The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-08-27
south serSeJ Notes.

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hi commission a. Collector of The Port Of
Eridecion. lie viii enter upon his duiies sep
icmber isf-
Harding Richardson, the expert left neld
man in the Detroit base ball elun, Is a Dlouces-
tel coumtian having been born in Clalksboro-
lie makes about =. J10a year
Key. william Pntinger. OF iIaddonheld, with
a party OF eighteen cIergymen of various de
nominations, has gone on a bicycle tonr OF
Si miles through New York.
Mr.. \. T.. ballard, wife OF Rev. \. +. Bai-
lard, President OF the Pitman Grove Camp
Meeting 4 ISOLATION, died at ocean Grove on
Monday night Of consumption
On single branch Ola tomato vine raised
on the tlrln at Mark b.. Gippineott, al Wood
bury. there were four tomatoes weighing ia
the aggregate. four pounds and one ounce
samuel ". scmple. chief Clerk under
United sintrs internal Revenue Collector
Thomas NJ. ferren. has resigned his position,
hv "r-qnesi, it is aaia, Of his hyperion oiiieer.
The Prohihitioni-fs Of cape May county on
Tuesday nominated X. +. Thomas Tor Assem-
bly,, and Benjamin " Gilman Tor sheriff. Gen
eraI FISK, the Prehibiiionists candidate for
Governor. addressed The Convention.
Lorenzo sharp. a. aged and prominent
citizen OF Bridect0n, died suddenly on THe--
day while sitting in his chair. lie had been
very feeble or some time, but Ms death WAS
not expected.
The Getsinger Glass Company, OF Bridgeten,
will not start mp lis large lower windowlight
factory the coming season, ana Will only run
the upper works. This will drive away anum-
her OF gIassblowers. The outlook for the glass
trade in Brtdgoton i not cheerful.
Bridgeton hoy wagered that he could eat
two dozen bananas, ana was masticating his
twentythird When his fears were 50 worked
upon by the party OF the second part telling
him what direfnl effects might result from
eating too many, that he desisied and lost the
bet.
superintendent Dayton. Of the West Jersey
ana Camden ana Atlantic Railroads, has com
pleted hi- investigation OF the accident AT Ber-
lin on sunday night ana submitted it 10 the
General Manager. The employees OF The road in
both accidents have been suspended awaiting
the decision Of the latter.
\ number al prominent Camden Prohihi-
tionists met al The Temperance Gezeae hail,
at that place on Tuesday night, ana organized
n Fisk Club. The meeting was largely attend
ed and much interest taken in The proceed
| ings. Jas. Freeman WAS elected President and
John nindrich. secretary.
ON THURSDAY evening OF last week Mis-. ;. J.
{. Downs. state president OF the W. {. 4. l.,
organized a Young Woman'= Christian Tenn
perance Union, in Camden, which meets every
Thursday evening in The Reformed Mems
Home, on Chesnut street. Mrs. Downs made a
stirring ana impressive address which WAS
very encouraging to the young people and
older ones a. well.
The Paulsboro correspondent Of the Liberal
Prc4s Gays that I.enj. Wright has a vegetable
curiosity ia the shape oil an egg plant bearing
tomatoes. Many have been to see This queer
hybrid. il being "a Thing never heard of before.
though tomatoes ana egg plants are constant
Is grown side 10y side in fields. In The same
patch OF egg plants are spots that are notice
able. some of the fruit being nearly white aud
some green. instead al the usual dark purple
Contrary 10 expectation travet tn the shore
showed no falling on saturday. and The rail
road omciai- OF Camden termed The day
another big saturday ON The West Jersey
Road l2a carloads OF passengers were taken to
Atlantic City, ana 20 to Cape May. The Camden
ana Atlantic Railroad carried e%ighy-nine car
loads OF people to Atlantic City, while trayeI
by The Philadelphia ana Atlantic city road
was unusually heavy.
\ Camden, man has invented and j. having
built an ocean tricycle.. Ii viii be made en-
tircly OF lion and steel. except a small plat
FORM where The operators Will stand. The
wheels viii he eight feet in diameter, ana viii
he worked 10y levers from the platform.
which viii he lwentY-scvcn feet from the
ground. The idea Is to run this machine out
to stranded vessels when they lie in not
over twenty feet deep. The inventor says that
three miles q hour c.n he made with the
tricycle..
Two collision, took place GA the camden ana
Atlantic Railroad ON sunday. The nr-t took
place near Ancolst aboui halIpa-i o'clock IN
the morning, between the excursion train
from Camden ana an extra returning from
Atlantic city. 1t Is claimed that the excursion
tram was running foHr minutes ahead of Time
ana that had il been on time it would have
given The extra train plenty OF time 10 have
reached ana run on the witch Al Aucara.
Neither The conductor OF engineer nj fhc eE-
cur-Ion knew Of The extra until thry plunged
into it. They certainly should have had Orders
to look out Tor extra At Ancora where il va 10
be passed. Nohody was killed, but ,iNor seven
were severely injured. The second collision
took place at Berlin "a few miuHte before II
O'Clock on sunday night, between a train Of
empty couche= returning TO Atlantic city ana
un excursion train bound Ion Philadelphia.
It was owing to a den-r fog which prevailed
at The time, preventing the engineer nnIn see
ing the signal 10 stop at Berlin ana allow The
trains t pas. several rer-nn- werc slightly
injured. hut none seriously.