The Monitor., 1891-05-01

Elisha Skinner, colored, one of the men
who assau'ttd officers Duffy and Hewitt
several weeks ago, was arrested by Con
stable Carney on Sunday. At hearing
before Mayor Rchman, he was committed
to Salem Jail in default of $500 bail. Skin
ner was the one who drew a pistol on
officer Hewitt
Weneed an ther railroad through Woods
town now as badly as we did the first ten
years ago ifthe Reading people would come
this way, we should all turn aud help them
according to our means. 1t will all come
back TO US in extra accommodations, less
ened charges for passage and freight, and
increase in the value OF oul real estate.
How many hundred drummers were in
town on Wednesday, 80 dou't know, bu;
the town was alive with them. 1t is a
wonder how these people fiud folks to look
at their wares and listen to their music, but
the gr, atest wonder is how so many of
them can make expenses. 1t may be pos
sible, however. that they are out for pleas
ure, and not for profit.
When there are SO many dealers going
over the country from house to house buy
ing up eggs and paying cash for them it
would hardly seem possible that SO many
| should fnd their way to the stores 10
Woodstown. E. B. Humphreys & Co. in
| form us that they shipped away from this
station from Jan. 1st to April 30l, -four
| months, one hundrt d and sixty four crates,
| aggregatng four thousand nine hundred
anG twenty-six dozen.
| II seems pity that those of our Bank
| officials who had the matter in charge
| should have failtd in getting their plans
| ready doing the winter months, SO as TO be
at work .on the new building this pleas
ant weather. AS the saying is, Large
bodies move slow" and there is a good let
| of valuable time being consumed in figure
| ing on plans now, which in our opinion
could have been attended to long before
Hurry up gentlemen, the people are watch
| ing and waiting and are anxious you
shodld get down town as soon as possible,
and have building which will be credit
| to yourselves and an ornament to the town.
II our country friends and those of our
| townspeople who drive through the streets,
particularly at night time, could be per-
suaded to go slower it would be a great
consolation to those of us v no are obliged
| to travel on foot. Some OF the crossways
| in the centre OF town are somewhat
lengthy, aud it requires one to keep their
eyes open to guard against some vehicle
| running over them on their journeys across
the streets. There are lots Of people on
the streets at night, and they have equal
rights with those in wagons. Try mod
crate driving, you that have occasion to
use the streets that way, and our word for
it you ii feel the better by so doing.
We little expected when we were penning
our satirical treatise on The SO called beDefi
cial societies that promised to pay cut to
shareholders 500 for every $50 paid in,
that the end theirexistence was SO near at
hand, but it has come, not soon enough,
however. to save thousands, many of v hom
are poor work people, from serious loss
One or two of the organizations have closed
their doors against all Inquiries, and the
officers are ender cover till the clouds of
Indignation roll By and they can show
themselves without fear of bodily harm.
Some of our Noodstown people were in
and got out before the collapse, but We
understand that at least three or four of
our most eminent financiers and CAPITALISTS
have got fl eeed, although they doh'i Ike to
acknp " ledpe it,