The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-27

Enoch Garrison. a well-known resident OF
DeerGeld township, in Cumberland county,
died on saturday, in his seventeen year.
swindIers have been collecting money in
Burlington county by claiming to be ship
wrecked sailors, endeavoring to get home.
Paul Dehner. near Pitmm Grove. lost a $3.50
horse last week. II is thought that the animal
took cold while standing without "a blanket.
The new iron pier at Atlantic City is about
completed. and it is pronounced the finest ON
the coast. Ii will be opened about the first Of
the year.
The Weymouth paper mill, in atlantic
county, is now running day and night, and it
is claimed that il turns ont the best quality of
paper in the country.
new Methodist Episcopal Church is to be
erected ut DDwner, Gloucester county. The
Whitney Bros, Of Glassboro, have subscribed
$1,000 to the project.
The trains to Atlantic City were compelled
to wait for several hours on Tuesday morning.
on account of the heavy tide, which was pro
nounecd The highest for mtny years.
4 rumor 10 the effect that two or three pigs
had died of cholera in Mays Landing on sun
day was spread about that town, and before
noon on Monday, nearly all the porkers in the
town had been knitted.
1t is estimated that more than sixty deer
have been killed in Atlantic and Cape May
counties since the first Of October. The
slaughter has been 50 great thai the attention
Of the West Jersey tame Protective society
has been called to the matter.
Grand Army Posi-, &o. 80, of Cape May, VIII
erect Il to the soldiers from that
county who fell in the late war. The monu-
ment viii reach "a height of about fourteen
feet and cost $4,000. Every Cape May soldiers
name who died in the service Will be inscribed
on the monument.
The wreck of the brig Mary Milligan, which
snnk in the river near Collins Beach twenty
two years ago, is now being removed. one
hundred and fifty tons Of her cargo of coal
have been drawn ont of her by II powerful sue
ton machine. The coal is as bright and good,
apparently, asst was a auarter ola century ago.
A great deal of the marsh land along the
Rancocas Creek, from Bridgeboro to the Della
ware River, is being reclaimed and converted
into valuable meadows by the owners of prop
efty along that stream, despite the fact that
the Riparian Commissioners claim that by Il
recent survey all these meadows became the
property of the state.
No trains were run over the sea Isle and
Ocean City Railroad on Tuesday. owing 10 the
washouts. caused by the high tides during the
storm on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
About 1850 feet of the sea Isle City branch was
washed away. and a number of other bad
washouts are reported on the line OF the road.
Trains viii not be run until to-day.
The transcrfbing clerk of the Registers
office, OF Camden, who has just been removed
by a change in politics, gives the result of five
years labor in that position. He has copied
twenty books fun of deeds in these pages
We're 100000 words on 1880 pages. His right
hand travelled 375 miles. spreading forty quarts
Of ink over the white paper surface.
\ mysterious character, known there as the
Devil who some time ago made himself
notorious in Millvillc by sealing women on
lonely streets al night, has again taken up his
old occupation. He has been seen ii number
of times during the past week and has been
chased, but so far has managed TO elude cap
ture. Many persons are watching for him, and
declare that they will shoot him on sight.
The Timber Protective society Of New der
sey Is making a determined effort to break up
the gang of tiInbert thieves oreyiag upon the
valuable cedar timber in Burlington. Ocean
and Atlantic counties. 1t is stimated trat
thousands of dollars worth Of timber is cut
and sold every year by these vandals. The
Timber Protective society is employing an
agent in each township to watch the property
and report at once in ease of an unlawful cut
ting.
Captain Charles B.. Plat, Fish Warden of
Gloucester county. and one of the detectives
of the West Jersey Game Protective Society,
has made twenty-four arrests so far this season
OF persons violating the sunday law. of whom
seventeen We're from Pennsylvania. The fines
collected amounted to considerably more than
the cost Of experimenting and trying the
offenders. He reports more Illegal cunning
than for several years, ON account OF the album
dance of game.