The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-05-09

Early cabbage plants, So per THOUSAND
at Rosbach's, Pemberton.
Headquarters for flowers, fowerir
plants and floral designs, A. q q. no
backs. Pemberton.
Twenty men, and goC41-Sed boy
wanted at once by Chas. B. Hornor q so
to work in their nurseries.
Get your wall paper, carpets, oil cloth
and window shades while they are bein
sold at a big discount at T. w. Bortoni
A. vi. Pumyea and family returne'
yesterday from the South, where the
have been sojourning for several months
The Board of Assessors of Burlingto
County will meet at the Court Hous
Mount Holly on Tuesday May 10th at
o'clock A. M.
The following officers of the Brother
hood Cemetery Association were electe
on Wednesday evening: Frank b. Al
kinson, A. E. Gaskill. Thomas c. Shinr
John Throckmorton, William B. Pearson
John L. Severns. The board organizes
as follows: F. B. Atkinson. president
John Throckmorton, secretary William
B. Pearson, treasurer John L. Severns
sexton.
The best groceri es, meats and provision
at the lowest possible prices. That is tn
method of doing business adopted b.
George w. Durand at his store, corne
Water and King streets. Persons desiring
to make q dollar purchase the creates
amount of goods, can do no better thar
call at that store. Goods delivered free tc
any part of the town, and orders calico
for when desired.
James Fisher, aged 35 years, came from
Philadelphia to Lumberton in his boa'
last week, going around the latter neigh
borhood purchasing rags. On Friday he
complained of severe pains, and on Sat
urday morning he was found quite sick,
lying on the bank of the creek. He was
brought to the Burlington county hos
pital where he died at noon. Coroner
Hibberd viewed the body and found that
death was the result of rupture OF the
bowels, with which deceased had suffered
for some time.
The annual meeting of the Mount
Holly Insurance Company was held on
Saturday, when the following directors
were elected: Amos Gibbs, Emmor Rob-
erts, Caleb D. Shreve. Zebedee R. Wills,
Joseph Powell, Charles Evan Merritt,
George D. Wills, Alfred L. Black, Benajah
P. Wills. B. F. Haywood Shreve, Mark R.
Sooy. Howard Parry. John R. Howell.
President, Amos Gibbs; Secretary and
Treasurer, Harris Cox; Solicitor, Caleb
D. Shreve.
Now is the time to plant hardy peren-
malls; you can get twelve varieties that
will bloom this season, for one dollar. at
Rosbach's, Pemberton, N. j., where you
will also find big stock of roses, carna-
tons, bedding, vase and basket plants, as
well as all varieties of plants for the veg
etable garden. You viii be surprised at
the quantity, variety and quality of cut
flowers you can get for from 80 cts. to 81.
Try a sample lot. Orders left with James
NJ. Smith, baggagemaster at the Mount
Holly railroad station, or at THE News
Office. will receive prompt attention.
James Mclaughlin, a vagrant who was
released from Camden Jail on Wednesday,
was found early Thursday morning lying
unconscious at the foot of an embankment
along the Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Fish House station. His face was cut
and his skull fractured. Mclaughlin
had quarreled with Thomas Harris, fell
low tramp, in whose company he had
been at midnight. and Harris and a woman
who passed for McLaughlin's wife we're ar
rested. At the Cooper Hospital, during a
temporary period of consciousness, Nc
Laughlin said he had been struck by a
train. Both the parties are well known
to the Mount Holly police. Harris goes
by the name of "Fishtown Tom"
The headless body of man, about 80
years old, was found on Saturd day morn
ing on the Pennsylvania Railroad track
at Mary street, Elizabeth. In the pockets
were found several pay envelopes of the
Diamond State Iron Company, of Will
mington, DEL, and on one was written
Patrick Conner. This is thought to be
the dead mans name. A letter was also
found dated Mount Holly, February 2Sth,
signed "Y our loving Aunt Annie 81. Col
Inns" Annie II. Collins is the wife of
George Collins. who Is employed at Ris-
don's foundry. She is at present away
from home. George says she has no
nephew by the name mentioned, but has
one named Edward Randall, who George
thinks was here sometime in February,
and that his wife wrote to him about the
28th.