The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-12-21


PIeasantvIle has voted to Incorporate the
town as a borough.
1t is reported that an electric light station
viii be erected between Clayton ana GIass-
b0ro, fer the purpose Of furnishing liSht to
both towns
Atlantic City Council has after all passed m
ordinance granting the Pehhsylvania Railroad
Company the privilege OF constructing an eIec-
trlc railway on Atlantic avenue.
Waller sharp. assistant drill master in the
West Jersey Railroad yards. at Bridgeton. was
on NedneSddy run over by q train while coup
ling cars and had both legs cut OF.
Several slight fires occurred in Bridgeton on
sunday, one al the residence OF stephen Coz,
Il third at Charles t. Dares drug store.
The Main Road post ofice, near Nineiand, is
in confusion. The postmaster, MI. Ferguson,
refuses to give up the Office to Mr.. Cummings,
who has received the new commission for
postmaster.
The oyster crop along the bay shores of Cape
May has been 50 great ii failure this year that
many men Whe have been engaged in the bus
iness VIII not risk another year, bat seek other
employment.
state Dair. Commissioner Newton made Il
oomuiafut Lssf8re Justice Riley. at Bridgeton.
on Wednesday. charging james b. Clark, OF
MiIlYi1le, with selling lard adulterated with
cottou-seed oil. lie IS 70 have a hearing to-
day.
Miss Kate MCGOWAN, a teacher in the Bridge
ton Pnblic school, has been appointed to a
cierkship in The Pension Departments at Wash
ington, at a salary of $3.50 Il year. Miss Nc
C0wan passed q successful examination last
Winter under the rules Of the civil service.
The walls of the new Enamel Cloth Factory,
ia course Of erection, at south Bridgeton, were
felied by The storm on Monday night. one
wall was - feet high by 20 feet long, and the
other was 30 by 30 feet. This is the second
time the walls hive been blown down. They
are ia an exposed position on a bluff OF the
creek.
The officers of the Nineland Fair Association
are receiving stock subscriptions Tor the pur-
chase Of permanent grounds, erection Of fence
and Buildings, and the construction OF Il race
track. The aggregate amount Of stock is not
to exceed $4,000. Citizens OF Cumberland,
salem. Gloucester and Atlantic counties viii
be eligible rs member aud stockholders.
Thomas Thomas, q charcoal burner, warned
the Camden and Atlantic Railroad tIainmeno of
the wreck above AbseeJn on Ihursd1Y night,
While saved IL from destruction. The train
men raised SIS among them and the twenty
HssengeIS contributed S1 more for Thomas.
He had run from Doughty's station 10
Pomona. almost three miles, and caught the
train rs il was pulling out.
Asseu1lyman-elect T. ". Trenchard. Of
Biidgeton, has just won a suit in the Atlantic
| County Courts Tor the recovery Of $ij7. 50 from
William Weisman, Il young Russian jew.
W eisman built q booth on the board walk ut
| Atlantic City, on tho property OF Il resident
under special conditions, Ringing upon his
securing Il license for the sale OF 'soft drinks"
ana corrections. He did not get the license
and sued to recover money expended.
The Cape May County Courts opened on
Tuesday, Judge Reed presiding. The Grand
jury found four true bills of indictment as
follows: Jane :. Wilson, breaking and enter
ing: Antonio aud Frank N.tnicks, assault and
battery, aud Joseph Barber, burglary. 4 non
suit was granted In the case OF Herbert W. Ed
MINDS, administrator Of benjamin Peterson,
deceased, who was killed on the road at sea-
vile, and for which a suit for damages had
been instituted.
The West jersey Railroad Compun is to in
crease the facilities for handling It's freight
traffic at Woodbury., by constructing two long
SidinGs and Il Y, at the junction OF the Swedes-
boro road with the main line, in the southern
part OF the town The work of grading has
been commenced. The yard room at the sta
tion has long been insufficient for the rapidly
increasing freight business of the company,
causing much Inconvenience and extra work
in moving freight cars.