The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-13
south Jersey Notes.

have fallen heir to a fortune of e18, 600 in
England.
Somers' Point had a So 0 fire on Tues
being destroyed.
Rev. w. Z. Boyle, the ex-Methodist, has
been elected pastor Of the First Baptist
church, Of Atlantic City.
Though Mantua has been a post station
for seventy-three years it has never had a
Democrat for postmaster.
The Baptist Church at Roadstown was
constituted in 1890, and is the oldest Bap-
fist Church in West Jersey.
l.. Hurff Weatherby. of Swedesboro, has
a pen of large hogs, one of which is esti-
mated to weigh 700 pounds.
The rite of baptism was administered to
fifty persons in the First VI. f. Church. at
Millyille. on Sunday morning.
The Congress Hall Hotel at Atlantic
City has been sold at Sheritf7s sale to
Joseph II. Barton, the owner of the Dennis
House, for SIT, 5000.
Fairton has had fourteen cases of diph-
liberia and Group in children this winter, of
which twelve have died. and another is not
expected to recover.
Twenty-three arrests were made in
Bridgeton during the month of February,
of which eighteen We're for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct.
Mr.. Job Bacon, of Greenwich, is still
boring for water at the station, having now
reached a depth of 525 feet, and has just
struck a bed of oyster shells.
Elson X. Rockwell. convicted of the
murder of James Wainwright, was taken
to the Trenton penitentiary N Monday,
still protesting his innocence.
Jacob Shoemaker, a brakeman on the
Delaware River Railroad, had his arm
shattered by having it caught between two
freight cars at Pennsgroye on Monday.
Pennsgrove talks of building an Episco-
palian church. At present, Methodism has
full sway i'll the community, there being
three churches of that faith i'll the town.
4 gentleman named Gibbs, of Trenton,
has leased an acre of ground at Somers'
Point Tor the purpose of establishing a dog
kennel. He has engaged " experienced
trainers.
Mr.. +. w. Newlin, editor of the MlEeilie
Republican, has accepted an invitation to
deliver an address before the Church Ex-
tension Society of the \. J. Conference, at
New Brunswick.
Rev. g. w. Thomson, Of Asbury, War
rem county. has received a call from the
Clayton Presbyterian Church, to take the
passionate made vacant by the resignation of
Rev. j. DeHart Bruen.
An old Vineland weather prophet fore
casts " a snow storm in March deeper than
auy we have had yet this season and accom-
panied by heavy wind. There will also be
two now storms in April.
Alex. ii. Sharp, formerly prosecutor of
the pleas. of Atlantic county, is charged
with raising a check for 50 to 5000, and of
obtaining money on the same. A warrant
has been issued for his arrest.
Alfred Avis. of Gloucester City, who
was thrown from his wagon and injured
by coming in contact with distractions in
front OF the Gloucester City NJ. f. Church,
has entered salt against the church for $780,
000 damages.
The Hebrew colony at Nineland has been
a failure. Forty of the settlers deserted
last week and went TO Philadelphia and
New York in search of work. 1t is pre-
sumed that when spring opens the rest will
leave in a body.
A hawk, with a bell strapped around his
neck. was caught in a steel-trap. one day
recently. near Pedricktown. On the bell
was inscribed the name of l.. Perry, Athol,
Mass. 1t had been heard in the n%eighbor-
hood for several months past.
The United Brethren in Christ. a large
and influential denomination of Pennsyl-
vania. has purchased a tract of land on the
ocean front, at Cape May Point. and will
soon begin the erection of buildings for al
annual religious gathering there.
Quinton has a curiosity in the sha pc
Of a well from which warm water
is pumped. Ii is located in the window
glass factory. and it is supposed that the
water from the springs feeding the well
passes under the furnaces and is thus heat
ed.
The hog cholera which was so fatal in
many sections last fall, took SO hogs and 30
pigs from Mr.. Beckett, who resides on the
road between Mullica Hill and Sw~edesboro.
He succeeded in saving 6 hogs and ) pigs,
however. which he slaughtered on the 3rd,
inst.
Franklin Lightcap, of Bridgeton, had his
hotel license taken from him by the City
Council for selling liquor to a minor. The
case vas taken to the Supreme Court, which
decided that under its charter the Bridge
ton Council had the right to revoke the
license.
Judge John w. Westcott, of Camden,
has commenced suit against the Camden
and Atlantic Railroad Company to recover
$50. 900 damages for the killing of Con-
duetor Smith in the Pixies Peak disaster
last June. The suit is brought by the
administrator of the estate.
Franklin Jones, of Gloucester City, has
received the contract from the Millville
Improvement Co. for the erection of a
large hotel at Ocean City. The building
is to be fifty-two feet wide and seventy
two in length, containing f~orty-ive rooms.
Mr.. Jones will work next week.
The gill fishermen of Gloucester county
have appointed a committee to go TO
Trenton to oppose the passage of Senator
Cochrane's bill which prohibits shad fish
ing in the Delaware from Saturday morn
ing until Monday morning. They claim
that these are the best days in the week
for catching shad.
Quite a number of Cape May county
oystermen are going TO quit the business.
They claim there has been nothing made
at it during the past few years on account
of the severe winters which they have to