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Mesa free press., 1896-07-24

There is this difference between
a wise man and a fool, Tha wise
man expectsIfuture things but does
not depend upon them and IN the
meantime enjoys the present, re-
membering the past with delight,
but the life of the tool is wholly
carried on to the future. .-Epicu-
rus.
Mesa free press., 1896-07-24

On Wednesday afternoon our
section was visited by a glorious
soaking rain. The night before,
owing to floods up the river, the
bank of the canal broke near the
slaughter house, flooding the town.
The damage was soon repaired, and
everything is now running smooth
ly.-Fiorence Tribune.
Mesa free press., 1896-07-24

Since January ! last l8 railroads
i'm the United States have gone
into receivers hands, and in the
same period % roads have been
sold under foreclosure proceedings.
Mesa free press., 1896-07-24

The report of the commissioner
CT education says that the school
enrolment last year reached 16,-
100000, which is 2O.53 per cent.
of the total population. 1t is a
matter of special congratulation
that the school. attendance is in
creasiug twice as fast as the popu-
lation.
Mesa free press., 1896-07-24
A man near Newkirk, Ok, to,

A man near Newkirk, Ok, took
his neighbor's cat, saturated its tail
in kerosene, and set it on fire,
thinking it would run home and
burn the neighbor out. Instead, it
turned and jumped into the tor
turer's own barn and burned 1t
down.
Mesa free press., 1896-07-24

There are 5000 building and
loan associations in the United
States, with 100000 shareholders
and.assets aggregating $500, 100000
Mesa free press., 1896-07-24
An Indiana man was so afraid
of being shot that he hanged him
self.

When an industrious man makes
a dollar by hard work, the loafer
starts the stery that he made at
east ten dollars, and stole half of it.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21
LETTER BOX.


AS the warm days of summer come
around and the weather becomes intensely
hot, it is the desire of the people to have
plenty Of fresh, pure air, and to get this
what is more desirable than to spend a
day 10 the woods with nature, which there
reigDs supreme. Such was the case on
Wednesday, August 18th, when Wing
Lane Sunday. school gave their regular
annual picnic in the woods near there
(owned by the late VIM. Richman> in the
midst Of the grand old trees, which SO
nobly wave a friendly welcome every
year to the children and their many
friends.
There were a number of people present,
some from neighboring towns, many of
which did ample justice to the bountiful
repast set on the table at the noon hour.
In the afternoon ice cream and lemonade
were sold; the children, as usual, each
received plate of ice cream.
Games and all kinds of fun were
INDUCED in until about o'clock, when
all was quiet, while Assistant Superin-
tendent, Lsmuel Denelsbeck, made a
prayer, this was followed with an address
by Rev. l.. Myers, who told the COM
munity what to do to have better times.
All had good time and returned home
wishing for many more such days In
order TO make this picnic success every
year, let us all turn out to the Sunday
school and make larger attendance than
there has ever been before; large enough
to fill the school house. How nice it
would be If we could have chapel in
which to meet am sure we would have
bettew meetings then. Won't some one
please urge the idea
A SCHOLAR.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21

Mrs. Ann Harker is very SERIOUSLY in.
Miss Angie Riddle still continues yerv
poorly.
Frank Richmau and wife have bean
spending few days at Sea Isle CITY.
G. B. Humphreys and son. Edward.
spent Tuesday at Malaga campmeetinp
Miss Mary Paul returned on SATURDAY.
from spending a very pleasant week at
Ocean City.
Mrs. Charles Richman, with a few
friends from Philadelphia, is enjoying a
weeks outing at Atlantic City.
Miss Mary e. Stephens, who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. l. Rogers, has
returned to her homo in Camden.
Nathan Kidd aud family and Daniel
Murphy and wife spent Sunday with
Joseph Demaris and wife, near Pennsville.
Lila and Flora Sharp and Lizzie Red.
strake, of Salem, are enjoying the sea
breeze at Asbury Park and Ocean Grove.
Hewes Crispin, Joseph Black and
family and Theodore Holton and wife
took in the sights of Washington Park
on Thursday.
Miss Ray Borden, one of Salem
county's schoolmarms, but latterly of
Pensauken, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
William Matlack.
We have visitor in town, the guest
of Charley Newton, from Elmer, Miss
Florence Murphy. She is both handsome
and wise, and attracts more attention
than any dozen guests ever received
before. She is perfect delight to the
children, and some of the older ones stop
to admire this canine beauty.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT.
The Startling Result of Firing a Cannon
Buried Under Water.

Buried Under Water.
The most curious experiment ever
made with piece of ordnance was at
Portsmouth, England. A stage was
erected in the harbor within the tide
mark; on this an armstrong gun of the
ITO pound pattern was mounted. The
gun was then loaded and carefully aimed
at target-all this, of course, during
the time of low tide A few hours later,
when the gun and the target were both
covered with water to depth of six
feet, the gun was fred by means of cleo
tricity. We said "aimed at target, !"
but the facts are that there were two
targets, but only one was erected for
this special experiment, the other being
the hull of an old vessel, the Griper,
which lay directly behind the target and
i'll range of the ball. The target itself
was placed only 20 feet from the muzzle
of the gun. 1t was composed of oak
beams and planks, and was 21 inches
thick.
In order to make the old Griper in
vulnerable, sheet Of boiler plates
inches thick was riveted to the water
logged hull, in direct range with the
course the ball was expected to take if
not DETECTED by the water. On all of
these-the oaken target, the boiler
plates and the old vessel hull-the effect
of the shot from the submerged gun
was really startling. The wooden target
was pierced through and through, the
boiler iron target was broken into pieces
and driven into its backing" the ball
passing right OH through both sides of
the vessel, making huge hole, through
which the water poured in torrents.
Taken altogether the experiment was
an entire success, demonstrating, as it
did, the feasibility of placing submerged
guns in harbors in time of war and do
ing great damage to the vessels which
an enemy might dispatch to such points
for the purpose of shelling cities.-In-
vention.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21
Over the County Lines.

Owing to the recent drought the tomato
crop in the vicinity of Newport is COM
plete failure.
The Gloucester County Sunday. school
| Association will hold its next Convention
in the M. E. Church of Woodbury., on
| Oct. LIST, 1896.
More rabbits aud gray squirrels have
been seen in South Jersey this summer
than for many years, and good cunning
season is anticipated.
Wildwood's residents will vote in Sep
tember on the issuing of $13 200 in i'm
provement bonds. 1t will be that resorts
| first bonded Indebtedness.
William H Swindell, formerly ianitor
of the Camden County Court House, has
just been appointed superintendent of
| lighting of Baltimore at a salary of $2700
| year.
There will be a sham battle at Alcyon
Park on Monday evening, representing
the bombardment of Moro Castle, Cuba,
| by the Bermuda. Hayden A. West, for
merly one of the crew of the Bermuda,
will command the Cuban forces.
There were nineteen applicants to the
Bridgeton Board of Education for the
vacant janitorship of the Irving Avenue
and Pearl Street Schools, caused by the
death of Charles Muta, one of the vic
| Tins of the recent railroad horror.
Michael Muta, brother of Charles, was
elected to the position.
Conductor John S. Kelly, of the i'll.
fated excursion train on the West Jersey
| and Seashore Railroad, which was run
into by the Atlantic City Railroad ex-
press, is reported to be in a serious con.
dition at the Atlantic City Sanitarium.
One of his legs will have to be ampu-
tsted, but be has not regained sufficient
strength to stand the operation.
Correspondence looking to settlement
of damages out of the courts is in pro.
gress between the sufferers by the Allan
tic City railroad disaster and the officials
of the West Jersey and Seashore Rail-
road. Superintendent A. O. DAYTON and
| counsel will confer with the claimants in
Bridgeton this week with reference to
terms of adjustment.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21
Learn to Listen IntelIigentIy.

Learn, after you have learned to
speak, to listen and to listen intelli-
gently" writes Ruth Ashmore on How
to Be Social Success" i'll Ladies'
Home Journal. Express your interest
through your eyes, and when it is needed
say the encouraging word that, like hot
water on the tea, brings out the strength.
II speaker mentions wrong date do
not correct her. The world cares for the
interesting talk, not for whether the
affair described happened on Thursday
or Friday, nor whether the bonmot
was born at or 1 O'Clock. The effect
on the speaker is belittling, and you
have no right to underrate any one.
Chatter about anything you will but
personalities. But do not feel that you
must raise the tone of society by ringing
in, when everybody is laughing at some
funny little story about child OF all
are smiling at an amusing description
of how the orange blossoms grow down
south, your opinion of some heavy his
tory that has lately been published. So
ciety is not school; it is pleasure
ground. -
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21
iAl1OWay N 0Rs.



Mrs. Roxsnna White and son, of Clay.
ton. are visiting relatives in Alloway.
Harry Graham, station agent at Clarks
boro, spent Sunday with his mother here
Assistant Postmaster, Mary Elkinton,
is taking two weeks we'll earned vaea-
ton.
Mrs Ellen Shiveler and sou, David,
spent Sunday in Millville with f. Archer
Shiveler and wife.
Ephraim Fogg, wife and two daughters
have been visiting Mr.. Fogg's parents
Edward Fogg and wife.
Rev. V. A. Lonier spent Sunday at
Cedarville. Rev. Lewis Sayre, of Aldine,
occupied the pulpit of the M. E. Church
Mrs. Rachel McNichols has returned
home from a ten or twelve weeks visit
among relatives in Philadelphia and
Clayton.
Rev. George s. Wendell aud wife are
a part of which will be spent with Mrs.
Wendell's parents, Rev. c. E. Cordo and
wife, of Manayunk.
The Alloway Township Sunday-school
Association will hold convention on
Friday of this week in the chapel at
Pentonyille. Several prominent Sunday
school workers will be present. The
public is cordially invited.
On Sunday afternoon next at three
O'Clock meeting will be held at Oak
land shool house for the purpose OF re-
organizing a Sunday school in that place
The friends of the cause in that neighbor-
hood are invited to be present and assist
in the good work.
Mrs. Emily Patterson, widow of the
late William Patterson, died on Friday
afternoon at the residence of her son in
law. Daniel P. Dorrell, Jr., aged seventy
five years. On Sunday evening previous
to her death she had fall and broke the
bone of her thigh, which was largely
instru me ntal in causing Der death.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21
A triangular Political Debate.

The Prohiuitionists of Gloucester
county are completing arrangements for a
political picnic, to be held at AloyoL
Para on September I'd, and preparation
is being made to accommodate 5000
excursionsts. The features of the day
will be triangular debate on the princi-
Piles of Democracy. Republicanism and
Prohibition. Several prominent orators
will deliver addresses on the subject:
"Our Party-Which Will Most Benefit
Our Country % A half hour will be
allowed each speaker to advocate the
convictions and position of the party to
which he belongs, although he will not
be privileged TO make any reference to
the other parties.
In the afternoon the speakers will take
the stump again to refute the arguments
made in the morning, and following
their refutations each speaker will be
given fifteen minutes to review the evils
and defects of the others, aud the bene-
fits to be derived from the success of his
own party. An auditorium is to be con-
structed for the occasion, and the event,
owing to its unique features, promises to
set the Presidential campaign booming
10 this section.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21

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The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21
q, mn arc purely vegetable, re-
Hoods Pills liable and beneficial 25c.
RELEASE OF A GYPSY MOTH.
A Careless Frenchman's Experiments Have
Led to Trouble,


On a certain i'll omened day in 1869
gentle breeze rippled through the
streets of quiet town in eastern Massa-
chusetts. 1t left chimneys unharmed
and hardly rippled tree, yet if it had
been cyclone it could hardly have done
more damage, for in bare little frame
tenement house on side street stood
Pandora's box full of troubles waiting
to be spread broadcast over the land,
and the breeze furnished the needed
key. Presently the owner of the house
and of Pandora's S box, Frenchman,
known to his neighbors for his curious
experiments i'll silk raising and for his
absorption i'll the study of strange in
sects, was seen searching anxiously in
the grass outside his window. People
| who saw him said that he seemed much
disturbed at the failure of his quest.
Well might he be, for he had Just let
loose one of the plaques of Egypt upon
fair and fertile land. He had lost ''le
zigsag," and the new world has gained
the gypsy moth.
Mr.. Trouvelot, the silk grower of
Medford, can hardly expect to have his
name pleasantly remembered among
his quondam tOwnsmen and country
men, but he should be given credit both
for intelligence to foresee the conse-
quences of his negligence and for the
candor Immediately to give notice of
the danger to which the public was ex-
posed. But his warning fell on deaf
ears. No one realized that the pest,
, which is a nuisance rather than dan
ger i'll Europe, would gain such head
way i'll a new home, and, freed from
its hereditary enemies, was to deviate
wherever it went. 1t would have been
| economy, if the future could have been
foreseen, to appropriate $1,000, 600, if
need be, to quarantine the whole neigh
borhood, to fell the trees, to raze the
houses to the ground, to plow the fields
under and leave that part of the town
a desert. But no one rose to the emer-
gency till it was too late. e.-Springfeld
Republican.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21

DR.. J. B. Ware spent Tuesday here.
Mary Dugan spent Sunday in Swedes-
boro.
Lola Justice spent Friday in Penns-
grove.
Emma Stetser spent Tuesday in Penns-
grove.
Thomas Cooney spent Sunday in Phila.
delphia.
Harvey Justice took trip to Chester
on Friday.
Mrs. Bertha Gaventa spent Tuesday in
Philadelphia.
Carrie Hortman is spending some time
in Philadelphia.
Dennis Lane, of Philadelphia, is visit
ing his son here.
Otis Titus, of Philadelphia, is visiting
his parents here.
Miss Maggie Pedrick is spending some
time in Delaware.
James Morrison, of Camden, is visit
ing his daughters,
Henry Holton took trip to Philadel-
phia on Wednesday.
William Webster, of Philadelphia, is
home for few days.
Ebenezer Sparks took trip to Phila-
delphia on Saturday.
Dennis Lane, Jr., took trip to Phila-
delphia on Wednesday.
John McGlacy and friend spent Friday
evening in Pennsgrove.
William Justice, Of. Philadelphia, moved
to this place on Tuesday. -
Lemuel Reymsr, wife and daughters
spent Friday in Pennsgrove.
William Dugan, of Philadelphia, spent
Sunday with his parents here.
Miss Abiah McCarsou, of Alloway,
was among our Sunday visitors.
Robert Munyon, of Gibbstown, spent
Tuesday night with his family here.
Mrs. Anna Shoemaker, of Philadel-
| phia, is visiting her sister here.
Bertha Conard, of Philadelphia, is
| spending some time in this place.
Miss May Hurff is spending some time
| in Swedesboro with her grandpa.
Mrs. Robert Munyon is spending some
time with her son in Philadelphia.
Charles Pedrick and wife are spending
some time with the latter's parents in
| Delaware.
Mrs. Harvey S. Justice and daughter
took in the sights of Washington Park
| Thursday evening.
Miss Martie Justice was agreeably sur
prised on Thursday by number of her
| friends Tho came to celebrate her eleventh
birthday. Among those present were
Misses Gertrude Rsymer and sister,
Katie Cooney, Mary Justice, Myrtle
Gaventa, Florence Dugan, Nettie
Pickens and Caddie Doughten.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21

Mrs. Sallie Larkins is seriously i'll.
]. J. Hunt and wife spent Wednesday
in Wilmington.
Miss Hsttie L. P. Hankins is visiting
friends in this locality.
Miss Rsba Ashton, tf Oak Grove, is
visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Ida Ashton is copfaed to the
house with rheumatism.
Miss Bessie Haines is entertaining a
10" Of her lady relatives.
Miss Name Curry has been spending
short time in Philadelphia.
Miss Edna Curry, tf Woodstown, is
visiting her grandfather here.
Miss Maggie Bills, Of Mullica Hill, is
visiting relatives and friends here.
A number Of friends are being enter.
tained by Samuel Given and family.
Miss Susie Woriz, Of Philadelphia, has
been the guest cf Mrs. Eliza Mattson.
Mrs. Ashton, of Swedish boro, spent a
short time here with her sou, David
Ashton.
Clifton and Turner Ashton, cf Oak
Grove. spent Sunday with relatives and
friends here.
Mrs. Sholenburger and family are Wis.
lting among their relatives and friends in
this place.
Mrs. Matte Given has been visiting
her sister. Mra. Sholenburger, in Viii
mington, Del.
The Fleetwing still makes her daily
trips under new jingle bell, carrying
about ., 900 watermelons each trip.
Nathan Mattson, engineer of the tug
FIeetwng, who was overcome by the
excessive heat recently. has resumed his
duties again.
The topic for the Epworth League
meeting Sunday evening will be found in
John Xxx, 24-29, and relates to Thomas
the Doubter."
Rev. B. F. Sheppard will take for bis
subject. on Sunday morning, Entire
Sanetitication, fcom the text [ l Tnes.
Y, 23. Come aud hear him.
Fruit being scarce and very dear in
this locality, a number of our citizens
have been purchasing peaches of the
Wilmington markets and retailing them
at reasonable rates to our fellow citizens.
The camp meeting which was talked
of at this place has not altogether proved
failure, for while our members are en-
gagged in preparing for the erection f a
new church, James M. Norton, Jr, has
assisted in arranging for village camp
meeting to be held in the old M. E.
Church at Perkintowp, about two miles
from Auburn, towards Pennsgrove, flom
August 231 to 305h. The services will!
begin at 8 A. M. on Sunday next and
be held in the morning, afternoon and
evening On each day except Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, when the
morning services will be omitted. A
large tent has been erected and provision
made for the feeding of man and beast.
The announcement of the ministers to
have charge will be made from the stand
Sunday morning. The camp will be held
under the auspices of the Open Air
Workers Association of America. All
are invited to attend.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21
canning FACTORY sold.

On Monday, says the BridgetoD Patriot,
Sheriff Sbinn sold the canning factory
aud plant of Job Bacon. at the suit OF
Tbos. Roberts g. Co., of Philadelphia.
The entire plant was bid off at 81 500.
the plaintiffs in the case being the pur-
chaser. Personal property aud household
goods were sold to the amount of $500,
and also were purchased by the plaintiffs.
At the close of the sale representative
of the firm desired to present the house
hold goods to the defendant and family,
but Mr.. Bacon declined the generous
offer, saying he wanted to be entirely free
from any suspicion of being in any way
interested in the sale beyond desire to
pay mis- entire Indebtedness.
Mr.. Bacon has the full confidence and
sincere sympathy of all who know him,
and at the close of the sale of the canning
factory he took occasion to publicly ex-
press his thanks to the public in general
for their many manifestations of SYM
pathy, confidence and esteem.
The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21

Vice Chancellor Pitney filed decision
on Thursday in the case of the Woodbury.
Heights Land Company against Con-
yressman 81. G Loudenslager. The bill
filed was to recover profits alleged to
have been made by the defendant through
the purchase and sale of land between the
towns of Woodbury. and Wenonah, in
Gloucester county.
Loudenslager, it is claimed, held op-
tions on the land and sold it to the com.
pany of which he was president at price
greater than that of adjoining lands. LOU
denslager denied that he held the options
for himself, but averred that he acted as
AGENT for DR.. J. B. Roe. and received
only ha.f the profits.
Vice Chancellor Pitney holds that the
com pany is entitled to the property at the
price fixed for it in the options and re-
feree is to determine what portion, if any,
of the profits shall be returned to the
company. The amount involved is
SIC, 900.