The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-17
Just over the County Lines.

Just over the County Lines.
The Swedesboro bank has declared a 9
per cent. dividend.
1t cost Cumberland county nearly 1880
to publish the County Collectors statement
Christian WolfeIt has completed a fne
new house and barn just south of Wolfert's
Bridgeton is going to shut out the merry
go-roLnds and razzle-dazzles with a SO
per day fee.
Capt. Truitt will begin running his night
line OF truck boats from Bridgeport next
Monday night.
VIM. Heritage of Mullica Hill has
picked already 200 baskets of peaches
from 80 trees.
The East Lake Wooden Mill at Bridgeton
10 running 10 on double time. They have
plenty of orders.
A valuable horse at Green's Stud Farm,
Woodbury., was caught in a reaping ma
chine and badly injured.
A project is on foot to establish a pneu-
matte railway between Mt. Holly and
Burlington, a distance of seven mills.
Gloucester County expects to recover
from the State about 81, coo back pay for
boarding insane patients at the Almshouse.
The Jos. S. 5tratton Post, No. so. G. A.
r., of Mullica Hill, will make it's annual
excursion to Atlantic City on Thursday,
July Both.
Several glass manufacturing firms OF
Bridgeton are selling coal at s. a ton, fifty
cents less than it can be bought at the
yards of the coal dealers.
The Swedesboro elassworks are again
in trouble, and on Thursday Sheriff West.
of Gloucester county, locked them up, after
making a levy on the tools and stock.
Dogs killed 10 chickens of Robert Craig.
of Bridgeton, and he has handed in his bill
for the loss to the city, which must pay it
according to an old city ordinance.
ST. w. Garrigues, of Woodbury., has
commenced snit against DIR. Geo. f..
Reading for $40, 900 damages sustained
last week while flying out of the Dr.'s
office impelied by the Dr.'s boot.
At the sale of privileges at the coming
Bridgeton fair, the prices were higher than
ever before realized, amounting to 1881.
The right to sell peanuts alone cost $50,
while TO dip cut the lemonade cost $40.
Professor r. A. Mari, of the United
States Coast Survey. Is now at Atlantic
City making preparations for a survey of
all the inland waters on the stretch of
coast from Absecon Inlet to Cape May.
1t is stated that five thousand acres of
South Jersey land has been purchased for
the purpose of locating on them a colony
of Russian Jews. 1t remains to be seen
whether they will prove a desirable acquis
to the population.
A Bridgeton young man named Heintz
married a mulatto girl on Monday. When
he undertook to install her into the family
a brother objected. Loud words followed,
ending with the girls ejectment. and a date
was fixed at which the brothers will fight
the quarrel cut.
The attention of a government official
has just been called to the fact that for
some time past moonshine whisky has been
manufactured in a charcoal pit, quiet spot
in the pines OF burlington county, only a
few miles from Pemberton. The still was
found and captured.
The station agent at Clementon, on the
Delaware River Railroad, yesterday found
a horse and buggy fastened to a fence
near the station. On one of the wheels
was a note saying that the owner intended
te commit suicide, and asking the finder
to take charge of the horse aud wagon.
A new summer resort has been oLened
at what was formerly known as Chew's
Landing, now called Glendora. and a camp
meeting is announced to be held there from
August Sd to oath, under the management
of Revs. w. II. Coxson and Chas. ID. SIM
kinson, and some fifty families have already
arranged to have tents on the ground. 1t
is understood that the managers intend to
make the camp meeting a permanent one.