The Monmouth inquirer., 1895-08-08
lettings.

4 The $50 pound turtle died at AS
bury Park on Monday and the car,
case will be removed and the smell
placed on exhibition.
The annual meeting of the Holm
del & Keyport Turnpike Company,
will be held at Mansion House, Key
port, on Wednesday, August l4th.
E. p. Bovce, of Atlantic High
lands, lost a check on the Atlantic
4 Highlands National Banklast week
4 endorsed by Rebecca Kahut. Some
body found it and had it cashed
Engineer David Emmons, of James
4 burg, will take his vacation the fore
part of September and attend the Ct.
A. r. Encampment which meets this
year at Louisville, KY.
Contractor S. w. Kirkbride and A.
! G. Twining, cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank, of Asbury Park, have
left for visit in the Catskills.
Burlington merchants have decid
ed to close their stores three nights
in the week at $50 o'clock. The on
ly objector to the early closing is a
storekeeper who is also president of
/ the electric light company, and the
others threaten to boycott the light.
Chief of Police Holloway, of Nor
ristown, has press warrant dated
/ 1776 and signed by King George LII,
of England. 1t is issued to the Cap
I tain of the British Navy authorizing
him to press into service any native
of England or her possession.
Monday evening Herman Kruse
found healthy five-months-old
child in his wine-room on Liberty
street at Asbury Park. The child's
mother is a resident of Central
avenue, and is known to the police.
The child will be removed Tuesday
to the poor farm unless ella med by
its mother.
IN fact the waters of the Atlantic
seaboard are as near to the city OF
Philadelphia at the head OF Rarltan
Bay as at any other point along the
coast, and as some 26 34 miles OF tins
distance is already occupied by
navigable streams, it leaves no doubt
as to the location of the best and
cheapest line for the canal.
1t is announced that on Monday
last, in Berlin. Germany, the Baro-
ness Maria, wife of Baron Franz Jo-
hannes Won Rottenburg. presented
her husband with daughter. The
Baroness is the daughter Of the later
William Walter Phelps, Of New Jer-
sey.
Treasurer Richard w. Herbert of
the Monmouth County Plank Road
Company. has begun paying off the
certificates of stock and will con-
tinue to do so until the last one is
redeemed.
Owing to the storm on Sunday af
ternoon. Mr.. G. H. Wilson, in charge
of the Gospel Chapel Wagon. Res
cue. " did not hold meeting Sunday
afternoon The car departed for Ea-
tontown on Tuesday morning. The
car was designed and built at Mata-
wan for Mr.. Wilson, and Its mission is
to reclaim colored men and women,
who have departed from the paths of
righteousness.
The real and personal effects Of old !
"Dory'' era wford.. the hermit, who
lived on his little farm near Allen /
town. were sold at auction last week,
realizing about $3.50, Joseph Camp |
being tie purchaser The old man i
lived alone, dressed in rags and re-
yelled in filth. He was we'll educat-
ed and could quote copiously from
nearly all the classical writer's, and.
it is said. could recite the contents of
the Bible from beginning to end.
Years ago he was Allentown's most
prosperous merchant.
Trolling for the nervy bluefish has
been the leading sport at Barnegat
for a week and thev are still taking
the souid with aviditv. Trolling is
the popular mode of fishing for them
because it has the charm of thrash
ing backward and forward across the
restless shoals in big sloop or cat |
boat. Manv old fishermen, however,
prefer the shore angling. and dav af- |
ter day they return to the village
Juggling heavy strings of the beauties,
the result of few hours skillful cast
ing in the surf.
While Mrs. sMary Logan. 40 years
old Of JERSEY City, was leaning out
of the window late Monday night to
close the shutters. she lost her bal
ance and fell into the back yard.
Her left arm was broken and she
received internal injuries, from which
she will probably die.
The James B. Tanning base ball
club came to Freehold, on July 27th,
and defeated the Rothschild nine by
a score of 81 to g. A return game
will be played at Kevport, on Satur-
day, August 10th. Robert Crawford,
one of the members of the Freehold
team, ha his thumb broken.
Chancellor McGill on Tuesday of
last week filed an opinion in the case
of John p Stockton. Attorney Gen
eral, on relation of w. B. Borden and
others VS. The Atlantic Highlands,
Red Bank and Long Branch Electric
Railway Company. making the rule
to show cause absolute, and granting
an injunction restraining the com
pany from proceeding with the con
struction of its road-bed between Red
Bank and the Eatontown township
/ line, until it shall have complied with
/ L. 20 oh 10 Af