The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-03-22

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woman suffrage. the dictation of party OF
ganization, etc.
Sheriff Shinn will draw the list of petit
jurors to-day for the April term of court
General E. Burd Grub is expected t.
arrive from Madrid in the latter part o
April.
Anna A., daughter of Henry c. Risdon
died on Thursday after several months
illness. The funeral took place yester
day.
1t is stated that the Law and Order SO
ciety is about to take steps toward thu
closing of cigar stores and barber shops OF
Sundays.
The six weeks of additional cold weather
predicted by the ground hog has expired
and we may now look for pleasant
weather.
Benjamin w. Zelley won the guessing
box on the large hog slaughtered at Light
caps hotel, Medford, on Tuesday. II
amounted to $3440. The hog weighed
$3.50 pounds.
Henry Black, former resident Of
Springfield, has received a legacy f$5,6OC
by the death of Moses Hopkins, the Cali
fornia millionaire, in whose employ he
was at one time.
James Kurtz, prisoner in the Toms
River Jail, attempted suicide on Tuesday
night by cutting his throat with broken
window glass. He inflicted dangerous
wound but will recover.
Jamison's stationery store has been re-
moved to the new location in the Y. M.
G. A. building Druggist Craig Motfett
expects to occupy his new quarters in the
Masonic Temple this week.
Unclaimed letters remain in the Mount
Holly post Office for W. H. Burtis. Noah
Dennis, Amos Evans, Mrs. Ellie Gaskill,
Margaret Mott, q. E. Shivers, Mrs. James
Webb, Alexander Borden and Clara Jones.
Joseph H. Gaskill has given notice that
he will file bill in chancery for the con-
struction of the will of the late Hezekiah
B. Smith, which he, as counsel for the
Smith heirs, alleges is fatally defective,
and cannot.be carried out.
A committee has been appointed, with
John P. Jones, of Marlton, as chairman,
by the Twenty-third Regiment, New Jer-
sey Volunteers ASSOCIATION, to raise mon
ey to purchase an appropriate wedding
present for their old commander, General
E. Burd Grub.
The school meeting in Mount Holly
was held at the Brainerd street school
house on Tuesday evening The sum
of $4,000 was appropriated for school
purposes, an increase of $500 over that of
last year. Franklin Dill was elected trus-
tee for three years.
Among those on the petit jury of the
United States Circuit court, Trenton, for
the March term, are Bennett Risdon,
Jesse Wells and Benjamin W. Zelley. of
Mount Holly; William C. Farmer and
William W. Slack, Burlington Joseph
Vansant and Joseph S. Mount, Borden
town.
The Birmingham inn was sold at public
sale on Thursday, by the receivers. Muir
rell Dobbins and Isaac P. Goldsmith. as
receiver of the H. B. Smith estate, were
the purchasers. The price paid, includ
ing 324 acres Of land at $l2 per acre, was
1924, 321 IS, or $500 above the amount of
membranes. The hotel is TO be improv-
ed and will be conducted by new COM
pany.
The Philadelphia Press says: IF the
bill which passed the Senate few days
ago, which provides for the erection Of
public buildings in towns where the post
Office receipts have exceeded $4,000 annual
ly for the past three years, becomes law
there will be regular building boom.
New Jersey has the following towns that
would come in under the provisions of the
bill Boonton, Bordentown, Burlington.
Cape May. Dover, Pennington, Freehold,
Hackettstown. Hightstown. Keyport.
Lambertyille, Madison, Millville, Moores-
town, Mount Holly, Ocean Grove, Orange
Valley, Phillipsburg, Salem, SomervilIe,
South Amboy, South Orange, Summit.
Weehawken and West Hoboken."
The village of Ellisdale has sensation
in a libel suit. Mrs. A. S. Taylor
wrote letter to Mrs. Ella Smith at Tren-
ton, stating that her daughter was not
being properly treated by Mrs. Julia
Koenig, with whom she lived, and made
other charges, which the latter regarded
as libelous. Mrs. Koenie's husband took
the matter in hand and after number of
fruitless efforts to get Mrs. Taylor to settle,
has brought suit in the New Jersey Su-
preme court on his own account and that
of his wife, for $1,000 damages Gilbert
& Atkinson On Friday filed Mrs. Taylor's
answer to the suit, in which she claims
she only wrote the letter out of Chris
tian spirit and to protect the little girl
from what she believed to be evil infu-
ences. The case will be tried at the May
term in Trenton. In the meantime the
neighbors of that quiet community will
indulge in much speculation as to what
will be the outcome of the affair.
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