The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-05-21
SOuth Jersey NOtes.

The amount already expended on the new
Gloucester county court house is tesRa
Mayor Dunlap OF Mnvire, his decided to
prohibit the sale of cider without u license
Rev W T. Cornwall has resigned the pastor,
ate OF the Baptist church at Cape May Court
House
Efforts are being made to raise the Stenmer
j lde which was sunk Al tho mouth Of
Cohansey creek.
secretary LLOYD. OF the Cumberland Mutual
Fire Insurance Co., reports a gain in the com
pany's treasury OF s97aS.s5 rom Jan. Isl last 10
May lst.
The Court OF Errors held an i,Il-day session
al Trenton on Monday ON the great railroad
tax cnse, and fixed tomorrow FOR The delivery
ofitS opinion.
At the recent term of Cumberland Courts,
Charles +. Bellows, a druggist OF Biidgcion,
was fined so for selling to boys patent "med
icine'' known as Duny's Malt Whisky.
Cumberland pays lis officers as follows: Col
lector 500; solicitor. so; Clerk, $50; Trustees
of Almshouse, s50each, slice County Physician,
SaN Managers of each Of The draw bridges,
so; Of other bridges, - each
The Cumberland County Board Of Free
holders were short sighted enough 10 order
the annual statement printed in only two OF
the county papers instead OF i've rs heretofore
vineland is left ont altogether.
Revenue inspectors visited all the trains in
Camden county recently for the purpose OF
discovering il the Union News Company had
procured The necessary tobacco licenses tor
the sale of cigars \ license has 10 be procured
for each train
1t is thought thai the si.ts~ sand so billiard :
sand pits. near MnrvilIe, which have proved
sueha bonanza to the owner, is slowly bcingeN-
hausied. II tt,peit was supposed that the
supply would never give ont, many very
rich >tatt',s were opened up
Jumbo, the mammoth Cumberland county
steer, wa slaughtered al Brdgcton last week
Il WIS six years old and weighed alive 500
pounds It required thirty--iS blows of the
axe to fell the animal. The skin on its fore
head was an inch in thickness.
According to the reports from Washington
in regard to lhe custom houses IN the country
which did mol pay during 1856 il appears that
III Ggeat Egg ilarbor the receipts were SLIGO
and the expenditures sssl2, making if eosi ~ 80
to collect 81 At Little Egg Harder it vas still
worse thu cost Of collecting ~ being s5.42
The excursion business ut Atlantic City l. 10
be contracted IN advertisement in the Phila-
delphia Ledgtg gives notice that the flying
horses, swings. etc, with the engine aud boiler
and the 5e.00i bricks in one of the excursion
houses at That place, TO be disposed al by
auction. This means that the " est Jersey EX,
cursion House il 10 hc abolished ana ME,
cottages erected on the site, and that ali
excursion trains viii hereafter be run 10 The
old sea view Excursion House. The general
opinion Al Atlantic City Is said 20 be one OF
qualification over this change
TIM animal muster and Inspection Of tho
sixth Regiment Of New Jersey took place al
Woodbury. Park on Monday and attracted
several thousand spectators. The strength OF
the various companies MAS ~ follows; Com
pslny s. u nen and 3 officers; Company u. 1.
men and officers; Company e, 81 men 'uid :
| officers; Company o. a men, Officers; Com
pstny Z. men and officers: Company
q men aud 3 officers; Company II, 81 men ans
S officers, Company n, 10 men and officers
rhese, together with the field stan and ieind
brought The total siaengthaftlie regiment fots
men,