The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-27

driven by a young man named johnson,
came running up through town on Satur-
day night the driver having been spilled
out of the road cart in some manner. The
horse took to the pavement in front of
Myers store, leaving the cart in the gutter,
but was captured at East Avenue without
doing further damage.
The factory Of the E. B. Humphreys
Pantaloon Co., is shut down this week to
allow the putting in of an additional row
of machines in the recently finished extern
sion, thus allowing the operatives aThank-
giving vacation. The capacity of the fac
tory will be doubled, and it is the intention
to take on new operatives enough to run
all the machines just as fast as they can
be instructed in the work.
During the past week brooms have adj
vanced fifty cents on a dozen. and 1t is un-
derstood that before long there will be
another advance of fifty cents. A manu-
f~acturer says that the corn crop he bought
early in the season at $50 a ton he could
now easily dispose of at $50 a ton, but
would not do so. Broom dealers are be-
coming alarmed in anticipation of the
advance, which is of course, due to the
short crop.
- 10 Oh ioOU obo IL idpNll
growing, looking to the abolition Of Boards
of Chosen Freeholders in the various
counties of the State, whose places shall be
filled by Commissioners, to be elected in
each Assembly district and one at large.
In Burlington county there is a strong
sentiment in favor of Commissioners, as
under the Board of Freeholders the tax
rate increases each year without any in
crease in public improvements.
A young man liz an%eighboring state, who
applied to the City Clerk for a marriage
license, gave his age at 30 years. and was
informed that on account of his youthful
ness he would have to secure his parents
written consent before a certificate could
be issued. He went out, and soon returned
with a brief but pointed document: This
is to certify that my son John - has my
consent to marry Ann - or any otheI
woman. He is young in years, but old in
| devilment."
A crowd of about IS young men aud
boys were surprised by Col. J. w. Dickin-
son, in one of the buildings of Dickinson
and Lippincott's canning factory on Sun
day afternoon, playing poker, with stakes
to the amount OF several dollars in sight.
They quickly got away, but not before
their names were secured. They were no.
titled to appear before Mayor Richman on
Monday, and sign an agreement not to tres
pass again on the canning property to avoid
prosecution.
A correspondent writes us as follows,
with a request that we will test his recipe
by whetting the editorial pen on a potato:
''There seems to be an acid or something in
a raw potato that is good for a steel pen.
| o. n d. o,I oftor rr-,Esnr lrirn
your steel pen into it and leave it till you
want it again. The potato will not only
prevent the pen from corroding, but it will
make the ink flow freely from it. If your
pen in not writing properly plunge it into
the potato and 1t will be all right
At a special meeting of Borough
Council on Monday night, bids were
opened for the boring of an expert
mental a~rtesian well, with the view
of securing a water supply for Woods
town. Five bids were opened, that OF
Kisner s. BENEFITS, Philadelphia, being the
most satisfactory. Mayor Richman and
Civil Engineer Cassin were authorized to
will be bored on the meadow of Thos. Lip
pincott, along the creek, four acres of
which have been offered to the borough
for 5000.
So many of the passenger on a late local
train on the Morris and Essex Railroad
recently had to stand up in the two rear
cars that an irate German stopped the train
by pulling the bell cord just as it moved
out and demanded that an empty car on the
| side track be attached. The other passen-
gers sustained him, but the demands were
| not needed. When the train started again
<J,o Govpoaa n,llod tho holl onr1 and an
nounced that he would pull it every time
the train started and have the car attached
After a lot of talk the train was backed
down and the car attached.
A swindler has been duping residents of
| East Camden within the past few days,
and the matter has been reported TO the
authorities and a watch is being kept for
the oily-tongued operator. He is one OF
| the many crayon portrait operators that
have been doing South Jersey during the
past year. His plan is to collect whatever
he can get in advance and promise a baud
some frame as an advertisement for the
company as an inducement to get them to
pay something in advance. Reports come
| from a number of cities and towns in the
southern section of the State, where this
| class of swindlers have been operating.
The Commissioner of Appeal met in Nc
| Allister's Hall on Tuesday. But few
changes were made in the duplicate. A
committee appointed by the directors of
the First National Bank asked for the
| withdrawal of the assessment on the lot
recently purchase by them, claiming that
the value of the lot was included in the
stock of the Bank, which is assessed $500
per share. The commissioners refused TO
Withdraw the assessment. The Bank lot
this year is assessed at $1,000, but next year
will be increased to the value OF the I'M
provements now being placed ON it.
All over the County.
The colored residents of Salem have Or
| ganized a brass band.
Anderson's cannery, at Sharptown, is
busy putting up catsup.
The railroad from Alloway station to
| Quinton will soon be completed and trains
running on the same.
Mrs. John Given, of Auburn, was strlck-