The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-12-11

The new Alloway and Quinton branch
railroad is receiving the finishing touches,
and telegraph poles are being put up this
week. The date of running the first train
has been changed from the Goth to Monday,
21st inst.
Week before last a farmer living two
miles below carted potatoes all the week
to the station, for which he received a
check for S72.00. One of his neighbors
dressed twenty five chickens and put them
in a wash tub and brought them over to
w. IL. Vanlier and received a check for
$25. 33.
We are to have a brand new set of minor
silver coins-dimes, quarters and half dol
lars. The present designs on coins have
existed without change for fifty years, but
will cow give way to something more
artistic. The new coins will be ready be-
fore the close of the year, and will no
doubt attract much attention.
The Post Office Department has issued
orders that hereafter circulars having any
thing printed on them by a rubber stamp
will have to be prepaid as first class matter.
The order is based ON the principle that a
stamp is nothing more or essthan writing
from the fact that it is used, and the
legends it produces are as individual as
those of pen.
On Wednesday evening as Mrs. Helms
V. Lynch. daughter Della, and a friend
were on their way home, and had gotten
as far as South Woodstown, the swipgle-
tree gave way ard frightened the horse so
that he ran away. Mr.. Lynch was thrown
from the wagon and slightly hurt. No
further damage was lone except the shafts
broken.
A young man living at Halltown left
home suddenly this week. A constable
from Alloway, with a warrant, visited him,
and while the young was changing
his clothes he gave the officer the slip,
went to a neighbors where he secured a
team, and it is thought be is now on the
other side the Delaware.
John NJ. Mills Jr.. of Sharpto wn,
recently filled at the can house of Kiger &
Colson at Daretown, and in the presence
of Edward Colson, one of the firm. 70 cans
of tomatoes in one minute. So far as has
come to our notice, this beats the record at
can filling. Mr.. Mills authorizes us to say
for him that he challenges any one in the
State to a competitive test of skill in this
line of work.
The residents of East Mill street were
aroused on Monday night by a quarrel
between Thomas Whalen and Michael
Coyle, his brother-In-law. The dispute
arose over family matters, and Coyle after
ward issued a warrant for Whalen's arrest
on a charge of assault. A hearing was
held before Justice Goforth, when both
were held in bail to keep the peace.
The Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor of the Baptist church will give a
festival and oyster supper at McAllister's
Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings of
this week, Dec. II and -. The proceeds
of this entertainment are to be devoted to
the repairing of the lecture room. The
church thanks the good people of Woods
town for their very generous patronage of
their entertainments heretofore, and cor
daily invites them to continue to give
them thu helping hand.
The big hog raised by Thomas Lippin-
colt was killed by Isaac B. Coles on Tues
day. and weighed S32 pounds. Mr.. Lip
pincott has for many years past f~attened
hogs to pretty generous proportions, but
this one beats all his previous records,
none of the Others having reached the 800
ID. mark. Taking into consideration that
the porker was but IS months old, this is
an enormous weight. 1t is estimated that
the animal made flesh, or fat, at the rate
of 40 pounds per week, after the feeding
was started. He was of Jersey Red stock.
and was selected by Mr.. Lippincott from a
pen of pigs raised by his daughter, Mrs. L.
j. Richman.
Rev. j. D. Randolph, formerly pastor of
the Daretown Presbyterian Church, and
now located at Atglen, Pa, was seriously
injured at the railroad station there on the
25th ult. He attempted to cross the tracks,
and just as he reached the platform an ex-
press train running at the rate of gu miles
an hour rushed by. The wind from the
train threw him from the platform, break
ing both bones of his left forearm and
severely injuring his back. He was car
ried home unconscious, and in that cor
dition remained for twelve hours. 1t was
a narrow escape from instant death, as he
did not see the train. Had he gained the
track he must have been hurled into
eternity.
Memorial services for Mrs. S. j. c..
Downs, were held in the w. G. 1. T..
room on Sunday evening, the meeting being
led by Mrs. A.. II. Eberhardt. The exer-
cises were opened by singing Jesus Lover
of my soul" and the Esd. Psalm was re-
DeaLeQ III COUCtIls Itcfs a. L l1ociuoiuo
followed with all address eulogizing the
memory of the deceased leader of the tenn
perance women, and characterized her
work as an everlasting monument to her
memory. An article from the National
Baptist. entitled ga Mother in Israeli"
relating to her death was read, follow ed by
remarks by Mrs. Kate Dickinson and
other members of the union and the sing
ing of Zone More Days Work tor Jesus"
The attendance was large.
lust over the County Lines.
The distillery near Swedesboro is said to
have made 10, 900 gallons of apple whiskey
this fall.