The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-03-08
GENERAL NEWS.

at Dexter, Missouri, causing loss OF S7O,-
600.
"A fire in a building in Sioux City,
Iowa, on Saturday afternoon. damaged
the dry goods stores of H. J. Moynihan
and J. A. Jandt & Co.. to the extent of
about $4,000.
THE Rev. Henry Pereira Mendes, Il
Jewish rabbi, of New York City, was shot
in the abdomen, on Saturday evening, by
a beggar named Jose Messashlei.
who demanded 500. An operation was
performed and the bullet extracted. 1t is
thought the rabbi will recover.
:. Levi N. Blydenburg, Prosecuting
Agent of New Haven, Connecticut. re-
signed on Saturday. He had caused the
arrest of 100 liquor dealers for violation OF
the liquor law, securing the evidence by
means of ''spotters," but the system met
with such general public condemnation
that Mr.. Biydenburg resigned.
THE Manassah society Is a peculiar or
ganizatlon of Chicago, said to be com
posed of colored men who have married
white wives. The society was organized
January 5, 1892, and now has 120 mem
bers. 1t is said there are 480 colored men
living in that city with white wives. The
society recently gave banquet.
"A bottle of wine, which is believed to
have been poisoned, was sent on Friday
to P. d. Armour, the Chicago packer. 1t
purported to have been sent by Potter
Palmer, but Mr.. Armour had been warned
that two men had been overheard plotting
to send him some poisoned wine in Mr..
Palmer's name, and so he did not touch it.
The throwing ola shoe is relic of an
Anglo-Saxon custom. In those early days
the brides father delivered her shoe to
the husband, who touched her with it on
the forehead to denote his authority over
her. This custom, says the Boston Globe
was probably founded upon possible
misinterpretation of Ruth iv, z.
Two negroes got into a dispute at
Canton, Miss. one day last week, the re-
suit of which was that one shot the other
with a revolver. When the man shot at
was picked up for dead, it was found that
he was only stunned, the bullet having
struck him on the forehead, dattening
itself against the skull without doing any
serious injury.
"A posse of deputy sheriffs went to
make some arrests at resort of disorderly
negroes known as the Curve" near Mem
phis, Tennessee, on Saturday night, when
they were fred upon. Deputy Cole was
fatally wounded and three others we're
seriously wounded. On Monday twenty
negroes were arrested, charged with par
ticipation in the shooting.
IA fight between white teamsters and
negroes took place at Clark's Cross Roads,
Kentucky, on Saturday, az result of
which four negroes were killed and three
or four seriously wounded, and two of the
white men were wounded. One of the
white men struck negro with a whip.
without provocatian, whereupon IL
negroes attacked the teamsters with the
result stated.
Fire was discovered in the basement
of crowded tenement in New York on
Sunday evening. Kerosene had been
sprinkled over the wood work and fires
started in three separate rooms Forum
ately the firemen were promptly sum-
moned and the flames extinguished L.
G. Marital, an Italian shoemaker, who had
Just vacated the rooms, is suspected of
the crime.
...Annie Ward, young woman, shot
Michael Gallagher at Ridley Park Station
on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad. Saturday evening.
She claimed that he had ruined her.
Gallagher was taken to the University
Hospital. The young woman gave her
self up to the police of Ridley township,
and was committed to Jail to await the re-
suit of Gallagher's injuries.
AN Augusta, Ca. negro was juggling
with razor the other day and bet fell
low darkey he could swallow the weapon.
The bet was taken and the negro swallow
ed the razor. However. it belonged to the
victim, who was already out dollar, and
he demanded back his weapon. 1t was
finally extracted from the capacious NAV
OF the juggling African, and he now has
to answer a warrant charging him with
with cheating and swindling.
The introduction OF the humble bee
into New Zealand, few years ago, to Sc
cure the fertilization of the red clover
and the remarkable success of this ven
ture, are matters of record. In recent
paper in the New Zealand Journal of
Science" noticed in the "Entomologist's
Monthly Magazine" for May, 1891. Mr..
George M. Thompson, F. L. s., presents
an interesting article on the introduced
Bomb, in New Zealand, giving also list
of the plants and flowers which are visited
by these bees. He makes the interesting
statement that, with few exceptions, he
has never heard of these bees visiting the
flowers of Indigenous plants, but states
that they have become so extraordinarily
abundant that the question has even
arisen in his mind as to whether they
would not become as serious pest to the
apiarist as the rabbits have proved to the
farmer and cultivator, on account of their
absorbing so much of the nectar of the
flowers. He also points out the remarka-
BILE fact in connection with the life of the
humble bee in New Zealand that in many
parts OF the colony 1t does not seem to hi
bernate at all, but is to be seen daily on
flowers all the year round.-Insect Life
The American girl is not slow to grasp
chance. Some time ago The Ladies Home
Journal organized free education system
for girls. and the magazine is now educat-
ing some forty odd girls at Yassar and
Wellesley Colleges, and at the Boston
Conservatory of Music, all the expenses
of the girls being paid by the Journal.