The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-12-04

norman. They refused to give it up, an
the wife sat on the machine when tn
constable attempted to move it. Brow
secured a warrant against the couple fo
interference with an officer, but befor
the day fixed for the hearing the matte
was settled by defendants paying all cost
The twentieth annual meeting of tn
New Jersey State Horticultural Societ
will be held in Trenton, on the secon'
and third of January. The papers as
signed to Burlington county are: rs
advisable to plant commercial orchards o
apples in New Jersey, and the best va
rieties." by Emmor Roberts. "Is it ad
visable to plant orchards of chestnuts II
New Jersey, and the best varieties BY
Charles Parry, of Parry.
The following pupils of the BralnarC
school have attained averages abov'
ninety for the month of November: Elli'
Farrell, Ethel Dill, Edith H. Kingdom
Alice Antrim, May zelley, Alice Johnson
Matte Evans. Kelsey Moore, Harvey
Haines. Howard Atkinson, Harry Evans
Anna r. Kingdom, Florence Moore, Cert
rude Johnson, Samuel zelley, Ida Green
valid. Eva Haines, James Logan, Jr.
Bonnie Evans.
Or. George R. Fortiner died in Camden
on Thursday, after long illness. Deatt
resulted from pneumonia. Some time
since, while cleaning his teeth, the doctor
got some bristles from his tooth brush il
his throat, and never was able to dislodgt
all of them. The constant irritation
caused him great annoyance and en-
feebled his constitution. Or. Fortlnel
studied medicine with DIR. A. G. Haines
of Columbus. His wife is the daughter o.
Job Haines, of the latter place.
The Interstate Steamboat Company has
filed in the Burlington County Clerks
Office certificate to the effect that the
capital stock of the company has been in
creased to $4,000. The additional sub
scribers to this stock are F. B. Vandegrift,
E. M. Coffield, C. S. Vandegrft, Alexan-
der E. Harvey, George F. Tyler, Joseph
L. Osmond, Frederick ]. Potter, Michael
Heron, William Burns, John Burtruf
Samuel S. Taylor Amos B. Headley
George E. Nye, Edward S. Wyckof.
little daughter of John Carrigan,
about eight years old, was seriously in
iured by remarkable accident on Sun
day afternoon at her home near Medford.
Her brother, year or two older, actually
cut off part of her foot with an axe. The
children were playing in the yard and
the girl put her foot on block and dared
her brother to cut it off. He supposed
she would remove her foot but she did
not do so. DIR. Reeve dressed the wound,
which will be likely to cripple the child
for life.
A debate will be given in the lecture
room of the NJ. E. Church, Friday even
ing, December z, at 7.45 o'clock, under
the auspices of the Literary department
of the Epworth League. Subject Re-
solved, That single life is productive OF
greater happiness and usefulness than
married life" The subject will be dis
cussed in the affirmative by Messrs. How
ard E. Alcott and A. Ralph Atwood ; neg
alive by Rev. Joseph Reed and ]. Frank
Scattergood. A collection will be taken
for the benefit of the Epworth League.
Michal Hafner, of Georgetown, has
brought suit against Peter Decamp, for
cruelty to animals. The complaint alleges
that on the 4th of July, some of Hafner's
cows got loose and strayed to Decamp's
The latter took them in and one gave
birth to a calf. Decamp's COWS hooked the
mother and on this account she was I'M
able to give the calf proper attention. On
October %, the complaint says Decamr
got four other cows belonging to Hafner
which he kept two days without milking,
and did not give them proper food. The
case will be heard before Justice eleven
ger next Monday.
The congregation of the Broadway M
E. Church, Camden, is divided into fac
tions favorable and unfavorable to the
pastorate of Rev. E. G. Hancock, whose
first year will not expire until March
next AT recent meeting of the Quar-
terly Conference of the church it was
deemed advisable to request the Annual
Conference, when it convenes in March
next, to sever the pastoral relations.
Neither Rev. Hancock nor the officers of
the church will discuss the matter nor the
causes leading to the sought-for change
1t is stated, however, that Mr. Hancock is
agreeable to the change. The differences
between him and the congregation are
said to be merely matters of church pol
icy. Not breath of disrespect is shown
toward him, and it is averred that on q
congregational vote he would be over.
whelmingly sustained.