The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-08-31

Rev. VIM. A. Allen, former pastor of
the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
here, preached to the people of his late
charge morning and evening of last Sun
day.
Whatever the prospect for a tomato crop
may be in other parts of the county, it be-
gins to dawn on the minds of the tomato
growers in the neighborhood Of Pennsville
that there cannot possibly be an average
crop this year again, as there is not a good
stand of plants and a very short setting.
Bassett d Fogg, of the Pennsville can
ming factory, did a little packing last week
and will run more than half the time per-
haps of this week. We believe that not
w~ithstanding the large acreage contracted
by them with the farmers here, their pack
will not exceed that oflast year. We were
told by one of their growers but a day or
two since, who has in four acres, that he
would not get two tons from the whole
patch this season. This patch is on a good
farm, and the land seemingly well adapted
to the production Of tomatoes.
There seems as yet to be little or no talk
around about us here respecting a question
of great importance which must be decided
on the 4th of next month. OF course we
allude to the Local Option, or County OPP
ton election on that date, which is to de-
eide whether we shall have licensed houses
for the sale of intoxicants in this county or
not. We presume there will be no trouble
about getting out the voters who favor IL
cense; the trouble will be, we fear, to get
out those who would vote against license
if they should go to the polls. 1t seems to
us that if the friends of sobriety and good
order, or of moral reformation if you
please, i'll any direction, would be as ac-
tive in efforts to advance their cause as
their enemies are to oppose it, the result
would often be more satisfactory.
The cyclone and its fearful work is a
subject much talked about, especially by
those who witnessed some of the freaks it
played and the havoc it wrought. We
hear in our day of man Harvesting the ele-
ments and subjecting them to his will and
use. We would like to have seen any man
attempt to harness the one-we do not
know its gender, we do know that it was
not neutral however, for neutrals never act
that way, except in cases of rebellion
that passed over this way last Tuesday af-
ernoon a week ago. 1t was a black horse
that could not be harnessed, and travelled
in a chariot of wind. Strange was the
course of this demon Of the air as well as
the awfulness of its work. After doing
SucH mlSculeI III JHe Vicinity 0I Inning
ton it seems TO nave turned southwark and
gone down the river to near the mouth of
Salem creek when it made a short turn and
went eastward and the first object it found
on this course was the brick works near
the creek, which it demolished in a twink
ling, and about the same time took a boat
from a man who was cunning and carried
it to some place where it had not been
found at last accounts. The occupant of
the boat took the precaution to vacate it
when he saw the angry cloud making to-
ward him and betook himself to the wild
grass and reeds along the bank and cover
ing himself up with them he grasped the
roots of the reeds and held on until the cy-
clone had passed over. On this rather
eastern course it seems to have travelled
until it reached the neighborhood Of Sharp
town where its fury seems to nave been
spent. The track of the cyclone proper
was not more than a quarter of a mile in
width when it passed over the PENIS Neck
eauseway. 1t had power enough just after
crossing the causewaY in its fearful sweep
for Warrington to take the posts of a
board fence which ran parallel with the
course of the cy-ea-lone up ont of the
ground as though they had been extracted
by leverage power. i.