The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
GENERAL NEWS.

\ license for the seventeenth saloon in
single block. on Avenue c, New York,
was granted by the Excise Commissioners
last week.
State elections will be held this year as
follows: Ohio October 18th, and Con-
neeticut, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, New
Jersey. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and
Virginia, November Sd.
The title deeds to Gen Grants birth
place were transferred last week 10 the De-
partment of Ohio Grand Army of the Re
public. The Grand Army will put the
house in repair and will put a great monu-
ment beside it, Orders for collecting con-
tributions for this purpose were issued on
Monday.
At a meeting of anarchists on the lake
front in Chicago. last Sunday a little
Irishman said there was no cause for all
the trouble between capital and labor. and
that a man could live on a dollar day if
he did not spend his money for beer and
whisky He was ieered and knocked
down several times, and was finally rescued
by the police.
The largest fruit farm in the world of
any one kind of fruit had been established
in the southern part of Florida, compris-
ing .. 800 acres. with over 200. 600 cocoanut
trees In order to establish this farm,
Mr. Esra A. Osborn. a wealthy farmer of
Middletown, this state, bought over sixty
miles of the ocean front land from Lake
North on the north. to Cape Florida on the
south. In order TO commence his enter
prise he had to charter special vessels TO
carry the cocoanuts from South America
and then land them through the surf in
surf boats, purchased from the government
from along the New Jersey coast. He
had to send workmen, tools and houses
| from the north by steamer 10 Key West,
and then by specially chartered sailing
vessels up to Cocoanut Strand, the village
he has established in the centre of his
plantation. So far the undertaking has
cost an outlay of over 800 900. Tho 300
| 900 cocoanut trees planted. of which one
half have attained two years growth and
the other half one years growth, will net,
if the statistics of the product of cocoanut
| trees are borne out. in the course of from
six to ten years and then ON for 100 years,
So to s. per year for each tree.
\ coming event will be the explosion of
27j, GOO pounds of dynamite under Flood
Rock. at Hell Gate, on the 1st of October
General Newton thinks he will have all his
arrangements completed by that time.
Work has been going on at the base of the
rock during the past twelve months,
operations having been directed principally
to extending the galleries in tie northeast
ern section, comprising about threc-quar-
tiers of an acre This part of the undertake
ing is now finished and the men are now
charging the cavities for the final charge,
in which no fewer than 30, 900 copper car
tridges will be used. The mere statement
is enough to make one hold his breath
When the last explosion at Hell Gate took
place, some eleven years ago, it will be
remembered there was something of a
panic, and many timid persons who were
apprehensive that the foundations of Man
haitian Island were to be unsettled by the
shock, temporarily quit their city resi-
dences and moved into the country in order
to be out Of harms way. The train was
fired on Sunday afternoon, and, in order to
view the spectacle at points within the safety
limit, at least quarter of million of peo-
pie, whose nerves were equal to the occasion.
occupied every ''coigne of vantage on
the surrounding shores; but the collapse was
not commensurate with the popular expec-
tation. A slight vibration. like the pass
ing of railway train, with a momentarly
upheayal of the waters of the East river
We're the only perceptible results, and so
the crowd returned to their homes with
feeling of disappointment, if not of dis
gust, that something had not happened
winch would have startled not only the
whole of Manhattan Island, but all the rest
Of mankind. The quantity Of explosive
material to be used in demolishng Flood
Rock, however, is far in excess of that en-
ployed at that time in the demolition of
''Pot Rock, and it is quite possible there
fore, that the consequences will be of a less
pfosy character. BE that as it may, the
explosion will be the next great event.
and between now and the day appointed
the gossip about il promises to take prece-
dence of everything else.