The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-02-13

Whatever may be the state of the
weather for the next foul weeks it an
not be denied that the ground hog has
thus far redeemed his reputation as a fore
caster of the weather. During almost the
entire of February thus far we have had
any other than agreeable weather. What
is in store for the balance we must wait to
find out.
The 1. 80 p. NJ. train from Philadelphia
does not stop at South Gloucester now,
thus doing away with the crowd of race
goers who formerly used this train. AS
two special trains are run to the race
course, it would seem that all could be
provided transportation. The other pa
irons of the road will doubtless be Thank
full for the c~ompaDy's order.
La grippe has put in a fresh appearance,
aud although its effects are not nearly so
deadly as a year ago, they are sufficient to
cause uncomfortableness and a desire to
avoid them. -Four grains of quinine-
two in the morning and two in the evening
have been recommended as a preventive.
The suggestion is simple. safe and well
worth trying. Best advice of all, how
ever, is to see the doctor.
While there don't appear to be any
overstock of ready non in business cir
cles, we are told by those in position to
know that there is plenty of it seeking in
vestment by capitalists on good land Sc
curity. In fact there would seem to be
more money than confidence, and the re-
suit is that men b can make good paper
rave no trouble to borrow, while those
having capital find difficulty in placing it
where they think principal and interest
secure. Fogg g. Hickman, conveyancers,
announce in another column that they
have in their charge $25, 600 which they
will loan on acceptable mortgages.
James Stratton, who is employed in the
drug store opposite our Office, is the possess
or, and for what we know to the contrary,
the owner of a cornet, and as he now aad
then has a few spare moments, utilities
them to instruct himself in the art Of play
ing on it. His efforts the first few days
were somewhat tiresome to the uninter.
ested listener, but now he has the instru-
ment under better control, and generally
brings out of it what he starts in for. In
a word Jim is getting there and hat rap
idly. He says he don't care or expect to
outrival Levy or Emerson and command
a salary oftwo or three hundred dollars a
week as he intends to continue in his chosen
vocation, tile drug business, nc matter what
lame he may gain as a musician. The re-
port that his best girl objected to his fur
Their pursuit of playing the horn on ac-
count OF its hardening his lips, SO far as
we eau learn, is without foundation.
The Blessing that our Salem friends
nave been SO earnestly seeking and so in
dustriously laboring for is about to de-
scend upon them. The negotiations which
had been pending with G. A. Blessing, a
Philadelphia, manufacturer, for the past
six months to locate his plant there, were
consummated early this week and all
doubts as TO his coming would now seem
to be over. The Board of Trade, as we
understand it, have already paid him
1880 bounty money and will pay him
$500 more a soon as he deserves it. The
entire county joins them in the hope that
their highest expectations of benefit will
be fully realized. They have worked like
beavers to accomplish their aims and are
to be congratulated on their success, in
which the MONITOR most heartily joins.
The shirt factory is being erected and
another industry is to locate there in the
early spring.