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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-24
.HERIFF's SALE.

By virtue OF writ OF feri facias. to me di-
rected, issued out of the Court of Chancery OF
the State of New Jersey, Will sell at public
sale, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST IS, 1897,
between the hours of IL ana O'Clock in the
afternoon of said day Ito wit, at o'clockl, al
Benjamin W. Zelley's hotel, Mount Holly,
N. j.,
All that lot of land situa te on the west side
OF Pine street, in the town of Mount Holly
county of burlington and state of New Jersey,
and is butted and bounded as follows Be-
ginning at a stake on the west side OF Pine
street and Is the southeast corner of lot OF
land belonging to Elizabeth A. and Sarah C.
Davis, and is about twenty eight links from
the northeast corner of their lot, by which II
runs ~ west one hundred ana eighty-three
feet and eight inches to the southwest corner
ing to the estate of Charles L. Branson, de-
ceased; thence ~ by said Branson's line
south six degrees west fifty feet and one
inch to the northwest corner of Margaret
Hooper's lot; by which 1t runs (3)north eli ghty-
nine and a half degrees east one hundred and
ninety-three feet to the northeast corner of
her lot on the west side of Pine street and is
seventeen feet from her southeast corner;
thence az along the west side of Pine street
north four and quarter degrees west fifty
one feet to the place of beginning, be the con
tents thereof what it may.
Being the same premises that Thomas w
N1pp1nS ana wife conveyed to the SAID George
Branin by deed dated November goth, A. d.
1890, and recorded in the Clerks office OF said
county of Burlington, in Book 3O2 of Deeds
page 1885, &C.
Seized as the property of George Branin, ct
uX., defendants, taken in execution at the
suit OF Anna Nj. d. jeffrey, complainant, and
to be sold by
SAMUEL A. ATKINSON, Solr. Sheriff
Dated July 26, 1897. TPr's adv fee $40 90
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-24

BY virtue OF q writ of fieri facias, to me d.
rected, issued out of the Court of Chancery OF
the State of New Jersey, will sell at public
sale, on
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-24
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS

MARK r. sooY, Proctor.
Dated july 20. 1897.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-24
IN cHANcERY OF NEW JERSEY.

P.O. Adde'S, Mount Holly, New Jers
Dated August 10. A. D. 1897.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-24
CHERIFF's SALE.

JOSEPH S. FLEETWOOD,
SAMUEL A. ATKINSON, Sol'r Sheriff.
Dated July 26 1897. TPrs adv fee $40 90
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
discoveries at Treyes.

The excavations that have been going
on for months past on a plot Of ground
belonging to Herr Sohabb, a manufac-
turer at Treves, have resulted in the dis
covery of a Roman private house, which
viii excite the interests of antiquaries al
most as much as the famous public
buildings at Augusta Trevirorum. The
front of the house lies parallel with the
principal street of the old Roman City. A
number of blocks which served as pedes-
trials for the wooden or stone pillars of
a portico still remain. The entrance is
distinctly recognizable between TWO but
tresses and an immense heap of stones.
A long entrance hall running right
through the house, from front to back,
is intersected by another corridor, so that
the gigantic building is divided into four
parts. Side Corridors lead into the rooms.
OF these the marble tessellated bathrooms
for hot and cold water II warm air lie
The two latter were supplied with warm
escape of the smoke was effected by
means of hollow tiles laid on one another.
The southwestern rooms have cellars un-
der them. In a light court in the same
part of the mouse there is a well preserved
window. the first ever found in a Roman
building. The most interesting thing,
however, is the magnificent and richly
colored Mosaic floor, "a rarity of the first
order. Experts assign the building to the
first half of the fourth century; when Au-
gusta Trevirorum attained the zenith of
its Splendor under Constantine and his
SonS.-London STANDARD.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
ONE BURGLAR sQUEALED.
had Cffizens In the Penften-
tIary or or the High Road 20 II.

Ia ~ VI - RbO&u 80 IL
James McManue, Albert Gretchel and
John Farrelly were on the list yesterday
to be tried in the General Sessions Court
for burglary. After moving the case As
sistant Prosecutor Noonan explained that
he had entered a nolle pros against Nc
Manus in order to use him as a witness,
ard that Farrelly is in the p~enitentiary.
Gretchel, therefore. would be tried alone.
On June %, Valentine Ringle's house on
Delaware avenue was burglarized and 50
stolen. Mr.. Ringle reported the burglary
at the Montgomery street station the next
morning, and Detective Larkins was put
on the case. While examining the prem
ises the detective discovered the sole of
a shoe fastened between two pickets of
Mr.. Ringle's rear fence. With true De-
tective acumen Larkins concluded that
when ne found the owner of that sole he
would nave the burglar.
He found the owner in the person of
McManus arrested him. McManus
''squeeled" n Gretehel and Farrelly
were arrested. AT the police station they
confessed to the burglary. and signed a
written statement prepared by Sergeant
Duffy. In the face of his confessions
II the facts brought out at the trial,
however, Gretchel denied that he had any
thing to do with the burglary, and Nc
Manus had forgotten all that he had told
the police at the time of his arrest.
Gretche1 was convicted.
Gretchel and McManus were then tried
for committing a burglary at Thomas J.
CARROTS saloon, No. 232 Duncan avenue.
They had confessed that they broke into
the saloon and stole cigars and waiskey.
bur denied it yesterday. They were con-
xfafnd
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
HIS LAUGH HIS FoRTUNE.
1t Won Him Friends and FertuI
and Disco certad Els Enamian.


Ever hear of a man who made a for
tune out of his laugh?'' said a guest of
the St. Charles to a New Orleans Times
Democrat reporter, as he looked over the
register. II have heard of girls who's
faces were their fortunes, but I knew a
man whose laugh was positively his for
tune. That name-Sam b. Adams-on the
register there reminds me of a man who
made a fortune out of his laugh. His
was John D.. Adams, and he was the fa-
Their of Sam, the gentleman registered
there. John D. Adams was a typical
steamboat man of Arkansas. and in adj
dition to his steamboating was a plant
ter of extensive interests, and was con-
nected with other business enterprises.
He was the first man to run a steam-
boat up the Arkansas River, and his
name in that State today is a synonym
for g%eniality, courage and business sue
friends used to attribute his success to
his wonderful laugh. 1t was not bolster
ous. yet loud. and was so musical and
jolly that one could imagine old Kris
Kringle was personifed in him. Other
river men would say that his laugh got
him all the government mail contracts.
re Mcufu go 10 washington, get ac-
quainted with the man who had charge
of the contracts, and he, like all of Adj
ams's new acquaintance, would soon
come under the infection of his magnetic
laugh and form a genuine admiration for
the grizzled old ste~anboafnan He was
known at the hotel by everybody. and was
pointed out for years by a negro porter to
whom he once gave a S. gold piece as a
tip in a fit of jolhfieatfon over the closing
OF q big contract in his favor.
Amazing tales were told of his courage
and his steamboat experiences. On one
occasion, when an accident happened, to
his boat and the passengers became
panic-stricken, he Gained them as if by
magic by calling them children and
laughing at their fear-his famous laugh
compelling confidence and mirth by its
very melody and jollity. He even used
his laugh when very much angered. but
II was OF a different character, and death
lurSed behind it. In a steamboat quarrel
with three d-esperadoeS once, he denounced
them with a laughing accompaniment. a
cynical, chilling, dangerous kin of a
his eyes giittering like a. K
and his forefinger on his revolver ready
TO dash cut the life of the first one who
made Il move. One of the desperadoes
afterWard, in speaking of the oc-
that he never felt sos EAGERLY
before in his life. He said he felt as
though.the vey marrow in his bones was
helms rfrnean -
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
FLEMISH PASSION L A
Orifinated in the Wear IIOO-The
Yearly ProceesIOn.

Furnes, a quaint Belgian city sons
twelve miles distant from Dunkirk, ii
one of the rapidly vanishing ~communitie:
where the old traditions of the Roman
Catholic religion, with its love of out
ward show and its open-air ceremonial
displays, still retain their fervid expo
nents. The yearly procession, which is
held on the last Sunday in July, is in
reality a passion play, whose actors ex-
press in naively quaint dialogue the va
riousp phases of the Lords sacrifice. This
religious function attracts hundreds OF
pilgrims from the remotest parts. of Bel
GUM, and thousands of sight-seers. The
old-fashioned little town, with its inter-
esting Spanish houses, becomes for a
single day the rendezvous of a crowd,
where cyclists. pilgrims, friars, peasants
and gayly dressed pleasure seekers from
Dunkirk, Ostend and Blankenberghe as
semble.
When the procession energies from the
old church of Sainte Walburge the bells
toll the knell for the dead. The murmur
OF the spectators is hushed, n all be-
comes still as the actors in the play
leave the portals of the sanctuary. There
are no fewer than thirty groups in the
procession, which is headed by trumpet
ers. The most remarkable are John the
Baptist the stable of Bethlehem" the
Shepherds" the Wise Men of the
East the Flight into Egypt" the
Court of Herod, the Saviour and the
Doctors the Entry of the aviou into
Jerusalem, : "Pilate and the Judges the
Saviour Bearing His Cross, the aCruci-
fixion' and the 'Resurrectien.s' The ac-
tors are mostly costumed with a certain
regard for accuracy, and with the clergy,
IN their rich canonicals, bringing uD the
rear, the procession is quite a remark
able sight. TIE defle includes a number
of "penitents, attired in coarse serge
gowns. their features being concealed by
a cowl, and their feet being bare. These
are believers who, in atonement of their
sins, undergo this yearly penance. 1t is
said that the better GLASSES provide many
adopts for this peculiar method of seek
ing the remission of Shortcomings.
The Furnes procession was instituted in
the year 100 by Count Robert of Jerusa-
lem, who on his return from the Holy.
Land experienced a violent tempest as he
was reaching port. He vowed to offer to
the first church whose steeple might be
seen a piece of the true cross of which
he was the bearer. ii is said that the
sea at once became calm, and tina the
spire of Sainte Walburge was sighted. The,
Cou landed and handed the precious
relics with due solemnity, TO the CLERGY of
Furnes. The procession was Instituted
to commemorate this event.. and has been
maintained almost without Interruption
;up to this date.-London STANDARD.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
KENNY KNOCKED OUT.
The Aldermen Would Noa License
His Place on oxford Avenue.


Patrlck Kenny, the fat and hid man
IS IN a state of mind today. He declares
ne VIII aVenge hlnself on the Democratic
party, sue a iot OF property owners fol
damages and Go a great many other
Things 10 make che lives of a whole lot
OIL people miserable. The Board of Alder
men last night, for the second time, re-
Iused IN no uncertain way to give Mr..
Kenny a license to open a saloon. Kenny
made his first appearance as a would-be
onkee by opening a place at No.
81 virginia avenue. which is on the corner
OF the Boulevard. Owners of property
upon discovering what he proposed doing,
combined and filed a remonstrance against
the granting of a license to him. They
asserted that there was no call for a
! saloon at Virginia avenue and the Boule-
ward and declared that the opening of
one would depreciate the value of prop
erty and drive respectable people out of
the vicinity Kenny was refused a license.
He tore his hair and did a lot of other
unnecessary things, but to no avail.
A few weeks ago he filed a petition for
a license to open a saloon at No. IS Ok
ford avenue The Aldermen had adjourned
Tor the summer and Kenny promptly fitted
up a SAIGON and began operations. Last
night the Aldermen met. The Excise
Committee had received from Mr.. Charles
LIE Ferre and about a hundred other re-
spectablel property owners and residents
of Oxford avenue a red hot emonstranca
KENNY lnew tbat tnara ~. ohiaatiaa ~
ra - nieM ma mere was ooJeceioh 10
his place. He attended the meeting with
his counsel. w. H. Speer. and asked that
- . ~
~ oe siYen 2 hearhls. ihe members OF
I no ttXRI<pI f'nmn1jftRnA had fondnE %
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
Home of MANY insects.

One mound in particular. a, groined col
umna structure, was eighteen feet high
This was not far from Port Darwin. The
discoverer believes that Originally the
mound was eonieal in shape. The sides
were smooth. 1t has evidently been in
use for many years, and the colurnnar ef-
feet noticeable, he believeS is due to the
fact that the ants necessarily travelling
the pathways up and down the mound
produced the grooves that are seen, and
resulted in giving The effect of a column
mar formation. The entrance to the
mound, examination showed, had varied
in location, for there was distinct evil
denee that apertures Of this sort had
been walled up in several instances. The
interior of the mound referred to showed
as much as anything the remarkable in
stinct of the ants. 1t was divided up kerry
much after the fashion OF the tall budld-
ings which are now becoming so COM
mon, with an immense court within the
structure itself-that is, there We're hun
dreds of TINY cells built in: from galleries;
The galleries were connected by paths of
stairways, each Of these being construct
ed with architectural exactness. The cells
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
LOST HIS DIVORCE CASE.

yice-Chancellor Pitney this morning
disposed of the case Of Benjamin Pady,
who sues his wife Elizabeth for divorce.
The parties reside in Paterson and the
case has been hanging for over a year.
Pady charges his wife with infdelity, and
she retaliated with a cross bill based on
the same charges. Mr.. Pady is now un-
der Indictment in Passaic county for the
conduct on which his wife bases her suit.
Mr.. James Robertson, of Governor Griggs'
ofice, appeared for Mrs. Pady, and Mr..
Mervin Armstrong represented Mr.. Pady.
The Vice-Chancellor decided in favor Of
the wife.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
STAPLES AT IT AGAIN,
Decayed Hams and Putrid Pork
Found In His Canals Factory.

p
The Police Commissioners met as the
Board Of Health yesterday afternoon. Ed
win IT.. Moore, the Plumbing Inspector,
resigned. His business win not permit
him to devote sufficient time to such a
RESPONSIBLE position. His resignation was
accepted. The Office is worth 81, 200 a
year. Who will succeed him is not
known. The Master Plumbers Associa-
ton communicated with the Board and
suggested that the office made vacant by
Moore's resignation be filled by the APP
pointment of a jo~urneyman instead of a
master plumber. The communication
was filed.
The case of Charles Staples candle fac
tory at No. 81 Waverly street was dis
cussed again. Health Inspector Benja-
min reported that his men visited the
factory on September ] n found there
II barrels of decayed hams and a large
quantity of pork. The stuff was con-
demned and removed by the officers.
Staples permit expires October l. The
question of continuing or ~revoking it was
laid over at the request of William Mid
lidge. counsel for Mr.. Staples.
The Health Inspector also reported that
he had compelled Street Contractor Byrne
to cover the garbage dumped at the foot
of Carteret avenue with dirt. Mrs. Re
gina Lauterbach and % other property
owners of Sherman avenue. complained of
T. G. Otto & Sons factory as a nuisance
owing to the noise created by saws and
the turning of heavy machinery. This
firm answered the complaint and an
nounced that it could produce hundreds
of people who would certify that the fac
tory is not a nuisance.
The compliments allege that smoke and
sawdust from the factory destroy the
clothes of residents. The Board Will
visit the factory.
The contagious diseases reported during
the month were:-Diphtheria, II; scarlet
fever, 80; typhoid fever, 2; measles, 4, and
GROUP, ).
There We're excluded from school owing
to contagious diseases, 81 children during
the month; AZ have been allowed to re-
turn.
During the month DIR. Atkinson had Is
cases to attend to, making IS visits; DIR.
Molfson, 40 cases, II visits; DIR. Hoffman,.
Is cases. 46 visits; DR.. B~rinckerhoff, 8
eases, 26 visits; DR.. Everett, II cases, 81
visits.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
She Just wansed 10 Ta,k.

The Kansas City Star says that a wo-
man who was travelling alone not long
6 wandered one evenings into a hotel
parlor. A pretty young girl at cnce rush.
ed toward her and breathlessls asked her
what time it was. Somewhat astonished
the woman glanced at the big mantel
clock and repeated the hour. sob. thank
you,n said the stranger, but Without any
signs OF going away. ~ SUPPOSE YOU
think it queer my asking that, She burst
out a moment later; but to tell the truth
/ don't want to know the time at all. +
just want to speak to somebody. You
see, I'm on my wedding trip and for a
whole week i haven spoken a word TO a
soul but my husband. Why, I've hardly.
heard the oun OF ~anyone's voice but
his. It was. really a question of my
speaking to somebody or going Wild
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
ABDUCTED HIS FRIENDS CHILD
Jebn Dsnohue,s Fri with An Eleven
Year Old Girl 10 COuey IsIand.

49,
John Donohue. a man about thirty-five
years old. was tried in the General SEES
sions Court yesterday afternoon for alb
Quoting Kate Lyons. eleven years old,
the daughter of William J. Lyons. a ma
chinist. who lives at No. 5 Railroad ave-
nue., Bayonne. He testified yesterday
tina he knows Donohue through working
in the same shop with him. Lyons is a
widower and an elder daughter keeps
house for him. He knew nothing about
the abduction except what his daughter
Kate told him.
Kate, a bright intelligent little girl, told
a straightforward story. She created
the impression thai she knew more a
a child of her age ought to know. Dono-
hue, she said, called at the house on Dec
Grafton Day. He wanted her and her
sister to drink some beer, but they re-
fused. In the afternoon Donohue in
vited Kate to take a walk. He told her
he would buy her a new hat or m
thing. Being a friend of her father the
child did not suspect hat Donohue had
any evil intention toward her and she
accompanied him without and hesitation.
He tok her to New York and up to Cen
trail Park. When it began to grow dark
Kate wanted to go home, but Donovan
persuaded her to go ito Brooklyn. He
engaged a room in a hotel for her. The
next day he took her to Coney Island,
where they remained all day. Toward
evening Kate became tired of her pleasure
trip and asked Donohue to take her home.
Their actions attracted the attentions of
a sergeant of police. and he took them in
to custody. Kate was sent home and
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
HoBoKEE PooLB0oMs MUST CLOSE

Chief of Police Donovan of Hoboken
has given orders to nave a thorough
cleaning out of all the pool rooms and
policy shops in that city. He says he has
received reports that two %poolrooms were
in operation within the city limits.
IF they don't cease pool selling said
the Chief T win arrest every. o.ia of the
operators. ! am Determined chat it shall
be stopped at once%
A few weeks ago Judge Hudspetli called
Chief Donoyan's attention TO the alleged
pool rooms and requested that they ssbe.
closed. TIL places were .frequented
chiefly b. New York gamblers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
Bible for Japau.s Emperor.

The American Bible Society announces
that a large folio Bible in the English
language has been specially prepared as
a gift to the Emperor of Japan and sent
to Yokohama, says the New York Com
mercial Advertiser. 1t is to be formally
presented at the first opportunity after
the E1nperor's return to Tok in the au-
tumn.
The gift is to be made in the name of
the American Bible Society, the British
and Foreign Bible Society and the Ma
tional Bible Society of Scotland. which
are jointly concerned in the publication
and distribution 81 the Japanese Scrip
lures The two agents. the Rev. Henry
Loomis and George ~Braithwaite. Of Yo-
kohama. are to make all the necessary
arrangements, including the preparation
of a suitable letter 10 the
book.
The preparation of this volume was
suggested by the Favorable reception
which the Dowager Empress of China
rave in 1894. when a beautiful Chinese
New Testament was given to her in the
name of 10000 Protestant Christian wom-
en- of China.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
CHILDREN BURNED.

Four year old Mamie Kelly. of No. 1928
Warren street, was fearfully burned last
night while playing around a bonfire. The
child's clothing caught fire and before the
flames could be exting1ished she had been
burned about the head, face body and
legs. She will recover. but there is a
likelihood that she will lose the sight or
her left eye.
James Norton, the eight year old son Of
ex-Assemblyman James +. Norton. was
also severely burned about the hands and
arms last night while playing around an
election bonfire in Variek street.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
eeyion,s MINERAL wealth.

Indian officials are sagitatinga goyern-
ment geological survey of Ceylon, whose
subterranean wealth is said to far exs
coed even the p~fodigality with which
Nature has lavished treasures on the
surface. The exports of bagoN
increased from 2S,S23 cwts. in 1915 TO 326.-
al cwts. in 1895, and these have been
developed by the Cingalese without any
scientific aidSor guidance. Gems of many
Kinds abound. and iron ore of such ex-
eeptionally tine Quality is found in such
abundance that IL can be profitably ship
ped 10 England for smelling.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
LAMB HAS DISAPPEARED.
John Browns widow Wants an A G.
counting From Him.

Senator William D. DAILY. representing
the executors of the estate of the late
John Brown, a wealthy stone dealer OF
Hoboken, has applied to the New York
Courts for a writ to show cause Why
James Lamb, one of the executors, should
not give an accounting. Lamb. who had
charge of the settlement of the estate,
has disappeared, and his whereabouts are
unknown. The widow and, the other heirs
are anxious for an accounting which they
allege has never been made since Lamb
undertook to manage the estate.
Lamb formerly lived in Thirteenth
street, between Bloomfield n Garden
STREETS, Hoboken. John Brown made a
will in 1887, naming as executors his wild
ow, James Lamb, Mrs. lam Brown. nee
Hunt, and William Lamb, brother of the
deceased. Brown died in New York on
October IS, 1855. leaving a wife and five
children. 1t the time of his death he
conducted a large stone yard in Willow
avenue, Hoboken. Having confidence in
Lamb, Mrs. Brown gave all her hus-
bands business in his care. He man
aged the estate until 1892 when a settle
ment was made Then Lamb entered
into an agreement with Mrs. Brown to
continue the business. He was to pay
interest upon a $500 10 mortgage held
against the property by the Hoboken
Land and Improvement Company and to
give the widow 1000 a year from the
proceeds of the business.
Mrs. Brown ayers that Lamb has failed
to fulfill his agreement. She says that he
has not ceased operating the business.
and has rented the property to another
person. She has received nothing. she