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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18
STATE NEWS

New jersey is said 10 contain 1,50s law
yers within is limits
Tic yayor Of Beverly has directed the
CLOSING Of all barl~r shops there IN sun
days.
4 few days ago two erowbarS were dis
covered placed on tile Marion aud Med
ford Railroad in order 10 wreck a train.
Tic Mporestow "a canning factory viii put
up very few tomatoes this seaSou, a. there
are noa stored IN the building nearly one
million cans Of last years crap awaiting a
market.
TIE dissatisfaction At lIaddonfield over
the ues administrator Of the post-efiee
affairs * sail tn haze taken the shape Of a
petition to Tie Postmaster General for the
removal Of the new appointce.
Frank Henderson. the alleged Murderer
Of Julia Wilmot. the unfortunate IIaddon-
field girl. is a bartender. The girl was
very well thought Of and was an attendant
at the Methodist church Of H~addcnfield.
Diphtheria prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in H~addoufield. and the public schools
are closed. On Monday two of Charles
Hooyer's children died. leaving the parents
with but one Of five children. the other
two having died a few days ago. The last
surviving child is very low.
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as follows:
mo credit given here,

A young man entered the bar-room Of
a village tavern and called for a drink.
The landlord said, mo, you have too much
already. You have had the deIirium ire
mems once. and | cannot sell you any more. .
He stepped aside to make room for two
young men who had just entered. and the
landlord waited upon them very politely.
The other had food by silent, and When
the others had finished, he walked mp to
the landlord, and thus addressed him: six
years ago, at that age, | stood where those
young men stand now. | was 4 man with
fair prospects. Now at the age of twenty
eight | am a wreck. body and mind. You
led me to drink. In this room | formed
the habit that has been my ruin. Now
give me a few glasses more and your work
is done. ! shall soon be ont of the way.
There is no hope for me. But they car be
saved; they may be men again. Do not
sell it to them. Sell it to me, and let me
die, and the world will be rid of me but
for Heavens sake sell them no more"
The landlord listened, pale and trembling.
Setting down the dccanter, he exclaimed:
God helping me, that is the last drop |
will ever sell to any one".' And he kept
his word.-LiotAq Iss0e.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

Rev. j. w. Haney passed through
Chicago on Monday on his way to Ohio to
help to elect DR.. Leonard governor of the
Buckeye state. Mr.. IIaney is pastor of the
NJ. E. church at Cartilage, H., and his
church unanimously voted his vacation for
the express purpose of enabling him to 90
to Ohio. The fact that Carthage contains
this kind ofa Methodist church goes far to
explain why it is that no saloon has been
allowed in that town for the last sixteen
years.-Lerer.
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PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY BY ". c. GARRIso,
81 SOUTH FROM ST. PHILADELPHIA

CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY BY ". & GARRISON
81 SOUTH FRONT ST.. PHILADELPHIA.
BUTIEE-Prime PRINT &c to &c: fair 19e to Ice;
roll l5c to l6c; common 70 TO lGc per III. Eggs3Ic
o 23c- per d0Z. DRESSED POULTKY-FOwis, lac to
I5c per ID; spring chickens lGc to lsc per ID
ducks l3c to I4c per ID. s~ToCK-Calves &c to -
perlb; fair &c o614c per ID: lambs SIC to6cper
Id; sheep &c to &c per ID: fair 3c to &c perlb.
W0oL-unwashed I9c to 3c per ID: washed 2-c
to INC per lb. FEATHEKs-Geese choice Dc to6Jc
per ID: fair A. to J0c per ID: turkey &C
10 SC per ID: duck &c to 3tc per ID: chicken
&c TO &c per lib. G~AMK-Squab= nc to 3c per
pair; pigeons 3c to &c per pair; black birds isc
to 20c per doz plover 35c to 40c per pair snap
pers SC To 10c per Id; reed birds sc to SC per
doz wood cock sc. to sL0 per pair
FRUIT AND EGETABLEs-Cabbage choice 15c. To
Sl.D per Lbl: Tomatoes DC to BIC per basket.
Egg plants lGc toljc. per basket. Corn pc 5Dc.
per basket. Lima beans SOC to 40c per basket.
Peaches extra si.W to SIP per basket fair 60c
to I5c per basket. Apples choice s23 To $50
per Dbl fair 800 to Sl.3 per Dbl. Pears bart
let's Sz.75 to 500 per bbl pears cooking sl.5o
70 s2.u0 per Dbl; onions s23 to $50 per hbl.
Turnips SL75 to 800 per Dbl. Grapes &c "a
&c per pound. Natermelous prime $1,000 to
Sl2.u0 per 100: culls 500 500. Canteiopes 7Jc 10
sLoo per Dbl. Potatoes prime sl.75 to s2.0o per
Dbl. Culls I5e TO s1.O0 per Dbl. sweet POTATOES
prime sl.25 to Si.J0 per Dbl; cuils sl.& to $50.
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D0LAN-HUTE-At jefferson. On the Il
inst. by Rey. T. 4. DUNCAN. William DoiaI
and Mrs. sarah ohute. both of Jefferson
WARNER-SMITH-At the residence Of The
brides mother, IN Glass5oru. on the I'd inst
by Rex. L. d. >tuitz. Gotleib NaTnerand Mis-,
Mary smith, all Of Glassboro.
TOMPSON-TIDMA SH-At GlaS>boro on the
5th inst. by Charles Il. Wolf. Esd Aaron
Thompson, OF Willow Grove, and Mis- Mary
Tidmash, Of GlassboTo.
BARToN-RUSSELL-On the 4th nit, by
Rev. lillian >faulcup, at Barusboro. John Il
Barton and Miss I-aurFt Y. Russell. both ri New
Brooklyn. Gloucester County, NJ
CABTW RIGHT - Filler Al the NJ. +
parsonage. Alloway. on September 9Th. by Rev.
charles IL. Elder, MI. Charles H. Cartwright,
Of Philadelphia, and Miss Ida l.. Filler, OF
WoodstowB.
FRIANT-HANN-At the AIIoway NJ. +.
parsonage. on september 18Th, by Rev. GhHfie~
II. Elder, Mr. Benjamin +. fFiant, of Alioway,
and Miss Lizzie L. Ham. Of COhanSey.
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The Qualification of Teachers.

4 prominent temperance worker re-
quests the publication of the following
law relative to the teachers in all schools
supported by public money: No certificate
shall be granted any person to teach in the
public schools of the state of New York.
after the first day of January, 1886, who
has not passed a satisfactory examination
in physiology and hygiene, with special
reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks,
stimulants and narcotics upon the human
system.-Ltoing hsue.
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May "A Christian Sell Liquor?

The dram-seller offers liquor to every
man mot already intoxicated) who applies
for it. Among those who apply are many
to whom the liquor is poison, and worse
than poison. To some Of them it will bring
bodily death Others it will madden to the
commission of fearful crime Others find in
it that which ruins family peace and to a
great number it brings the curse implied
in the words Neither thieves. nor
covetous. nor drunkards, shall inherit the
Kingdom Of Cod" Can it he right to offer
liquor promiscuously to men, whom it may
lead (and a vast number Of whom it rill
lead) to hell ?
May the wholesale merchant furnish
purpose Alcohol is sold and bought for
manufacturing purposes that, of course,
is right. But can it be right to furnish it
to the dram-seller for a use that leads to
the ruin of soul and body? Nations
will not allow a neutral to furnish
munitions of war to the enemy. Is not
the dram-shop drinking of whisky a weapon
Of the Evil One? May a child of God fur
nish it - hrtstiaR Obsercer.
The Twelfth Annual Meeting Of the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held at Philadelphia, Pa,
Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, 1885, in the Hall Of the
Y. NJ. G. 4.
The date of the Convention has been ar
ranged so the Sabbath day shall come be
tween the first and last two days Of bust
ness.
Meetings will be held on the Sabbath
preceding the Convention, to be addressed
by leading speakers.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

GoDEY's LABY's Book for October is q
brilliant number. opening with a handsome
steel engraving of The Lady of Lyons.
The subject is one Of high literary and dra-
matte merit. Praliae being a character
made famous by the authorship of genius
and the histrionic talent of the best actresses
the world over. A novel design in colors
for a sofa pillow or quilt accompanies the
usual illustrations. THE Yoke Of Honor
approaches a final climax. Miss Emily
Read has a strong dramatic story entitled
i. Another Christabel.' and Max Wander
Weyde continues his observations on Phil
lipa's clever doings the subject Of this
month : article Is the decoration of interiors
with rustic work, leaves and grasses. The
more serious matter in this issue is repre-
scented by Three Letters from Herat.
There are several pretty poems. and a
bright story called Alice and l.. The
number closes with a full Arm Chair aud q
readable Book Table.
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Lieensed-To do WHAT

LieeH-ed-tO make The strong man weak
Licensed-to lay the wise man low
Licen-ed-a wife'- fond heart TO break,
And cause the children's tears to- now.
Lieen@ed-to do Thy neighbor harm;
Lieensed-to kindle hate and strife:
L~icensed-to nerve the robbers arm
Lieeased-to he the murderers knife.
L~icensed-fhy neighbor's purse To drain.
And rob him Of his very last:
Licensed-to heat his feyerish brain,
TIL madness rs n thy work al last.
L~fcensed-like spider fora fly,
TIE spread thy nets for man, thy prey:
To mock his struggles. suck him dry.
Then cast the wOrthles-hHik away.
Licensed-Nhere peace and quiet dwell,
To bring disease, and want. and woe:
Li~cenSed-io make this world Il hell,
And hit man for a hell below.
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Bats for Quilting.

Nearly all the Cotton Bats
made and sold in this country
are put up short weight at the
factories, in other words, those
put up for pounds weight Il, IS,
or II ounces-seldom more.
We neither buy or sell that
kind. We weigh them out to
you and you get 10 ounces for
a pound each and every time.
We have them at Ioc, I2c. and
I5c, each. Also the Patent
Woven Batting, each pound
measures 5 # in width and is
nearly 5 yards long. at 25c a
pound. Come and see, if you
have any needs of this kind.
{. B. HUMPHREYS & co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

When extra policemen are needed to as
sist the regular borough officers in presery-
ing order, it would be we'll for those APP
pointing them to ave some regard to the
material they call in Of which to max
police for the time being. 1t is just as well
to have officers for whom the rougher ele-
ment will have some respect, instead of Sc
lecting them from the class that is too apt
TO stand in need of police attention itself at
times. People who are themselves "spoil-
ing for a fight" are not the ones 10 aid in
suppressing fights and disorder on tile part
of others.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

An Indignation meeting to protest against
the legal proceedings against the Salvation
Army in Bridgeton was held in Grosscups
Hall in that city on last Sunday afternoon.
The hall was packed, the church people
and clergy generally taking a decided stand
against the suppression of the Army meet
ings in Bridgeton, and the disposition APP
pears to be to make it an issue between
Rum and Religion. There can be no ques-
ton that the work of the Army in Bridge
ton has been productive Of good. A resi-
dent Of that city gave rs several instances
within his knowledge of men who had been
in receipt of large wage and habitually
sauandered nearly all their earnings for
rum, but since the advent Of the Army and
through their work have reformed, and
now give their families the benefit Of their
labor. Whether this kind Of work is a fair
equivalent for the making of a little extra
noise in the Army meetings. is a question
which the hotel keeper seems to want judi
ciaIly decided. and as he seems to be the
heaviest loser, perhaps he has a right to
have il so decided. Half a dozen laboring
men reforming and giving their wages to
their families is calculated to make a big
difference in the rumscller's income in the
course Of a year.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

At the last session Of the legislature Sen
ator Nichols, Of Cumberland county. intro
duced and pushed through a bill ~forbidding
the sale of cigarettes to minors under six
teen years of age. The law while having a
most worthy object in view has practically
proven a dead letter. Not one case Of
enforcement has ever been reported, nor
could anything have been expected. There
is only one way to check the excessive use
of cigarettes, and that is to inflict a social
penalty. 1t is true that a great deal might
be done by teaching the lads the effects OF
the habit, which are now known to be most
disastrous. 1t was recently stated by good
authority that a new form Of disease called
cigarette asthma had been developed in this
country by the use of tobacco in this form.
-Camden C0urter.
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1icd.

ABBOTT-In salem. on the 18th inst, sam
ueI Abbott, in the list year Of his age.
BACON=uddenIy. in salem. on the 9Th inst.
Elizabeth j. Bacon, widow OF Capt. smith Ba-
con. aged 81 years, ; months and , days.
FLANIGAN-At Bridgeport. on the 18th nit,
Mrs. sarah Flanagan, wife Of Bartinc Flanagan,
in the 18th year OF her age.
LECOC N~T-Suddenly, in Warrington. on
the 18th inst. Amanda, infant daughter Of ".
Ebenezerand Ann Louisa L%ecount, aged ] ycal
and 10 months.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

The Ftqp1. an independent reform news
paper. published al ~Harrisonburg. Va. Is
accomplishing excellent service in the TEN
perance cause and also in educational
work. There is a good corps OF local re-
porters and contributors throughout the
counties of Rockingham and Augusta.
Rev. A. p. Funkhonser. proprietor and
editor, does not pander to the ''baser ele-
ment" ofsociety, but conscientiously adyo-
Gates all good and honest reform move
ments without concealment or compro-
mise.
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Trenton Letter.


1t is with much regret that We are hay-
ing saloon licenses constantly granted and
renewed by the Board Of Excise in this
city. No matter how many remOnstrances
are presented to the board. they are almost
every time laid over and finally oyerruled.
Our Excise Board is composed of business
men. Fathers Of sons and daughters, they
are respectable men in a social sense. and
for these gentlemen to ignore the appeals
of Christian communities and to tolerate
the existence and even the actual increase
of an evil that degenerates humanity-why
it is a shame. a burning disgrace to our
beautiful and prosperous city, and | hope
that ere long this legal privilege may be
checked.
The State Convention Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will meet in
this city on October 81, %. and %. The
meeting will be held in Union Library
Hall.
About two or three years ago our Legis-
lature enacted a law prohibiting the sale of
| cigarettes to boys. According to the daily
scenes in Trenton it would seem that the
law had been anuulled.
\ man in this city left a saloon recently
in an intoxicated condition. After his ar
rival home. it was discovered that he had
lfiL III id4Nt ANNAh III ~ ~ NApbh
Vice Chancellor Bird has granted a tenn
porary injunction on the Salvation Army at
Bridgeton for their boisterous manner Of
worship.
A man was found Monday on Jackson
street Frustrated from an excessive use of
liquor. He was sent to the hospital for
treatment.
\ man came to town 81 Saturday night
from Ewing township and became intoxi-
Gated. On returning home he fell from his
wagon and broke his collar-bOne.
A lady was followed by a dude one even
ing last week. in this city. The dude was
quoting some language of not the most re-
spectacle character within the lady's hear
ing. At the terminus of the fourth block
the lady turned arnnnd and slapped the
dude in the face, and he disappeared.
The best and most followed i'll bred pro-
fession in this city is corner loafing, from
seven to eleven o'clock each evening.
The grape crop in and around this city
will this fall be the largest that has been
known for years.
Pennington Seminary opens this year
with a larger number of students than at a
corresponding period a year ago.
We have heard that the Taylor Opera
House has been engaged for the evening of
the ed inst, in which to hold a grand
temperance celebration; in conjunction
with the Temperance Centennial to be held
IN Philadelphia at the salue date.
A bogus Catholic priest, travelling under
the name of shannon, has been victim
izing the church people OF his faith in Mt.
Holly recently.
Judge Nixon last week imposed a fine Of
$50 on a cigar sInuggler. The number Of
cigars smuggled We're less than POO.
MERCER.
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The Courts and the Temperance Cause.

1t is a uriou a we'll as a lamentable
fact that in this country the courts do all
they can to retard the progress Of the tenn
perance reformation. In Maine. Iowa.
Ohio, and Kansas. the chief difficulty in
the way of prohibitory legislation has been
the action OF the Judiciary in each State.
Constitutional and technical bubbles
against the enforcement Of restrictive en-
actments have been raised in every State,
and additional legislation is constantly de-
mamded to enforce the will Of the commu-
nifty in trying To check the evils of intern
peranee. In the South much good work
has been done under what is known as
local option: that is, the counties and
municipalities have been permitted to stop
the sale of liquor in their neighborhoods IL
the people 50 voted. There are, therefore,
literally thousands of locations in the
South and Southwest. where il is as diff
cult to get intoxicating drinks as in Maine
itself, but a Texas court has made a de-
cision which practically utilities the local
option law, for it gives each election pre-
cinct the authority to sell liquor if so its
voters will. As in every district there is
some low locality which favor liquor drink
ing, the bibulously inclined in the neigh
boring precincts can get all the rum they
want. Local option is Of course i%neffect-
i've in preventing liquor drinking unless it
applies to a whole city or county. There
is reason To fear that this decision will
nullify the action of the prohibitionists in
other States of the South, but then this
will doubtless help the general movement
in stimulating the State Legislatures them
selves to pass %prohibitory laws. News
also Just came to hand that the Illinois
highest court has decided that the Legis-
lature ann prohibit the sale OF liquor,
though it may license, regulate, aud re-
strict it. Under the present Constitution
of Illinois it is held that no business in
which people have invested money can be
destroyed by the lawmakers: hence pro-
bibitory acts will call for constitutional
amendments. This will make the task
more difficult, but the temperance people
must now 90 to work and make the neces-
sary changes in the Illinois as well az
other State constitutions. There must be
no step backward in the onward progress
of prohibition -Demorest's Monthly.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

On every hand we hear the cry for iacto-
ries and new business enterprises. II we
want them we must help ourselves to them.
When Our people learn that the rum bust
ness is not the first business to be provided
for and catered to, probably other business
will have a show. The words rum and
prosperity are not found on the same page
OF the dictionary, nor do the Interests they
represent agree well togetherin a commun-
ity. 1.-The force of this observation lies in
the application of it"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

From appearances, We judge that Penns-
grove has abandoned the idea of incorpora-
ton for the present. Getting Incorporated
is a good deal like getting married. When
it's too late to help it the victim sometimes
wishes he hadn't.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

4 tax rate of 9s cents is a new exper-
ience for Woodstown. Twenty-seyen cents
more will bring it up to our sister city Of
Salem. If our people were getting value
received for the increase they would cheer
fully acquiesce, but there's the rub. There
is a large and grow ing class who can't, for
the life of them, see where the value re-
ceiyed comes in a reasonable proportion to
the outlay. An inventory and appraise-
inent Of benefits in proportion to outlay
would furnish interesting reading.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

We have received from the press Of Sin
iekson Chew. Camden, a very useful and
valuable little book entitled Fifty Years
Among Small Fruits, by William Parry,
the w~ell-known nurseryman of this State.
The book contains 81 pages of information
on the subject, is p~rofusely illustrated and
a credit to the typographical abilities Of
Mr.. Chew's Printing House. We hope
every farmer in this county viii send Is
cents to VIM Parry, Parry p. O., y. j..
and secure a copy of it.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

Barnum's famous elephant, Jumbo, was
killed near st. Thomas, Ontario, on Tues
day night. His keeper was leading him
along the railroad track when a freight
train approached behind unnoticed and ran
the elephant down. lie was 50 badly in
iured that hc died in half an hour. The
trick elephant Tom Thumb was also in
jured, one OF his legs being broken.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

Feel as we may, we can repress speech
Dur lips are our own. We can lock
their gateway, if We choose, to what
ever is unkiDd, or eensorious. or unworthy
of our better selves. Nobody compels us
to find fault audibly. Nobody urges us to
scold or complain. If we avail ourselves
of the escape-valve of hasty speech we shall
certainly suffer pangs of regret by and by,
besides infiicting present pain on children
and servants, who cannot answer back
when we chide: on brothers and husbands
who are too patient or too proud to be re-
%sentful; or, perhaps, on some dear aged
does not need our adding a drop TO the
trimming cup.
Fifteen wears ago, thirteen mel in Cleye-
land, | am told, resolved to start a Pro-
hibition party. They may have been
ahead of their times-beiter that than
to be behind-but all that those men pre-
dicted has come to pass. They expected
the rum traffic would increase, and SO it
has. They believed the old parties would
be unable to check it, and they have
proved 50. The thirteen affirmed that
prohibition was the remedy. and to-day
Prohibition is the watchword of nearly all
who profess to be friends Of temperance
from Maine To California. The thirteen
declared that prohibition must be secured
and made effective through a Prohibition
party, and to-day a hundred newspapers,
a thousand speakers, and a hundred and
fifty thousand voters stand for prohibition
through a Prohibition party.-Pr9f. ". g.
Frost. IN DeLarare lSiqnal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

IF proclamations have the deadly force
and effect claimed for them, We would sug-
gest that Mayor Reed Try the weight Of one
on the Saturday night rioters.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

William Kearney, one yearago one of the
most brilliant young members of the Cas-
county, Indiana bar, was arrested in Shell
don, Illinois, and taken to Logansport on
Tuesday, charged with horse stealing. He
denies that lie stole the horse. Kearney's
downfall is attributed to wine and women.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

Rev. Edgar Page Sites, nominated By
the Cape May County Prohibitionists for
Senator ON Saturday, is a poet as well as
a preacher. He is the author Of the we'll
known Sunday School hymn entitled
''Beulah Land
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18

The Saturday night dIsturbero of the peace
must go-probably TO Trenton. If bad
whisky, the cause oil most OF the disturb
ances, could be made to go, the Saturday
night disturber Of the peace might stand a
chance Of being changed into a good eiti-
zen and remain at home where his work
and earnings are needed.