Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-12-21

ball at the Rink on the evening of
January 9th. The committee Of ar
engagements have secured good music
for the dancing and expect to make
this event surpass anything of like
nature ever held here Tickets so
cents, admitting ladies and gentlemen.
Reule Kiple, employed by coal
dealer Huff, jumped from a coal car
to coal shute below last Monday and
broke through and was covered up
with a large quantity of heavy plank
ing. He was taken out stunned and
badly bruised, but recovered in a short
time. He fell distance Of about six
teen feet.
The Sunday school Of the Beverly
Presbyterian Church, will hold their
Christmas exercise on Friday evening,
December q. Three donations this
year will be given the "Home for
Friendless Children in Camden-a
very worthy object. so remember them
literally in the collection on the even
| ing of their entertainment
Prof. Elmore gave an entertainment
in Odd Fellows Hall, last Friday
evening, to small audience in which
he gave feats of magic, mesmerism,
ETC., and showed the "Black Art" as
performed 1900 years ago. He did
not repeat the entertainment on Satur-
day evening, as announced, owing to
the fact that he could not secure an
audience.
The Burlington Gazette well says
The wisdom Of adjourning from time
to time the sale of those properties that
are delinquent in the payment of city
taxes for 1888 is doubted by some who
are familiar with the "long winded"
fellows There are some who don't
propose to pay the tax until they have
to, and the repeated adjournments suit
them exactly.
A gang of burglars who tried to rob
the house of John Egan, at Moores-
town, met with a warm reception.
Egan was away at the time, but his
wife, an attractive young woman with
an abundance of pluck, seized a shot
gun and banged away at the thieves,
who hurriedly took flight with lot of
fowls they had previously secured and
loaded in wagon.
Prisoners who pleaded guilty were
sentenced at Mount Holly Thursday as
follows: Edgar Van Allen, grand lar
ceny, eight months in the State prison;
Joseph Baxter, entering and stealing,
seven months William Nixon, colored
stealing chickens, eight months in the
county jail Robert Wilson, stealing
chickens, one year in the State prison
Robert Cam, larceny, eight months.
For some time past complaint has
been made by neighbors of the mis-
doings at Robert Wilson's house on
Laurel street, above the Odd Fellows
Hall. On last Friday evening, Officer
Fish made raid and captured
young man, named Smith who ran up
stairs on the entrance of the officer.
He was given the choice to be locked
up or leave the premises which he
hastily did.
Last Saturday evening there was
little family quarrel at Stiles, on War
rem street, below Laurel, and Mrs.
Stiles cried murder. Officers Fish and
Swift, on going to the house soon re-
stored quiet, the hege lord desiring
protection, from his wife who threaten
ed to do him bodily harm. The off
GERS advised him to leave town and
keep away from the house until the
affair had blown over, and peace reign
ed serene.
The public school law now in force
in this State provides that the use Of
profane language by any pupil shall
constitute good cause for expulsion
from schools; also that any pupils who
shall cut, deface or injure school houses,
fences or outbuildings thereof are liable
to suspension and punishment, and the
parents of such pupils shall be liable
for damages for the amount of injury,
on complaint by the teacher, the
amount to be determined by the direc-
tors and collected by the court.
Startling stories were circulated and
published last week that Miss Carrie
Fort, of Burlington, was dying from
the effects of a spiders bite. Friends
and relatives focked to that city, fear
ing the young lady would not be alive
when they got there. One person from
Beverly was very much surprised,
when she reached the house, to see the
door opened by Miss Fort. The only
foundation for the story appeared to
be the fact that a week or two before a
spider had slightly bitten the young
lady.
Correspondents do not seem to prop
erly understand the rule that anony-
nous communications are not recOg-
nized in newspaper offices. One
received this week is we'll worthy of
insertion, but has no name attached to
it, so that we do not know with whom
we are in correspondence. The writer
can choose any name under which to
appear in print, but it is only proper
that the newspaper proprietor who is
responsible for all that appears in the
columns Of his paper should know the
author
One night last week at 11.30 o'clock
the attention Of David Champion was
called to a fire on Beverly wharf. On
going to the place he found lot of
barrels, boxes, etc, had been piled up
and set on fire. He threw six of the
burning barrels into the river and
went to his home and procured a
shovel and smothered the fire with
dirt. 1t is supposed that it was the
work Of mischievious persons to bring
ont the fire comnanies The Darties