The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-04

A man-eating shark measuring nine feet
eleven and half inches in length and weigh
ing 315 pounds was caught off Somers'
Point last week.
Mayor Dubois, of Bridgeton, threatens
to have the cornerloafers who infest the
principal thoroughfares arrested unless
they mend their ways.
James II. Nixon, Esq, of Millville has
been elected a director of the West Jersey
Railroad to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Lewis Milford.
Theodore Fisher, of Mauricetown, Cum
berland county. expects to gather seven
hundred barrels of citrons from his patch
of two and three-fourths acres.
Near Dennisville, this state, are large
areas of buried forests. Many OF the trees
are in excellent condition when unearthed
and are used chiefly in the making of
shingles.
The Melville Council has passed a reso-
olution to impose a fine of s. on all per-
sons found loafing on the bridge which
crosses Maurice river at Main street in
that city.
A reward of 81, 600 has been offered, by
the owners of the steamboat Samuel M.
FELTON,, for the arrest and conviction of the
person or persons who caused the explosion
on the morning of August 18th.
The Gloucester County Courts opened
Tuesday, Judge Parker presiding. A
large number of bills were presented to the
Grand Jury. Eleven persons are confined
in the County Prisonsawaiting trial.
The cranberry r in Camden and At
lantic counties will, it is said, in many
places prove almost a total failure. Hum
dreds of acres were burned over by the re-
cent forest fires and viii prove valueless.
A suit for SO, 900 damages has been COM
menced by Ex-Coroner E. E. Jefferis, of
Camden. against the Mt. Ephraim Turn
pike Company for injuries recently received
by being thrown from his wagon by a
washout on Ferry road.
One of the largest surgeons ever caught
in the Delaware river in the history of the
oldest inhabitant was boated at Chester
lately. By actual weight it tipped the
scales at $50 pounds. In length it meas
ured 8 feet 4 inches, and ) feet in circum-
ference.
In order to remove the booths which ob-
struct the beach trout it is probable that
the residents of Atlantic City will apply to
the next legislature for the passage of an
act providing for the appointment of COM
missioners to condemn the property along
the beach front and have it purchased by
the city.
Ii has been eonelusiyely proved at Hack
ettstown that one horse cann0t pull twenty
men. The trial was made last month, and
grew ont Of a dispute as to the relative
strength Of horse and man. The contest
drew a large crowd of spectators and a
great deal Of interest was manifested in
the result.
A Dlaeard bearing the name of a Cam
den lumber firm, was picked up in a corn
field near fIatboro. Montgomery county.
Pennsylvania, a few days ago. 1t is be-
lieved the article was blown to the spot
where it was found by the cyclone some
weeks ago. The two points are nearly
twenty miles apart.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the reception to be rendered to United
States Senator William J. Sewell, at the
Sixth Regiment Armory, Camden, tonight,
on the occasion of his return from his
European tonr. Colonel Cooper, of the
Sixth Regiment, issued an order for all the
commissioned officers of the regiment 10
attend the reception in full dress uniform,
emitting helmets and side-arms.
A few days ago as a farmer was bringing
a ton of good hay through Gibbstown,
Gloucester county, four boys, aged from
seven TO twelve years. lighted a match on
the wheel and set the load on fire. 1t
burned the Ray all mp and damaged the
wagon and came near burning the horses:
caught to the fence and like to set the town
ON fire. The damages were promptly paid
by the parents Of the bad boys.
As there is very little complaint of rot
ting grapes it is probable that this years
crop at Vineland will be the largest for
years. 1t is expected that when the Con-
cords ripen the shipments will be very
heavy, as that is the principal variety
grown. Ii the rot does not trouble them,
and good prices are obtained, we may look
to grapes being the principal crop among
Nineland farmers.
The Prohibitionists of Gloucester county
Withhold a county convention about the mid
die of the month and nominate a candidate
for the Assembly. There is no one known
to be DESTROYS OF the nomination, but some
of the party in Woodbury. are talking of
Jacob V. Holdc1 aft as their candidate. Mr..
Holdcraft was the Prohibition Democratic
candidate for Sheriff last fall. The asser-
ton is made that the twenty-nine votes
cast for him in Woodbury. by the Prohibi-
tionists would be increased to forty at the
next election.
Some twenty or,thirty years ago a yes
sci loaded with finely bred cattle was
wrecked near the beach at Holly Beach.
A large number of the animals were
drowned, but a few succeeded in reaching
shore. Their o~ffsprings multiplied, and in
recent years the bills and woods of that
part of the State IA been populated with
herds of wild cattle. A meeting of the
farmers was held recently and a grand cat
tie hunt was adopted, as the wild cattle
had become a nuisance. All the hunters
were on horseback and a clump of woods
five miles distant was surrounded and the
game run out by a pack of dogs. The ami
mails were shot as they came cut of the
woods and the slaughter was kept mp for
several days. They were fat and in good
order for marketing.
A special election will be held at Wood
bury ON next Tuesday to decide whether
the City Council will proceed to erect
water works. At a meeting of City
Council on Tuesday night plans prepared
by Engineers Isaac s. Cassin and Howard
Murphy. of Philadelphia, were read. The
estimated cost of the works. in accordance
with their plans, would be 500, 476. 60.
The plans, as furnished, include the con-
struction Of n large reservoir on Roe's or
Maloney's Hill. The elevation of a water