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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-08
RailroadNotes.

The freight and passenger rates on the
Vincentown branch have been raised.
The excursion rate to Philadelphia is
$l.15, raise of IL cents. The round trip
to Mount Holly costs 45 cents, formerly
"a cents.
William BEETLE has been elected to fill
the position of director of the West Jer-
sew Railroad made vacant by the death
of Hon. Thomas H. Dudley. Mr.. BEETLE
has given a great deal of attention to
railroads for several years, and will make
an able officer.
The men at the Pavonia shops of the
Pennsylvania Railroad have been placed
on three-quarter time. Eighteen men
we're laid off last Saturday. 1t is said to
be the intention of the company to re-
duce it's force certain number each week
as long as business continues in its pres.
ent condition.
Saturday and Sunday were two big days
or the railroads running out of Camden
to country resorts and especially to the
seashore. The West Jersey railroad com
pany reported that they had the biggest
Sunday of the season, while the Reading
was also up to the highest notch.
On the former road on Saturday l72 cars
were sent to Atlantic City, and 76 to Cape
May, Sea Isle City, Holly Beach, Ocean
City and Anglesea On Sunday the same
road sent 1ls cars to Atlantic City and 81
cars to the other resorts on it's lines.
The Reading railroad on Saturday dis
patched 2O5 cars to Atlantic City and SO
Sunday. Trains were run out of the diff
ferent stations almost as fast as they could
be made up, during both days, and despite
the heavy traffic not an accident was re-
ported.
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MadRord.

The Methodist Sunday school will hold
its picnic at Taunton on Wednesday.
Last week while the hired man OF
George Haines, farmer, was loading
empty cans at the depot his horse became
frightened and ran away, upsetting the
wagon.
The Board of Health has compelled
William B. Cooper to remove his duck
farm on account of being nuisance. He
has property near ELEPHANTS mill and
will remove his ducks there.
A party of young folks from Mount
Holly visited the Misses Shingle on
Branch street on Tuesday night. After
being served with an elegant collation. by
the hostess they returned at an early
hour.
The newly organized choir of the Bap-
fist Church at Medford made its initial APP
pearance Sunday night. The voices OF
the singers have been trained for classical
music, consequently the rendition of the
hymns was of high order. Miss Mamie
Single is soprano Miss Elvina Walling-
ton, alto, A. S. Haines, tenor, Eli Thomas
basso, and Lillian Baker, graduate of the
Peddie Institute, soloist.
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Israel Sprague, of Smithville, is visiting
his parents here.
The new Baptist Church is looming W
in goodly proportions.
Mrs. Name LeNoir and children, o.
Woodbury., are visiting Mrs. Potter.
Mrs Idell and daughters, of Mount
Holly, are stopping at Capt. R. A. Woods
Mrs. Rebecca w. Kelly has gone tc
Long Branch on visit to her sister. Mrs
Westcott.
Some of our young men we're handsome
ly entertained by the young ladies of Bar
negat last Saturday evening.
John salmons and family will occupy
their new residence or Main street, mex
fall Mr.. Salmons is the newly elected
principal of our school,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Long and children
and Mr.. Grant, of New York, are stopping
at Ensign Miller's. Mr.. Miller's seems ar
attractive boarding place for New Yorkerl
as he has house full during the season.
The merry -go-round has left us and gone
to Tuckerton. But the aching void is par
TALLY filed by an invention Of the Hoppe
boys who have gotten up fac smile o
the above machine, and get their ride
free, beside the fun.
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ThaForast Fires,


The big fire which has burned whole
week in Burlington and Atlantic counties
has exhausted itself at last. The south
and east winds drove the flames over
against the great swamp, an impenetra'
BILE stretch of land covered with dense
thickets of briers, wild shrubbery and
giant cedars. Tuesday nights rain ex-
tinguished what fire was lett, and it was
a relief to the inhabitants of the desolated
section, who were in continual fear that
change of wind might bring back the
flames again.
1t has been a week of terror for the
people of Washington township, and
quite number of poor berry pickers
are homeless, with little or no prospect
of earning a livelihood now that both
the huckleberry and cranberry swamps
have been ruined for years to come.
Thirty dwelling houses, with several
barns and out buildings, cranberry houses
on the boys, four bridges, and two hotels
have been burned. A. E. Roster, who
is the assessor of Washington township,
says the damage to cranberry boys is
not less than SIS, 900 to this years crop.
The fire burned so fercely that it may
take three or four years for the boys to
recover and grow new vines.
The largest tracts of timber in South
Jersey are now charred, and the trunks
of trees left standing are as black as
charcoal The loss on buildings Is placed
at $4,000. to timber $500, 1000, and to the
years crop of cranberries $4,000. Sey-
eral bridges were destroyed. All this
damage was caused by the carelessness of
Italian laborers, who were burning brush
on newly cleared land near Columbia,
in Mullica township. The fire got away
from them and was carried into the
woods by the wind The law seems to
afford no protection against such fearful
destruction.
The fire burned over several hundred
acres of valuable first and second growth
timber belonging to Judge Emson and
others. Judge Emson had over three
hundred cords of oak and pine wood
which was cut and ready for market
hurned
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The new Catholic church was occupied
for the first time in the service of the
congregation on Sunday. The dedication
will occur next Sunday.
The plan adopted for the new parish
building for Christ church has been fig.
ured on by builders and found to cost
about $4,000. to be built of stone. Az
that is much larger sum than the YES
try has to expend less costly plan will
have to be decided on.
Henry Heaviland. of Mount Holly
swore out warrant for the arrest of E
Horner, of Riverton, for selling liquor
without license, which was served by
Constable Brown, of Mount Holly, last
Friday. Horner waived hearing, and
was placed under $500 bail to appear at
the September term of Court. |. Meeks
the hotel keeper, is his bondsman.
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Township Affairs.

The meeting of the township commit
tee, on Tuesday evening, was not as COM
Portable as some of its predecessors have
been. Probably the stringency in the
money market had something to do with
the condition of affairs, for there is no
doubt that there is a decided stringency
in the township treasury.
The treasurer of the township was not
in a very good humor. Sometime prior
to the meeting he had been waited upon
by an irate individual who had threaten
ed dire things, among them to have the
treasurer indicted for overrunning the
appropriations.
With this shadow over his head, the
treasurer naturally felt like being very
careful about paying bills, and the result
was that several accounts remained I'm.
settled, among them bill of one of the
committeeman for several days at $l.50
per day for time put in at the Washing-
ton street bridge, Notwithstanding the
fact that part of the time was spent at
the seashore on a fishing trip.
When the meeting finally adjourned il
was decided that work on the roads
should cease, and all extra policemen
should be withdrawn. With these two
items Topped of. the committee think
they will be able to pull through.
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Literary Notes.

With the August Number of Book NezOs
PHILADELPHIA is concluded the eleventh
volume of this excellent literary periodi-
cal, and complete index to the contents
for the year is given. This issue is par
ticularly rich In contributed articles.
From Rev. Edward Everett Hale We have
an unconventional review OF the New
Dictionary" from Mr.. Warren Snyder, a
veteran bookseller and still an active one,
an article on "Old and New Time Book
Prices ;" from Miss Anne Hollingsworth
Wharton, author of Through Colonial
Doorways." daintiIy written letter from
the Chicago Fair; and the accustomed
letters from Boston by Mr.. Dole. and from
Berlin by Vernon" Mr.. Talcott Will
liams's article is meaty and scholarly as
usual. The frontispiece portrait is Of
Professor Angelo Hellprin scientist, author
and traveller. Portraits of rising authors,
and of some whose works and names are
well-known, are included among the Illus
trations from new books Reviews, notes,
an asked and Answered" page. the
descriptive price list of the months books,
and page of selected poetry make up an
attractive number.
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Last year cranberry growers were badly
troubled by depredations committed, as
they thought, by grasshoppers Berries
were badly eaten on many boys. State
Entomologist John B. Smith, of the Rut-
gers College Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton, examined the boys. His opinion,
expressed at the meeting of the Cranberry
done by katydids, met with flat contradic-
ton from all the old growers, many of
whom said they had never seen katydid
on a bog.
Professor Smith gives the following
statement of his examination of boys in
Ocean county:
At Toms River / visited number of
the boys lying east of the town, forming
part of the series from Island Heights.
Here l found grasshoppers much more
abundant than on the Atlantic county
boys, and as a whole the boys were in
very much poorer condition, growing up
stream, until they were as bad as they
could we'll be, wholly overrun with weeds
and grasses. Here was a veritable para
disc for OrthOptera, and here grasshoppers
were most numerous here also nearly all
the berries were eaten out But besides
grasshoppers kstydids were everywhere
about and flew noiselessly and unobtru-
sively away when started. On one of
the first boys of the series | found
George R. Apologize, who kindly showed
me all over it. especially pointing out the
worst injured portions. He was positive
that the grasshoppers had done the dam
age, but though there we're hundreds of
grass hoppers all about him he had some
difficulty in finding freshly eaten berry,
and when he did / found him a katy
did near by with crop full of seeds.
Though there were dozens of them on
the bog he had never seen one of them
before, and his case Is not at all unique.
| caught number of the common Acrid-
ids, and had no difficulty in convincing
him that grass and grass only had formed
their food In two specimens of the Par
o1rya seed was mixed with the grass, but
as the grasses on the bog were ripening
seed, and these seeds were badly eaten,
| could not be certain whether it was
grass or cranberry seed.
Mr.. Applegate told me that the grass
hoppers came on the Dogs some time in
July, that the berries began to be eaten
in that month and in August, and that
early in September no more fruit was
destroyed. The insects invaded his bog
from the southern edge, moved north
wardly with the prevailing winds, and
had not yet spread to all parts of it.
Here, as elsewhere, where the bog was
clean, injury was least noticeable.
Some distance up stream ! found bof
practically without fruit, and very grassy
and here were grasshoppers and locusti
in countless numbers. Another bog hac
fruit in patches, here and there. All
or nearly all, of it was destroyed, anc
from every patch one or more katydid
e we're started, quite enough to account fo
n all the eaten fruit
a was more than ever convinced tina
. the katydids assisted by one of the large
species of meadow locusts, were the Gran
berry feeders, and that the Acridida, o
grasshoppers, were guililess.
To satisfy himself still further Mr.
. Smith shut up grasshoppers OF differen
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species in glass jars, in which he put
few spears of grass and few cranberries
No cranberries were eaten while grass
was left, and some species starved t6
death rather than touch the berries
The injury on cranberry boGs attrlb
uted to grasshoppers is always the same
The berry is eaten into from one side, the
pulp is rejected and only the seeds are
taken. The berry soon dries and shrivelf
up. The very fact that there is no varia'
ton in the injury points to the conclusion
that only one or few very closely allied
species can be responsible for it, because
it would be decidedly unusual thing for
insects of different families, differing also
anatomically, to have SO exactly the same
food habits.
Professor Smith maintains further that
it would be impossible for the grasshopper
to produce the bite on the berry because
of the shape of its jaws, while the katydid
could easily do so.
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Chafey & Brown are selling a number
of bicycles.
The peach crop is large. while the
whortleberry crop is very small.
The Catholic picnic will be held at Al
lens grove, Wednesday, August 8.
Quite a number of Egyptians attended
the picnic at Browns Mills in the Pines
last Thursday.
Shipments of milk are becoming SC
heavy from this station that larger milk
platform will be built.
The -go-round is well attended.
Professor Deworth gave benefit last Fri
day evening in favor of the NJ. E. chapel.
500 was Melted.
Three hundred tickets to the New
Jersey Dairymen's Association picnic at
Browns Mills were sold over the Penn
berton and Hightstown Railroad.
George L. Shinn and wife left on Sat
urday for a three weeks trip to the
Worlds Fair. Walter Cottrell returned
on Friday from his trip to the same place.
If the signs do not fail George L. Shinn,
the genial dry goods merchant, will
be unanimously nominated and elected
County Collector. Mr.. Shinn is a sta l.
wart Republican, and will make an ex-
cellent Collector.
Frank S. Gaskill, president of the IN
ion Transportation Company, Treasurer
Collin B. Meirs, Secretary William n. Da-
Wis, Superintendent William Burtis, Di-
rectors James H. Woodward, S. B. Taylor
Elmer Cowperthwaite and George l..
Shinn went on their annual fishing trip
last week. making the Bayview at Ware
town their headquarters.
The County Board of Registry, which
met at Toms River, Saturday, July %,
appointed the following board for Plums-
ted township: George F. Compton, o.
car F. Horner, DEM, Jacob A. McKaig,
Zenith H. Bunting, Rep. All of the
above members held over, except Comp
ton, who was appointed to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Joseph
Camp, postmaster.
The last engine purchased by Superin
tendent Burtis for the Union Transporta-
ton Company makes three engines now
owned by the company. This will en-
able them to avoid serious delays in event
of an engine breaking down, as heretofore
they were compelled to wait for several
hours before the Pennsylvania Railroad
could furnish an engine. The manage
ment of the Union Transportation Com
pany deserve great credit for their energy.
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Saved a travelling Mans Life.

WHITEHALL, N. Y, Sept. 20, 1894
commercial traveller came into my store
recently and said, 81 am looking for some
thing that saved my life. was taken
with terrible symptoms of cholera morbus
about year ago, and stopped into some
store along this street and got cure
for it." l showed him Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Dlarrhea Remedy
He did not recognize it at first, but on
tearing off the wrapper says, "Yes, this
Is it. 1t saved my life. don't need il
now, but am going to buy this SO as no
to be without it." This remedy meets
the wants of the people and sells well
here. c. H. Broughton, Druggist. For
sale by Elmer D. Prickitt. Druggist, &c
Main Street, Mount Holly. and Lumberton
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Riverside.

Thomas Hunter, of Bridgeboro, has
purchased the farm of Frank Rupshlre,
on the creek road from Bridgeboro &c
Centerton, containing "a acres, and will
move to it next spring.
Before Justice Rhoades, on Friday, was
heard the case of Hawkins vs.. Hughes, OF
Bordentown, charged with trespass, as
sault and battery, etc. Isaac E. Antrim
represented Hughes and Clarence Atkin-
son represented Hankins The case was
brought to Riverside, in the language OF
the eloquent counsel for the plaintiff, 'in
order that it might be heard before an
intelligent justice" The decision of the
court will be announced to-day.
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Hightstown.

Two weeks of sickness and death have
elapsed and it is now the belief of our
physicians that the epidemic of diphtheria
that has visited this place is at an end
There have been about thirty cases in all
and eleven deaths. Only four new cases
have been reported during the past week.
There are no cases that need cause alarm
and most of the patients are convalescent
or entirely recovered. The quarantine
regulations and the excellent sanitary con-
dltion of the town seem to have kept the
disease within the smallest possible
bounds.
All the State authorities who have been
here, as well as our local physician, unite
in saying that the epidemic was caused by
infected milk.
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The PRICE of Milk.

DIR. w. C. Parry, Secretary of the New
Jersey Division of the United Dairymen's
Protective Association. has made state
ment for the Dairymen's Association,
explaining the position taken by the as
ISOLATION in the controversy with the
milk dealers of Philadelphia over the
price of that commodity for the month
of August. which the latter still keep at
eight cents quart, while able to pur-
chase it at 81 cents wholesale.
He says;
"In the Public Ledger, of Tuesday, July
25 the Dairymens Association was crit
icised by the Secretary of the Dealers Elk
change and other dealers for raising the
price unnecessarily high for July, and
they are condemned by members of the
Exchange for not keeping the price up
during August Inasmuch as the dealers
have made statements calculated to mis-
lead your readers, and although | am
doubtful of the propriety of rushing before
the public with matters pertaining only To
business arrangements, the public is a
party at interest in this instance, as the
question raised is over commodity and
the price OF 1t, for which the people Of
Philadelphia pay a sum amounting to
about So, 100000 annually. The dispute if
really brought about by the desire Of the
dealers to arrange the market so that they
can charge cents per quart for the milk
sold during August instead of 8, an in
crease of one-third over the regular sum
mer price, or on the city's business, o
$500, 900 to 100000 for the month, an in
crease to the people of about 5000 900.
1.-THE farmers appear IN peculiar posi-
ton to one not understanding the work
ings of the milk trade | admit. Tit
dealers proposing to give them four cent
quart for milk, aud farmers to sell at 81
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HIGH Life Enisode.

The announcement of the coming mar
riage of Miss Ollie Wilkinson, of Balti-
more, to Charles Manchester, of Philadel-
phia, discloses a remarkable story of inter-
woven affections seldom equaled in fiction.
Walter j. Wilkinson, a brother of Miss
Ollie Wilkinson. will also shortly be mar
ried to Mrs Charles Manchester, she hav-
ing recently been divorced from her hus-
band. Thus the divorced wife will marry
the brother of her former husbands wife.
The Macalesters are as prominent in
Philadelphia society as are the Wilkinsons
in Baltimore, and the high social standing
of all the principals of the little drama
make their romance doubly interesting.
1t was during the early part of last win
ter that the curtain went up on the first
act. The scene was laid in the sunny
South, where Mr.. and Mrs. Manchester
had journeyed, after making visit to the
home of the Wilkinsons in Baltimore.
Later they were joined in their Southern
retreat by Walter ]. Wilkinson and his
sister Miss Ollie.
All hands fell in love, and while Mr..
Manchester was whispering sweet nothings
into the willing ears of Miss Wilkinson,
Mrs Manchester and Mr.. Wilkinson were
too busy with their own affairs to notice it.
The result of all this was quiet divorce,
whereby the bonds of matrimony hereto
fore existing between the Philadelphia
couple were severed. But by the divorce
two other marriages were rendered
possible.
The Macalesters are one of oldest fami-
lies of Philadelphia. Charles Manchester
is resident of Riverton, but spends
large portion of his time at his cottage
and shooting box near Avalon.
He is member of several clubs, but be-
ing an enthusiastic gunner, was most close
ly identified with the Riverton Gun
Club He is known as one of the most
expert amateur wing shots in America,
if not in the world. He became famous
among shooters as member of the crack
Riverton and Philadelphia Gun Clubs,
AMI in 1890 was matched by his friends to
uphold the honor of Philadelphia against
DR.. q. F. Knapp,the celebrated New York
crack Three matches, each for $1,000 a
side. with a side bet of $4,000 on the win
ner of two, were arranged.
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Rev. R. A. Rodrick preached at Beact
Haven on Sunday.
Mrs. Philip F. Slack has gone to Cali
fornia to visit her daughter.
Rev. Job H. Chambers preached at thu
Baptist Church, on Sunday.
Miss Margaret Semple has gone to As
bury Park on an extended visit.
Joseph g. Bower is slowly recovering
from his severe attack of illness.
Rev. Robert F. Y. Pierce and family
of Rockford, ILL.,, are visiting friends il
Mount Holly.
Mrs. Thomas R. Risdon, son ant
Thomas Alcott, Jr., have gone to Ocear
Grove for few weeks stay.