes
and the colors are extremely
dainty.
Sateens maintain their sin
gular favor. American sa-
teens, IS and IS cents, are
copied from French, 37H
cents. All the praise is due
to the French; American are
tame by comparison. The
most beautiful dress-designs
that ever were made come
now in tiny simple ecru and
old-gold figures on grounds
of plain brown, navy-blue,
plum and green. And we
have all there IS in the
country of these richest Of
printings on richest of cot
tons.-We might have
guessed wrong but We
didn't. They have to be
chosen beforehand.
Besides the foregoing are
the cotton dress-stut1s classed
as white goods innumer-
able, Undesirable, unintelli-
gible except BY seeing
1t is difficult to convey BY
any brief account an ade-
quate notion Of the variety
Of cotton dress stuffs an
elaborate account Of them
would be dull reading. We
have taken common knowl-
edge for granted and given
only such bits Of news as are
needed in shopping.
teHN WANAMAKER-
rbess,e,s TIfT+%.a,, a,Aa Na~tat sfra.ta
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swedcsboro GLASS Factory.

There is trouble over the glass factory in
Swedesboro already, according to a resi-
dent Of that place, from whom we learn
that the company was organized with the
understanding that n%on-union men were to
be employed, but the workmen, who nave
a small portion of the stock. now say that
the factory must enter the pool and en-
ploy union men. as the rest of the factories
do. This some of the largest stockholders,
residents of Swedesboro, object to.