The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29
Just Over the county Lines.

j. II. Paullin, of Hurffyille, has sold
SPOT worth from an acre ofcabbage.
Cumberland county Prohibition;sts will
hold their convention on September 10th.
Charles Justice purchased the Ephraim
Waters property a~tSwedesboro at Sherif's
sale last week.
Blood-poisoning from a rusty nail in his
foot may cause the death of S-year-old
Charles Dick, near Bridgetor.
William d. Hustled, a farmer near
Bridgeton, is suffering excruciatingly with
a hand which a calf bit. The member is
swollen aud gives great pain.
Nine dozen black-b i rds in five shots was
the alleged cunning achievement of George
Moore, of Bridgeton, on Saturday.
Falling forty feet from a chute to a
wharf at Bridgeton, last week, Ephriam
Pearce, colored, was fatally injured.
Over sixty lots have been rented at Pit
man Grove, chiefly to Philadelpl ians,
upon which cottages for occupancy next
summer will be erected.
Hurff Weatherby, of Swedesboro. has
taken over 81, 800 worth from his citron
patch this season Samuel Longacre on
= 49, HN'h 1H' HPN1 ob6 COZ v
So, 200 worth of sweet potatoes.
The seventeenth annual reunion of the
Twelfth New Jersey Veteran Volunteers
will be held this year at Woodbury., on
Thursday, September 4th. The men al
ways look forward to these reunions with
a great deal of pleasure. Col. w. L. Pot
ter is president of the association.
A number of young men from Bridgeton
assaulted Harry Pierce, a colored man, on
Monday evening, when he struck Henry
Dufield, an 1S-yearold boy, with the
butt of a carriage whip, inficting injuries
which resulted in the death of the young
man within twenty-four hours. The Cor
oner's jury found Pierce guilty, and a
warrant was issued for his arrest, but
when the officers attempted to serve it he
jumped from a second-story window and
escaped.
For a long time Whitney Bros, glass
manufacturers, of Glassboro, have missed
| store goods of every sort and manufac-
tured glassware. A few days ago Detec-
tive III. G. Garrison was secured and as a
result of investigation and watching Win
field Claypool, who has driven a delivery
wagon for the firm for five years, was ar
rested. Close questioning caused him to
confess, and Magistrate Pierce sent him to
Woodbury. jail. In a closet at the stable
was found a large quantity of goods, such
as shoes, hosiery, underwear, hats and
clothing. Stolen beer bottles were traced
to Henry Finger, Jr., a bother near the
city, and be was arrested for receiving
stolen goods.
The next regular meetingofthe Glouces-
ter County Board of Agriculture will be
held in Patrons Hall, Mullica Hill, Mon
day, September LIST, at l O'Clock p. NJ. Re-
ports will be made by committees that
nave made experiments with different fer
t~ilizers, some of them in different ways,
also the result of spraying fruit trees,
the planting of corn, different distances
apart, &c. Franklin Dye, Secretary of
the State Board of Agriculture, will be
present to assist in organizing a Farmers
County Institute to be held at Woodbury.
sometime in November next. A good at
tendance is desired, and farmers are re-
quested to bring with them specimen
products of their farms.