The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-09-28

Twelve of the seventeen patent ballot
boxes in Gloucester county arc out Of
order.
j. II. Mounce, of Mullica Hill, isputting
in a new trunk from the race to the mill
that will cost him 500.
Mrs. Isabella Spence, of Swedesboro, has
just received a back pension Of $f599.3 3,
with 312 a month hereafter.
The farmers around Hustled station are
complaining of their potatoes rottIng in
the ground on account Of so much wet
weather.
f. i. Vandersloot, of Swedesboro, has
been appointed by the Grand Castle Of the
Knights of the Golden Eagle, as grand in
structor for this district.
A number of the farmers in the neigh
borhood of Unionville are shipping toma-
toes to a Bridgeton canning house for five
dollars a ton at the station.
The cornerstone of Woodbury's $50, 600
M. L. church, for which William II. KEN
BILE, of Philadelphia, donated the ground
and a large portion of the work and
material, will be laid on October 18th.
W. T. Hassinger moved his family ard
drug store from Mullica Hill to Maryland
on Wednesday. For thirteen years Mullica
Hill has been favored with a irst-class
drug store, and now to do without one,
will be an inconvenience that will be felt
by the entire community.
The farmers in Cedarville who raised the
yellow tomatoes from seed purchased Of
G.. F. Dare, Bridgeton, who in turn pur-
chased them of Peter Henderson e Co.,
made complaint to Mr.. Dare whereupon he
went to New York to see il he could get
restitution. Last week a gentleman sent
by the firm visited Cedaryille, and after
getting men to appraise the crops, paid the
farmers for their loss.
The special committee appointed by the
Gloucester county Board of Freeholders to
make an investigation into the matter OF
building a County Insane Asylum report
that they have visited the Camden County
Asylum, obtained figures as to the cost OF
| building and running the institution, and
have come to the conclusion that Gloucester
county could save money by having its
| own asylum. The committee will make a
written report and have it published.
Benjamin Tuft, the reputed proprietor
of an alleged quart saloon" known as the
"Whistling Buoy" on the outskirts OF
Bridgeton, has, with William Getz, John
Nolan and John McQaigg, been placed un-
der bail for trial charged with keeping a
disorderly house and selling liquor with
out a license. Another arrest was made
on Wednesday in the person Of Gottlieb
Stahrer, proprietor of the punch Bowl"
He was committed to Jail for a hearing.
Pitman Grove people are still talking
about a marriage that took place there last
week. Mr.. Charles String, a retired farm
err, of S%tringtown, formerly Wing Lane,
who has passed the Scriptnral three-score
years and ten, was united to Mrs. III. i.
| Stehr, of Pitnan Grove. The ceremony
was performed at Mrs. Stehr's cottage, Al
Fourth avenue, by Rev. W. II. Zane, of
Glassboro. The bride and groom were the
recipients of hearty congratulations from
the Pitman Grove people.
Four Republican railway mail agents Oh
| South Jersey lines have been dismissed and
Democrats appointed to their positions.
The dismissed officials are George Whit
ney, of Cape May, who for eight years
handled the mail on trains from that place
to Philadelphia; VIM. Apologize, fifteen
years in the service, who made the oppo-
site run from Philadelphia to Cape May;
Charles Wilkinson, for twelve years agent
on trains from Philadelphia to Atlantic
City; and David Blew, train agent from
Philadelphia to B~ridgeton for the past five
wears.