The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-07-24

The decrease is due to the depreciation
and loss by the Democratic times. Stocks
of goods in stores are reduced, accounts
in banks and saving institutions decreas-
ed and the value Of stocks, bonds, ETC.,
deprecated. The decrease will compel
the board to raise the tax rate. Last year
it was Sl.S2 hundred dollars, and this
year it may be 50.
The farmers throughout Monmouth
county report that their peach orchards
are in good condition, and that the trees
are we'll loaded with fruit. The earlier
varieties ripen in August, but it will be
September before the general crop will
be sent to market The late varieties
come in October. If the prices are good
the peach growers will make more money
from this crop than they did last year,
when there was glut of peaches and the
prices went down out of sight
Patrick Kerwln, charged with the
murder of Charles Cans, was acquitted by
the jury at the trial at Woodbury. on Sat
urday Disagreement had been predict
ed and the verdict was a surprise. The
trial lasted two weeks and the case was
given to the jury Friday night. The case
has attracted considerable attention,
owing to the fact that two bodies taken
from the water at different times were
each identified as that of Cans, and con-
siderable time was consumed in deciding
the point
After being mute for two years, the
seyen-year- FOLD daughter of F. A. Brock, of
Vineland, has suddenly recovered her
speech through seeing the blood flowing
from cut on her finger. While eating
an apple two years ago the child dislocat-
ed one of her teeth, and the sight of the
blood rendered her speechless. Physi-
cans were unable to cure her strange
malady, and the case excited consider
able wonder. Recently, however, after
cutting her finger her power of speech
seems to have returned, and she now
talks as huently as any child of her age.
The New Jersey volunteers who de-
Tended Pennsylvania against the Confed-
eracy in 1868, in the great battle at Get
tysburg, are at last to receive the medals
of honor promised them in General Or
der No. 1876, issued from the Office of the
Adjutant General, War Department, on
June 29th, 1868. General Wheeler, the
chairman of the committee, says that the
medals will be of silver or bronze, and
that he has no statistics which will con-
vey any estimate as to the number OF
New Jersey veterans still living who will
receive the medals. Their preparation,
design and distribution is to be made by
the Secretary of War, who will search the
archives of the department to see that
each veteran gets his medal.
The will of the late Judge William
Walter Phelps, ex-Minister to Germany,
was filed with Surrogate Haring, at Hack
ensack, on Thursday. The will was made
in 1885, and the present value of the es-
tate is about $4,000 000 After making
few minor requests, Mr.. Phelps directs that
two trust funds be created, one OF $780,
900 for his daughter Marion, and one of
100000 for his son Sheffield. The bal
ance of his property is to be equally di-
vided between the widow and children,
except that the former shall have control
of the Teaneck estate, real and personal,
during her lifetime. Fifty thousand dol
lars are set aside for the erection of dor
mitory on the campus at Yale. John j.
Phelps, w. f. Bond and Thomas r.
White Jr., are named as executors.
The Democratic Board of Freeholders
of Camden county met Wednesday morn
ing and authorized the creation of loan
of $4,000 to meet the running expenses
of the county. Ex-Judge Hugg, in his
opinion, said the board had the right to
borrow if it could find anybody to adj
vance the money. Counsel for the Ma
tional State Bank, he said, admitted the
legality of the board, but the bank would
not loan the money for fear of being COM
PEELED to sue for it. 1t having been re-
ported that the rate of $3.50 per week
for the board of prisoners was greater
than is paid by any other county, clerk
Cnrley was instructed to get figures from
a number of the leading counties of the
state. The Republican board also met,
but behind closed doors, and adjourned
without doing anything
Joseph Wallwitz, who on March oath
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deputy keeper in the state prison. in
making dash to escape from the prison,
was hanged on Friday in the county Jail
at Trenton The man lost all his bravado
when facing the gallows, and appeared
nervous. The hanging was done SO
quickly, however, that there was no OPP
portunity for the prisoner to make a.
scene Hangman Van Hise, of Newark,
who has hanged 80 unfortunates in his
time, had charge of the disagreeable task.
The fiye.hundred pound weight fell so
quickly that the spectators were taken by
surprise. WallwItz died almost without
struggle. His heart ceased beating
about seventeen minutes after the weight
fell After the doctors had made an au-
topsy, the body was buried with proper
religious ceremonies.
Jim Gibbons, sport and brother of
Austin Gibbons, the lightweight pugtIist,
got into trouble on Tuesday by playing
pirate on the Passaic river. Mrs. Abraham
Snyder, of River Drive, charged Kim with
piracy in the Passaic Police court Thurs
day morning. He was held under $3.50
on the prosalc count of shooting tame
duck. According to the woman's story
Gibbons and his bartender were rowing
past Mrs. Snyder's house in small boat.
She saw them shoot the duck, she says,
and gave chase in another skiff. The two
men are both athletes, but Mrs. Snyder is
a skiIlful rover. She overhauled them so
rapidly that they had to beach their boat
to escape capture Mrs. Snyder recovered
her ducks carcass and towed back Glib
bons boat as prize. Gibbons denies the