The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-04-03
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gan on Monday.
Red Bank refuses TO raise money for tile
purpose of teaching music III the public
schools.
Ii is stated that there are Ga places in
Burlington where liquor can be bought,
and only 2s of them licensed.
From Trenton southwark the Delaware
is now free from ice, except in places along
the shore and banks. and navigation is
again open.
Isaiah Smith Hyatt, Of Newark. who as
sisted his brother. J. W. Hyatt, to perfect
the invention of eelluloid. died at Eden, on
the Indian river. Florida. on March Is.
Zion Church. ofiIaekensack. has adopted
a novel way Of raising funds. y wedding
is to be held in the church To witness
which an admission fee of p cents for each
couple will be charged. children 10 cents.
Since the passage Of the act e%xempting
the English sparrow from the protection OF
the bird law. We understand that the III
rectors of The Moorestown Agricultural
Society have decided upon offering a re-
ward for the largest number o. heads OF
English sparrowS killed in Camden and
Burlington counties and exhibited at the
forthcoming strawberry exhibition, to he
held in june.
The Common Council of Newark. New
Jersey. passed resolutions ON Monday favor
Ing the transfer Of the State capital to
Newark and requesting the Commissioners
having charge of the Clinton Hill property
10 decd the same to the State for one dollar
as a site for the State House. y committee
was also appointed to cooperate with the
Board of Trade and the Citizens Commit
tee in securing the removal of the capital
to Newark.
The Hon. John Hill Memorial Fund Com
mittee. recently i'll session ri Dover. this
state. reported s541.S1 in hand, and adopted
a design for the monument, offered by Mr..
II. II. Davis. of MorriStown. 1t will he OF
Quincy granite. with a base of four feet
two inches, and a height of twenty feet.
The monument will be erected at III early
day in the cemetery in Boomton, and the mn
yelling CEREMONIES will probably be held
sometime in the raonth of June.
Bishop Walden, of the Newark Confer
in Nyack, saturday, while examining six
candidates for ordination as deacons. sud
denly said. i will nov ask a most impor-
tant question: 10 yuti solemnIy promise to
abstain from the use eftebaccoa' Applause
and laughter drowned the candidates re-
sponse>. The Bishop continued; We
want men with clean hearts, rican hands
and clean mouths to preach Gods word
A burst of applause approved that >cnti-
menf.
Anna Hunt Nanderyer, a 1+-ycar-old
daughter of David \. Nanderyer. a farm
er of Monmouth county. eloped with a
farm hand, James Mccormick. on Sunday
night. The couple drove to Trenton ami
were married. \ cousin of the bridc who
arrived a few minutes after the marriage
attempted to part the couple, but the
young bride refused to leave her husbands
side. The cousin then had them both ar
rested for. alleged Illegal marriage. The
girl went to prison with her %newly-nlade
husband.
Wilfried lIankinson, the adopted SON Of
Risdon IIankinson, living near Mt. Holly,
was leading a thoroughbred Devon bull to
the watering trough one night last week,
when the animal turned on him, and break
ing the iron rod attached To the rim. in his
nose, forced the young man against the
stable and literally pounded hin to i jelly.
one Of the hills horns striking him in the
eye and entering the brain. lie died soon
afterwards. Persons that rashcd Ia his
assistance were put 10 flight by the infuri
atcd bull.
The Annual Sunday school report for
New Jersey for 1881 las recently been
published. 1t contains the constitution Of
the association, names Of the officers, etc.
Mr.. :. W. Clark. corresponding secretary.
reports 4 loss Of - schools. and of 1903
scholars joining the church. as compared
with the preceding year. The gains are:
Schools reporting, "A: open the entire
year. %: teachers. sl3: officers, PCS: schol-
ars. 26.S,4: adults. 1860: average attend
ance, OBJ. The amount Of benevolent
contributions has decreased *i91. 30i.
Thomas Stevens. who has travelled from
San Francisco to Boston on a bicycle. will
sail from New York on April o. on the
City of Chicago. and will try to go around
the world. using his bicycle as much as
possible. He expects to wheel from Liver
pool to Dover, cross the straits to Calais.
wheel to Paris. through France and Ger
mary 10 Vienna, through Austria. and via
the valley OF the Danube to -C0nstantinoplc
cross over to Asiatic Turkey. wheel to
Persia, where Inc expects To reach Tcileran
some time in the fall. He says he will
winter al that city or at Boklara. Turkc-
stan. He hopes To resume his journey
early in the spring. lie says he will wheel
into the Chinese empire. and attempt
to 60 through the empire via the valley
of the Yang-Tse-k iang. After crossing
the Chinese Empire he will proceed to
Japan. and there end his wheel ride. hay-
Ing made the entire land journey around
the world on a bicycle. He expects it viii