The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-02-07
STATE NEWS.

STATE mr. Vs.
Mays Landing is to have National
bank.
The damaged ocean pier at Cape May
will be repaired and extended $50 feet.
Large shipments of cranberries are
being made from the vicinity of Mays
Landing.
Benjamin Giberson, of Port Repub-
lie recently caught two tons of fish in one
day in the Mullica river.
Mrs. Catharine Post, of Lockport, 80
years of age, has just completed patch
work quilt containing SAP blocks.
Hiram Steelman, of Atlantic City,
knocked out five teeth of colored man,
who snatched lighted cigar from his
mouth.
An ordinance is pending before Ocean
City Councils. and has already passed sec
ond reading, in regard to surf bathing. 1t
makes it unlawful to battle after 8 A. M
on Sundays.
John Finnerty, a Jersey City saloon
keeper. says he fell asleep in street car
land was robbed of $167 while on his way
to pay brewers bill. The police do not
believe his story.
The Camden County Bar has endors-
ed the appointment of William Walter
Phelps to the Court of Errors and APP
peals as preliminary step towards the
abolition of lay representatives in the
courts.
-Asbury Park wants the annual meet
ing of the League of American Wheel
men in 1894, and is trying hard to secure
it. The Athletic Association and the AS
bury Park Wheelmen are interested in
the movement.
Miss Lizzie Dooley, of Bakersville,
Atlantic county, had a fierce fight with
hawk on Friday. She found the bird of
prey in her hen house killing the chick
ems. and before she could dispatch the in--
truder the hawk had torn nearly all the
hair from Miss Dooley's head
The Italians. Charles Prince and
Dominica Durubbo, tried at Elizabeth for
killing Patrick Kelley, we're on Saturday
found guilty of murder in the second de-
gree. Durubbo, who fred the fatal shot,
was sentenced to twenty years in prison
and Prince to ten years.
The manufacturers of this State have
combined for the purpose of fighting the
fifty-five hour law. Petitions have been
sent to every factory in the State with the
request that the employees be asked to sign
it. The petition asks that the ffty-fve
hour be repealed, declaring it to be
against the interests of the workingmen.
Edward W. Gritten, one of County
Clerk Dennis McLaughlin's assistants at
the Hudson county Court House, has
fallen heir to 100000. About year ago
he received word that an aunt in Naples,
where she had been residing for some
years, had died and he was one of the
heirs to her estate.
-Twenty-three members of Company
E, old Fifth Regiment, N. G., of Newark.
have been dishonorably discharged by
Colonel Campbell for refusing to parade
with the regiment when ordered to Pater-
son recently. The discharged men also
refused to obey the order consolidating
the First and Fifth Regiments.
John Zolkowsky. aged 20, tailor liv-
ing at Hoboken, was committed on Satur-
day for trial upon charge of attempting
to poison his wife. He has lived unhap-
PLY with his wife and has been heard to
threaten her life. Friday night, his
daughters declare. they caught their ia
Their soaking matches in glass of water
and next morning one of them saw him
scrape the sulphur from matches and
place it into cup of coffee, which he
placed at his wife's plate, as the girl al
leges. For her interference he beat her.
Charles Redding. of Dividing Creek,
recently stole firewood in order to keep
himself and his family warm, and
was sent to the county jail. His family,
being destitute, were soon obliged to 90
to the almshouse. Thursday night, Mrs.
Redding, who is determined not to stay
there, stole away from that institution,
walked two miles to Bridgeton. holding
her baby at her breast and made her ap-
pearance at the county jail, asking to see
her husband. The meeting was an affect
ing one.
1T is estimated there are from 5000
to 10000 tree stumps in the $50 acres
of flowed land which constitutes Lake
Musconetcong at Stanhope. That they
form an unsightly spectacle Is known to
every traveller on the Lackawanna rail-
road Two of Stanhope's citizens have
contracted for the removal of sections
at the rate of four cents per stump. and
the cutter gets the wood. The work can
only be prosecuted when the lake is
frozen, and it is calculated 1000 or 5000
will be removed this winter.
Sheriff Lacy. who is Warden of the
Atlantic county JAIL has been served with
notice from the State Board of Health
to have every prisoner who is confined in
the Jail vaccinated Immediately also to
keep the jail in perfect state of cleanli-
ness. Complaints have been made to the
State Board regarding the sanitary con-
dition of the Jail. The Sheriff is power
less to do any more than he has done in
this direction until the Board of Free
holders remedy the evil caused by the
small dimensions of the sewerage pipe
leading to the river. The local board of
Health served notice on the Freeholders
to remedy this defect, but they ignored
this notice.
Lincoln Despard, Of Sparta Junction,
has recently found marriage certificate
issued in 1774. declaring that Bannistsr
Harcourt and Helena Maxwell were mar
ried by Reverend Buckworthy, of Sails
bury, England. Despard has in his pos
session an old prayer book of that period,
and was examining it Friday when the
back gave away, disclosing small slit at
the top. and in this was folded the certf-
cate in tiny slip and evidently for the
purpose of concealment. Despard says
that this paper, according to tradition in