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

L. E. Harker. of Hosnerstown, has bee
granted patent for puzzle.
The charity ball will be held at th
opera house next Friday night.
Howard C. Lewis, of ST. Paul, MINI
paid short visit to Mount Holly lai
week.
James K. Parker makes good offer fc
the next 80 days. If you need shoes, TIL
is the time to get them cheap.
Rev. James G. Dizinger, of Camden, ha
been given call to become pastor of s
Paul's Lutheran Church, Hainesport.
Mrs. Mary Stewart, of Florence, Will
attending funeral on Wednesday, fel
from carriage and broke one of her legs
For stealing harness from Charles I
Hume, in Westampton township, Franz
Shemeley was arrested on Wednesday
and lodged in Jail.
The firm of William Bayersdorfer
Son. clothing merchants, 50 Main street
has been dissolved. Martin Bayersdorfe
will continue the business.
At John ID. Johnson's residence OF
Friday evening, Arthur Cross and John
ny johnson gave magic lantern show il
aid of the poor fund. They realized
$IO.S5.
A shooting match for SIS a side tool
place at Yardville, Wednesday afternoon,
between Edward Hill, of Trenton, and
Isaac Budd, of Pemberton. The latter
won by score of A to 40. out Of SO birds
q yards rise.
The commission to revise and CONSOLE
date the statutes of this state relating to
villages, towns and townships. have is
sued a book in which the laws are ar
ranged SO that they may be intelIgently
consulted. THE News is indebted to Jacob
c. Hendrlckson, member of the COM
mission, for copy of the work.
The entertainment by the Friendly So
ciety of Trinity Church, takes place at the
opera house tonight. The reserved seats
are only % cents, and those who attend
will get their moneys worth several times
over. The entertainment will be hui
morous one. and those who take part will
see to it that the fun is all brought out.
The Grand Lodge of Masons of this
state held its annual meeting In Trenton
last week, and elected officers for the en-
suirg year. Josiah W. Evan, of Mount
Holly, is Senior Grand Warden; Henry S.
Haines, Burlington, Grand Instructor I;
David G. Baird. Beverly, Grand Pursuiv-
ant; Alfred ]. Briggs, Riverton, Deputy
Grand Master for the second District.
Samuel Pennington was arrested in At
lantic City last week for crime COM
mitted in 1883. He was indicted for
stealing chickens, but he made his escape,
and has been rowing around ever since.
He lived at Moorestown about three years
ago, and was arrested at that place for
larceny, for which crime he served
term in the Mount Holly Jail.
On Tuesday the New Jersey Historical
Society met in the Supreme Court room
of the capitol at Trenton. Interesting
papers were read and prominent men
from all parts of the state we're present.
Gen. E. Burd Grub and Mark r. Sooy
were elected members. Burlington coun-
ty was represented by Henry S. Haines,
Charles Stokes, John P. Hutchinson and
Col. Clifford Stanley Sims.
That the charity ball at the opera house
next Friday evening will be success is
assured by the number of tickets already
sold. 1t will not only be a success as to
attendance, but also in all other respects.
The house will be prettily decorated, there
will be more dancing space than hereto
fore, the music will be first-class, and the
programme longer than last year, consist
ing of twenty dances, besides the half
hour opening concert and four prom
enades.
Manager Laumaster and his assistants
are entitled to considerable credit for
their efforts to keep good order at the
Opera House. Some of the boys and men,
too, who occupy the gallery have behaved
in a manner that was very annoying to
the balance of the audience. Last week
the matter was taken hold of in a busi-
ness shape, and three young men were
arrested and fined for their unseemly
conduct Other arrests are to be made in
connection with the affair.
John Pratt, young colored man of
Cinnaminson, is in jail in default of bail
on a charge of abduction. The warrant
was sworn out by Mrs. Anna White,
mother of Bertha Murray, l4-year-old
colored girl with whom Pratt eloped to
Pennsylvania on the 28th of last Noyem-
Der. The girl repented of her hasty &C
ton and returned home, and then Pratt
was arrested. Pratt is much married
man, having three wives. He will be
given a hearing on the charge of abduc-
ton on Thursday, and it is probable that
he will be arrested for bigamy.
Grand Architect J. S. Mccoy, of the In
dependent Order of Mechanics, has an
nounced the following committees for the
ensuing term Legislative. M. Sooy,
Bridgeton; George Brown, Beverly F.
Milford, Cape May. Credentials, ]. B.
Elfreth, MiIlville; G. L. leopard. River
side H. J. Woolman, Beverly. Printing,
Charles Day, Glassboro :. James Hubs,
Bridgeboro William Wright, Vincen-
town. Bylaws, George Hinchman,
Camden; Edward Ivers, Camden; H
Sands, Camden. Appeals. w. B. McCully
Mount Holly S B. Gibbs, Pemberton /; E.
C. Carson, Burlington.
This week marks the conclusion oil
twenty-five years of service by Bishop
William Croswell Doane, of Albany. The
event is to be marked by series o.
special services in his cathedral. good
ly number of Bishops and clergy viii
take part in the Jubilee" As Bishop
Doane IS deemed New Jersey hoy,
reared in Burlington, the son of tha
wonderfully gifted man who was the sec
ond Bishop of this state, 1t is deemed
proper that the Bishop of the dioces'
should be in attendance. He will, there
fore, be in Albany to offer congratulation
and take part in the imposing ceremonie
of the week.
An unknown enemy has been persecut
ing Henry B. Hendrickson, well-knowi
farmer, living near Allentown, on tn
CrosswIcks road, for some time past an
thus far all efforts to discover the offende
have failed. Not long since number {
Mr.. Hendrickson's cattle were MANNED i