The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-24

culated.
Woodstown was selected as the place at
which the nezt meeting shall be held, on
the fourth Wednesday in April.
An SSH Anniversary. and some Re-
Elections.
''The young" said a w~ell-known writer
once, always look ahead and revel in the
promises Of the future. They build air
castles OF towering height and invest them
with the charms of their own fertile i'm
agining." On the other hand the aged
and very old live largely on the past, and
with imagination dead and memary play
ing them false, how can it well be other
wise? Tie old are constantly reminiscent,
standing with hand to the shaded brow
looking, looking back over fields strewn
with the dead hopes and dead companions
of their years. They see landmarks here
and there that no one else sees. The
school boy days, the school boy dead, the
happy marriage days, the happy married
home, and snent the same home despoiled
by the grim messenger death. Financial
prosperity and financial ruin, friendships
made and friendships broken, and 30 with
alternate sunshine aud shadow coming and
going till at length life itself becomes a
| SudlA IN Cilpty iiiVChtIl. L y . we'll AOt
those who are but early travellers on tho
dusty highway of life, now and then to
turn aside to a shady nook and hear the
plant of the way-worn and aged and live
with them. If but a short time, in tie mem
cries OF the past-dead memories though
they be.
With this view and for this purpose a
large number of the relatives and Invited
friends of David Shimp, Sr., met at his
home at Friesburg Oh Wednesday last,
22d inst, to make merry with him his
SSth natal anniversary. Lightweight is
but a brief time in the history of q nation
or the duration of an empire, but an ex-
| ceedingly long time when measured by the
brief span of a single life. When Mr..
Shimp first saw the light Of day this re-.
public was quite young. The revolution
airy war had been closed but a few years
and Washington and the most of his COM
peers were still living or but lately dead.
Jefferson, the third from Washington, was
President of the United States, presiding
over a population of perhaps less that b.
00Q, 900 souls. Salem county, the home of
Mr. shrimp at that time, contained a pop
~ulation of but 1f,371 against $3.50 for
Cumberland county, the number of in
habitants at Salem and Bridgeton being
nearly equal. or about 500. Emanuel's
Lutheran church at Friesburg and the
Baptist church at Mil Hollow Salem
had each q brief history at this time, but
the West Presbyterian brick ut Bridgeton,
the first In the city, was not then COM
plete, and shrimp was quite q stripping
before the first Salem county almshouse
was finished on the site of the one 0
standing near Sharptown. When at about
tho q oaFrooct h0vs ROM MONICA cohao1 now.
adays the new road from Salem to l~suintor
and Greenwich and so on to Maurice rivel
was being laid out, and he vas fully six.
teen years Of age before the first steam.
boat piled the Salem creek en- route fol
Philadelphia, and nearly ''out of his teens
before there was either a Methodist OF
Baptist church at A~llowaystown. Not
until some years succeeding his minority
had the last Indian left the State, and
negro slaves were held throughout the
State within his recollection. The first
glass works started il Bridgeton were
operated but a single year previous to his
birth, and the Liberty Pole opposite the
Cumberland County Court House was
used as a whipping post for at least a year
after bis birth. The officials vino presided
over this county at about that time were,
Sheriff, Samuel S. James; Clerk, Edward
Burroughs: Surrogate, Arts Seagrave:
Collector, Abner Beasley. Thomas Thomp-
son was director of Board of Chosen Free
holders, Jacob Iiufty member of Assem-.
bly,, and ]. G. Shinn Senator, Of course
these are long since dead, and all, perhaps
with a very few exceptions, have passed
out of memory. So,
our life is a dream; our time, MS a stream,
GIides swiftly away,
And the fugitive moment refuses to stay.
The arrow is fown-the moment is gonei
The millennial year
Rashes on to onr view and steFnityis hele
At this pleasant reunion many congrat-
nlations were passed, many expressions o.
gratitude spoken, and the wish fervently
expressed that the aged host might live tc
enjoy many recurring birthday anniver-
saries.