The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-30

! times, the last shot taking eject IN tn
: leg and bringing him down.
Charles Fl. Deacon has gone on bus
: mess trip to Boston.
The new public school building will b
ready for occupancy about the first o
4 March.
Joseph g. Bower and Martin Bayers
3 dorfer, who have been quite i'll, have re
covered.
Sheriff Townsend, on Saturday, sold th'
/ property of Rebecca Bennett in Pember
ton, to Aaron Early, for 800.
Peter Walker has sold his portable
, photograph gallery to Bower & Holeman
who will make tour of the county will
it.
Pemberton on Saturday evening, where
they pleased large audience with the
farce Poor Pillicoddy."
Mrs. Thomas d. Armstrong, of Mount
Holly. died at the Continental hotel, Phil
adelphia, yesterday. She had been sick
about a week with pneumonia.
Notwithstan ding the various rumors to
the contrary the carpet mill did not start
yesterday, and, we are sorry to say, there
is no immediate prospect of their running.
James Stiles, living on Joseph Powell's
farm, near Lumberton, was at work with
a circular saw on Saturday, when his hand
caught in it, decorating his thumb and
three fingers.
The third annual meeting of the Build
ing and Loan Association League of New
Jersey was held in Trenton on Thursday,
James L. Jamison represented the Mount
Holly Association.
Franklin S. Zelley and wife, OF Jackson
vile, were thrown from their carriage
near Hartford, on Tuesday. their horses
becoming frightened at the cars. Mrs.
Zelley was badly bruised.
George Bauer was lodged in Jail, at
Mount Holly, yesterday, for trying to kiss
Amanda Schmtt, of Riverton, against
her will, and afterwards threatening to
whip her husband tor interfering
Lincoln's birthday will be celebrated in
Mount Holly on Monday evening, Febru-
airy II, at o'clock, by a public meeting
in the court house. Mark r. Sooy will
preside. The Grafton will be delivered
by Rev. Dr. s. Giffard Nelson. Seats will
be provided for ladies.
One of the reasons assigned by counsel
for defendants in the JOSIAH Wallace case
why new trial should be granted is that
William F. Morgan, husband of the plain
tiff, conversed with members of the jury
about the case after they were empanelled
as jurors IN said cause, and before they
had rendered their verdict. Samuel K.
Robbins, of counsel for defendants, has
been granted an order to take testimony
on this point
George A. Frey, principal owner of the
Camden Courier, has been arrested on
charge of criminal libel preferred by Coun-
Gilman J. R. Carson. and retaliated by
causing the arrest of W. S. Schermer-
horn, manager of the Camden Telegram,
on charge of forgery. Schermerhorn is
a son-in-law of Carson. Frey alleges that
Schermerhorn endorsed check for $25
made out to the Courier and sent to the
Telegram Office in mistake, and deposited
the check in bank.
There is still great deal of restitution
and suffering in Mount Holly. Yester-
day, woman applied to Justice Clev-
enger for an order on the overseer of the
poor. The justice found that the woman
had three children, one of whom was very
sick, and she had neither food nor fuel.
He supplied her immediate wants. The
special appropriation voted at the last
town meeting is all gone and the overseer
of poor is unable to give any assistance TO
the many applicants who call on him.
Thomas Brown, who lived near Budd-
town. died suddenly on Tuesday night.
He was at home by himself. and had gone
to the barn to look after his stock. When
his daughter came home she found that
he had just been in the house, a fresh
stick of wood having been placed in the
stove AS he did not come to his supper,
she went to the barn and found him lying
on the floor. Assistance was secured and
the old gentleman was taken into the
house, and medical aid was summoned,
but he died just as the doctor was hitch
ing his horses Apoplexy was the cause
of death.