The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-13

slight Illness that has confined him to the
house.
One Of our Woodstown ladies has a
witch-haZel bush in her yard which is now
in bloom.
The rumor that Charles S. Plummer, of
Pedricktown, had made an assignment, is
totally mnfounded.
Howard Woolman has sold lis property
on Main street, opposite the Auburn road,
to William c. Davis.
A party of fourteen gunners from around
Woodstown bagged A. rabbits on the
lands in the vicinity of S. Jackson Morgan's
farm on Wednesday.
Mrs. Ann Lippincott, of Warrington,
will move into cur Borough in the spring,
and occupy the house where Lippincott
Coles now resides.
On Thursday of last week, Maurice. son
of Ephraim Jess, living on Mil street, was
run over by a wagon and his collar bone
and one rib were fractured.
Milton p. Pierce, secretary of the Carp
Cultural Association, is constructing fish
ponds for cultivation of carp ON the Jen-
nings farm, above Swedesboro.
All exchange says tl!hl 1t lOiutt HUNS
paper placed under the coat in the small of
the back is an excellent substitute for an
oyereoat. Now is the time to subscribe.
Overseer of Roads, John G. Borton, is
opening and grading the new street from
Main street to the railroad, and Street
Commissioner Hewitt is crawling Broad
street.
While cunning for rabbits, the other day,
John Colbert, OF Mantua. was shot in the
leg below the knee, by the accidental dis
charge of a companions gun. The wound
viii not result seriously.
The Masonic Lodge room in Borton's
Building is undergoing a thorough removal
ton at tho hands OF Thomas While. Fresh
paint, caieimine ana frescoing, add much
to the beauty Of the room.
W. p. Lippincott now has his horse clip
per i'll operation at Fox's livery stables
and our readers who have horses they de
sire clipped may have it done by an exper-
fenced hand by calling ON Mr.. Lippincott.
Turkeys should not be confined to be
fatted until abolt ten days before they are
to be sold. They will gaiii rapidly in flesh
for about ten days but afterthat time they
begin to lose flesh, owing to becoming rest
less and uneasy from confinement.
Invitations are out for the marriage of
Miss Sarah Alderman, of Woodstown.
daughter Of John r. Alderman, to William
Sellers, Of Philadelphia. The ceremony
will take place Thursday. November 10Th,
in the Memorial Baptist church, Broad and
Master streets, Philadelphia.
While sinking a well in Swedesboro last
week John Powell met with a serious acct
dent, caused by a brick being dislodged
which struck Powell on the head. He was
taken from the we'll in an unconscious con-
dition and il was found that he had receiy-
ed a horrible cnt ON the head.
The Philadelphia Nelc8, that model OF
modern journalism, will shortly commence
the issue Of a weekly edition. The sub
scription price will be 80 cents a year, but
our readers will be credited with a years
subscription to the MONITOR and receive
theA6ms for one year for s1.35.
The hog cholera is slowly working its
way into our neiglborhood. Josiah Jor-
dan. living on tie road to Auburn, has
lost 10 hogs from it and his neighbor, Mr..
Featherer, has lost about %. Edwin W.
Lippincott, living in the same n%eighbor-
hood. had one of his best ones to die from
the same disease yesterday.
Charles r. Burt and Samuel Dean, Jr.,
living near Wing Lane. are now engaged
in the fattcning of ducks for market.
Messrs. Burt and Dean received by freight
last week, from Ohio, over 800 Of these
fowls. which, together with those already
on hand. makes over 600 ''quacks' o
being fattened. 1t is said that this
is very profitable business il conducted
properly.
The suggestion contained in the follow
ing may be of value to farmers and others:
Last fall, a man at Clyde, N. Y, had a
number of stumps which he wished to
remove. He bored holes in them, in
serted saltpetre. filled up with water, and
then plugged the holes. \ month ago he
took ont the plugs, poured in kerosene oil
and set it on fire. The stumps have
smoldered away without blazing, and now
there is nothing left of them but ashes.
Eggs are advancing and promise To be
higher. If there are any Of our readers
who clear their coffee with eggs, and find
it too expensive, they can relieve them
selves of a material part of the cost by us
ing American isinglass. \ very small bit
of it will clear as much coffee rs the white
of an erg. and the cost is not more than
one-tenth. Ii isipglasS is used, only q
small quantity should be used, or the cof-
fee viii have a fishy taste. The cetfee will
be perfectly clear by the use of so small Q
quantity Of the isinglass that its presence
viii not be detected by the taste,