The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-06
south Jersey Nofes.


\ skating rink Is being built at Cedar
vile, Cumberland county.
Camden's new Homeopathic Hospital
was opened on Saturday evening.
The Prohibitionists of Cumberland c county
meet in convention at Bridgeton on the
Eth inst.
J. B. Sooy and one of his sons, of Port
Republic, caught forty bushels of perch
one day last week.
The crews of the life-saving stations along
our coast shoot a good many wild ducks
and geese every favorable day.
4 Seaside fisherman speared half a
bushel of cells in a half am hour through a
hole in the ice on a thoroughfa re.
The West Jersey Game Protective So
ciety is scattering grain in the woods, so
that the quail will not suffer for food.
Jno. G. Tatum is now one of the directors
Of Woodbury. Bank, having been chosen to
fill the vacancy made by the death of JOS
epli Jessup.
The liquor men of Camden are laying
plans to control the next election SO as to
place men in position more favorable to
their interests.
Rev. T. L. Gardiner, of Shiloh. Cumber-
land county, administered the ordinance of
baptism to thirty-two persons, in the mill
pond, recently.
John Lore. of Newport, Cumberland
county, during the high tide a few days ago,
caught thirty-seven muskrats and two
minks, all in a haystack.
Fred. WORT, of Atlantic City. Who has
a small farm at PleasantYille. is %incrbating
chickens by means or electricity. He las
:, 1000 eggs in process of incubating.
The hot-house of E. d. Krause. at Pleas
a%ntville, was partially destroyed by fire on
Friday night, together with 1900 plants
ard flowers. The loss is s. 600; ut insur-
ance.
Jacob Miller, of Bridgeton, was found
dead in bed Friday by his family when they
went to call him to breakfast. The de-
ceased was well known. He was in his
sixty-seventh year.
At a special session of the West Jersey
P~resbytery, held at the Sec md church in
Camden on Monday, the ministerial o n
ter City. was dissolved.
New Jersey parties have contracted with
Neafe & Levy for the construction OF a
new passenger steamboat for service be-
tween Barnegat Village and Barnegat City.
She will be 80 feet Ion G, 81 feet beam AID
81 feet depth of hold.
The members of the Tice Post q. A. r.,
of Melville, are collecting brass and cop
per, of which they expect to have a cannon
cast, by a friend in Philadelphia, in the
foundry business. They wish to raise three
hundred pounds of the metals.
Neither the late Jos. Jessup nor S. Paul
Loudenslager left wills. The three sons of
the former, JAS. b., John S., and Chas. c.
Jessup, will administer on the formers
estate, and Henry C. Loudenslager will
administer on his fathers estate.-C0Hsti-
tuition.
The Burlington County Dairymen's Asso-
citation will join with the dairymen of this
county III their petition to the Legislature
to reduce the amount of solids required in
milk from - to II per cent, and to require
the analysis to be made before the milk
sours.
A verdict for s400 was returned last
week in the United States Court at Tren-
ton in the case of the Government VS.. War
wick & Stanger, glass-makers, of Glassboro,
to recover an income tax of ten per cent on
'~'shinnies' issued by the firm to pay its
employees.
Alfred Darby, of Glassboro, has brought
suit. through his counsel, Judge John W
Westcott, against the West Jersey Railroad
Company in the Gloucester County Courts
for $50, 900 damages for injuries sustained
by being struck by a locomotive. near Glass
boro, on the 18th of September last.
- 100 .l.--~1 -, Af,r,1nr Hx-sr4ny
a signal of distress about three miles from
shore. opposite Atlantic City. She was
hailed by the life saving crew, who went
out to the scene of the supposed wreck.
She proved to be the chooner Minnie ".
Griffin. from Hatteras Inlet for Atlantic
City, laden with lumber. The vessel was
safely piloted into port.
The jury in the Wainwright murder trial
at Toms River, on Saturday morning rend-
ereda verdict declaring Elson X. Rockwell
guilty of murder in the second degree. and
acquitting the other defendants. Judge
Van Syckel then sentenced Rockwell to
twenty years Imprisonment at hard labor
in the State prison, and until the costs of
the prosecutionare paid.
DIR. l.. w. Brown, of Nineland. is en-
gagged in the cultivation Of water-eresses
for the Philadelphia market. He has
twenty-four large beds, seventy-fiye feet
long, in which the crosses are grown dur
ing spring, summer and fall, and two
greenhouses, one hundred and twenty-five
feet long and fourteen feet wide, in which
are raised those for winter use.
A great surprise overlook the people at
Fairton one day last week. The pastor,
Rev. J.. T. Price, last sabbath announced
from the pulpit that all the congregation
were invited TO be present at the regular
prayer meeting and the Presiding Elder
would be present, and they would have
some special services. There was a good
attendance, and after the services, which
consisted of singing. prayer and an address
by the elder, and while singing a hymn,
which the congregation supposed was to be
the close of the meeting, Mr.. Price stepped
to the pew where his intended sat and in
vited her to accompany him, which she did.
The couple came in front of the altar and
the Elder then made known to the people
the nature of the special services n pro-
ceeded to marry them. No congregation
was ever more surprised. After the Elder
had congratulated the happy couple he in
vited the congregation to do the same, n
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