The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-06
STATE NEWS.

i liz CidlC llSAAtl NNoi INV ANHb Ni
Both Houses of the Legislature reftlse'
to adjourn over for the Inauguration.
The Legislature, if Speaker Armstron,
has his way, will adjourn on March 18th.
Woodbury. d. Holt, proprietor of tn
new Windsor Hotel, at Trenton. has calleC
a meeting of his creditors.
Jacob Lemming. a farmer of Pennington
committed suicide last week by hanging
himself from the NOV pole ofa hay wagon
He had been for some time acting as if in
sane.
James Smith, who a few years ago, wa'
the head bookeeper in a large mercantile
house i'll Philadelphia, has been sent to jail
in Mount Holly for vagraney. Drunken
ness caused his downfall.
On Thursday the 10Th inst. the State
Board of Education will hold an adjourned
meeting in Trenton. One of the principal
things TO be done is to choose a successor
to the present Superintendent. Prof. Ellis
A. Apgar. There are several candidates
for the position.
1t is generally conceded in political cir
cles that State School Superintendent Apgar
will not be his own successor for the Ell
suing term. He has held the office nearly
twenty-one years, at a salary of $1,000 per
annum. y. large number of aspirants for
the office have sprung up.
A curious suit occupied the attention of
the court at Hoboken. last week. The
suit was for the recovery of a note for
500 and a years interest. bRt as the note
was made payable six months after death. :
instead of date" the court decided that
payment was not yet due.
Henry Lukes. d we'll to-do resident of
Jacobstown, was found sitting bolt upright
in a chair in his store on Sunday with his
throat cut from ear to ear. Beside him was
the weapon with which he had committed
the deed-a large d~rawing-knife. He had
been slightly deranged for some time.
Mr.. {. B. Meirs. of Cream Ridge. de-
livered To John Taylor X Co, at Trenton.
last week. ninety-five pigs, average dressed
weight }03 pounds, and twenty-eight hogs
which dressed ON an average 513 pounds,
making a total of 1916 pounds. This is
claimed to be the largest pork crop from
any one farm in the State.
New Jersey State day at the Worlds Ex-
hibition. New Orleans. will be March 25th.
Visitors from New Jersey are invited TO
register at the State Headquarters, to re-
ceive and answer their mail at that place,
and generally TO make themselves at home
there. Letters addressed to any one at
New Jersey Headquarters, Exposition
Grounds. New Orleans, La will be re
tanned at the State Post Office until called
for by the owner.
Martin Blanchard, who died at Bloom
ingdale, Morris county, last month, was
the father of thirtv-six children. He was
married at the age Of "A, and his first
child, a daughter. was born when he was
fifteen. Before he was Il he was the
father of twins-Abner and Aaron-both
of whom are now living in Morris county,
at the age -. His wife died in 1859. after
having borne him nineteen children. Soon
afterward lie married again, and had
eleven children by his second wife. Blan-
chard's oldest grandehild was born before
he was 30 years old, and this grandchild
has three grandchildren who are
and have children. During the
war. when Blanchard was 73 years old, he
said that he had enough male descendants
of his own, including those who married
his family, to make a company of one
hundred able-bodied men. At the time of
seven hundred.