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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-07
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CLARk.-In Salem, Feb. lst, Hannah S.
Clark wife of Joshua +. Clark, in her 10th
year
WATSON-In Salem, Jan. 18th Mary, wife of
Henry Watson ana daughter of Catherine and
the late Francis Reinfried, aged 81 years.
HILLMAN-In Elsinboro, Jan. Goth, David
L., son of George C.. and Sallie A. Hillman, ag-
cd l3 years and = months.
R~OBINSON-In Salem, jan. 3tth, William
Robinson, ST.. aged "a years, 8 months ana IL
days.
HIGGINS-In Salem, Jan. 30th, William j.,
son of W m. j Higgins, in his lith year.
WALKER-In Salem. Jan. 18th, David Il.
Walker, in his 3sth year.
DANCE-In Warrington, Jan. p, Sidney,
son of CheIsa and Ada Dance, in his ga year.
HOMAN.-In Swedesboro, on Jan. Both, Free
ling Homan, aged 50 years.
kIItBY-At Eldridgeis Hill, Jan. 3Ist, Jacob
Kirby. aged 81 years and seven months.
STRATTON-Feb. I'd, at the residence of her
nephew, Hon. b. +. Howey, Delaware Water
Gap, Frances Stratton, daughter of DR.. James
Stratton, formerly of Swedesboro, in the SSth
year of her age.
McALLIsTEk-Near %Sharptown, February
LIST, james McAllister, Jr., aged about 40 years.
SHEPPARD-In Bridgeton, Feb. 5th, John
W. Sheppard, aged 80 years.
WEISGERBER-In Alloway, January 30th,
Oceana H., only child of Otto and Rose Wcis-
gerber, aged 8 months.
SAYEUS-In Wo~odstown, Feb. It'll, Jerc-
miah Sayers, aged 81 years.
The relatives and friends are invited to at
tend the funeral from his late residence on
Monday, Feb. 10th, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, without
urther notice. Services at the house, inter-
ment at Pittsgrove.
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Legislative matters at the National

Legislative matters at the National
Capital have been somewhat chaotic the
past week or two.
Speaker Reed insists on counting the
votes of those present "a sufficient number
to constitute a quorum) whether voting or
not, and to this the Democrats most en-
phatically object.
The minority of the House term the
ruling of the Speaker a ~despotism pure
and simple, while the Republicans, on the
other hand, look upon the Democrats as
obstructionists who are blocking the
wheels of legislation. So on either side it
is either obstructionists or reyolutionists
as one may see it from his political stand
point.
quite as much to bad politics Con both
Sides as anything else, in which the main
question of right or wrong has dropped
entirely out of sight.
To our mind the persistent and long-eon-
tinued refusal of members of the L.egisla-
ture to vote when in their seats is almost
or quite as revolutionary as the course of
Speaker Reed in holding the custom and
rulings of a hundred years in allegiance
and insisting on a plan of his own The
people, however, are sitting in Judgment
on the question and will be heard from
later.
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sit has been stated that you intended to
apply for "a pension on account of your
fathers services" Yes, / hope to get
something from the government some day,
but they are very slow in Washington"
Mrs. Parpell states cmphatically that
her son has no means of his own; that all
the money given him has been sunk in his
endeavors to resuscitate Irish industrial
enterprises, consequently, although he has
always been an affectiouate and dutiful
son, she expects no assistance from him..
Heretofore he las from time to time as
sisted her, notably a few years ago when
he saved the place from being sold for
taxes.
The concluding paragraph of the article
states that To-day there is in the house
neither fuel nor money and the small sup.
ply of coarse food would not be accepted
by a starving beggar."
If the above story be true it reflects
great discredit on the Irish compatriots of
the great Parliamentary leader, Mr.. Par
nell, who is giving his time and money, sc
said, for the emancipation of Ireland. The
friends of Mr.. Parncll in this country
should see to if, and at once too, that the
last years Of this aged mother be made at
least comfortable and easy.
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VENDUE!
WILL be sold at public sale, on
Tuesday, February IL, 1880,

At the residence of the subscriber. in Upper
Pittsgrove tdwnship, salem county, On the
d mile south d Deans Corner, on the Kirby
farm, late Samael Borton's, the following de-
s' HfioofRasGRss-wsGBaasyAhpo1 Morse npsi good Worker ana extra
driver; ? bay maIes, good for work orsdriying.
very fine bay edst, coming three years old.
ling colts, one sireq by Percheron, the other
sired BY Happy Medium, nnr,5n nm.
of the COWS are fresh mixers, the balance
coming in profit soop: 2 of them are very fine
n ned + so coming Tss two e Ssar sse pld se wlI eo asned IL
the attention Of parties in that Business
breeding SOW, will farrew in March.
WAGONS, &c-Two-horse iron axle heavy
WAGON; i nsar Mgg new a 6nlls by aa %ayon msrSsi
| wagon, for one or two horses, nearly new: ex-
press wagon, in good sorders carriage, with
MACHINERY, &c-Sodd Wood mower, SUI
perior grain drill, nearly new ia frst-class ar
ticle; land roller. made BY Pignm \ Bro, near
marker, good corn sheller5 Haines' make;
gr Rf fan' gGo fM Mhef eMFNTss sc-st wo.norse
p pHpsa S double R'p pioa T faIii SS1 harrow. one-horse
made by Kiger; good gri ~1dstone, hay and
body, mari sides and bottom. ladder. about Is
feetlong; set hay shelvings, "a truck baskets,
lot grain bags, movable hog house.
HARNESS. &c-2 sets heayy work harness,
set one-horse work harness, double carriage
harness; set single carriage harness, 4 sets fly
nets, strap sleigh bells, bridless collars, lines,
&C. 2horse blankets.
MISCELLANEOUS AlsTICLES-Three briar
scythes, moving scythe, grain cradle, forks,
rakes, shoyels, &c, in the usual variety. 4
milk cans, . thirty and 2 twenty quarts; cool
ing tub meal chests, -four chest, fattening
coop, lot of chicken eoops, lot Of boxes, bar
rels, sc. sausage cntter, ice cream freezer,
patent balance, s coy chains, 100 feet of rope,
single and double swingletrees, sc.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS, &c - Parlor stove,
| parlor cook, portable boiler No. 3, cupboard,
for keeping milk; half-dozen windsor chars,
% yards Ingrainf carpet, 2 lard cans, milk
| pans, Western washing machine, and other
articles not enumerated.
Also 10 acres ofwheat in the ground, 8 tons
of good hay, 80 bNshels of largesized potatoes,
Is bushels of seed potatoes, 200 bushels corn.
The above articles are all nearly new and in
good conditions The sale will be positive, as
the subscriberSha has to relinquish the farm
ing business ontaccount of failing health.
CONDITIONS-A credit OF 10 months given.
Interest after 4 months. Notes payable in
bank.
Sale to IN at II O'Clock, A. NJ, sharp.
WIN. w. BANKS.
Jos. M. Weatherby, Auct.
q. W. Hickman, W. II. Dean, Clerks.-l3l-2t
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VENDUE.
WILL be sold at public vendue, on
Seventhrday. I'd Mo. 18th,

SATURDAY, FEB Is, 1897
At E~ldridge's HIN, all the following described
STOCK. Nii~aSfPLiEAIENTs. Ete.I sorrel colt.
coming 3 years OLD, sound and kind, partly
broken; also HappyM edium stallion, logan
sired by Patterson Medium, dam an Ameri-
can Star, 5 years old hast May, 15K hands high,
(when fully developed will stand 1879 hands,,
bright bay, with black points and one white
hind foot. This is a vdSy stylish animal, and
Has trotfed a mile IN lesA than three minutes
to a buggy without trimming. Spar-spring
buggy, express wagon, bRnkets and whip, ?
sets of single harness, fynefs halters, l ton of
hay, lot of straw and corr, boxes, barrels, lad
der, pillow, grabbing hoe, sfbyels, rakes, forks,
drags, axes, shears, rope Zines. grain bags,
curTycomb and brush, bard and vinegar, lot
of wood, cut and split; }ot of chicken coops,
lot of choice hens and rooster,
HOUSEHOLD GOOI5S-2 c6ll stoves, | King
Cabinet range, wood stove, oil stove, clock, :
sofas, extension table, Is fatt long; , other
tables; Howe sewingAn achines4 IN good order;
8 bureaus, 2 washstands. 2 othSr stands, cor
ner cupboard, kitchen cupboard, carpet
sweeper cane-seaEchairs, lot d other chairs,
2 rockers, 4 mirrors, window&hades, goose
feather bed and bedding, 5 bedsfads, rs yards
good rag carpet, Step and hal8 carpet. step
rods, oilcloths, quAting frames, hanging and
other lamps, 2 caIH of lard, S hand and should
ers, lot of cannfd fruit aud sausage, wash
tubs, wringer ana board, f~atirons, soap, tai
low, jugs, can$ -four chest, d%onghtray,
benches, buckeH, meat saw, cieaver, pots,
kettles and pans and a large variety ofdishes.
Sale to commd4 ce at O'Clock, sharp. Con
ditions made klfpwn on day of sale by
GEORGE HORNER.
Agent for Mary a. Kirby.
= The property now occupied by Mary A.
Kirby Is for rent. Applyto
2-72t GEORGE HORNER.
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The prosperity of the MONITOR has new
err been so cheering as now. Every mail
brings us new subscribers who are avail
ing themselves of our book offer. We are
publishing a bright, clean newspaper that
is a welcome visitor in every household.
We print nothing in the scandal line or any
questionable advertisements, and nothing
enters our columns that any member OF the
family ought not read. Our paper is worth
but we give the book away to make new
acquaintance.
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AT HUMPHREYS STORES

Our mark down sale has been so
popular that we shall continue it
till March Ist. At the New
Store under the Opera House you
can get a discount Of ten per cent.
from regular prices on all kinds of
clothing for men. boys and children.
You car get a discount of ten per
cent on every dollar you expend for
ladies, misses or children's shoes,
on all kinds of boots and rubbers
for men and boys. Also or trunks,
hats, caps and furnishing goods.
The entire contents subject to this
reduction.
AT our old stand on the corner
we have marked down nearly all
our dress goods from ten to twenty
five per cent. AL our hosiery down
on the same basis; carpets, floor oil
cloths, all subject to ten per cent.
discount. We have just got home
a good variety of extra-super, all
wool carpets-and ninety cents goes
for a dollar in the purchase of any
thing in this line, and goes for more
than that from the fact that our reg
ular prices are less than the same
goods are sold for in Philadelphia
at retail, and from these low prices
we take a discount of 10 per cent.
If you expect to need any in the
spring, now is the time to buy.
The same discount applies
to blankets, bed comfortables,
and all our winter shawls. We
have marked down all our table
linens and napkins. On hanging
and library lamps one quarter off.
On the goods mostly needed we
have made the greatest reductions.
Appleton A sheeting, best made,
|6I cents. Best makes bleached
muslins at &c to oHc for the best
Best bed ticking marked down rs
per cent. Cog-wheel clothes wiring
ers sI.oS. Cedar tubs at I5ct to $50
apiece less than old prices; new
stock just in. Nearly all our prices
are lowered, though there are ex-
ceptions. Ask those who wait on
you. They'll tell you just what is
changed in price and what is not.
We are headquarters for feathers.
If you have any need in this line,
come and get our prices for them.
All we sell are processed-you have
no trouble with them.
E. B. HUMPHREYS,
Woodstown, N. J..
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When good DR.. Morris 1--WE use the
qualifying good at the venture because
painfully aware that he is now in an out
of the way place to look for anything
good vacated his modest little charge in
Philadelphia for one of the handsomest
churches West he doubtless imagined him.
self a very fortunate person. Debating it
from a strictly worldly standpoint (con-
fessedly the whole transaction has a very
worldly flavor about it), he finds that not
only has he exchanged pulpits and the
pulpit surroundings OF a Philadelphia
church but also the quiet christian sab
bath of Philadelphia for the goddess ''Con-
~tinental Sabbath" of Cincinnati. A local
paper says:
Evidently the Doctor quickly took a
close view of the situation. Taking part
in a desultory talk in the Preachers meet
ing lie declared his hopefulness of accom-
plishing something for the good of the
Church and society, to put it i'll hls W
expressive language, ito win a victory
over the powers of hell;" but he reminded
his newly-made associates that his success
would be largely dependent upon the pre-
vious labors of others and the hearty CO.
operation of his people. On another page
of the local journal which contained this
interesting item-a Monday afternoon
paper-was to be seen an elaborate ac-
count of the theatrical and other enter
tainments of the day before, which re-
ferred to the crowded houses to be seen in
various places of amusement on Sunday
afternoon as we'll as evening. Verify, DR..
hOrr;c xr;ll GnI IinncaIf n. olnSa ~ - q a p g
with the covers of darkness. Like poor
Horace Greeley, he has gone "to Cincin-
natl and its consequences" Let us see
what they will be; whether he will fight
it out on the Sunday reform line, if it
takes the rest of his life, or whether, like
DR.. Hayes, Il notable Presbyterian divine,
lie will .sgo West in a little while.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-07

Brother Summerill says that Mr.. Shape as
prosecuting attorney did not measure up
In this case to what the people
had a right to expect, and Others
say that he did all that was possible with
the evidence at hand.
Of course it is we'll understood in and
out of court circles that a prosecuting at
torney, precisely like the attorney for the
defence, can only debate the case iron the
standpoint of law and evidence and is sx-
pected to do this with all the zeal and
epergy at command.
This Mr.. Shape may have done in the
examination of Leech and may not. We
are not here to decide this n way or the
other. not being present at the trial and
having but meagre information touching
Il, still we are not unaware that opinions
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-07

Quite a sensational and doubtless ex-
aggerated account of the privation and
want now experienced by the aged Mrs.
Parnell is given out by the Associated
Press dispatch. The report runs
A special dispatch from B%ordentown, N.
j., says that Mrs. Parnell's home there is
nothing more than a ruin; that the window
stills are shaky and the doors are breaking
with their own weight and that the wind
whistles through every part of the bouse
and the roof lets in both sunshine and
rain. The story continues as follows:
Mrs. Parnell was found sitting in a large
room, bare of furniture except a few chairs
and a table, her feet epcased in a pair of
old rubbers and wrapped IN what had once
been a dress. The only heat in the room
come in from the sun. Fire there was
none, not even a stove.
"How is it that you do not have a fire
on such a cold day, madame?' asked tine
reporter. Because there is no wood nor
coal in the house" ''iIow long have you
been without frewood ?" ''Some six
weeks now" And you have had no fire
in the house in all that time ?" 'fOuly in
the kitchen, where | have a small fire for
a short time each day Ia prepare my SIM
pie food
"Of what does your food consist q"
Oatmeal and potatoes, principally; some
times | have a little bread"
Have you any source Of income at
present." None whatever" "iIow do
you manage to get along?' "My wants
are very few indeed, and | can live con-
foltably on s95 a year"
"You received a large sun of money
from the public some time since, Mrs.
Parnell. Would you mind telling what
use you made Of it?" at went to pay
pressing debts" "All of it?' Every
cent. and more would have gone that way
had | had it, THE amount OF money
which was sent you has been %yariously
stated at different times. win you please
tell me the exact amount ?' The total
amount which | have received from all
sources Ii 81, $50
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A large number of farmers will move
into towns and villages this coming Goth
of March. They claim that farming don't
pay, that it will pay better to sell what
they nave at whatever price it will bring,
put the money at interest and work by the
day, or ever do nothing. We hardly
think this view of the situation correct.
Farming is poor enough as a business,
doubtless, but living in a town with
nothing to do is worse.
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Marrfed.

BURGEsS-CAssADAY.-At the parsonage
of the Friendship NJ. j.. church, Friendship,
Salem County by the pastor, Rev. L. s. Ham
mond, Jan. 18th, 1890, Levi Il. Burgess. OF Ell
mer, to Mary NJ. Cassaday, of Friendship, sa-
lem county, Nj.
KING-GARRISON I'm st. Johns Church,
Salem, JAM 0th, by Rev. e. NJ. Perkins, Mr..
William I. King, of Montclalr. y. j., and Miss
Virginia c., daughter of Daniel j. Garrison, OF
Pennsville, n. j.
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NO one, we imagine, believes 0o'tfiiof
Albeit a fool. He isn't built that way.
If Albeit vas a fool after the Hill
Campbell persuasion he would buck
against the inevitable and oppose ballot
reform. But he doesn't do it. He knows
it would be neither good politics or good
policy and that the failure President OF the
United States will not be the man who op-
poses reform in our method of voting, and
would rather be right in this matter than
miss the Presidency.
Albeit hears the sound in the tree tops
and has his ear to the ground.
lie scents the fat OF the coming snap,
OF the Doodle yet to pull,
and yells "Aye! ayei" with a din that
browns the clamor of tue reform shouters
who were in the procession before Albeit
was up and washed.
Albeit is sharp, very sharp, and il these
reformers don't have a care he'll get away
with the reform and out-IIerod the IIerod
of the movement.
Albeit isn't a bit modest and never
waits an invitation to come up higher.
No, no, our Governor IS no fool and
didn't wear that old slouched hat and
seedy coat at the Mount Holly fair and
elsewhere for nothing, not he. lie under
stands human nature thoroughly and
knows exactly when to place his hand on
an individual and when to take it off. He
has made a thorough study of the Pro-
hibition move i'll New Jersey. He looked
down from his big l standpoint and rea-
soned "Prohibition will never accomplish
anything, it is strictly a moral question
and morals amount to nothing in politics.
There is more deyilment to the square inch
in politics than these preachers and senti-
mental dreamers imagine, and so good a
thing even as the determination of the
liquor traffic in this country will never be,
or if it come at all will come in the after
noon of the millennium day. No, the
church and christianity and good men can
do nothing fighting the devil through poll
tics and so | f.m on the side of the devil.
With the ballot reform idea, however, il is
different. Here are already ten States that
have adopted the plan and the move IS
destined to succeed. Yes, I see u chance
to climb on that issue and here goes"
1t would make aeast-iron monkey sweat.
though, to keep up with Albeit. To Jer-
seymen, those who know him through and
through, the pose of the Governor is re-
markedly funny, more so perhaps than
the funniest thing that will yet appear in
the comic almanacs. 1t would appear a
strange sight indeed to see apples grow on
grape vines or squashes on peach trees or
pineapples on our stunted pines, yet no
more SO, in these days of genealogical Won
ders, than to see good, honest reform fruit
cultivated and garnered by the present
Governor of New Jersey.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-07

A dense and very heavy cloud of grief
has come over the Presidents household
of late, OF if not exactly over the house,
hold at least within the shadow of the
Presidential walls. The loss by death of
a son and daughter of Secretary Blaine
unquestionably came very close to the
President, and 10Y the terrible and most
narrowing death of the wife and daughter
of Secretary Tracy by the cruel flames is a
greatly added grief to members of the
White House family. Verify,
1.-The great, the tall, the reverend head,
Shall lie as low as ours"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-07

The New Jersey State Editorial Asso-
citation elected the following officers at
Trenton on Monday President, John l..
Jones, of Pennington; Vice President,
First District, M. V. l.. Seigman, Of Vine
land; Second District, f. c. Stuhr, of
Trenton; Third District, w. l.. Bunnell,
of Deckertown; Fifth District. S. d. Gar
rison, of BoontoE; Sixth District, F. W.
Baldwin; Seventh District, E. Gardner, of
Bayonne; Secretary, Charles Bechtel, of
Trenton; Treasurer, James Yard, of Free
hold; Executive Committee, S%inniekson
Chew, of Camden; A. A. Vance, of Nor
ristown; John F. Babcock, of New Bruins
wick; l.. s. Hyer, OF Railway, and James
s. Yard, of Freehold. Editors Appleget,
of Hightsiown; Stahl. Of Trenton; Stokes,
of Mount Holly; Heston, of Atlantic City,
and Vance, of Morristown, were reelected
as delegates to the National Convention in
Boston next July.
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differ widely along this line, and this too
in the face of a communication in last
weeks Sunbeam by NJ. II. Stratton (also a
lawyer in defence of tie prosecuting at
torney and an editorial in the same paper
advising Brother Summerill to retract all,
make up with Shape aud be good in the
future. We say we don't know just who
is right in this case and don't particularly
care, as we imagine either party to be
~abundantly able to take care of itself, but
would like to ask Brother Gwynne why
this superserviceable haste in condemning
Brother Summerill (by implication in ad-
vance and giving the case away before
proof be had Whether Summerill or
Shape be tight doesn't particularly matter,
the course pursued by Brother Gwynne is
precisely the plan followed by nine-tenths
of the journals of the country, the cut
throat plan. Mr.. Stratton didn't rush with
any great haste to defend the Record if
right or condone its misfortune if wrong,
and he wasn't expected to. Mr.. Stratton is
a lawyer and does not remain quiet over
what he regards a wrong done a brother
lawyer. This is right, loyal and manly,
but on the other side how about the news
papers, of the country, or WI will say OF
this local case, of the county. Do we
hear any of them saying in authoritative
tones '.Hands eff, gentlemen, until we
have heard both sides % Do they make
common cause with the Record and pro-
pose to see the thing settled and settled
right? Not much. On the other hand
MANY of them, too many alas, would re-
gard a libel suit with the Record with alb
solute Indifference if not with something
worse.
II the newspaper combine was half as
effective, half as cordial as that of the
trades unions and some others there would
be less of this stabbing each other and of
being stabbed by others, and in this case
Brother Gwynne wonld have probably sus-
pended Judgment until the facts were all