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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20
MATE NEWS.

The Grand Lodge, X. of p, of New Jer-
sey convened in Trenton this week.
Seventy per cent. of the undergraduates
of Princeton College are church members.
The financial affairs of Chatham, VI orris
county. are being investigated at the re-
quest of prominent citizens of both politi-
cal parties
About half of the schools in Jersey City
were closed ON Wednesday of last week.
owing to an insufiiciency of coal.
Two IIammonton girls have now over
one thousand chickens Matched out, and
are still running three incubators.
Mrs. Wright, widow of the late State
and dollars insurance on Mr.. Wright's life.
A summer hotel, 400 feet long and four
stories high, with a tower 125 feet high, is
to be erected on Washington Rock. Middle
sex county.
Hope, in Warren County, is undergoing
a religious revival. Among the CONVEX
siolS II IIdb VI H. w Ituudl'. tHt httItl
of the village hotel.
1t has been decided to erect signal sta
tons between Burlington and Camden, on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and use the
block system for running trains.
William $. Taylor, of Burlington. has
disposed of his valuable herd of forty-two
registered Jersey cattle to a gentleman
from the Blue Grass region of Kentucky.
Congressman VIM. McAdoo. of the Sew
enth district of this State. and Miss Lee
Tardy, of L%ynchburg, We're married at
Bonair. Va. "Wednesday afternoon of last
week.
Burlington is 10 Introduce the electric
light if the merchants and manufacturers
will subscribe for thirty lights. The
Brush Company is making a canvass of
the city.
The February term of the New Jersey
Supreme Court commenced at Trenton on
Tuesday. The list OF cases set down for
hearing is not lengthy. comprising hut
thirty-three.
Colonel :. Meredith Dickinson, Assist
ant .Adjutant General, has been detailed by
Governor Albeit to represent the State at
the dedication of the Washington Monu-
ment tomorrow.
\ Temperance Reform Club has been or
gained in Freehold. the result of the Ma
bee and English meetings. The ladies
have also formed a W. G.. r. t.. with Mrs.
James ). Yard as president.
Captain Soper. one of the oldest seamen
in New Jersey. died at his home on Fourth
street, Jersey City, Monday. He com
manded several vessels during the war.
He wa, seyenty-two years old.
Elmer Day, an employee of a iewclry
box manufacturer OF Philadelphia. and a
resident of Ifaddonfield, used a trunk in
his bedroom for a saving bank, and on
Sunday night it was riied Of 5000. The
thief entered the room while Mr.. Day and
his brother were asleep.
Drs. Miller and Dyer. of the State Veter-
mary Board, recently visited the farm of a
man named Rhodes. between IIaddonfield
and Mt. Ephraim, and inoculated his herd
of forty-two cattle. \ short time before
three ows had died of pleuro-pneumonia,
deaths.
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died.

BECKETT.-Near Elmer, on the lath inst,
William Beckett, in his 10Th year,
WHITE.-In Huntington. on the It'll inst,
Matthew White, colored. aged about - Years.
MIDDLEToN.-In PauIsboro. on the 9th
nit, Anna Mariuh Middleton. aged 50 wears.
S~TETsER.-In Paulsboro, on the 6th inst.
John %stetser, aged 81 years.
HUESENBECk.-Af Five Points. on the 10Th
inst, Alfred IIuesenbeck, aged II years.
WELDE.-In Paulsboro. on the 18th inst.
John Welde. aged "a years.
D~ENNIS.-In salem, on the 18th inst, RAJ
chel Dennis, in her 18th year.
COOk.-At the residence of Daniel Mead. in
N0lu-iu Co. Florida. Ol the 10Th inst. John
Cook. aged Il years and i months.
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Alcohol and Digestion.

have learned purely by experimental
observation that in its action on the living
body. this chemical substance, alcohol, de-
ranges the constitution of blood: unduly
excites the heart and respiration: para
lives tie minute blood vessels: increases
and decreases. according to the degree of
its application, the function of the digest
i've organs. of the liver and of the kidneys;
disturbs the regularity of nervous action:
lowers the animal temperature. and lessons
the muscular power. 1t will be asked:
WAS there no evidence of any useful SER
vice rendered by the agent i'll the midst of
so much obvious evidence of bad service?"
| answer to that question that there was
no such evidence whatever. and there is
lone. 1t has been urged. as a last kind of
III and excuse. that alcohol aids di-
gestion. and SO far is useful. | support. in
reply, the statement of the late DR.. Cheyne
that nothing more effectively hinders di-
gestion than alcohol. That many hours,
and even a whole night, after a debauch in
wine it is common enough to reject Il part
or the whole of a dinner undigested." |
hold that those who abstain from alcohol
have the best digestion: and that more in
stances of indigestion. OF flatulency, of
acidity. and ofdepression of mind and body
are produced by alcohol than by any other
single cause.-Dr. b. ". Richardson.
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-.AIcohOI Is Not IN Food"

So says the best medical authority. 1T
does not supply salts, albumen, caseine,
fbrin, nor any of the substances which 90
to build up the body. 1t is not changed
in the body. 1t goes in as alcohol, and is
eliminated as alcohol. 1t therefore cannot
be a food. On the contrary it is under all
circumstances a poison, a poison whose eff
fects are cumulative. II taken continually
even in small doses, it produces decay and
leads to paralysis, and tends toward
DEATH
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NEWS.

The price of certain kinds of lockwood
has increased considerably in consequence
of the roller skating craze.
The Legislature of Texas has passed al
act compelling the heads of firms to give
at least half their clerical positions to
women.
The lower house of the Michigan Legis-
lature agreed on Tuesday to a Constitu-
tional amendment prohibiting the liquor
traffic.
Francis \. DreXel. the head of the great
banking firm of that name, and probably
the richest man in Philadelphia, died in
that city on last Friday.
The managers of the National Temper
ance Society have adopted a memorial ask
ing President Cleveland to exclude intox-
icating beverages from the White House.
y fire broke out at No. 125 Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, yesterday morning
and destroyed property estimated at one
million dollars. Two men were killed.
me llldiidHtlN vi TIE NV oIICdllS J4A-
position have announced that. the display
being now complete, they appeal to the
press of the country to lend the enterprise
their aid.
W dshington post-otficc sold last year
1914 worth of drop-Ietter stamps for valen-
tines. This year the sales reached nearly
$500. Congressman get a large proportion
of the missiveS.
Robert G. Winthrop'S Grafton. to be
spoken by Representative Long at the ded-
ication of the Washington monument, to-
morrow. is So fully rounded that an hour
and 4 half will be taken up in its delivery.
At a meeting Of WholeSale liquor dealers
to appoint a committee to prepare and pre-
sent to the Legislature ii protest against
any further laws that will tend to embar-
rass the trade.
The Insane Department of the Philadel-
phia .AlmslIouse was burned last Thursday
night week. 1t was very destructive oflife.
as many of the most violent patients were
locked in cells and could not be rescued.
Twenty dead bodies have been recovered
from the ruins. 1t is generally believed
that the list will not exceed that number.
Mondays storm of wind and rain was
severe along the Atlantic coast and did
great damage from Virginia northward.
In New York City, cellars and streets
were flooded, signs and shutters blown
down. and glass windows broken. Five
persons were injured. two perhaps NOR
tally, 10y accidents resulting from the high
wind.
1t was said that the tide in the Delaware
river on Monday was the highest known for
eight years. The kaighn's Point ferry
house was flooded, and the ferry boats
stopped running for a time during the
afternoon. \ part of the Eighth Ward of
Camden was submerged. Portions of the
Camden. Gloucester and Mt. Ephraim
Railroad were covered with water, and no
trains were run in the afternoon. In
Philadelphia Delaware avenue WAS flooded
from Callowhill street almost to Chestnut.
In some places the water entered the first
floor of stores. In the Arch Street House
the water flooded the basement and put
out the fires in the range.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20

1t was no longer ago thar the ides of
November that certain Republican Sena-
tors cursed st. John and the Prohibition
party roundly. They would never support
another Prohibition measure. Yet these
same Senators yesterday meekly voted for
tue very bill 81. John championed, and by
which he defeated James G.. Blaine. These
Senators must have left their baekbones
home on the piano.-Trenton Times.
They evidently had their consciences
and manliness with them at Trenton. how
better than backbone, especially when the
backbone is of the mnliSh pattern.
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M
FMLLAnELrmA. February Is. lssl

This selling Guinet black
silk for three-quarters is a
puzzler. It is puzzler. All
Philadelphia is wondering
what it means. The mer-
chants are wondering, not
what it means, but how it is
done. Ask them. Go over
to New York-ask merchants
there. The black-silk trade
IN this city is mostly suspen-
ded. [Of course it ISN'T
stopped in New York-they
don't see Philadelphia adver-
tlsements over there.
We couldn't have picked
out a stuff, or any sort of
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20

A newspaper was received at the Wash
ington post office last week bearing the
following address: For an honest Con-
gresslnan. if there are any. If not, to
John 4. Logan. May be he is honest
The paper was sent to Mr.. Logan. 1t con-
tanned a marked article en- the sanctity of
the ballot box, and was delivered to Sen
ator Logan without hesitation.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20

That lively and successful daily, the Cam
den Post, does us proud by referring to tie
MONITOR as the most perfect. typograph-
ically. and one Of the best GIFTED OF the
South Jersey press" We are trying to do
the best we know how. brother.
Demorest's illustrated Monthly Maya
zine for March opens with q capital article,
"A Visit to the New Orleans Exposition, >
which is profusely illustrated. The serial,
"a Strange Girl, is continued, and Sal
vator Rosa, in Hans Makart's Studio, >
THE Women of Tennyson' Poems, " "'The
Genesis Of Names, : Business Methods for
Women by Jenny June, and ''From the
Pencil to the Brush are all articles of
sterling merit. The practical nature of
this admirable publication makes it very
acceptable i'll the household. This number,
among other illustrations, has a fine oil
picture Of Spring"
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God Bless Our Cause.

God bless are sacred cause!
We plead for righteous laws.
Our homes to shield.
our land has suffered long.
From an accursed wrong,
Whose roots are deep and strong,
Nor do they yield.
We plead. but all in vain:
The peoples deep-felt phi.
Finds no redress
This deadly pas tree
spreads ont. despite our plea,
And plants its roOtlets Free:
To our distress.
The men we've placed in trust
Who should be true and just
Our laws 10 make.
DO. at their party's word,
Deny our plea, unheard
Nor by our prayers are stirred.
Its power TO break.
NOW let the people come,
And vote for God and home.
And temperance laws.
Wen be no more deceived;
our land must be retrieved,
And from this curse relieved!
God bless II causet
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20

Major SCOTS success in the West mas
captured the kansans. They have ae-
tuallv adopted him; and ON the force of
his logic and strength Of his argument.
with his keen incisive like rapieI
thrllsts. the Press of that State call him
the ..KansaS Blizzard.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20

The Bridgeton Etenf"g Nets is one of
the ~livelicst and most %enterprisins dailies
of South Jersey. and is reaching a snrPriS-
mo circulation. Well deserved, too.
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eNdClly TIC SdiliC W SCii AOiiy
Tree muslin below the cost
of making it; except that
nobody knew anything about
Holly Tree muslin.
1t was a stirring enough
event to sell those cloths of
Iupin's below the wholesale
price. [By the way, they
are gone. But Lupin makes
4 great many cloths and his
fame doesn't rest on any one
Of them-while Guinetmakes
nothing but silk and all his
fame has come from silk.
When we sell two Lupin
cloths below the wholesale
price, we only touch a
triAing part of his product.
When we sell Guinet black
silk below, we sweep the
breadth of the market as far
as we reach.
Why sell Holly Tree
muslin so? To introduce it.
To advertise it. To quickly
force attention to a stuff you
ought to know about. To
conquer a market.
Why sell Lupin's dress
stuffs so? Because we could
stir up trade by the means,
do nobody harm, and scatter
twenty-thousand yards Of
Lupin's splendidstu ff among
people who commonly buy
a lower grade. Surely
nobody is going to complain
of that.
Why sell Guinet silk SO?
Do you really want to know?
For some reason, trade in
silk is slow to change its
channels. We want five
times as much as we've got.
We don't see any reason
why this store shouldn't be
the first one to think of,
whenever silk comes into
the thoughts Of everybody
within trading distance. So
we make you think of it
think of it and silk together
think Of it, of silk and of
Sa0lmg IS or $40 on the silk
fer a single dress by 6uyzng'
u here.
If we were only selling 4
ton or two of Guinet black
silk at three-quarters to
gather trade, and meant to
make up our losses now by
extra profits by and by
thas would be one thing.
That isn't our way; or, if il
is, we haven't got 10 it yet.
Guinet sos black silk
for SI.25 and s. for $3.50:
guaranteed to wear as we'll
as the average of Guinet
black silk, And you will
never see the time when we
shall be above the lowest
market.
We want the trade and
that's the whole of it.
southwest from the center.
Dollar ladies cloth ofabout
fifty colors and mixtures for
seventy-hve cents a yard
56-inch; S4.5o for an average
dress. And that is just as
big an event as Guinet for
three-quarters; Just as big.
OF Guinet the dollar quality
IS gone already the 75-cent
quality is only 10 cents off;
the o5-cent quality 20 cents
of; the S quality SIPS off;
some of the higher qualities
not SO much off. OF this
dollarladies'- cloth
IS rs cents. About fifty
ladies' may each have a dress
OF 1t, no two of a color.
southeast from the center.
More of those oo-cent
black armures and serges
Tor so cents-the figures, 90
and 50, tell the whole story
a dozen styles; about AZ
inch.
Southeast from the center.
Little-check dress-atuffs.
half wool (and good woody.
Tor ~ cents a yard. The
wholesale price is FL cents.
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Why don't some legislator introduce a
bill aboiishin. imprisonment Tor debt
Similar measures are before other Lesisla-
lures and the matter is one Of public inter-
est. It's a first-rate topic for debate
Trenton Time.
Don't the Times know that imprison-
ment for debt has been abolished in this
State fer years and years? 1t is only in
cases where fraud is clearly established on
the part Of a debtor that the creditor can
rake the carcass. The honest debtor
need not fear Imprisonment. The dishon-
est one must take his chances along with
the other violators ot law.
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woopsrowx. FRIDAY, FEnnr,n 20, 1855.

When you see this paragraph marked
wifi am \ ii indicates that your subscrip-
ton expires with the number in which it IS
50 marked. The paper will he continued
TO Your address for a few following num-
beers until YOU have had an opportunity to
notify us. if you have not already done So,
whether or not you desire to renew.
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liz Has MeddIed with Me.

Liquor dealers wish to be let alone.
But their business lets nobody alone.
They scatter fircbrands, arrows, and death.
They dig pits for unwary feet. They make
havoc of home and hopes. They divide
friends, destroy families and desolate
households.
said ex-senator Mcrrimau of North Car
Dina. as reported: Il have never meddled
with l.quor, have never drank it. have
hardly kept it as medicine in my family:
and yet it has meddled with mr.. has made
my boy Il wandering v~agabond. has broken
my wife heart: yes. when | was asleep.
thinking him at home in the house. he was
being made a drdnkard in the barrooms
of Raleigh,"
Is it not time for everybody to meddle
with such a business as this? When
men set themselves ut work Systematically
to decoy, debauch, and degrade the Young.
the ignorant, and the unwary. is it not time
that all lovers of truth and righteousness
arise and witness and work against those
who thus fatten on the ruin of their kind ?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20

Neal Dow is 0 convinced that the en-
nifty to prohibition comes from the moder-
ate drinkers. Hard drinkers are all anx-
ions for the closing of the grog shops. as a
relief from temptation.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20

The SoVtb J~er,eymoa. mistaking our little
breeze with the M%illville Republican for a
free fight. takes a hand in and as
suines the position of referee, awarding us
the floor in parliamentary phrase. doubt
less picked up during long periods Of hang
ing around the Legislative Halls, waiting
for Clerkships that never came. We take
the floor long enough to say that this is
none of the Jfsegman's funeral. When
Bro. smiths services As master of cere-
monies are needed. he will doubtless be in
formed. Till then. it is impertinence on
his part to assume the place.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20

senator Grigg had a whack at the prohi-
bition amendment bill on its final passage
in the Senate. He said that the senators
were insincere in voting for it, as the same
end could he attained hy a simple bill.
The senator's point is not we'll taken. 1t is
within the power of the Legislature to pass
a %prohibitory law, and it is equally within
the power of the next Legislature to knock
it into smithercens. whether the people de
sire it or not. So important a measure
should not be left exposed to such a
chance until it has had a fair trial, 1t may
b. urged that the people can elect a leg
stature that will not repeal the law. but
in the election of our law makers there are
SO many other questions of partisanship
and local prejudiceS and projects involved
that Prohibition would not get the fair
show to which it is entitled. II is better
that any vote taken where this question is
involved should be taken oa the merits of
the question alone.
BY q constitutional amendment the peo-
pie have an opportunity to declare their
wish on the subject without party or other
preiudices to influence them. and when
once adopted it cannot he tempered with
except by the consent of the people. cx-
pressed i'll like manner. after a sufficiently
long time has elapsed to give the measure
a fairtrial. For this reason, among others.
we are in favor of constitutional rather
than legislative prohibition. The state Of
Maine, after many years of prohibitory
law, clinched the matter last year by a
constitutional amendment. The above is
commended to the careful and prayerful
consideration Of the usually level-headed
Trenton Times, which seems to he quite
carried away with senator Grigg's logic.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-20

In commenting npon a paragraph in tie
Millyille Liepabljcan a week or two since
ia which something the MoNIToR had pre-
yiously said was distorted TO say something
We didn't say or think. we spoke of the
writer of the paragraph aforesaid as a de
Seendant OF Ananias. using the term in a
purely Pickwickian sense and in a i%ocnlar
mot iugular) vein. In return for which,
for we can conceive no other provocation.
the Rfpa5licoa ~flatter> us as follows:
We had supposed the Woodstown MoNI-
TOR was edited by a gentleman. but as it
is evident that We were mistaken. and that
a blackguard does the writing. We have
nothing further to say 10 tue MONITOR.
Now we don't care what the Rep"bhr0b
calls us il only it don t rall Ms too late for
dinner. but it grieyes lis that Our ncigibor
should have taken offcnse where none was
intended. and we hope the veil of silence,
which he has so abruptly dropped between
rs. may be torn away. so to speak. and that
matters may resume the primcyal condi-
tion of their former rcctitude.
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If the Republican majority in the Legis-
lature passes the prohibitory amendment
bill il will not be in any Difference to the
sentiments of the st. John people. If they
gave them their Just dues, the Republicans
would defeat anything they wanted
Camdea C0art,r.
The It. John people, il we know any
thing about it. care very little about the
Republican maiority's Difference to their
sentiments. What they want is that the
Republican majority and the Democratic
minority should do what is right. Legis-
lation is i sacred trust. not to be used for
party vengeance by defeating everything
the other fellows want. but in behalf of.
and for the best interest, OF, the whole peo-
pie. We believe the Prohibitory amend
ment to be right in principle and would
like To see the Republican majority sacri-
flee it, psrtisanship to its patriotism
long enough 10 pass it. So that the people
may nave an opportunity t. speak their
mind on the question. on its merits. IN
hampercd by any question of partisan pol
tiles.
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DUN
Men who will be True to our Country and Homes.
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OIR PLEDGE:

OUN ILAIFONM:
Total Abstinence for the Individual, and Constitutional Prohibition for
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-10-21
Notes by the Way.

Don't fail to read Miss Siler's and Mr..
Whisners letters and find out what Union
can do when it sets it's mind and heart to it..
A Sad letter from our State Superintend-
ent of Evangelistic Work, who has been
compelled by sickness in her family, and
failing health to resign-fills our own heart
with sorrow and sympathy-sorrow that we
must give up so faithful worker and SYM
pathy for the burdens she bears.
And yet her faith rises triumphant in the
exclamation az know my Heavenly Father
called me to this work and even now, He is
leading me in His own way"
Mrs. Buell. writes us: my return to New
York from West Virginia was without Incl
dent, but l have been working day
and night to get ready for the Connecticut
Convention which passed a splendid resolu-
ton. The idea of the resolution was tax en-
from the one passed at Charleston"
We have received a very tasteful program
of the Las Vegas, New Mexico w. c. T. U.
Convention, held in the Presbyterian Church
of that City, Sept. 23d and oath.
Mrs. P .E.Collins was the Presiding officer
Mrs M. Shields of Colorado delivered an
address,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-10-21
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 81, 1885.
Remember the Appointments.

Rev. w. P. Walker, will speak
under the auspices of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, at
the following points:
Willow Island, Tuesday, October
9th; St. Mary's, Wednesday, Oct.
28th; sistersville, Thursday, Oct.
29th; New Martinsville, Friday,
Oct. 30th; Williamstown, Saturday
Oct. 31st; Parkersburg, Monday,
Nov. End; Clarksburg, Tuesday,
Nov. 3rd.
Rev, J. W, Garter will preach in
Huntington, on Sabbath, Nov.
LIST, on, Temperance from a Moral
and Religious standpoint, on Mon
day, he will discuss it as Political
Measure.