The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27
NEWS.

The wife of Sullivan. the pugilist. has
applied for a divorce,
The question of prohibition seems to be
the ruling topic at county elections in Geor-
gia.
The number of farmers in State Legisla-
lures is said to be decreasing from year to
year.
Mr.. St. John is taking a trip through
the South. lie was at Chattanooga on
Sunday.
The seniors of the original Peak Bell
ringers are reported to be in Syracuse, n.
Y, dependent upon public charity.
Hon. Thomas II. Dudley, writing from
New Orleans Exposition, pronounees it as
badly managed. and as a whole very poor.
Twenty ear loads of fireworks for the in
auguration festivities on the night of March
4th have arrived in Washington, and more
are on the way.
Three futile attempts We're made to hang
John Lee, for murder, at Exeter, England,
on Monday. He was then respited, and
sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Prohibition is evidently much sought for
by the business men of Athens, Ga, sixty
seven firms there having declared their in
tention of closing on election day and work
ing for it.
Mr.. Ingersoll, of note as an atheist and as
a lawyer, has been challenged by 4 Mr..
MchIillel. of the town of Oskaloosa, Iowa,
TO a Joint discussion in Chicago OF various
theological matters.
President Arthur, it is stated, will re-
main i'll Washington for several days after
March 4th, as the guest of Secretary Ere
linghuyscn. He will then take possession
of his residence in New York City.
While Il large, partly hollow tree was be-
ing made into tirewood, near Gallon. Ohio,
on Saturday, the sawyers were Mortified to
find that they had cut off the head from a
mans body. \ search revealed in the hol-
low of the log, the body of the man, $500
is supposed that the man got into the tree
to hide. and. being unable to get out. stary-
ed to death.
The General Agent of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has written to the
Health Officer of Philadelphia. stating that
in several instances baggage masters, on
their trains. have contracted serious sick
ness by inhaling the fumes arising from
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fastened. In view of this fact and of the
expected importation of contagious dis
eases from abroad during the coming sum
mer, he suggests that the Board of Health
gatory on the part of physicians and under
takers that no corpse of which death re-
suited from contagious disease of any
kind be offered for transportation, and
that any other corpse be accompanied not
only by a physicians certificate showing
the cause of death, but by one from the
Health Department, permitting its re-
moval by train, and that all collins OF
cases carrying corpses for transportation
by rail be Theoretically sealed"
Philadelphia has had almost an epidemic
of fire. Following hard ON the terrible en-
lamity of burning the insane department o
Blockley aims house, came a destructive
confiagration which swept away nearly
: third of a block at 2d and Chestnut streets
; Then came fires at 9TH and Market and a
half a dozen ether places in different part
, of the city. But the most terrible anC
heart-rending took place ON Saturday morn
ing at 10th and Pine. The details of thi
, fire. which started from hot ashes placed il
the cellar and which resulted in the loss o
; five lives are extremely sad. They wer
, compelled to flee to the upper stories to es
t cape the flames, but there was no trap doc
to let them ont upon the roof. Women cas-
} themselves upon the pavement to escape be
( ing burned alive. Mrs. King jumped Wit
: her babe; the latter was killed, but the fol
mer will survive the shock. Her HUSBAND
persisted in the flames.