The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13

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held its first annual meeting at Melville on
Thursday. Hon. &. B.. Langley was made
President. and f. II. Stokes. Secretary and
Treasurer.
There is to be a steamboat connection
between Ocean City and South Atlantic in
the spring. The steamboat Mizpah, for
merly used to transport passengers from
Somers' Point. will be employed.
The Ministerial Conference Of the West
New Jersey Baptist Association will meet at
Moorestown on March I'd and Sd. A num-
Der of interesting papers will be read. Rev.
A. II. Sembower, of Salem, is Secretary of
the Conference.
At the meeting of the Bridgeton City
Council last Tuesday evening, there were
ten applications for hotel and saloon Ii
censes, eight of which were granted by vote
of Councilman Cox. Two hotels pay $500
one s400 and the saloons $500 each.
OF the one hundred and two liquor Ii
censes granted by the City Council of Cam
den for the present year, at s193 each,
eighty-three of them have been taken out.
BY resolution of Council the licenses re-
manning unpaid were revoked on Tuesday.
At the January term of the Cumberland
county court Henry Iredell and Walter
Zorns. of Vineland, were indicted for selling
liquor, but skipped before they could be
arrested. They ave since been appre-
hended at Malaga and lodged in the Bridge
ton Jail.
Over SO, 900 have already been subscrib-
ed toward the construction of a factory at
Pleasantyille, Atlantic county, to manu-
facture type setting machines. As soon as
SIP. 600 is subscribed in that county the
company will be organized and the factory
erected.
At the Fourth Quarterly Conference of
the First NJ. L. Church, of Salem, recently
held, the pastor. Rev. w. S. Zane, was in
vited to return for another year. The
church is reported in good condition, and
revival services are in progress, with some
conversions reported.
James Williams, a local colored preacher
of Camden, was held in $500 bail on Tues
day for trial by Justice W. II. Davis on
the charge of retaining 5000, which he had
collected by private subscription for the
building fund of the new Olivet African
NJ. f. Church. on Sycamore street, that
city.
A life-boat, probably belonging to some
foreign vessel, because of its peculiar make
up, was picked up in Maurice River Cove
recently by the sloop Lucy Hopkins. The
boat contained a quantity of provisions, 200
lbs. of cod fish and 800 lbs. of beef being
found on board. There were several other
articles on board, among them being some
large deck tackle and some short awning
posts.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Terrell, member of
Congress from the First district, who held
a competitive examination of applicants
for admission of one to a West Point
Cadetship, last November, has just select
ed for that appointment, Edward Stock
ham. of Camden, he having excelled i'll the
examination.
The w. c. r.. U. of Clayton, at their
last annual meeting, elected the following
officers: Mrs. J. NJ. Moore, President; Mrs.
Andrew Long, and Mrs. William 1szard,
Vice Presidents; Mrs. Charles Heintz,
Treasurer: Miss Abbie Candy, Secretary;
Miss +. f. Chase, Corresponding Secretary.
The Reading Room under the management
of the Union is well conducted, and well
patronized by the young men.
The officers elected by Gloucester County
Pomona Grange for the present term are as
follows: Master, John Cant; Overseer,
George Horner; Lecturer, Hope l.. Moore:
Steward, 5. NJ. Packer; Asst. Steward, +.
B. Ridgway: Chaplain, Charles Shoemak-
err: Treasurer, d. 5. Adams; Secretary, 2.
Adams; Gatekeeper, f. Starn; Ceres, I'll.
%Lippincott; Flora, Il. Gaunt: Pomona,
Grace Shoemaker; i. A. S., A. F. Batten.
5. Paul Loudenslager, %ex-county clerk
of Gloucester county, died at his residence
in Woodbury. on Sunday night. He was 62
years of age. He was originally a resident
and prominent citizen of Paulsboro, but on
his election to the county clerkship, which
office he held for ten years, he removed to
Woodbury. and has been identified with
several business enterprises at that place,
notably the Standard Glass Works in North
Woodbury..
4 strange fatality seem to have struck
the families of the jurors in the Vain
wright murder case at Toms River.
The wife of WINS O. Applegate died on
Wednesday of last week. He had no idea
that her illness was fatal until he was told
that she was dead. The brother-in law of
Moses Predmore, another juror, died We'd
nesday night, and his sister is lying at the
point of death. The two jurors were al
lowed to attend the funerals on Saturday.
The wife of John H.. Irons, another juror,
is down with a p~aralytic stroke, and,
it being the second one, her death is antici-
pated. 1t can thus be seen that there are
some uncomfortable men in the jury box.
Charles T. Reed. Law Judge of Camden
County, died on Saturday evening, at 8
o'clock. at his residence, No. III Market
street, Camden. He was taken sick over
a week ago being compelled to adjourn
court. He rapidly grew worse, his disease
turning to typhoid fever, and causing his
death, as above stated. The deceased
studied law with the late Judge T. p. Car
penter, and was admitted as an attorney in
1868 and as a counsellor in 1868, He was
an apt student, and was well versed in Greek,
Latin. French and German, and when not
busy with his duties as Judge of the Courts,
or with his large private practice, was gen
orally to be found in his library porting
over some book. In politics he was a
Democrat, and was appointed to the Judge
ship, in the face of great opposition from
the Camden bar, by Governor Ludlow, ii
1882. for term of five years. He was a
law-lawyer of acknowledged ability. He
was at one time City Solicitor for Glouces-
ter City, a position he filled with much
credit to himself and the city. tie vas
buried on Wednesday.