The Monitor., 1891-10-09
Just over the County Lines.

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Alloway has tax rate this year of 95
cts. on the 800, and Auburn's tate is 81 90.
The October tenn of the Cumberland
County Courts began at Bridgeton on
| Tuesday.
Whitney Brothers, glass-manufacturers
of Glassboro, cleared s300,000 on glass
jars this season.
| Robert Gibbs, Gloucester County
farmer who was gored by bull on Friday
last, is still in danger. A horn penetrated
| Gibbs's right lung to the depth of three
| inches.
| The Swedesboro W. G. T. T., at their
meeting last week, elected the follow ing
| officers for the ensuing year: President,
Mrs. Louisa Emory; Corresponding Secre-
| tary, Miss Drue Cheesman; Recording Sec
retary, Mrs. Emma Moffet; Treasurer, Mrs.
| L. j. Madara.
In order to circumvent applicants for
license who intended to appeal to the
| County License Commission il refused,
the Millville City Council has laid over all
| applications on the ground of irregularity,
and has passed on first reading an ordin.
ance fixing the license fee at 81, 800 for
hotels and wholesalers and $1,000 fol
saloons.
| Charles Barker, who owns and operates
a large grist mill at Seeley, Cumbe rland
| County, was surprised Monday morning
to find that tho large safe In his office had
been blown open by burglars. Over $100
in cash and some valuable papers which
were in the safe at the time were undis-
turbed. The burglars evidently were
! frightened off.
While a festival was in progress in
Union Grove school house, one evening
recently, an immense tarantula dropped
| from a bunch of bananas. When the
deadly spider was recognized, the liveliest
scene that ever occurred in that school
house was witnessed, the men being as
badly frightened as the women. The
spider was finally killed.
| The twenty-fourth annual convention OF
the Gloucester county Sunday school as
socation was held at Swedesboro yester-
day, the attendance being very large, near
| ly 300 delegates and visitors partakng of
lunch. The programme was of much
merit including an address by Rev. ].
| Wilbur Chapman D. D., pastor OF Bethany
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and
| others.
The Pitman Grove Camp Meeting Asso-
citation of the New Jersey Conference en-
Tuesday declared dividend of @ per cent.
| The following directors were elected: Rev.
| A. E. Ballard, Rev. w. Walton, Rev. III.
NJ. Brown, Rev. J. s. Heisler, Rev. II. G.
Williams. Rev. E Hewitt, James D. Hoff.
man, A. H. Meade, and James M. Casa.
dy, who selected the following officers.
| President, Rev. A. L. Ballard; vice. presi-
dent, James D. Hoffman; secretary, Rev:
| William Walton; treasurer, James NJ.
Cassidy; superintendent, Henry P. Young,
| A relic that will occupy prominent
place in the Worlds Fair has just been
discovered at Haleyville, near Bridgeton.
1t Is bell in the tower OF the little African
NJ. E. Church. The bell was given to the
church by Elias Newell, South Jersey sea
captain, who sailed to all parts of the
world. He brought it from the Island OF
San Andreas, and with it well authen-
ticated record that it was brought from
Spain by Columbus on his fourth and last
voyage to America in 1902. Queen Isa-
bella presented the bell to Columbus. II
is still in good condition and its silvery
tones summon the dusky residents Of
| Haleyville to worship every Sunday.