Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-12-14

of the National Guard of this State
will be effected during the Winter, the
regiments and battalions being consoli-
dated into fewer regiments and that
younger officers will be placed in COM
mand.
Some of the Burlington bloods lifted
a number of badges and relics from
| the Hope Hose house, on Sunday.
This is very small business and the
articles we hope will be returned as
they were highly priced by the members
of No. 2.
Look well to your chimneys and see
that they are tight and in good order.
This is the season Of the year when the
fires are pushed and as there seems
now to be an epidemic of fires all over
the country, it behooves everybody to
be careful.
Legislation will be asked for. to
protect grocerymen from bad customers
at the next session of the State Legis-
lature. People who do not pay their
grocery bills are being black-listed
throughout the State. This class of
dead beats must 60.
Farmers say unless there are heavy
and lasting SHOWS this winter the wheat
crop will be greatly injured The sur
face Of the ground is literally covered
with water, and if this freezes it will
inevitably ruin the young shoots unless
they are protected by snow.
The cunning season in New Jersey
closes on Saturday After this week
persons who shoot quail, pheasants,
woodcock, rabbits, English snipe, up
land Or grass plover, reed birds, rail
birds or marsh hens, will be liable to
penalties of from S. to 500.
A recent invention in which farmers
will be interested is a machine for
husking corn. The cornstalks are fed
through the machine, butts first, as fast
as one man can handle them. The
stalks are cut and crushed by the ma
chine and the corn delivered into a
wagon.
Annie E., wife of Edward Martin,
who has been i'll for long time, died
at her late residence corner of Laurel
and Putnam streets, ON Monday morn
ing, at 1890 o'clock. The funeral
took place on Thursday afternoon, and
was largely attended by relatives and
friends Of the family.
Those who are bashful when out in
company will be glad to know that it
is no longer "the proper thing" to serve
celery in high glass vessel, from which
it is next to impossible to take a single
stalk without pulling a dozen pieces
out, and scattering them into the other
dishes. 1t is now served in a long
shallow dish
An elderly lady who had a ticket
for Dudley on the Burlington County
Branch, P. r. R., got on the wrong
train on Sunday evening, at Camden,
and seemed to be in a great state of
anxiety. Mr.. and Mrs. t. Birkhead,
of this city, who were on the train took
the lady to their home and sent her
away rejoicing the next morning.
The tickets for the sixteenth ami
versary Of Co. H, formerly Co. F, this
city, next Monday evening, in Odd
Fellows Hall, have been sent out. The
programme sof dances comprising
twenty in number have been printed
at this office. Fogarty's orchestra with
an increase of instrumentalists will
furnish the music for the dancing.
George w. Minard, brother of Mrs.
William Vansciver, of this city, a
prominent Burlington groceryman is
mysteriously missing He left home
on Monday last to go to Lambertville
to collect money for a cargo ofpotatoes,
and has not been seen since. He is a
man of correct habits and has no bust
ness troubles. His family fear foul
play.
Any West Point cadet who violates
the law against cigarette smoking is
obliged to pace back and forth, rain
or shine, for twelve hours, with a
musket on his shoulder. A little of
that sort of medicine would prove a
blessing to host of spindle-shanked,
hollow-eyed youth who are hurrying
themselves into untimely graves by the
vile habit.
When you wish to discontinue your
subscription to newspaper ask the
publisher to send you a statement Of
your account, on the receipt of which,
remit the amount due, and say, obs
continue my paper from date" There
is right and wrong way Of doing
everything, and the right way to dis
continue newspaper subscription is as
above noted.
On Friday evening as officers Fish
and Humphreys were patrolling tn
town, their attention was attracted by
the sound of pistol shots. Upon inves-
tigation, they found Julius White
amusing himself by shooting at a rab-
bit on the lot between Broad street
and Spruce along the railroad. Julius
was taken before the Mayor who re-
primanded him for shooting in the
city limits and kept the pistol.
In good beef from well-fed bullock
there are to be seen threads Of fat run
ming everywhere through the lean. Bad
meat is fabby, weaty and sodden; its
fat looks like jelly, and is spotted here
and there with little hemorrhage points.
The fat should be white ; if yellow,
it is an indication that the animal was
old The color Of the lean should be
a rich red, somewhat darker in an old
animal and pale in a younger one.
Patrick Jordan, father-in-law. of
Chas. Marter, of this city, met with a
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