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The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23
LAW ron SPRING ELECTIOSs.

Senator Werts. the author of the
BALLOT Reform Law has writtena letter
To his home paper stating that all the
sections of the new law were not in
tended tn apply to the Spring elections.
'.The town meetings are to be held
and conducted by the local boards of
election appointed by the County Boards
Of Registry. and election and the poll
clerks appointed by the local boards.
In all other respects and particulars
the town meetings are to be held and
conducted without the attendants of
official ballots, envelopes ami booths)
exactly asthuuIh the Ballot Reform
law had never been passed. (See Sec
tons 10 % and 81 The reason for
the above result is that the committee
preparing tie bill found it impractic-
able if not impossible to apply the ella
borate and expensive details of the law
relative 10 the nomination and certi-
fication Of candidates and the furnish
ing Of official ballots and envelopes to
All election involving the choice of such
unimporlaut officers as constables,
poundkeeperS, &c.
at was urged that corrupt practices
had not become 50 prevalent at these
town meetings as to call for special
remedy, and that if occasion for reform
did exist it would he wiser to transfer
the choice Of the more important officer
from the Spiiug to the Fall election,
thus securing all the results of ballot
reform and avoiding a double expense.
Accordingly section so was inserted to
the act, leaving the town meetings to
further legislation if necessary.
at might, if thought desirable, be
provided that at the town meetings the
same booths or compartments shall be
used as at the Fall elections. That the
clerks of the respective townships shall
provide and furnish for each township
a sufficient number Of official envelopes
indorsed tor tie township ESQ they
could he printed in large quantities., to
be furnished the voters, as in the Bal
lot reform law, provided the tickets,
not to be official or provided at public
expense, he furnished by interested par
ties rs heretofore. The. candidates or
any person to have the privilege of sup.
plying tickets to the Election Board, to
he furnished the voter as he enters the
polling room. The mode and name
of voting the ballot to lie the same pro-
yided in the new law. This plan would
involve very little public expense and
would insure many of the good results
of ballot reform"
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23
State News.

The Board of Trade of Bridgeton
Monday evening adopted resolutions
fayorlng the proposed extension of the
Wilmington Il Northern Railway from
Penn's Grove, through Salem and
Bridgeton to Millville, and instructed
their committee to invite the officers of
the road to visit Bridgeton and inves-
tigate the matter. Resolutions strongly
Endorsed the project of street railway
in BridgetOD, which is now assuming
substantial shape, we're also adopted.
The report that the railroads running
to the principal South Jersey towns has
advanced freight rites about : cents
per 100 pounds since the Delaware
River steamboats, have discontinued
their trips is denied by the freight
agents in Camden. L. w. Coffin, d.
vision freight agent of the West Jersey
and Camden " Atlantic Railroads,
states there has been no advance on
his road or the Delaware River Rail-
road, which reaches all points reached
by steamboat travel. The rates pre-.
pared up to the goth instant are the
same as last Summer.
The West Jersey Democratic League
of Camden, elected these officers on
Tuesday night: President, George.
d. Borton; Vice President, Howard
Carlow, George Hall and 8. r. Wright;
Secretary, G. S. Magrath; Financial,
Secretary, Frank W. Tussey; Treasurer;
George A. Vroom; Trustees, r. +. 5.
Heath, Luther II. Kellum and John
II. Magee.
The skeleton of an Indian was found
six feet below the surface at Dias Greek
Cape May County.
Bridgeton is to lave Il new 5000
schOol.house.
Citizens of Bridgeton have formed a
company to build = street railway in
that city.
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ABaUT STURGEON.

Oar sturgeon fishermen have II very
gloomy prospects for next springs fish
ing. One of our fishermen received a
letter last week from Max Ans, the
millionaire dealer in caviare In New
York, Who advised fishermen TO make
as small EXPENSE as possible for next
season as The caviare was selling below
cost in Germany, the market being glut-
ted, which is undoubtedly due 10 the
large catch on the Columbia river in
Oregon. Orders for boats and nets are
consequently being cOuntermanded or
Ieduced.-PsHn'S GrOre Record.
All of which sounds very pretty from
Mr.. Ans standpoint, but the fact
remains that other dealers in New
York say that the Columbia river story
is a blind: that the caviare secured from
the Pacific streams cannot I've compar-
ed with the Atlantic Ocean caviare,
and that the Atlantic caviare will bring
nearly as good prices as last year.
South .LerSCganm i'm. 20th.
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and just feeling that there is a growing
tendency to divert legislation and gov
eminent from their true purpose, name
ly, a free and full expression of the peo-
pies will, and to surrender their con-
troll to selfish interests for selfish OBJ
jects rather than to use them ior tie
common good"
Those who are seeking to shake OIL
the grasp of the Crimes Act, as it now
stands, are counting largely upon the
indifference of those who live mt a more
remote distance from the race-tracks.
But if success crowns their effort, III
the Legislature this winter, how long
will 1t be before this aldguespot-this
''pesthouse, as Judge Dixon character
lied it in his recent charge to the Grand
Jury of Passaic County-will be eN-
tended over the whole State, through
County fairs, which will inevitably be
turned into kindergarten schools in
~race-track gambling?
The object of this circular is TO ill.,
form you upon the present status OF
this matter of vital moment to the vel.
fare of our State, and to urge upon YOU
personal vigilance, as concerns the leg.
islation Of the present session, that you
may use your influence in counterfeit
ing efforts, which will assuredly be
made to tie the hands of our Courts,
and turn to mockery the good results
already obtained.
Stand ready, we entreat you, to ell
ter your protest, by remonstraLce,
through your Representatives IN the
Legislature, at the first appearance OF
any bill proposing any change i'll the
existing law, in favor of legalizing
gambling upon race-tracks i'll New Jer-
sey, or p0ol-selling in connection with
the same.
Signed hy twenty-five Clergymen and
prominent men of Union county,
Elizabeth, n. j., January 18th, 1891.
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A Second Appeal 10 the Moral
and Religious People Of
the State Of New Jer-

That the existing law against gamb-
ling upon race-tracks in New Jersey
can be enforced, is proven by the fact
that i'll Union County there have been
seven jury trials for this o%flense, within
two months last past, resulting in a
conviction in each case, and the book
makers have been heavily fined, with a
warning o! severer punishment if the
offense be repeated. There have also
been twenty cases of pleas Of guilty"
OF the same o~ffense, within the same
county, in the same time, all followed
by similar punishment and warning.
In Monmouth County a conviction by
jury has also lately obtained, for this
o%fIense, followed by pleas of guilty"
to a number Of other indictments, for
like offenses. In Passaic County in
dictments have been found. and trials
are now pending. What this means to
the supporters If the vice against which
our battle is being waged, can best be
shown by the words of some of their
own number: ''Unless a bill is passed
legslizing book-making in New jersey"
said Une of the convicted book-makers,
the day after his sentence, in Elizabeth,
Linden and the Jersey Jockey Club
had just as well close their gates. The
responsible boOk-makers will take no
mora ahannpS Epr nv mart nn,.nr
expect to make Il book in New Jersey
again. don't mind the five hundred
dollars, but | do not want to take any
chances about doing time" Another
one is reported as saying 10 the Sheriff,
when paying his fine and costs, lthat he
was going to shake the dust of Jersey
from his feet"
1t is said that the race-track people
are preparing a bill to present to the
Legislature, and that they have strong
hope of getting 1t passed. The state
ment is openly made, with few TO Ques-
tion its accuracy, that those in whose
interest this legislation will be sought,
have raised a large sum Of money to
promote the anne. That they will stop
at nothing to accomplish an end upon
which the continued existence of their
pernicious business depends, no sane
car doubt.
Tie crisis is, therefore, at hand. The
question is narrowed down to this; shall
he people of New Jersey, the interests
If whose homes are involved with the !,
ar name of the State, or the railroads ,
md the gamblers, go under in this con-
lict? 1t is has been truly said, There
!, throughout the country. u profound
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The New Jersey Jockey Club and
Linden Park Bloodhorse Association
cases were called up in the Union
County Court Monday afternoon for
sentence. Justice Van SICKLE ordered
each association to pay $500 and the
costs of the courts. The Judges re-
marks in passing sentence were very
severe. He warned the officers Of the
associations that if they I've came be-
fore him again on a similar charge he
would send them to Jail. This confirms
what is said in another column. But
at Gloucester everything goes because
of the corrupt influence of Billy Thomp-
son in Camden county, backed by rail
road influence which is on the money
make, no matter how, as is seen by the
W. J. railroad advertising special time
tables for cars stopping at south Glou-
ceSter.
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DARK DAYS AHEAD FOR NEW JERSEY
STURGEON FISHERMEN.
a clipping from the Seattle Press,
states that Il of their correspondents,
has just returned from an extended tour
and trip of investigation of the stur-
geon fisheries of the Columbia river,
Oregon. The sturgeon industry is SIM
ply immense, nearly or quite II thou
sand men and boys are employed in
different ways. Some 10 or II steam
els, about 30 schoUners and sloop boats,
besides innumerable smaller craft.
There are nine different firms engaged
in the business, the largest fishery en-
ploying one hundred men. This firm
is located at the head of the river. and
ship weekly to the New York market
via. y. p. Il. Il. from II to 20 tons of
sturgeon meat, which clears them from
3 to ic. per IT,, All parts of the fish are
utilized, save the intestihes. The blad
ders or air pouch are scraped and dried
for glue, and bring S1.75 to 81 per
pound. The eggs are preserved or
picked, and when don SO, called
caviar, is packed in kegs aud also ship
ped to New York, where it is canned
and exported to Germany and different
parts OF Europe as Russian caviar. Last
year caviar i'll New York markets sold
as high as SO Der key of 1870 pounds.
but such immense quantities having
been made on the Columbia River has
had a tendency to lower the price: il is
now h.in, op,tol e., rr;,,o s,ocl GA
.,. [aN
per KEY oil I"o pounds. Forty Kegs oil
caviar are made laily at the largest fish,
cry: only to think Int a few wears ago
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What would this country to if the
Farmers Alliance should rule this cOuI-
try with such men as CongTessmen-elect
Jere Simpson, of Kansas, who cannot
spell? His main political capital was
that he was too poor a farmer to wear
socks and exhibited his bare hoofs to
prove it.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

the joints or muscles, and it recurs every
time you get cold, and appears in new
places without leaving any of the old
ones, the best thing to do is to send
five dollars to the Drummond Medicine
Co., 1850 Maiden Lane, New York,
for Il bottle of DIR. Diamonds Light.
ming Remedy for Rheumatism. 1t will
cure you. BE wise in time, and do not
be fooled with anything else. If you
have got the above symptoms you hive
got the Rheumatism, and if the druggist
tells you the truth he viii say Dr..
DIummOnd's Remedy is the only known
cule.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

Governor Francis 4. Nichols, of
Louisiana, is dismembered to remark
able extent. He has lost q leg and an
arm and an eye. He lost his leg at
Charlottesville. and his arm was car
ried away by a cannon ball at Winches-
ter. Yet the Louisiana State Lottery
finds him a very live governor.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

Speaker Bergen, of the Assembly,
bids fare to make a wise and conserva-
tive presiding officer rs his appointments
Of the committees give general salts
faction. lie not only gave his oppo-
nents for the Speakership c|hairmanships
of the most influential committees but
showed a tact in placing others on APP
propriate committees.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

The dispute as to whether the New
Jersey Ballot Reform law applies TO
spring elections has been settled by Sem
ator Werts, the Trainer of the measure,
who says that it does in some parts, and
not in others.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

The death of George Bancroft in
Washington on Saturday removed from
earth one of the most noted historians
and ripest scholars of this century. His
history will be a classic as long as the
English language lasts.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

AS the father of Peck's bad boy is
now Governor of Wisconsin it is hop
ed he will see that the bad people
of that state are made to mind the
laws better than his boy did.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

The weary struggle over the Force
bill is blocking business in both Houses
of Congress and is almost sure to force
the calling of an extra session of Con-
gress on the 4th of March.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

Gov. Hill, of New York, has chosen
wisely in accepting the Senatorial bird
In hand to the bigger Presidential bird
In the bush.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

The Hudson county legislators are
not running the present legislature
which destroys some of the political
capital of our Republican c~o-temporar-
ias
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23
FRIDAY, JAN. %, 1891.

Philadelphia weddings are NJ longer
solemnized but Camdenized.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

which sale is under way, have been rroporionae to Our rapid and constantly
increasing business in these staples.
It is a well known fact that for many years past past, We nave e. of t, the, l hrsts5
distributors in the world of the various products and bralniN 1 uc ceheMated
Wnlsha Mills among the consumers and this season w are inH PREPARED OF
a business even larger than ever before. We offer over our retail comfS Scr
eml Hundred Gases of these faynite MgSins and HltetH'Ss III every with
known to the trade from one to three yards.
We offer besides Seerul Hundred Gases of such well known and popular
brands of mmshns as
Fruit of the Loom, New York Mills, Utica, Willamette, Dayoi, Pide of
the West, Pequots, Atlantic
and various other brands too numer0uS to mention.
It's needless to say that the prices on all these goods are the lowest at
which it is possible to distribute such staple and reliable fabrics ven on such an
extensive scale as we handle them.
Also included will be found.
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20 Per Cent. Discount

YTVFIE GREATEST SALE of our Clothing ever begun. A
Half Million Dollars worth must change hands to fully
accomplish our end. ~Surpasses the great Discount
PRICES.
All our Winter Clothing included
Ovcrcoats and Storm Coats included,
Fine Dress Suits and Everyday included.
Mems and Young Mems Clothing included.
Boys Ovcrcoats and Suits included.
Light Weight Overcoats included.
w let prices stand all over
20 per cent. off any of them the house. The discount is
without reserve. easily figured. The saving is
just 20 per cent.
Make the examples for yourself.
Fine Broadcloth or Worsted Suits, $50.
20 per cent.-solid cash savings, s6.
Elegant quality Everyday Suits, $40.
20 per cent solid cash saving, 81.
Handsomely trimmed Overcoats, S25.
20 per cent.-solid cash saving, S,
Reliable Good-fting Overcoats, SIS.
20 per ccnt.-solid cash saving, s..
Tailoring to order--the same discount
AS4O Suit costs leo Off $3o.
\ SIS suit costs (2o on $40.
This trading extraordinary is meant to bring business and
cash in at a quick rate. We have never known anything like
the prices in our thirty years experience. Those who parhci-
pated in last years discount are sure to be among the earliest
buyers in this sale. Nobody will make a mistake in providing
--even a years needs--for future wants at 20 per cent. dis
count prices.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-23

Blank house leases for sale at the
RECORD office. If.
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Regardless of the advanced duty on
Irvine, we are at present selling Irvine
and Netting at the same price as last
year. We now have ten American ma
chimes operated by the best workmen in
the factory, employed on our netting and
are turning out about 5000 pounds Of
netting per month.
We would advise our patrons to place
their orders promptly, as we do not guar
antee that the price will remain the same
throughout the season, and all orders
placed now will receive our prompt at
tention at old prices and goods be held at
our store subject to purchasers order.
would be to the fishermen's advantage to
call and examine it.
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Climbing the Alps.


The street between the wall and the
hotel was called the club room of Ter
matt, and it was there that my feelings
of respect for the cliffs and precipices of
the Matterhorn perished. For there
heard the story of the fat German hauled
like a log up the peak by four guides, the
rope tied around his waist and fastened
to his feet with aslip knot, and he swing
ing from rock to rock, suspended thou
sands of feet in. the air and they never
bothering to look at him; and of the
Italian count who made the ascent with
seven guides in front, seven behind, and
one man to keep his legs straight against
the rocks; and of the boy of fourteen fol-
lowing in the train of the conqueror; and
of the woman reaching the top, and then,
as the guides literally ran her down,
quietly sleeping all the way back from
the lower hut until the bells of the little
church in Zermatt awoke her.
And yet even the cynics who laughed
at these tales could be stirred into show
of enthusiasm, and more than once were
we reused from our first sleep by the
ringing cheers with which the men at
the Monte Rosa greeted the return of the
last hero of the Matterhorn. And, after
all, there are certain perils which the ex-
ploiters of the Alps cannot wholly coun-
teract.-Century.
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ostentation at numerals.

1t is sad commentary on Christian
community. which takes that distinctive
title from religion whose founder is
called the Consoler because his word
plucks the sting from death, that it sur
rounds death with every circumstance of
woe and gloom The distinctive minis
try of the faith seems to fail at the very
point to which it is especially addressed.
The natural Christian tone at the burial
of the dead would seem to be the cheer
that springs from the thought of immor-
tality-a sublime hope. a tender resigna-
ton.
The Christian thought in that hour
should instinctively dwell upon the soul,
not upon the body, and the simplest and
most unostentatious rite of burial would
seem to be the most truly Christian But
the ostentation of Christian funerals has
become so great that burial reform asso-
ciations are formed. both in this country
and i'll England, to relieve the poor of
the painful and needless cost which,
from mistaken respect for the dead, they
will not spare so long as ostentation is
the custom. George William Curtis in
Harpers
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Finished His Story.

On Jan. 10 two laborers were at work
on railroad running into Indianapolis.
One was telling story, and while bend
ing over he was accidentally struck on
the head with hammer by his compan-
ion and his skull was fractured. He was
rendered unconscious, and remained in
a comatose condition until last Friday
night, when DIR. G. D. Sturtevant, of
Indianapolis, trepanned the skull, and
Immediately upon removing the pieces
of skull from against the brain the man
continued the story which was started
five months before and had lain latent in
his brain during all this time.-Cor. st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
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a Real summer Danrer.


To talk of guarding against cold in
summer seems absurd and yet it is as
necessary as in winter. Where the cli-
mate is changeable hot day is often
followed by cool evening. or sudden
rain storm chills the air, or a cold wind
springs up, grateful after the heat. but
dangerous to those who are thinly clad
unless they are protected from it by
proper covering. Cotton is good con-
ductor of heat and allows it to escape
rapidly from the surface of the body
AS soon as the surrounding air becomes
cooler than the skin it steals the heat
which the body requires for its own
needs. A fresh supply of heat must be
produced, and thus the system is over
taxed to supply the demands of the rob
Der. Flannel is bad conductor and
guards the tender body more faithfully,
retaining the heat.-Elizabeth R. Scovil
in Ladies' Home Journal
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Hair Turned by Lightning.

A curious instance of the blanching of
the hair was recently reported by the
Philadelphia Times. At Petersburg, in
the course of thunder storm, laun-
dress named Ellen Barnes stood watch
ing the storm from the door of her house,
when she was struck by the lightning
and knocked senseless. Though unable
to speak for hours after being resuscitated
she recovered and was apparently unhurt
by the shock, except that part Of her
hair was turned dazzling white The
line of demarkation separating the black
hair from the white extended about an
inch and quarter to one side of the
middle of her head .
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One Suit for Six.

Writing in Century DR.. G. B. Gillespie
relates this incident of a Sunday in Co.
foma, Cal, in '49:
"A group of half dozen Indians espe-
cially attracted my attention. They
were strutting about in all the glory of
newly acquired habiliments, but with
this distinction-that one suit of clothes
was sufficient to dress the whole crowd
The. largest and best looking Indian had
appropriated the hat and boots, and
without other apparel walked about as
proudly as any city clerk. Another was
lost in an immense pair of pantaloons.
A third sported nothing but white
shirt with ruf1led bosom
A fourth Haunted blue swallow
tailed coat, bespangled with immense
brass buttons. A fifth was decked with
a hashy,vest, while the sixth had moth
ing but a red bandana, which was care
fully wrapped around his neck. Thus
what would scarcely serve one white
man just as effectuaily accommodated
six IndiapS-