The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-07-17
Ladies and Temperance.

! One of the best meetings ever held in
4 Ocean Grove occurred on Thursday of last
week The occasion was a temperance
I love feast, led by Mrs. Mobiles, of Atlantic
| Highlands. Many testimonies from the
4 Christian workers, as to the bearing of
their work upon their religious experience,
were given with great JUNCTION and power.
| So great was the interest that the hour was
insufficient to put in all the good things
brought out
A Workers Conference followed, in
which many questions were asked and an
swered, bearing upon the temperance
work, bringing out much that was valua-
| Bile and interesting. At the noontide hour
Mrs. DIR. Cause led in prayer In the after
noon, Mrs Fannie II. Carr led the deyo-
tional hour. followed by an able address to
young ladies, by Mrs BIuen, superintend-
ent of the Young Womens' Work. She
was followed by Mrs. Patten, superinten-
dent of the same department Of work in
| Pennsylvania.
The children hour was four o clock. A
large number of children were present.
Mrs. Major Scott made the first address.
She was followed by representative of q
class of boys which have been under the
teaching of Mrs. Durham, who gave q
paper descriptive of their Winters work.
Mrs. Baldwin, Superintendent of Juvenile
Work in the State. gave an excellent black
| board lesson.
In the evening Mrs Buell., of New York,
delivered very fine address, which con-
tanned many beautiful thoughts, 1t was
followed by the reading of an original pa
per on Narcotics, by Mrs. Beegle, of Ocean
Grove, and, after brief talk on scientific
temperance Instruction. the public schools,
the meeting was closed with an address by
Major Scott. -As6usy Rark Spray.
The Essex county grand jury reported
on Monday that they had failed to indict
Mrs. Mary Gilchrist who chopped off the
head of her infant some weeks ago, be-
cause they believed that at the time of the
commission of the act she was insane The
woman was crazed with liquor at the time
| the deed was committed.
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| Demorestls Illustrated Monthly Magazine
| for August cannot fail to give pleasure to lis
numerous readers. 1t opens with an excellent
| story by Eleanor Kirk, and, in addition, there
| are other admirable stories. The article on
| Heradry, which is profusely illustrated, h
| both Instructive and entertaining, and among
| other good articles are Memories of Napoleon
Il n a ss1sy, p M
papers, From Pencil to Brush, ARE continued.
and "woman's Indebtedness to the Animal
| Creation Will be read with interest. The
| various departments are, usual well filed,
and the oil picture, Music" by Leiofr, is
charming production.
/ The National Temperance Society has just
publish handsome Centennial Souvenir of
| the Temperance reform, containing utterances
of the early temperance pioneers. The pam
/ phlet, of one hundred and eight pages, contains
the celebrated essay of DR.. Benjamin Rush in
full entitled AN Inquiry into the Effects of
Ardent Spirits upon the Human Mind and
Body written in 1855 and which WAS the first
temperance address ever published TO the
world. This work also contains Rev DIR.
/ Cheever's discourse in full, entitled deacon
Giles's Distillery,' and my Mothers Gold
Ring by L. NJ. sargent. together with extracts
| from writings and addresses of Rev. DIR. Lyman
Beecher, Prof. Moses Stuart, Rev. Justin Ed
wards Rev John Marsh Lebbeus Armstrong
Esq. Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, K. II.
| Mussey, Nj. D., Jonathan kittredge. Esq.
| Charles Jewett, NJ. D., Rev. Dr. Albert Barnes,
| Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Mott. Rev. Thos. P. Hunt.
| Rev. DR. Hemsn Humphrey, Rev. John wes-
ley, Hon. Lewis Cass, Hon. Thomas Jefferson.
Hon. Daniel Webster, John g. Palfrey. A. NJ.