The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-19
STATE NEWS.

The Cumberland county democrats
will hold their convention on Monday,
October I'd. Candidates for Surrogate,
Sheriff, Coroner and two Assemblymen
Will be nominated.
President Cieyeland has sent to the
Senate the nomination of Third Lieut..
Percy FL. Brereton, formerly of Paterson,
to be Second Lieutenant in the Revenue
Marine Service.
Ocean county Freeholders have fixed
the amount to be raised by taxation at
$50, 900, decrease as compared with last
year. The rate of taxation is also lower,
being $769 per 81, 200.
A restaurant keeper at Newark is to
be prosecuted by the colored people be-
cause he charges them extra for the SER
vice he gives them, with view of driv-
ing away their trade.
Laura Boyd, of Camden, who with
Espin Ashton, ST., was struck by train
on the Atlantic City Railroad, on Sunday.
August 9th, died on Friday at the Cooper
Hospital from her injuries. Ashton died
a few days after the accident.
-Gustavus Fisher, ex-Mayor of New
Brunswick, New Jersey, and for ten years
professor of languages in Rutgers College,
died on Saturday, aged 70 years. He was
native of Prussia, a graduate of the
University of Berlin.
The Morris and Essex division of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-
road does not employ the block system,
nor has it an interlocking switch, but no
passenger in a coach has ever lost his life
by accident on that division.
Antonio Polecastio, an Italian. of Jer-
sey City, was sentenced to ten years in
State Prison by Judge Hudspeth on
Thursday, for placing bowlder on the
Pennsylvania railroad track at Harrison,
with the intention of wrecking train.
Miss Grace Post, daughter of Thomas
Post, well known citizen of Eastwood,
was found dead in bed Thursday morning
by Miss Ida Conklin. her room mate. The
girl recently had been quite ill. Her
death is said to have been caused by an
affection of the brain.
The Camden County Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee met on Saturday, and
set the following dates for the nomination
and election of delegates to the Senatorial
and Sheriff's Conventions Nomination,
September 20, election, October 2, conven-
ton. October 4.
The Singer Sewing Machine Works
| in Elizabeth will run but five days a week
hereafter, closing on Saturday. They en-
pIoy 1000 hands usually, but 1000 were
laid off recently. The pay roll in busy
times averages $4,000 week Now it is
less than 100000
The State Geologist for New Jersey
has calculated that the amount of water
which flows annually through Bsrnegat
inlet amounts to 2.0l6, 900 cubic feet, or
more than three times the amount which
flows from the water shed of the Hudson
river in the same time.
AT recent meeting of the Presbytery
of Jersey City the Rev. G. LANCE, of the
German Presbyterian Church, at CarIs-
tadt, resigned his pastorate, giving as a
reason that there was no cooperation in
the congregation, and the residents of the
village were too tough" to be reached By
the influence of the pulpit. The resigna-
ton was accepted.
Captain George w. Deeths, of Com
pany K, First regiment, of Newark, was
arrested Thursday night, charged with EN-
bezzlng the proceeds of the sale of twenty
excursion tickets of Lincoln Post. The
tickets were entrusted to Deeths to sell,
and be failed to make returns. it is
charged Deeths is also summoned to APP
pear at reeimental headquarters in con-
nection with the finances of his company.
Elliot Harden, proprietor of the Ho-
tel Cumberland, in Brideeton, whose ap-
pication for a renewal of his license was
laid over by the Cumberland County
Excise Commission on Thursday. openly
charges blackmail on that body. He de-
clares his license was not granted because
he is IAN American. Republican, and re-
fused to bribe the Commissioners that
he was charged $3.50 in excess of the IL
cense fee of $500 for the license and re-
fused to pay it,"
The Jersey City Board of Finance on
Friday offered 100000 of five per cent
assessment bonds, to run for twenty
years. The only bid received was from