The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-07-13
soutn Jersey Notes.

The capacity OF the hotels and boarding
houses OF Atlantic City Is not less than $4,000.
Bible agent who appeared at West Creek
recently with his stock in trade left town with
a liveryman's horse and buggy.
Cape May County is as~ainagitating the pro
ject Of securing a big appropriation from Con
gress for a channel from Atlantic City 10 Cape
May.
Charles Allen, a Woodbury. tailor. who
drank benzine instead of whisky in a milk
punch about three months ago died on Tues
daya williamstown.
4 syndicate of four builders has bought part
of the Davis property, on the west side OF
Woodbury., and will at once erect 100 dwelling
houses npon the tract.
The new Woodbury. Athletic Association
has been donated a lot of ground by G.. G.
Green at the rear OF his residence 1t will be
laid ont for field sports.
The gailows upon which Dunbar was hang
ed at Woodbury. has been shipped to Freehold
by james Van Hise, of Newark, 10 be used in
the execution of kearney next week.
The body of George Hudson smith, who was
killed on the Vest Jersey Railroad, below Pit
man Grove last week, was claimed by his
brother, Albert smith, on Wednesday and
taken to Trenton.
The completed artesiln we'll of the Con-
sumers Water Co., at Atlantic City, is now
sending out a large stream of water TO the
street besides that used by consumers. The
well is 1900 feet in depth, and an inch pine
permits a flow of 1000 gallons per minute.
The Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and
Telephone Company succeeded on sunday in
laying a new cable, containing 81 conductors,
between ~Eidgway Park and Philadelphia. The
new cable, il is stated, will greatly improve
the service between New Jersey and Phila-
delphia-
Marked improvements are being made at
seweu,j just below Wenonah, on the West Jer-
sey Railroad. \ new and ornamental freight
house Is under roof, a handsome brick struc-
ture viii be erected on the site of the old pas
senser depot and the grounds OF the station
VIII be made TO conform to the grounds of The
Woodbury. and Wenonah stations.
rhe Camden County Board OF FreehoIders
on Wednesday authorized the solicitor, in con
junction with the Prosecutor of the Pleas, 10
secure bail for the four Witnesses in the Day
murder case, who have been confined in the
county jail since the murder. The Court
House Committee reported hat the daily eX-
penses for keeping these witnesses Is $40. -,
which would amount 10 about $500 by NoVeni-
Der, when the trial will probably take place.
One of the sensations OF the past week was
the reported elopement Of Mrs. samuel sharp,
from the residence OF her husband near Wood
bury with n farm hand named JOIN GiIIn.
Mrs. Sharp is said to have taken along with
hera good many of the household goods and
deposited them with her mother, who lives in
Camden, where they now are. Gillin made
good his escape and has not since been heard
from.
}. +. johnson, of Miliviile, with his wife,
son and daughter and two grandchildren,
started in 4 carriage on Monday week to go TO
Bridgeton ON "A visit. Mr.. johnson and his
son lighted cigars ana were smoking content
eddy when Mrs. Johnson complained that she
felt fire about her feet, and investigation
showed that the laprobe had been set on fire.
In an instant Mrs. Johnson's clothing wa.
ablaze, and only BY tearing il from her was
she saved from being burned TO death, As il
was she was seriously injured. All the ether
enlBe OF the party we're more or less
burned, but not seriously.