The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13
STATE NEWS.

A line of steamers from New York to
Cape May, is in contemplation for the com
ing season.
A colored man named William Richard
son died at Matawan on Friday last aged
100 years and 6 months.
A roller skating rink for the express ac-
commodation of the colored residents OF
Mount Holly is in course of erection.
The Both annual exhibition of the Bur
lington County Agricultural Society will
be held at Mount Holly on the 18th, 18th,
18th and 18th of October next.
Chief Justice Mercer Beasley, of the SUI
preme Court of New jersey, whose term
expires this winter, has been nominated
and confirmed as his own successor.
The B~ordentown Common Council voted
to license a roller skating rink there, but
Mayor Brokely vetoed the measure, and
there is considerable excitement over the
matter.
Ex-Assemblyman Samuel Morrow, a
prominent lawyer of Newark, fell dead
Sunday morning in the Pennsylvania Rail
road Depot in Jersey City. His death was
caused by heart disease.
The annual session of the New Jersey
Methodist Episcopal Conference will be
held in the First Church, New Brunswick,
Bishop Warren presiding, and will com
,,onno ~, +l,a 1Qtb of NaroI,
The number of trade dollars held by
New Jersey banks, is reported at between
5000, OG0 and $500. 900, which is held i'll the
bank vaults in the State. seven-eights of
this amount having been taken at par.
Joshua S. Day, one of the proprietors of
the True .American, of Trenton, died on
Monday morning. aged 81 years. Only one
member of the newspaper firm is left,
Joseph \. Mar. Moses Mar, the editor,
having died a few weeks ago. Day was
the business manager.
At the annual meeting Of the Burling-
ton County Agricultural Society the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President,
lSdaI tiiiilolG, ' lCC l. iNSlitltt, W iio
S. Taylor; Recording Secretary, John B.
Collins; Corresponding Secretary, Henry L.
Budd; Treasurer, Edward B. Jones.
The Council of Bordentown is ID discussing
the question of demanding a license for
skating Kinks of from $50 to $3.50 yearly.
Some of the younger voters regard this as
an attack on their privileges and talk of
getting together and voting against coun-
cilmen at the next election who favor this
project.
Subscribers for seven hundred incandes-
cent lamps have been secured in Morris
town, and there is no doubt that enough
will he secured to warrant the introduce
ton of the electric light in the town. 4
company with a capital stock of $50, 900
will be formed, and the Edison Company
will take So 900 of the stock.
In the Legislature on Wednesday, among
other bills introduced was one giving Dor
ough governments exclusive control over
liquor licenses on their own territory. and
another providing for the infliction of not
more than thirty lashes on the bare back of
any person convicted of wife beating or
beating any other female person.
The New Jersey State Day" at the
New Orleans Exposition has been changed
from February 10 to March %. 1t was
found impossible to secure the attendance
of the Governor and other State officials on
the irst-named date, and the postpone
ment is made in order to give ample time
for preparation for a fitting celebration of
the day.
Governor Albeit has named the follow
ing As New Jerseys representatives to the
convention of the National Cotton Planters
Association, held in New Orleans this
week: Thomas H.. Dudley, Camden; II. l..
Budd, Mt. Holly; Mortimer Whitehead.
MiddleseX county; Geo. iIartshorne, Union
county; Clayton Conrow and Charles Col
Inns. Burlington county.
Theodore Brown, of Newark. died, as
his family supposed, last Friday. Prepar-
ations We're made for the funeral on Sun
day. y physician visited the house, and
while viewing the corpse he thought the
man was alive. He made an effort to re.
store him to consciousness. and in a few
hours the supposed corpse sat up. Brown
has been subject to fainting spells for many
years.
The roller skating rink at Somerville has
almost set the people crazy, and complaints
are made by some that attend the rink
that it conduces to keeping late hours and
other sorts of dissipation. There is some
talk of a petition to the authorities to close
the rink. Among the complaints are a
number of husbands who assert that their
wives neglect their household duties to at
tend the rink.
y bill before the Legislature concerning
roads, provides that it shall be the duty of
overseers to have their roads gravelled or
repaired with broken stone so that they
may be permantly improved. When gravel
or stone is not accessible, town committees
must provide the same at the expense of
the township, provided such expense shall
not exceed j per cent. of whole amount of
road tax assessed in the township in the
year.
GIenmore VI. Todd, chief book-keeper of
individual accounts in the trlst dpna ri