The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-03-09

Judge Garrison's judicial district has not
yet been assigned him.
A new daily newspaper, it is said, will
be started in Woodbury..
There are twelve hundred colored peo-
pie in Gloucester county.
A new Masonic Lodge will be instituted
in Pennsgroye this month.
The petit Jurors for the April term Of
Gloucester county courts have been drawn.
The Sea Breeze House in Cumberland
county will be run as a temperance house
the coming season, it is said
Surrogate Harrison Livefmore, Of Glou-
cester county, has been announced as a can
didate for the Republican nomination for
Congress in the First District
Governor Green on Wednesday decided
to appoint Joseph Carter Lay Judge of
Gloucester county in the place of Judge
Miller, whose term has expired.
Judge Alfred Reed, of the Supreme
Court, whose new circuit will probably in
clnde Gloucester county, is reported to be
looking for residence in Woodbury..
Osceola Lodge, t. O. ofO. E., of Swedes-
boro, has decided to furnish a room in
the Odd Fellows Home at-Trenton, and
a committee has been appointed for that
purpose.
4 woman at Shiloh lately endured a
painful surgical operation which lasted an
hour and half, and the sufferer took
nothing to render her iDsensible to the pain
of the operation.
Building prospects are already beginning
to brighten up at Pitman Grove, and the
Camp Meeting Association looks forward
to still larger number of season" resi-
dents this year than in any previous year.
Counsel for George Nee. Durham.
awaiting sentence OF death in the Glouces-
ter County Prison, on Tuesday filed a
petition containing over 800 signatures
asking for a Communication of the death SEN
tence TO imprisonment for life
Jas. 7. Long, the celebrated Guide of
Gettysburg, will give his celebrated Illus
trated lecture Of the Battlefield of Gettys-
burg in the town hall, Mullica Hill, on
Saturday, March nth, at o'clock, p NJ.
Tickets for sale on evening of entertain
ment. Reserved seats. 80 cts, general
admission 90 cts, children under ~ yrs,
10 cts Proceeds for the benefit of JAS. 8.
Stratton Post, No. 80, G. A. II.
Active measures are being taken to es-
tablish bank in Mullica Hill. Last Fri.
day afternoons the Vice President and
Cashier of the Merchants Bank, of
Atlantic City, met number of represen-
tative men in the w. G.. L. I. hall for the
purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of establishing a branch of the
Atlantic City bank there. After a salts
factory explanation and mutual discussion
of the project, it was unanimously decid-
ed that the bank be established just as soon
as suitable building can be procured.
On Thursday morning of last week 4
pair of horses belonging to Joseph Peter
son ran away and one OF the animals was
severely injured. In company with John
Craver and his sons who had two teams,
all we're driving down Cedar Lane, near
Monroeville, Craver's wagon being some
distance ahead of Peterson's. Craver and
Peterson were walking together behind the
| wagon of the latter when his horses sud-
den ly started on run. They struck one
of Craver's horses, knocking him sense
less and pitching the driver into the
fence Overtaking a load of logs the ami
mails sprang upon the logs and then lay
suspended clear of the ground until taken
off. One of the horses was badly wounded
In getting off it got wedged between the
hind wheel and front standard aud had to
be pried out.