The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-06
south Jersey Notes.

Millville has abandoned the electric light
idea for the present.
The Millville Bulletin is in favor of dis
pensing with lay judges.
The Woodbury. Glass Company suspend
ed operations last Saturday.
Electric bells nave been put in at the
South Jersey Institute at Bridgeton.
The Salvation Army has rented Wilson'S
Hall in Millville for one year, at a rental OF
$3.50.
Maybee and English, temperance reform
ers. a series of meetings in
Bridgeton on the 25th inst.
The West Jersey Game Protective So
ciety is distributing a large number OF
quails in the southern part of the State.
Senator Nichols has introduced a bill di-
viding Fairfield township, Cumberland
county. The new township is to be called
Lawrence.
The Bridgeton Neaes claims that two of
the lady teachers in the South Jersey In
stitute are distant relatives of President
elect Cleveland.
The Port Elizabeth Centennial a%nniver-
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Newlin. editor of the Melville Republican,
will be the orator.
Michael Potter. of Willow Grove, the
remarkable centenarian, who celebrated
his Tooth birthday last July, is reported
quite i'll at present.
The window glass works of AlbertsOn Il
Co., at Bridgeton, shut down last Friday.
Overproduction and no sale for their glass
are the causes assigned.
In the United States Courts on Tuesday
Charles Payne, Jr., of Millville, charged
with receiving an illegal fee in a pension
case, was fined 81 900 and costs.
Assemblyman Jewett, of Camden county,
will shortly introduce a bill in the Legisla-
ture to pay grand jurors for their services,
and allow petit jurors their mileage.
Mrs. Strickland Kneass, of Philadelphia,
has presented a handsome silver commu-
Mon service to the Methodist church at
Willow Grove, Cumberland county.
The huge icebergS in the Delaware at
the mouth of Big Timber creek, are said
to be larger than any seen for many years.
In some places they are twenty feet high.
The Cumberland County Agricultural
Society has decided against forming a stock
organization. The receipts of last falls
fair were 81, 81 90, and the expenditures
81, 0S4. -.
Emmor Reeves, well-known i'll South
and West Jersey, died at his residence on
Cooper street, Camden, ON Tuesday, in his
18th year. The funeral will take place to-
day, at Salem.
Mr.F. d. Dalton, of Franklin Reforma-
tory Home. gives an address on''Ilis Remin-
iscences of Twenty Years in the Temper
ance Work" before the Reform Club at
Woodbury. this morning.
Captain Samuel Lippincott, of Tucker
ton, has lost three daughters by death from
diphtheria within three days. They Were
aged !, II, and % years. Other members
of his family are i'll with the disease,
The State Board of Agriculture has
awarded a premium to Joseph Erickson,
of Delaware Township, Camden County,
for having raised 81, 800 worth of strawber-
ries ON two and a half acres of ground.
The ladies' committee of the Hebrew
Charity Societies of Philadelphia has dis
tributed large quantities of clothing and
other articles of comfort to the destitute
Russian Jews at the colony near Nineland.
OOuDuTy HAS utClucu 10 AVE HtT
streets illuminated by the electric light.
The light will be furnished by The
Woodbury. Electric Light and Power Co.."
a stock company of Woodbury's prominent
citizens, with a capital of $50, 900 and
thirty lights will be furnished for 50, 800
per year.
Mr.. J. c. Cloud, representing the Thorn
son-IIouston Electric Light Co., of Phila-
1a1,l.,. la. lna, -, Gal,,, xu.tl, n .ioy, -
establishing electric lights there. He
found a number of the business men in
favor of the project, and left estimates Of
the cost of lighting Salem for the consider
alton of the Council.
The West Jersey Company began the re-
building of the railroad bridge across Rae
coon creek, at Swedesboro, last Monday.
The piling will be driven at night to avoid
interruption by the running trains. 1t will
take several weeks to complete the work,
which when done will about mount to a
renewal Con stituttOn.
A camp fire was held in Johnson's Hall,
Elmer, on Saturday evening, by Thomas
Smythe Post, G. A. II. The meeting was
presided over by Commander Overis, and
addresses were made by Rev. Messrs. Con-
over and Rogers and members of the Post.
lit CtONlpi q III II Tt ~
the church choir and the band.
Edward Sherman, a hostler at the Ocean
Hotel at Toms River, committed suicide on
Monday by hanging himself in a barn be-
longing to the hotel. The body was dis
covered about 4 o'clock p. NJ. Sherman
was a witness in the Wainwright murder
case, but his testimony had not yet been
given. No cause is known for the act.
The Camden Homeopathic Hospital and
Dispensary Association was formed last
week. The subscription list amounted to
over 81, 900. The following officers were
elected: President, f. a. Armstrong; vice
presidents, James NJ. Stradling and B.
Frank Sutton; secretary, DR.. S. III. Quint;
treasurer, Charles Watson. Twenty trus-
tees Were elected and thirty lady manag-
ers.
The movement to establish a glass works
at Swedesboro is Il success, a company to
build and operate the same having been
formed as follows: President, Geo. Meley;
Treasurer, Isaac II. Nanneman; Manager,
Jno. NJ. Moore: Directors, Geo. Meley,
Harry Kane. Geo. Batten, John c. Rulon,
II. Calvin, James l.. Plummer, and VIM.
II. Mccullough. The factory buildings
will be erected at once, and operations be-
gun i'll March.
a specimen of rare plant. the proper
name of which is ''Tuckahoe.'' and which
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