The Monitor-register., 1896-04-10


The Spring convention of the Gloucester
County W. G. T. U. will probably be held
in Swedesboro, although neither the
place nor date has yet been definitely
arranged.
A Bridgeton paper hears rumors that
a trolley road is to be built connecting
that city with Philadelphia. The route
is to be through Deerfield, Pole Tavern
and Mullica Hill.
A fire, which burned over a large tract
of timber land, started in the wooded
belt just below Paulsboro, on Sunday
and was not extinguished until Monday
afternoon, after entailing quite a loss.
How the flames originated is unknown.
The straw berry growers of Cumberland
county held a meeting on Tuesday in the
Court House at Bridgeton under the
auspices of the Cumberland County
Board of Agriculture. The matter of
shipping Strawberries to Eastern and
Northern markets was decided upon.
Refrigerator cars are to be used. Com
mission houses from Boston, Providence
and Buffalo had their representatives
present, each bidding for the strawberry
traffic of this part of Jersey.
The Spring Conference of the pastors,
supe~rintendents and teachers of the
Gloucester county Sunday-school Asso-
citation will be held in the Clarksboro
Methodist Epicopal Church, on Thursday,
the 23d inst. An all-day programme is
being prepared, and among the speakers
will be Rev. E. Morris FERGUSON, State
Secretary of Sunday-school Work; Rev.
q. j. Zelley, President of the New
Jersey Conference Epworth League; Rev.
Pennington Corson, Rev. A. 81. Sem
bower and George w. Hughes.
Michael Dwyer, who resided at South
Gloucester, was struck by the second
section of the Atlantic City express train
shortly before Z o'clock on Sunday night,
about a square above the West Jersey
! Railroad Station, at Gloucester City, and
was instantly killed. Dryer had been
visiting his sister, who lives neal the
railroad, and, stepping out of the house,
walked right on the tracks. 1t is thought
that he became confused and did not
know which way to move to get out of
the way of the approaching train. which
was running at a high rate of speed.
Coroner Ross was notified and took
charge of the body.
Fred Voyd, a drunken glass-worker, OF
Bridgeton, on Monday night tried to kill
his wife at the house of her father, John
Grant. He fired five shots at her, none of
them taking effect. Grant grappled with
the assailant, who turned around and fired
the two remaining cartridges of his pistol
at his father in-law. So close to Grants
head was the revolver that the powder
singed his eyebrows. Voyd struck Grant
with the butt of the pistol, knocking him
down and then escaped. Voyd was caught
afterward by Policeman Smith, Constable
Ayres and his father in-law in a clump of
bushes in East Bridgeton. AS they
walked along Commerce street on the
way to Jail, Voyd suddedly pulled a
revolver and fred two shots into his head
and fell unconscious. He was carried to
the Jail. where physicians extracted the
bullets and pronounced the wounds not
necessarily fatal.
A high liver with a torpid liver will
notbe a long liver. Correct the liver
with DoWitt's Little Early Risers, little
pills that cure dyspepsia and constipation.
Geo. III. Andrews.
The American cowboy, who is q dis
tinctive and picturesque feature in
Buffalo Bills Wild West Exhibition,
which is to be given in Phiiadelpbia
seven days, commencing April 18th, is
the result OF a peculiar condition of
national development without parallel in
the history of the world. He is 6imseE,
and has no counterpart among the horse
men OF the world. He has proven him.
self In the main q most useful Citizen and
is by no means the uncouth rufian too
often depicted in fiction.
"Give me q liver regulator and I can
regulate the world,n said a genius. The
druggist handed him o bottle of DeWitt's
Little Early Risers, the famous little
pills. Geo. M. Andrews.
If you bake bread from "Lotus'' -four
and have good butter, we think you will
enjoy yourselves at meal times.
Dsvonshire satin wove letter paper,
neatly put up IN / ID. boxes, only s5 cents
per y. 81 tho stationery store. No. Q, N.
Il not only 4 "a. Il must be SO. One
Minute Cough Ours aots quickly, and