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The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-06
THE NEWS
Eastern and Middle
States.

A locust's sting ended the life OF
May Holmes, aged 16, of Atwood,
Ind.
In a battle between poaching fisher
men and officers near Geneseo, N. y,
one fisherman was fatally shot.
During a fire in Bridgeport, Connec.
ticnt, William Judd, a fireman, fell
from a ladder and was fatally injured.
Forty cases of black diphtheria de-
veloped at Chester, N. Y, in "A hours,
and the town is almost in a panic. 3
In his endeavor to see a wreck on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Ithaca,
N. Y, Henry G. Nettle had his head
split open going through a bridge.
Two daughters, aged 10 and 12years,
respectively, of a farmer neal Fredonia,
New York, sought shelter from a storm
under a tree and were struck and killed
by lightning. Alarm laborer was badly
shocked by the current.
The steamship H. M. Whitney ran
into and sunk the barge Shamokin,
laden with coal, from Philadelphia for
Boston, off Pollock Rip light, Martha's
Vineyard. The crew was saved.
Forty prisoners in the Massachusetts
State Prison, at Boston, refused to con-
tinue at work in the chair shop, and
one of them, who made a hostile
movement against Officer Thomas
Donovan, was shot and MORALLY
wounded. During the excitement fire
broke out in the prison, but only trif-
ling damage was done. t
Caught on a grade crossing by a
freight train, Cornelius Andelvelde and
Adam Landenschleker, of Dunkirk, N.
Y, were killed.
Mrs. Halliday, the condemned muir
deress, has been taken from Monticello,
N. Y, to Dannemora Prison, where
she will be electrocuted.
The steamer Puritan, of the Fall
River Line, collided with u coal collier
in Long Island Sound and tore Va big
hole in her side.
Charged with Incorporating 49,
900 of the Worthington Publishing
Company's funds, Richard Worthing-
ton was arrested at New York.
Annie Sautter, the 17-year-old laugh
ter of Gottlieb Sauter, a tailor of
WiIliamsburgh, N. Y, a shot by
Michael Gessner, who then shot him
self. Both died. 5
Brooklyn Is worried about its water
supply, and may have too look to New
Jersey for relief.
Yale students under age need not
pay board bills, says a Connecticut Su-
preme Court decision.
For stabbing Actor Harry Mellow
ell on Broadway, New York, William
de andeville, another actor, was ar
rested.
Because Theodore Scholle black
balled friends of Chaplain Mrs. Schmitz,
of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, at
Winfield, l.. l., the angry woman cut
off half his moustache in the meeting.
Robert Gregory, 80 years sexton of
St. PauI's Episcopal Church at Pater-
son, New Jersey, was drowned in Pas
sale river at SIngac, \ an ~unsuccess-
full effort to rescue Daniel Hall, aged
IL, from a similar fate. l
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Southern ana West
ern States.

A meteor, falling in Weston, Mass,
lighted the town brilliantly, and a
party is now searching for it.
In trying to escape the police, Ed
ward Egan, a noted Chicago safe
cracker, was fatally wounded.
Because Minnie Jones, his sweet
heart, walked home from church with
another man, jealous William Wilson,
of Lowensboro, Ala, shot her dead.
A portion of st. Joseph, Missouri, is
in peril by the cutting of the Missouri
river, fully eighty feet had been cut
away, and the tracks of the main line
and terminal facilities of the st. Joseph
and Council Bluffs Railroad are in
danger of being swept away.
The murderer of Mrs. Carrie Reid, in
Chicago, and who afterwards commit
ted suicide, was identified as Alfred f.
Hunt, a resident of that city. He
wanted her to get a divorce and marry
him.
Caleb Cooley, a mulatto, was hanged
at Bowling Green, Kentucky, after
admitting that he had made an attempt
to assault the wife of his employer, W.
P. Coleman. 3
San Francisco 8 Mid, Winter Fair
will be transferred to the City of Mexi-
co, where it will be opened in Novem-
Der.
Andrew Sauer, Cashier of the defunct
Savings Bank of Defiance, Ohio, twas
acquitted of the charge of embezzling
SO, 900 of the funds of the bank on
or about December LIST 1892.
Zimri Dwiggins, w. G. Bentley and
John Greene, respectively President,
Vice President and Cashier of the
Columbia National Bank of Chicago,
which failed a year ago, were indicted
on the charge of receiving deposits
when they knew the bank to be in
solvent. 4
IN anger at discharge, Doc Lawson,
a negro, stabbed to death S. P. Smith,
his employer, at Jones' Landing, Ark.
AT the age of so, Isaac Goodman,
leader of a robber gang, was sentenced
at Anderson, Ind.l to four years in
prison,
Family troubles land his wife's in.
fidelity led James y. Allen, a Green.
castle Qnd.) farmef, to shoot his wife
and thop L;ll hino1oIf
Robbers got $1652 from Charles Xii
gore, a wood buyer aear Huntington,
W. Va, and escapea.
In a quarrel with4 Essex Evans, white
at Knoxville, Ala. Rock Barclay, 4
negro, stabbed hing : his hear
in two.
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Berlin charity hospitals receive an
annual subsidy OF $3.50, 600.

Berlin charity hospitals receive an
annual subsidy of $780, Oo.
Martin and Carberry BLACK of
Lambertville, Ohio, are twins, aged
twenty. Martin weighs 100 pounds
and is deaf. Carberry weighs loo
pounds and is blind
"A 174-pound trout, is said to have
been the largest fish ever caught in the
Truckee River, was hauled out of that
stream by a lucky angler near Reno,
New, the other day.
The almshouses of France have
900, 900 inmates.
Mrs. Sarah Howard, of Houlton,
Me-, has tanned two muskrats so that
they come into the house n eat out OF
the cats dish. Tabby seems willing to
give up part OF her milk. and is as kind
to the muskrats as if they we're kittens.
Joseph Baker. a white-haired man
of seventy, who has spent nearly all his
life in prison, says he wants to end his
days in the State Prison at Waupun,
Wis, which he declares to be the most
comfortable" institution OF its kind in
the country.
There is a snake in India which is
said to possess the peculiar power of
producing insanity in any person who
looks into its glittering eyes for more
than ten minutes.
The Portuguese say that no man
can be agood husband who does not
at q good breakfast.
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WHAT ONE BOY THINKS.

A stitch is always dro wing in the everlasting
And the nsedies that I threaded, no, yuu
And f fSei Snn. sSd Tor tbs glasses TIL I thought
my head was splitting,
when there upon her forehead as calm as
blocks they lay.
I've read to her till I was hoarse. the Psaml'
and the Epistles,
When the other boys were burning tar-barrels
And Tvs stsid and learned my verses when I
heard their willow whistles.
And I've sta!d and SAID my chapter with fire
in boil my feet,
And rye had to walk Decide ner-when she went
Whom / wanted to be racing. to be kicking. to
And I've waited while she gave the folks a word
First on one foot and tho other, and most
strangled with a cough.
'You can talk OF Young America" I say, "till
It's Old America that has the inside OF the
trackr
Thea she raps me with her thimble and calls me
And then she looks SO wocbeGone I have to
take IL back.
But There is always o peppermint or q penny
In her pocket.
There never was q pocket that was half SO big
anu deep< -
And she let's the candle in my room burn way
down to tho socket,
While she stews and putters round about till
/ am sound asleep.
There's always somebody at home whom every
one is spstt
She spreads the jam upon your bread In q way
to make you grow;
sho always takes a Fellows side when every one
10 b~attering;
And when I tear my jacket. I know just where
to goi
And when I've besn In swimming after father
said ! shouldn't,
And mother had her slipper of according to
the rule,
1t sounds as sweet as silver. the voice that says
III wouldn't;
The boy that wont go swimming such a day
would be q fooli'
Sometimes there's something In her voice as IL
she gave q blessing,
And / look at her a moment and I keep still as
mouse
And VINO she is by this time there is no need Of
guessing;
For there's nothing like a grandmother to have
about the house.
-Harrfet Prescott Spoford.
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FARMERS
MUTUAL FIRE ms. co. OF
SALEM COUNTY.

OFFIcE-HEAD OF MARKET ST., SALEM.
rNHIs old and reliable Company of 80 years
l. standing continues to insure all kinds OF
property, not extra hazardous, in town or cOunT
try for any length OF time not exceeding hve
years at as low rates as viii pay losses ana ex-
penSeS. 1t insures against fire or lightning or
damage by either. ITS losses are promptly ad;
iustedand paid. Its funds on hand are ample
TO meet all probable loss, being larger than at
any previous time of its existence and steadily
increasing, while its reserve assets are OF o
character and amount to surely meet all losses
however extraordinary and cannot be frittered
away by unfortunate investment or defaulthg
officers.
Directors-Joseph Washington, VIM. B. Car
penter, Charles Hires, Josiah ,Wlstar, David +.
clay Griseom, Quinton r; Harris, Chas. ".
Casper, j: Howard Sinnickson, John 5. Elwell,
Richard Bassett.
Petit, Q. P. Harris, g. w. Casper, who meet
weekly, on Seventh-day, at 8 P. NJ.
Secretary and Treasurer-WOodnutt Petit,
to whom applicants may be made in relation
at the ONCE of the Company, 1883 Broadway,
(head of Market street.) OF at his residence, 80
In addition to the above the following per,
sons have been elected Agents and Surveyors
Il. NJ. Hitchner, Elmer.
George B. Grier, Woodstown.
Josiah Summerlll, Upper Penn's Neck.
Asa g: Turner, Penn's Grove.
Daniel D. Hitchner, Cohansey.
J. Forman Sinnickson, l.. p. Neck.
John Hitchner, All0way..
Joseph b. Livezey, Berkeley
David D. GriscOm, Marlton, Nj.
George r. Morrison, Salem.
z. B. Slekler,
WIN. B. CARPENTER, President.
Woodruff PETIT, Sec'y and Treasurer.
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PENNSYLVANIA Items

While bathing in Chester Creek, 49,
year-old Walter d. Leary was drowned
in sight of his companions.
A corn on one of Abe toes of Rev.
W. G. LATHE, at Lebanon, has devel-
oped into gangrene, and his recovery
is doubtful.
The contract for a new SIS, 900 aims
house at L%aurytown, has been awarded
by the directors of the middle coal
fields poor district.
Mrs. Annie Muckle, of Ephrata, hung
herself to a barn rafter in a fit of
melancholy, but was cut down in the
nick of time.
In the wreck of his spring house by
lightning, James T. Morley, ofChester,
was so stunned by the bolt that hecould
not speak nor hear for an hour.
Aged Lucetta Fauber, of Lebanon,
deliberately placed herself on a track
in front of a trolley car and was only
removed after a struggle. 8
Miller II. Cook, a well-known bust.
ness man of Wilkesbarre, has been
missing.
Henry Cosskisle fell from a fence,
broke his neck and is still living in the
Pottstown Hospital.
Dogs attacked cattle at night in a
field of Samuel Allison's farm, near
Gettysburg, killed a hotter and q steer,
and injured another heifer so badly
that it will die.
All the way from West Point, Ne
braska, to Bethlehem, Pa, DIR. Edward
Person and wife have driven two horses
since April 2Sth, a distance of 1900
miles, averaging 45 miles a day. 4
A breaker to have an output of 1000
tons of coal daily is building by the
Chamberlain Company, north of Potts
vile.
Robbers tortured Joseph Howard
near Parker, by burning his feet and
forced him to tell where he had con-
cealed $40.
The Pennsylvania Chautauqua, which
opens for a month at Mt. Gretna on
| July 2, promises to be the biggest yet
| held in the State.
1t has been decided that Mrs. Anna
Katunzy, of Allegheny City, who was
| found a corpse was scared to death by
a burglar.
Antonio Rezzuto has been convicted
of murder in the first degree at Potts
vile, for killing Santo Farcuni.s
Horace Y. Otto, of Williamsport,
and Miss Jessie Mann, daughter of ex-
Prothonotary Mann, Of Sunbury, were
| welded at the latter town. 8
The cornerstone of a new Lutheran
| Church, at Green Hill, near York, wat
laid.
"Rattlesnake" Pete Gruder, of Oil
| City, was badly bitten in the hand by
one of his deadly pets.
To escape imaginary people whom he
said was trying to kill him, William
Roberts hanged himself.
Young John Burkhart of Remove
was bitten by a copperhead snake ant
for four hours was close to deaths
door.
A charge of 1000 volts of electricit,
passed through John Freihart, o
Allentown. and he was but little hurt
Two Young men of Hoboken, N. j..
G. f. Thies and William Orderwalt, arr
rowing a shell down the Susquehann'
River on a trip from Cooperstown t.
New York.
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Why He Won.

Before Lord Abinger Lecame
Judge, he travelled the Nor, herr
Circuit, and though he was no orator,
he earned the title Of a verdict-win'
ner. One day Wightman left the
York Assize Court in company with
a Iuryman whom he had seen in the
jury-box day after day, and, in the
course of the chat, asked him his
opinion OF the leading counsel.
"Oh," quoth the Juror that lawyer
Brougham be a wonderful man; he
can talk, he can. But as for lawyer
Scarlet" taftorward Lord Abinper !.
81 don't think nowt of him." "Iou
surprise me-" replied Wightman, ":or
you've been giving him every yerdicN ="
'Oh, that's nowt!", reJoined the
Juror; "you see he be so lucky. He
be always on the right side"
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PENIS GROVE. N J. FRIDAY. JULY s. 1894.

In the presence of the terrified
mother, the 3-year-old boy of Henry
Wulford, of Winchester, o., was fatally
bitten by a r~attlesnake.
On the V of marriage, Louis Fried
man, of Winchester, KY, was found
dead in a cemetery, and Sadie Aldrich,
his mistress, is charged with his muir
der.
The buildings of the Viaduct Man
u%facturing Company, at Relay Station,
nine miles from Baltimore, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground. The loss will probably reach
$4,000. l
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Cable Sparks.

Floods in Austria and Germany are
subsiding, after doing great damage
Italian Agrarians were beaten in the
attempt to put a higher duty on grain,
Premier Rhodes, of Cape Colony
wants the tariff on English goods low
cred.
The Deutsche Bank, at Berlin, has
the contract to supply Roumania with
SIS, 900, 900 worth of silver coins. 4
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-01-06


Great Britain has been stretching
her wings over India. In 1912 she
laid claim to GIG. 900 square miles of
that country. She made additions to-
This every year except 1S43, 1s45 and
1852, down TO 1856 when her pos.
sessions aggregated $780, SQUARE
miles. Advances were male in 1865.
1882 and 1886, and now the area of
InGla under British rule is 927. .8s7
square miles British India ,s larger
than all that part of the United States
lying east of the Mississippi River aud
'ts population five times as great as
the present population Of this whole
country. Great Britain may not bo
able to acquire mach more of India.
Indeed there is likely to be difficulty
in retaining what she has, with native
dissatisfaction and the watchfulness
oi her aa9ravating enemy on the north,
who IN the last forty years has m owed
MS oounderies over many degrees OF
latitude.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-01-06
Whence Sappho leaped.

Sappho's Leap wa- the name given
to white cliff or promontory an
eienslv called Leucadia. now Cape
Ducaso, at the southern extremity 81
Santa Haura, one .of the Ionian Isl
ands- /, WAS 20 called because Sap
pho. the poesess- j. reported to have
thrown herself from this heigh. into
the sea A criminal, with birdie at
,ached 10 him TO break his fail. was
thrown from the cliff ~ the annual
festival o. Apollo; ani. !. he re-ched
the water unhurt. b ~a- picked up
by boats plsced there for that purpose
This Is the rock from which. accord
ing - the story. lover. ;hro~ sxeta
selves N ori.r 10 be srea FROM ;ae
pa1gs o. love.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-01-06
F0retold Ther Deaths.

Seaman John Pascal has received
letter from Alitak, Alaska, giving an
account Of the suicide of Francis
James, an able seaman who shipped on
the Merom when she left here about
six months ago for the nothern cam
neries. Francis James killed himself
by blowing his brains out with a re-
volver.
Perhaps you remember said Fas-
cal, THAT n young man named Law
renee fell overheard from the Merom
when the bark was sailing through the
Golden Gate.
"Lawrence's death and the suicide
of Francis James recalled TO my mind
very strange coincidence happen
ing which occurred the night before
the Merom sailed Lawrence, this
young fellow James and myself, were
taking drink together in the Bow
head saloon. While we were standing
at the bar m elderly man appr oached
us and offered to tell our fortunes,
provided We would furnish him with n
few dimes with which to procure u
nights lodging.
I'VE agreed to his proposition. and
he started in tv saving that Lawrence
/ 81, h
You will meet with a very unexpected
leath. lie t,eclared. YOU will die -
drowning, and vour body will never
he recovered And rs IL Won. he con-
:inusl. looking a: James. / nrS.tlct
that vol will never return 10 San
Francisco You Will meet with mis-
fortune while in Alaska and will be-
come very desp ponient. | am not Ger
tain whether you will take your own
life or viii die in fight to death with
one 0. your shipmates. but j, LOOKS
10 me IS II YOU are going 10 resort 70
self-destruction
You may think am telliH & vou
what Is not true" SAID Pascal. but
| all this occurred a. sure as | ALI ;aIA-
! ins 10 you.
Lawrence fell overheard. as you
know. and here is letter from Alssa q
saying the, James committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head
have no further particulars. oas
| surely it is strange ease, and i an
anxious 10 hear what motive, led 10 the
latter taking h:s life. ;" San t'ca.lr:~.,si
Call.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-01-06
The Policemen OF Seville.

Seeing that Seville is one of the
most important cities of Spain, it is
rather odd that the guardians OF the
peace inspire In the citizens neither
fear nor respect. In fact, they re-
semble the old "charlevs," or watch
men that used to walk the streets o.
London
The policeman of Seville is clad N
long coat and is armed with n spear
like mountain-climber's staff. At
from his belt, and after the clock has
struck twelve his chief business is to
call the time anl the weather. As
nearly everybody in bed by mid
night, his services 4 IF little use, ey-
cept perhaps to prevent some folks
from sleeping.
Even the Spanisl. laugh at the city
police, with their melancholy howls
that disturb the peace the men are
supposed to keep.
To make MP for this poor sort Of con-
stable, there Is another police called
the civil guari, who possess tranen-
dous powers. They are authorized to
shoot down any one Offering resistance
to them. The consequence Is that
every one stands In awe Of them, Int,
on the whole, though sometimes they
abuse their Office. they preserve order
and have reduced the oncc high rate
, OF crime. New YORK Journal
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-01-06
The WEIGHT oi the Earth.

One of the problems that men OF
science occasionally undertake to solve
over again for the sake of getting nearer
to the exact truth is that OF the den
si,y and mass OF the earth
The density Of body is the oman.
tity of matter that given. volume Of
it contains. while its mass is the total
quantity of matter that the whole iscdy
contains. In popular sense the mss<
Of body is measured by its weight
Water is taken as the standard of
eomparison in estimating the density
of the earth. 1t has been known. in q
general way. for a hundred YEAR,. that
the eartl's mean or average density Is
between FIVE and six times sha. %.
water; in other words that the Aa-ih
weigh five or six times as much as u
globe of water of the same size would
weigh. provided that the water iu such
n globe had the same average density
that water has at the surface of the
earth.
The matter composing tho earth IN
denscr in the interior than at the .aur-
face. If that were not so it would
only be necessary to take cubic foot
from the surface of the globe, and
weigh it against q cubic foot of water
in order to ascertain the density o; tho
earth. As it is, the earth's density can
only be learned by roundabout meth
eds: by noting, for instance. the diff
ference in the attraction of grsvitation
at the surface and at the bottom of
! mine.
Recently a method of measuring the
mass and density of the earth has been
put into practice i'll France. This con-
sists in changing the level of small
lake which can be raised or lowered by
artificial means and noting the effect
upon the height of column OF mer-
curry.
The results of these experiments
have given for the earth's mean density
5.41 times the density of water. The
latest previous estimates made by
Messrs. Corun and Baille, gave 5.5E-
1t has been customary to speak OF the
earth rs weighing six sextilliona OF
TONS It's weight according to the re-
cent determination Is 5,757. 900. 600, :
900, 900, 600, 900, or five sextiilions,
seven hundred and fffty-seven Guintii-
lions of tons. Avery weighty aud srb-
stantial globe according to our ideas,
notwithstanding the fact that the snn
could swallow it in one Of lis "spot.
with hardly wink !-youth's Couf
panicn.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-01-06

Maryland is i'll fair way to be
blessed with the good roads for which
.hc state Road League has been SO vi
sorously agitating. The bill which
has been prepared by it's committee
Tor submission to the Legislature is
the result Of much labor by engineer,
and scientific road builders Its
thoro1ghness may, be indged tron the
fact that il contains thirty four sec
hons Tue duties of State roni and
highway engineer are first defined. 1t
ispro,iaol is that he shall he provided
with suitable Offices AMI equipment,
and be empowered to employ such en-
glneers. clerks, and other assistants at
such salaries as the Board of Public
Works may approve. Upon the ap-
proval of tho board the State engineer
shall he empowered To purchase stone
breaking machines. = -: them NJ at
convenient places. and - supply stone
to county boards NJ cost price. The
blil then provides for the appointment
If road board in each county. The
board shall elect II, President and
Secretary and make its own by laws
II shall haye general charge of the con
structlon and maintenance Of the roads
and bridges The board shall adver-
tise for proposals for any work t. cost
over 5000. All contracts are 10 he
awarded 10 the lowest responsible bid
der. provided that the contract price
shall he satisfactory 10 the board The
latter shall reserve the right to decide
questions as tofhe proper performance
oi work and as to suspending and re
letting contracts. All supplies and
materials costing over 5000 shall also
be purchased by contract. The bill
abolishes the payment of road tax by
labor, provides that all expenses ofthe
board shall be paid by the county
commissioners, and that the board NAV
call upon the State engineer for ass'.-
tance Or advice.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-01-06

Here is hard times story which is
just now circulating in Wall street:
About three months ago, during Inc
very darkest days of the panic. Ger
tain small operator applied to friend
of about the same calibre for tie loan
of 800.
Nothing would please me more.'.
said the man approached, land III &C.
commodate you. ! haven; 800 with
me at the present time; bnt make
note and I'll indorse it, and you can
get the money from the bank.
The borrower" proceeded TO make
the note, when the other remarked:
"By the way, nerd few dollars my.
self to-day. Max The note for two
hundred dollars. can use one hundred
myself
He did as requested. The note was
Endorsed and discounted and the pro-
cseds were divided. When il became
lue, however, the lender and inlorser
was In secInsion, and the maker had
IN meet the payment. He is now
wandering through the streets trying
/ TO decide whether he borrowed 600
F.. from his friend or his friend borrowed
that amount OF him-Nex York
Herald.