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The Monitor-register., 1896-05-08
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WooDsrowN, N. T., NAV s, 1896.


WEST JERSEY RAIL ROAD TIMETABLE
ON AND AFTER SEP7. 80. 1895,
Trains leave wooDsToWN as follows:
For Philadelphia and way stations, at 7.O4
On Sundays, 7.39 a. M, 437 p. m.
Arrive in Philadelphia, $50. 900 and l93o
a. M, l.3O, $50 and 7.20 p. II. Sundays
9.05. a. IN. and sos p. m.
For Salem. 7.3a, 9.27 a. M, and 1918, PAS, pa
and 6.57 p. m.
On Sundays, $50 a. M, 6.37 p. m.
For Bridgeton via Woodbury., 75s a. M
Sundays, 7.s9 a. m. and 4.37 p. m.
RETURN TRAINS.
Trains leave Philadelphia for Woodstown at
$50, $40 and IL. 90 a. m, 1.30, 40, $40 p IN.
Sundays, S.l5 u. m, 5.I5 p. m.
CONNECTING RAILROADS.
For Atlantic City, 7.G q. m. Sundays, 7.3e
a. M.
For Cape May, 1853 a. IN. Sundays, 1898 m.
For Sea Isle and Ocean City, 1858 IL. III. Sun
days, 1888 q. m.
For Vfneland and Millville, I5S a. m, 4.30
p. m. Sundays, 7.39 a. m.
s. M. PROVOST, j. Il. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt.
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Y
! PedriektOwn.
Jennie Hunt spent Saturday in Phila-
delphia.
Frank Pedrick spent Friday in Phila.
delphia.
Samuel Snyder and wife spent Satur-
day in Philadelphia.
Nellie Dilks, of Mantua, is visiting her
old schoolmates here.
Nettie Anderson is suffering from an
attack of typhoid fever.
Wilmer Flitcraft, of Camden. spent
Sunday with his family.
Joseph Pickens, of Philadelphia, spent
Sunday with his parents.
Quite a number of bicyclers were seen
on our streets Sunday morning.
Our fishermen report very good catches
of fish for the week but low prices.
Harvey Justice was robbed of between
thirty and forty chickens recently.
We we're visited by a very welcome
and refreshing shower on Sunday.
Abiah McCorson spent Saturday and
sunday with her parents in Alloway.
Rev. Casper Schlag, of Bridgeport.
spent Sunday with friends in this place,
Miss Katie johnson, of Pitman Grove.
spent Sunday with Mrs. Samuel Carney.
Jennie D.. Morrison, of Wilmington,
Del, is spending some time here with
friends.
House cleaning and white washing
fence seems to be the order of the day
among our housewives.
Roe Holton. who has been spending
some time with his brother at Moores-
town, returned home Friday.
Joseph Cooper, who has been suffering
with a severe attack of the grip, has
improved so he is able to be out again.
The Sacrament of the Lords Supper
was administered on Sunday morning at
the M. E. Church, by the pastor, Rev. E.
G. Hulse.
Mrs. Rachel Webster, who has been
sick for several weeks, is slowly regain
ing her health, under the treatment of
DR.. III. t. johnson.
Harvey Justice has moved into the old
homestead recently occupied by the late
William and Mary E. Justice, which he
has beautified and improved with new
piazzas, paint etc.
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Rev. v. A. Lonier was in Philadelphia
or Monday.
Miss Emma Thomas, of Moorestown,
is visiting friends here.
Mrs. R. P. Patterson, county President,
visited the W. O. T. q. on Monday, and
gave q Bible reading at their meeting.
Rev. A. II. Sembower. OF Salem, gave 9
stirring temperance address in the Baptist
Church on Wednesday night.
The leader of the Epworth League
meeting next Sunday evening will be
Miss Amanda Wentzell, the topic being
s'Christ as a Guest"
Mrs. Mary. Hewitt and her daughter
Mrs. Basheba Richman, of Richmantown
are visiting Mrs. Hewitt's sister, Mrs
benjamin F. Shiveler.
r Archer Shiveler moved on Monda,
to Miliville where he will manage Horac,
B. Vanlier's Ice Dream mandatory agair
this summer He and his estimable wifi
will be greatly missed by the M. E
Church, as they we're both jealous
workers In the church, the Sunday. school,
the Epworth League and the choir. HI
expects to return In the fall,
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church Notes.


A. ID. Snelbaker led the Christian
Endeavor meeting at Compromise school
house last night, which proved an excel.
lent service of song, prayer and testi.
mony.
Rev. J. H. Bourne, of Crozier Theolo-
gioal Seminary, will fill the pulpit of the
Baptist Church next Sunday, this being
his second visit here since the pulpit has
been vacant.
The Epworth League will celebrate the
General League anniversary at the M. E.
Church next Sunday evening, with appro.
pirate exercises. Good music and inter
esting exercises. Everybody cordially
invited to attend. :
Death has already invaded the ranks
of the ministers of the New Jersey Con.
ference, the first to be called since the
recent session of the Conference at
Bridgeton being Rev. j. 81. Mickle, who
died at Freehold on Sunday. He was at
Conference, and seemed in full health,
though he was troubled with an af1iction
of the heart.
On Tuesday, the eighty-fourth annual
commencement of Princeton Theological
Seminary took place, and, at the same
time, the fftieth anniversary of the ap.
pointment of Rev. VIM. Henry Green,
D. D., LII. D., as Instructor in the
Seminary, was celebrated. The gradual.
ing class consisted of seventy-eight
young men, of whom eight are natives of
Ireland, ono of Queensland, one of Japan
and one of Persia. The exercises of the
day were very interesting. Hundreds of
visitors, mostly clergymen and members
of their families, gathered at Princeton,
SOME coming from remote parts of the
land. Addresses were delivered by Pres
ident Patton, of Princeton College; DR..
c. M. Mead, of Hartford, Conn; DR..
McCurdy, of the University College,
Toronto; DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler, OF
Brooklyn; DR.. Green, of Princeton, and
other learned and distinguished men.
Among the visitors from this part of New
Jersey were Rev. W. V. Louderbough, of
Salem; Rev. s. W. Beach, of Bridgeton;
Rev. J. H. O'Brien, of Clarksboro; Rev.
Allen II. Brown, of Camden, and Rev.
DIR. Collier, of this place. Revs. o. B.
McCurdy and B. P. johnson, for merly of
Woodstown, were there.
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4Marrfed.
Administrator Notice.

TOHN H. TURNER, Administrator of
Antonette L. Run, deceased, by direc-
ton of the Surrogate of the county OF Salem,
horeDy gives notice to the creditors of the
said Antonette l.. RUIZ, deceased, to bring
in their debts. demands and claims against
the estate of the said d~ecedent. under oat
or affirmation, within nine months from the
date hereof, or they Will be forever barred
of any action thereof against the said Ad-
ministrator. JOHN HI. TURNER.
Dated May 8, 1896. So Adminfstrator
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HOw's Thfsi

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75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Testimonials free.
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Hum phreys, of the Opera House
stores, makes some interesting announce
meuts to cur readers this week.
Preston virgins, b grocer, now
delivers goods in a handsome new wagon
from the shop of Lewis B. Wright.
The last fad amongst the young folks
ia the gathering of bicycle buttons of
which there are some dozens of makes.
The hutton fad has taken the place OF
badges.
A bicycle club is forming, which will
secure to the members the use of the track
AT the Ball Park for the season by the
payment of 81. None others will be
allowed to use it. The paper may be
signed at D. W. @. Whites.
Fortescue, the old-time watering place,
with a complement of mosquitoes unex-
celled by any other Jersey resort, was
destroyed by fire on Sunday. Many of
our readers, in their younger days, priced
an excursion to this famed place as
among life's greatest pleasures.
The Grand Army Posts of Pennsyl-
vania, to the number of ten thousand
survivors of the war, have asked Governor
Hastings to issue a proclamation depre-
eating the desecration of Memorial Day.
The day is coming to be devoted to base
ball, games, picnics, dances and other
amusements that are altogether out of
Keeping with the purpose for which
Decoration Day was established.
A force of nearly a dozen men are
~excavating mari at James Kilpatrick's
mari pits. A portable steam engine,
owned by Edward Richardson, is
stationed on the bank, and kept running
day and night, pumping water out Of the
pit. Bits of wood, common oyster
shells, teeth of mammoth species of fish
and other curious things have been found
thirty feet below the surface, proving
that this section of the State was ages
ago the bed of a sea.
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wants $40, 900 Damages.

Edward A Clair, of Elmer, has entered
suit against Salem county for $40, 600
damages for injuries received, because of
a lack of needed protection at a bridge.
On July 81, 1898, while he was riding a
bicycle from Elmer to Hardingville, and
as be approached a small bridge. his
wheel took a turn and he fell, breaking
his collar bone. Clair claims that had
the bridge been provided with arms the
accident would not have occurred. Soon
after the accident Clair asked for $1,000
from the Board of Freeholders, but his
claim was refused. This suit raises an
interesting question, and its outcome will
be watched with interest.
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THE News FROM Two COUNTIES.


Aaron W. Haines is quite seriously i'll.
Harry Lawrence is home for a few days
nursing q lame back.
We are glad to report VIM. Richmau
better at this writing.
]. H. Smith and wife spent Sunday at
Ailoway with their mother.
Miss Hattie Coles has been visiting her
sister near Daretown for 3 few days.
W. G. Patterson, OF Aldiae, will speak
at the chapel on Sunday evening, his sub
ject being "The Prodigal Son.
Rev. L. Myers and wife were present at
the prayer meeting on Wednesday even
ing, and he gave a very interesting talk
on labor, the subject for the evening.
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Adopted by the Pittsgrove Baptist Church
at a meeting held May /, 1886.
WHEREAS, Our pastor, Rev. L. Myers, ow-
ing to the increasing demands upon his
time in his pastoral work, has thought 1T
best to resign his position as Financial
secretary of the Building Fund.
RESOLVED, That we regretfully accept the
resignation of his financial position and
That we express our full and cordial appre-
citation of the keen foresight, sound judg-
ment, wonderful tact, courteous treatment
ana stiict business integrity OF our pastor
while here contributed to the success of.
all things considered, the greatest under.
taking In the history of our church,
RESOLVED, That though the work of Bro.
myers Is his greatest of COM
mendatioD, that we would be unjust to him
and untrue to ourselves were we to with
hold grateful tribute to his superior finan-
c1er1ng and to his many excellent and
varied business qualifications.
RESOLVED, That we express our gratitude
to the Auditing Committee for their careful
work, and that we adopt their excellent
report.
Resolved. this report with resolu-
lions be placed upon the minute book of
the church, and the Church CLERK BIZ author
lied to report the findings of the Auditing
Committee and these resolutions to such
local papers as he may deem proper.
J.. e. SHEPPARD,
Church Clerk.
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REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE.
This is to certify that we. the Trustees of
the Pittsgrove Baptist Church. Daretown.
N. j. have, at the request of Rev. L. Myers,
pastor, carefully examined the Building
Fund accounts kept by him and do find the
same correct in every particular, and SO
systematically arranged tina should errors
occur they could be discovered at once.
Signed,
SAMUEL D.. WHITE,
President of Board.
HENRY v. FOSTER,
GEORGE d. JOHNSON,
SOLOMON s.. DRNELsBRCK.
DaretOWn, N. Ju April @. 1896.
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Miss Anna Hogate, of Quinton, is Wis
iting Miss Mary B. Elton.
VIM. N. Foster, of Philadelphia, wa.
among the visitors this week.
DR.. G. P. Cheesmau, of Elmer, was the
guest of Charles l. Mounce on Monday,
William Beal started for Long Island
on Monday, where he has secured 9
position.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Smith. of Phila
delphia, were visiting friends in town
this week.
Mrs. Emma Chsesman has returned
home from a weeks visit with friends in
Philadelphia.
Frank Wright was the guest of Robert
Gwynne, Jr., of Salem, at a dinner on
Monday evening.
E. S. Fogg, Esq, was in Trenton on
Wednesday attending the Prohibition
State Convention.
Miss Belle Riddle has accepted the
agency of a very popular book, which
gives a thrilling account of the massacre
of Christians in Armenia by the merciless
Turks.
Rev. Alfred Wagg and j. R. Edwards,
of Elmer, were in town on Monday, to
look at the M. E. Church. They are
preparing to erect a new M. E. Church
in Elmer.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Reed attended the
wedding of their nephew, Edgar Reed
Sparks, to Miss Addie Everest, at Geth-
semane Baptist Church, Philadelphia, at
high noon, on Tuesday.
Ralph Cobb, who has been initiated
into the routine of railroad business by
Station Agent Tuft, and who has been az
pointed station agent at Stone Harbor,
left for his new post of duty yesterday.
Browning Elton has secured a position
with Paul Bros, shoe dealers, of Phila-
delphia. and will leave for that place
on Monday. Thomas Garrison has been
employed to fill the vacancy in Frank
Wright's shoe store.
DR.. P. G. Souder attended the COM
mencement exercises of Hahnemapu
College, in Philadelphia, on Tuesday
evening, to witness the graduation of his
son, and also to be present at the reunion
and banquet of the Hahnemann Alumni
Association.
The forty-eighth annual commencement
of Hahnemann Medical College was held
III the Academy of Music, Philadelphia,
on Tuesday evening. Among the grad
uates were Ralph L.. Souder, Woodstown;
Allan Brown Black, Swedesboro, and
Gilbert Edward Wallace, Paulsboro.
Daniel M. Tyndall, son of DIR. Van r.
Tyndall, of Philadelphia, who resided in
Woodstown many years ago, was in
town yesterday. He is engaged in the
commission business, and was looking
after consignments from our farmers.
Mr.. Tyndall was born in Woodstown,
and while here went to look at the place,
where Miss Dickson now resides.
Last week.-Mrs.s..Dr. ]. E. Jaquette
attended a Woman's Foreign Missionary
meeting at Portsmouth, Ohio, as the
representative of the West Jersey
Presbyterial Society. Nearly two hun
bred delegates were present, and about a
score of female missionaries from 70 reign
lands. Mrs. Jaquette was greatly
pleased with the meeting.
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If you bake bread from t'Lotus" -four
and have good butter, we think You will
enjoy yourselves at meal times.
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Mrs. Abigail Conover was agreeably
an rprised on Wednesday by q number of
sr;ends who came to celebrate Der fifty
third birthday. A bountiful dinner was
snread and greatly relished. Many kind
fishes were expressed that Mrs. Conover
would enjoy many more such happy
oncasions. Those comprising the psrty
wara. A. Fl. Conover, Mrs. Mary Como
w. Mrs. Attic Sayre. Samuel Shultz
and wife. Mrs. Jane Avis, Mrs. Annie
st;ias Mrs. Sophie Robbins, Give Como
osr Misses Name Shultz. Rena Stiles,
r';ii;a StiJas. Florence Robbins, all Of
Psnnsoroye: Mrs. Jos. B. Cobb, Mrs.
Marv nsv;s' Mrs. s. s. Jess, Mrs. Chas.
Clark. Misses Lottie Cobb. Ella Davis,
Alice Randolph, Willie Taylor.
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Something new and attractive In letter
papers, Royal Belfast Irish Linen, / Id.
in a box-108 sheets-only 25 cents. g.
M. Andrews.
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1. H. Weatherby has 18 acres planted
in tomatoes.
Miss Martha Batten spent Sunday and
Monday in Woodbury..
Miss Carrie Gaunt, of the Homeopathic
Hospital, Philadelphia, was in town last
week.
A Japan j Judas tree in full bloom neal
the bank building is attracting consider
able attention.
Mrs. Charlotte Custer, of Philadelphia,
spent Thursday with her friend, Mrs.
Sarah P. Batten.
Rev. s. F. Gaskill occupied his pulpit
on last Sunday for the FIRST time since
his severe illness.
John G. Rulon and wife contemplate
an extended our through the West,
taking in points of interest ia Colorado
and other States.
Mrs. F. E. Vandersloot and daughter
have been spending some time with
friends in Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Elmer Lock and two children, of
WestvilIe, have been visiting the formers
parents, Isaac Ore and wife.
Detective Henry G. Garrison has been
oHk"Bou Ny oho VoohinStoA ARK 20. as
chief of the park guards and will go on
duty May 18th.
Rev. q. W. Duane, of Boston, formerly
rector of Trinity Episcopal Church here,
has been visiting the old scenes and call
ing on the old friends.
Miss Ella Kirby, one of the nurse, of
the University Hospital, Philadelphia, is
spending a vacation with her paredts,
Cooper Kirby and wife.
The annual meeting of the Towns hip
Sunday school Association will be held
in the Presbyterian Church here on
Thursday evening, 21st inst.
Cut-worms and potato bugs are prov
ing very destructive to the tomato plants,
and the potatoes just peeping through
the ground, and the souls of our honest
farmers are vexed thereby.
Messrs. B. A. Headley, Frank Bach
man and Edward McAvoy visited Car
penter's Point, Md, last week, where
they witnessed the hauling in the large
seine, and also visited the immense
fishery nearby.
Allan B. Black, of this town, aud Gil
bert e. Wallace, of Paulsboro, a former
resident here, were among the number
graduated from the Hahnemann Medical
College on Tuesday evening. They have
our best wishes for success.
Charles F. Butler, of Camden, will
lecture on ga Trip Abroad" on next
Tuesday evening. under the direction of
the Epworth League. Those wlo
remember his delightful lecture on the
same subject a few months ago, will be
glad to continue the trip with him on
Tuesday evening.
The news of the death Of Rev. Joseph
FL. Mickle, at his home in Freehold, on
last Sunday, sent a shock through u
community, where he was well known
and greatly beloved, having spent a
successful pastorate in the Methodist
Church. The sympathies of the COM
munity go out to the bereaved wife and
daughter in their deep sorrow.
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Don't invite disappointment by expert
menting. Depend upon One Minute
Cough Cure and yon have immediate
relief. Il cures Group. The only hxrm-
less remedy that produces imm sdiate
results. Geo. N. Andrews.
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Decoration Day will be appropriately
commemorated BY the public school Of
Woodstown. and an effort is being made
- have the veterans join with them In
the observance of the day. The exer-
cises will take place on Friday afternoon,
Nav eafh. They will begin in the Pri-
mary room At a quarter past one o'o ~
and continue until two, ana snen tne
Secondary Department will E y "
2 continue until 2 40, when the ufam
mar and High schools will comoine y
exercises until s 30. at this nour u y
desired that the veterans continue Will
an address by some one whom they may
invite. The public Is Invited to attend
all the exercises.
The Monitor-register., 1896-05-08

"Give me a liver regulator and I can
regulate the world" said a genius. The
druggist handed him q bottle of DeWitt's
Little Early Risers, the famous little
pills. Geo. M. Andrews.
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CumberIand County Oourts,

The Cumberland county courts for the
May term opened on Tuesday, Judge
Ludlow presiding. The only case moved
was thar of Edward Goldsboro against
the Central Railroad for damages for
injuries received in a collision at the
~Sheppard's Mill crossing, in December,
1892. The jury awarded $4,000 damages.
The two suits for $40, 900 damages each
against Charles E. Sheppard, Chairman
of the County Democratic Committee, by
Hon. B. FL. Minch and Walter 81. Bacon
for libel, have been laid over for the term
on account of the illness of Mr.. Sheppard.
The trial of Captain John l.. Brewer,
the crack pigeon shot, indicted for dispos-
ing of mortgaged goods, will come off to-
day and will be interesting to the sporting
fraternity.
These licenses for taverns were granted:
Harry Deemer, Port Norris; q. D.
Paulin, Dorchester; T. M. Sharp, Port
Elizabeth, and Fred. Young, Ouch Neck.
The application of James Madden, Deer
field, aud Herbert P. Garrison, of the
Fortescne House, which was burned down
Sunday night, were laid over until Mon
day. The Fortescue House will be rebuilt.
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sharptown News.


Enooh Chester is making some repairs
at the parsonge.
The farmers are very busy this week
with their corn planting.
Burnett Steward, of Philadelphia, is
spending a few days with his parents
MI. and Mrs. Eli Steward.
William Wright and his bride are at
home lin the house owned by Thomas
Kiger, on Pennsgrove street.
Joseph Banks and son Charles, have
gone to Atlantic City to seek their
fortune, by honest toll. We hope that
success may attend their efforts.
Mrs. Mary Layton, who lost her hus
band recently, will move to Bridgeton in a
short time, and take up her abode again
with her parents, Mr.. apd Mrs. John
Miller, formerly of this plkce.
We again hear the familiar cry,
CHEERING are up" This old time express
sion is anything but pleasing to those of
u citizens who live near the place where
the fish are caught. When a part of the
fishermen get entirely too jolly on some
thing that is much stronger than water
they cannot expect to be very welcome as
evening guests.
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state homeopathic medical society.

STAKE Meulcak society,"
The forty.second annual meeting of the
New Jersey State Homeopathic Medical
Society was held ia the State House at
Trenton on Tuesday, and was largely
attended. Papers were read by the
following physicians: E. M. Howard, G..
F. Adams, George M. Oakford, E. De.
Baum, Alice B. Condit, w. II. G. Wood
ruff, John Younglove, Fl. H. B. Sleight.
Wallace McGeorge, L. D. Tebo, B. W.
Givens, ]. j. Currie, Annie E. Grifiths,
E. V. Mofat, G. 81. Hubbs I'd.
Officers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, M. F. Middleton, Camden; First
Vice President. E. j. Howe, Newark;
Second Vice President, M. II. U. Wood.
ruff, Boonton; Third Vice President,
George 81. Richard, Orange; Recording
Secretary, G. Herbert Church, Passaic;
Corresponding Secretary, Wallace Mo
George, Camden; Treasurer, j. ]. Currie.
Beverly. Board of Censois, Annie E.
Grifiths, Camden; E. M. Howard, Cam
den; F. P. McKinstry. Washington;
Isaac Cooper, Trenton; T. Y. Kinnell,
Paterson.
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A Railroad MI

Stockholders of the West Jersey Rail.
road Company, the West Jersey and
Atlantic Railroad Company, the Phila.
delphia, Marlton and Medford Company,
aud the Alloway and Quinton Railroad
Company met in Camden on Saturday,
and decided to merge all the roads under
n system as the West Jersey and Sea-
shore Railroad Company. The vote for
consolidation was 81, 756, out of 105, 29s
shares represented. The meetings of all
the companies were we'll attended.
The merger will 60 into effect as soon
as the necessary papers are filed with the
Secretary of State at Trenton. and new
stock is issued. The capital of the new
company will be about 5000, 900. The
rolling stock will be renamed. The n
solidation will greatly simplify the opera.
tions of the combined roads and do away
with considerable red tape and clerical
Work haratofora uooacoorv
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At this season use Jones' Cattle Pow
der.