The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-08-23


d month.
A three weeks old colored baby, name
y Jackson died yesterday Its parents liv
on the hill
Mrs. Conner, aged SO years, the oldes
s resident in Florence, died suddenly o
: Wednesday
Mrs Frank Hates has fruit tree in he
j yard which contains five different varie
ties of pears
While in Philadelphia on Wednesday
! J. Fred Kiner saw two persons overcom
5 with the heat
The Columbus Baptist Church will hol(
; its annual supper on Thursday evening, il
J the church yard.
The members of the Mount Holly Banjo
Mandolin and Guitar club are now organ
izing glee club.
The usual number of politicians were
at the county seat on Saturday, combining
business with pleasure.
The remains of Mrs. Barclay White,
who died last week, were inferred in the
cemetery at Arney's Mount
By order of the township clerk of Flor
ence, all dogs that are regarded as being
of any value have been muzzled.
A large raccoon was killed on the In
dian Hill farm few days ago by John
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A larged sized tomato plant is having
an undisturbed growth by the side of the
telephone pole in front of 7. Walter Bor-
tons store.
Mrs Abbie Garwood, of Pine street,
will break up housekeeping this week and
take up her residence in the Old Ladies
Home at Burlington
Watermelon thieves who robbed the
patch of Joseph Engle, Jr., came near
being caught by John A Bidwell, who
gave them lively chase.
One of the gray horses belonging to
Thomas Atkins was taken violently i'll with
cramps on Wednesday, but the animal
soon came around all right again.
Game Warden William Wise, of Bur
lington, is anxious for the sporting fra
ternity to know that the season for reed
birds does not open until August 26.
Stetsons Uncle Toms Cabin Company
will rehearse in the Opera House for sew
eral days preparatory to it's opening the
season here on Thursday, September l.
The remains of Abraham Rankin, of
Philadelphia, brother law of Nathan
Lippincott, were inferred in the Baptist
burying grounds here, on Wednesday
Some statistics gathered by the Nation
al Temperance Society show that the sal
aries of the barkeepers of the country
exceed those of the teachers of the pub
lie schools by $50, 600, 900.
Detective Walton came here on Wed
nesday and secured warrant for the ar
rest of Eugene Boud, of Camden, who is
wanted for stealing trolley wire from the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Mount
Holly.
The project of establishing water
plant at Columbus is being seriously dis
cussed 1t is said the town can supply
good drinking water and that the neces-
sary amount of money can be raised in
few hours.
Department Commander W. G. Smith,
of the G. A. R., who lives in Plainfeld,
has secured special train for the use of
the New Jersey veterans who desire to at
tend the national encampment at Cincin-
natl next month
A pug dog belonging to George W. Du
rand came near getting killed by team
of horses on Wednesday, The canine was
knocked quite distance in front of the
animals, and when they caught up again
the little fellow had sense enough to lay
perfectly still and thus escape further in
jury.
The act of defacing gold and silver
pieces for engraved bangles, pins, etc, is
coming in vogue again, and as a conse
quence it is keeping much money from
circulation. The law forbidding the mu-
tilation of coin provides for heavy pun
ishment, and Deputy Clerk Brandt, of the
U. S. District Court at Trenton, says that
several arrests will be made by the first of
September.
The announcement in the Inquirer, on
Thursday, of the death of Elsie Cline, did
not refer to the lady by that name living
in Mount Holly with her grandfather,
John D. Cleyenger. The notice caused
considerable anxiety and inquiry among
Miss Clines friends The lady in ques
ton, according to the paper, was to have
been buried in the Mount Holly GENE
terry on Friday, but no such funeral took
place here.
As lady and gentleman, both stran-
gers, were riding tandem on Washing
ton street, ON Thursday morning, they
were thrown off by the rough cobbles in
front of Trinity Church, and somewhat
quite number of men who were looking
at the workmen engaged on the Union
Fire Company's new house, and it was APP
parent that the lady was concealing her
sufferings
As Dr. Atwood and Lewis Schuyler were
riding on the South Pemberton road,
Tuesday evening, the latter met with an
accident that he will not soon forget
Schuyler ran into a carriage, striking the
vehicle with his bicycle between the thills
and front wheel His machine was badly
twisted and the rider was thrown with
considerable force, receiving painful in
iuries The driver of the wagon picked
up the unfortunate bicyclist and brought
him home.
The pug dog belonging to George A.
Lippincott, of Broad street, created con
siderable excitement ON Tuesday evening,
when the animal was said to be mad but
it probably only had fit. In its rage it
chased the inmates of the house and
caused much general alarm. The dog
then ran down Main street and into the
store Oh odHuel + Nhue- LIS peculiar
actions were noticed by those sitting on the
step at the time. Going out in the rear
ward it remained there for several hours,
when it was liberated by Mr.. Norcross
Two women of Bridgeboro distinguish
ed themselves by putting burglar to
flight Saturday night Mrs George Aus
tin had stopped in at Mrs. Richard Screen s
land while they were talking bright