The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-16
South Jersey Notes.

alCt Noi kcIS, Will NlSIJ bTIu5eJoH soon.
John Brant sold his Elmer hotel property
to Jos. +. Talman of Barnsboro for s.. 800
The house of Ann Lewis, an aged colored
woman of YORKTOWN, was burned on Sat
urday night last.
The protracted meeting in Elmer NJ. T..
Church continues, with much interest each
night upon the part of the members of the
church.
Clark Hewitt, living III the farm of
George w. Barton, near %Sharptown, while
cutting wood recently, slipped and serious
ly cut his foot.
The w. c. r. [. of Pennsgrove will
furnish one of the class rooms i'll the new
church for a reading room and place to
hold their regular meetings.
The Salvation Army under the leader
ship of Capt. Fisher has rented Grosscup's
Hall, Bridgeton, and will take possession
about the first of next month.
A smash-up of two passenger cars oc-
Cured at the station in Salem on Monday
night, during the drilling of the late train.
The cars were allowed to run together with
too great force.
Summerill & Bro, of South Pennsgrove,
have sold during the present season 10, 900
pounds Of knitting Irvine, to be used i'll
knitting nets for the coming spring. They
have also sold about 5000 pounds of ma
chine-knit net.
Stephenson & Hudson, proprietors of
the skating rink at Salem, have sold ont to
Willard F. Seeker, a Salem gentleman,
and will devote their sole attention to the
Bridgeton rink, of which they are also
proprietors.
Fl. H. Warner & Co, the proprietors Of
Warmers Kidney and Liver Cure, have
just contracted with Whitney Bros. at
Glassboro for 10000, 900 pounds of glass
bottles, or 200, 600 bottles. over 800 car
loads-the biggest contract ever made.
The bottles would stretch over 1000 miles
in line.
Swedesboro has decided to have glass
works. AT a meeting of those interested
in the enterprise, last week, nearly or quite
enough money was raised to build the con-
Germ, while an eligible site for the works
was donated by Hotel-keeper PIummer.-
Standard.
Postal Inspector William Abels, who
resides in Camden, was roughly handled
ny HtHiC pei u pCiopiio uhhhONH W
him on Saturday last in the n~eighborhood
of Lebanon, Pa. An ugly bruise ON the
back of his head indicates that he was
hit with a blunt instrument. The mat
ter is being. investigated.
Mrs. II. 4. Sithens, of Swedesboro. cut a
watermelon of the Boss variety on Sum
day week, which weighed 50 pounds, and
tasted as fine as any she ever opened in
August. This melon kept perfect the year
out. She also opened one III Christmas of
the slceing' variety, which was very fine.
-Const5tation.
Several suits have been begun against
the Camden and Atlantic Railroad Com
pany for damages by persons who were III
iured in the Pixies Peak disaster last sum
mer. One is by Josiah Briean, for $40, 900;
another by Mrs. Albert Smith, wife ofCon-
ductor Smith, who was killed by the same
accident.
The Bridgeton Meas tells of the follow
ing extraordinary case: Mrs. David Cook,
of Shiloh, has been under her physicians
care since Aug. ?, 1884, during which
time she has eaten but nine meals. When
taken sick she weiged 200 pounds and on
Nov. LIST last found her weight reduced
Sc pounds. Nothing will remain on her
stomach excepting ice cream. Strange to
add Mrs. Cook does her usual house work
and has been abed only five days during
her illness. She has gone two weeks at a
time without trying to eat. Her physician
%pronounces it a remarkable case.
The electric light Illuminated the streets
of Woodbury. on Saturday night, five lights,
four on the main street and one on Cooper
Street, making portions of the city as light
as day. The lights were only experiment
tai and erected temporarily. but it is prob
able that they will be generally introduced.
The power was furnished by Woodbury's
millionaire, George G.. Green, who had a
dynamo placed in his grist mill at the
bridge. Edwin Mullen resident of Wood
bury. had charge of the illumination, he
representing a Philadelphia company that
has been introducing the light in South
Jersey.
The people in the lower section of
Camden county are much troubled by the
fact that there are two liquor saloons at
Atco and two at Winslow. A hotel is
being erected on the borders of Camden
and Atlantic counties and in close proxi-
nifty to the local option town of Harmon
ton, much to the discontinue of the resi-
dents of that place, who have labored so
arduously for the prohibition of the sale of
intoxicants i'll their town. The signers of
the licenses are, many Of them, persons who
have heretofore been in favor of temperance,
but who now profess to be disguised with
the actions of the Prohibition party during
the recent election
On Christmas night George A. Zane, a
young man about thirty years of age, was
married to Miss Maggie McClintook,