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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-28

SENATOR EVANS, of Atlantic county has
in the Senate a bill which
makes it unlawful to remove oyster
shells from any natural oyster seed ground
In the state. The penalty is $50 fine or
three months Imprisonment. This is a
wise measure and there should no be any
delay in the passage of the law. The
state oyster commission now buys shells
and puts them in the natural beds in or
der that the young oysters may have
something to fasten to. When these oys-
tiers are taken from the bay the shells to
which they have chung are thrown on the
ground and are claimed by those who dig
the oysters. There is no reason why they
should not be thrown back to again be
used, as it is said they can be utilized
many seasons. An instance of how they
are used was made public recently in con-
nection with a proposition to build a road
in the lower end of the county. The oys-
ter shells taken from the natural beds
were thrown along the bay and persons
who had an idea they were in a position
to secure the contract to build the road
quietly purchased the shells with the in
tention of unloading them on the county.
As a matter of fact these shells should
lave been considered the property of the
state, although those who sold them fol-
lowed the custom that has long prevailed
whereby the man who digs the oysters
takes the shells. The bill introduced by
Senator Evans will, it is said, correct this
custom.
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ZEE

ALLEN.-February 81, near Evesboro, Mary
r.. Allen, in her 59th year.
BARTLETr.-February %, at Atlantic City,
Jarvis H. Bartlett. in the 18th year OF his age.
ELL1s.-February q, at Mount Holly, Edna
Ellis, aged % years.
FO~RT.-February "a, at Pemberton, william
N. Fort, aged 66 years.
GARRETT.-February q, at Philadelphia, j.
G.. Garrett. Inferred at Palmyra.
GARDNER.-February 20, at Palmyra, Flora
M, daughter Of the late Henry and Caroline
Gardner.
Overwhelming p, near Columbus, j.
Fenton Gauntt, aged IS years.
GLENN.-February 26, at Moorestown, Lizzie
Glenn, aged 40 years.
HALL.-February 26, at Mount Holly, Rachel
W., widow of the late Anthony Hall, aged 50
years.
HERBERr.-February 26, at Vincentown,
John 6. Herbert, aged rs years.
HERMAN.-February 26, at Mount Holly,
Sarah j. Herman, aged 30 years..
IszARD.-February 81, at Florence, F. Roy,
son of Rev. A. l.. and Nj. +. IsZard, aged 10
years.
JAoKsoN.-February %, at Burlington, Will
liam W. Jackson, aged 20 years.
LEwIs.-February "a, at Burlington, G. W.
Lewis, ST., aged 65 years.
MELvIN.-February %, at Palmyra, William
Morris, son of Sheridan g. and Alberta Mel
WIN, aged 3 months.
MoRGAN.-February 81, at Riverton Michael
H., son of the late Henry and Rose Morgan.
M'BRIDE. February 20, at Philadelphia
Catharine Mcbride. Inferred at Burlington.
PIERsoN.-February 20, at Camden, Emma A.
Pierson, nee Carson, widow of the late Eli A
Pierson, aged 56 years.
SUTToN.-February %, at Moorestown, Abb
gail H., widow of the late Edward Sutton,
aged So years.
VOORHEES, February "a, at Lumberton, Car
oline Voorhees,, in her S7th year.
WELLs.-February q, at Philadelphia, How
ard, son of Walter A. and Hannah T. Wells, of
Evesboro, in his 18th year.
WLLITTs.-February "a. near Red Lion,
Edith Willitts, in her 10Th year.
WnsoN.-February 20, at Gloucester City,
Mary A. Wilson, in her S4th year.
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STATE NOTES.

"A Salem county paper records as INT
of the remarkable episodes of the recent
blizzard that a man suffered his house
fires to go out for a day, having no fuel,
though a school-house coalbin was fifty
yards away and there was plenty of tim
Der nearby.
-Vineland City Fathers futile efforts
to procure a bell to ring for curfew have
placed them in a plight, as their formal
request for the use of the High School
bell was denied by an almost unanimous
vote of the Board of Education at a spec
ial meeting on Tuesday night. The steam
whistle now being used to signal, will be
blown once instead of nine times until
Council succeeds in borrowing a bell.
Thomas Reynolds, the brawny laborer,
who while crazed with rum ran amuck in
Belleville, telling nearly a score of men,
women and children with a heavy club,
has gone stark mad. With almost super
human strength he tore up a board from
the fool and smashed all the furniture of
his cell in the Essex county jail. 1t took
four strong men to overpower him. He
was placed in a padded cell and will be
sent to the Insane Asylum.
"A life and death struggle which julius
j. Jurard, who lives about a mile below
Rosenhayn, had in the blizzard has just
come to light. He works in a glass fac
tory at Bridgeton and started to walk
home, a distance of seven miles. He was
twelve hours on the road and arrived
home with his stockings frozen fast to his
feet and his ears badly frost bitten. Sew
eral times he gave himself up for lost, but
rallied his energies and pressed forward.
He was laid up for several days.
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MASTERS SALE OF
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House and Lot of Land.

By virtue of a decree made by the Court of
Chancery of the State of New Jersey, bearing
date on the seventh day of February, 1899, in a
cause pending in said Court, wherein John E.
Holloway is complainant, and Alfred Hollo-
way and Others are defendants. the under
signed will expose to sale at public vendue, on
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1899,
between the hours of twelve and five O'Clock,
to-wit, at 2 o'clock, Z. NJ, on the premises
hereinafter designated, all the following de-
scribed
LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND
and premises, situate in the township of Ches-
terfield, in the county of Burlington and state
of New Jersey, butted and bounded as fol-
lows, viz:
Beginning at a stone standing on the west
side of the road lead ng from Daniel I}urtis'
Mill to Crosswlcks, which said stone is corner
to James Rulon and Robert Parry, north
eighty-three degrees and thirty minutes west,
five chains ana seventy-four links to a stone
corner TO Isaiah Taylor's land; thence (2)
along the line OF lands belonging to the said
Isaiah Taylor, south ten degrees west, three
chains and fifty-Seven link to u stone corner
to said Isaiah Taylor's land and also corner OF
Daniel Burtis' land thence (3) by said Daniel
Burtis' land. south, elghty-four degrees AND
fOrty-1Ve minutes east, five chains and thirty
one links to a stone or stake on the west side
OF road aforesaid thence ~ along the west
side of SAID road, north seventeen degrees and
forty-five minutes east, three chains and forty
three links to the place of beginning, contain
ing one acre and ninety h~undredths of an acre
of land, be the same more or less. Being the
same premises OF which the said Ellen r..
Holloway became seized by virtue of a deed
of conveyance from under the hand and seal
of John E. Holloway, dated the eighth day OF
September, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-three, and recorded in Book w 10 OF
Deeds, page 1888. &c, including the inchoate
right of dover OF the said Alice NJ. Holloway,
wife of Alfred Holloway, in her husbands
share of said premises.
Conditions made known at sale.
JEROME b. GRIGG,
M. R.. SooY, Sol'r. Special Master.
February Is. 1899.
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Keith's Bijou.

Manager Keith hands out a list of m
for this weeks bill, at the Biiou, Phila
delphia, that shows there will be an
exceptionally good vaudeville entertain
ment given. A novel act for this sort of
entertainment will be furnished by the
Streator Zouaves, a crack organization of
the west. Their marching and drilling is
said to lave reached the highest point of
perfection, and will therefore be of inter
est to local military men. The company
comprises nineteen men. Arthur Sidman,
the "Denman Thompson of vaudeville, "
whose artistic work has always delighted
theatregoers, will, assisted by Mrs. Sid
man, interpret for the first time in Phila-
delphia tomorrow, Back Home, which
is described as "a few restful moments. "
The scenery used for this piece has won
commentator, the set representing the
'Squire's home at Red Hook. Mr.. Sid
mans new sketch is said to be one of the
most enjoyable he has acted. Frank
Bush, the Hebrew comedian and story
teller; Morton and Revelle, the originators
of rag time talk; Wood and Sheppard,
musical comedians, and George Evans,
the Honest Boy" constitute q quartette
of star acts that have seldom been equaled
in any single bill. Francelli and Lewis,
in an operate sketch; The Three Freder-
icks, demon acrobats; the biograph, which
will project ten new views; Hunting Trio,
singers aud dancers; Kimball and Dono-
van, banjoists, and picturesque Europe il
Illustrated by the ~stereopticon are among
the other highly enjoyable features of the
bill.
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One of the Many.

Joseph H. Beers, of Trenton, t~estifies
that he caught a sever cold which settled
on his lungs; was treated by his family
physician for 2 months, but grew worse.
He told him he had consumption and no
medicine could cure him. A friend of
the family advised him to get Stretch's
Balsam. He bought a bottle and to his
delight found prompt relief. He con-
tinued its use, and after taking six bottles
found himself sound and well, able to do
his work, and feels as well as he ever did.
All the leading druggists and storekeepers
sell Stretch's Balsam in 25 and so cent
bottles.
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N o GOLD.
An Incident Which illustrates til
French Character,

An Incident Which illustrates the
French Character.
Speaking of French politics, 1 heard
a most extraordinary story Of another
strange secret of contemporary life.
Some years ago n might see in a res
taurant at night, playing dominos
quietly or oonVersing in tranquil tones,
a gentleman named Levy. He was a
man who knew more of the secret his
tory of the courts of Europe than any
man of his time. To get a full account
Of his personality and history you must
spend an evening with Joe Lyons, the
owner of the Trocadero and a score Of
other restaurants, one Of the most bril-
liant raconteurs as we'll as one of the
best fellows in all London. Mr.. Levy
was a private detective, employed when
ever a task of extreme delicaoy and
enormous Importance was on hand. He
was retained by the Bank of England,
among other institutions, and I have
heard that his services were esteemed
SO valuable that he got the magnificent
salary of e10, 900 a year from that in
stitution.
Well, just after the downfall of the
commune Mr.. Levy was intrusted with
one of the most delicate and, I might
say, terrible missions in his life. There
we're several communist refugees in
London. Levy tracked them out. A
man of the world, without enthusiasms,
acquainted with all the seamy side Of
life and of man, he yet had a broad,
sympathetic imagination, and he vas
astounded by the picture he found in
the miserable den-if remember right
ly it was a stable-in which he discov-
cred the objects Of his search. These
the government and the revenues of the
great city of Paris at their command,
were engaged in making a wretched
bowl of soup, which was to be the one
meal-and the one meal Of them all
for "a hours. Not one penny had stuck
to their palms of all the millions that
were at their mercy "These men may
be madmen, " he said to a friend to
whom he told the story, ''but, accord
ing to their lights, they are p~atriotsr'
His wonder grew as they refused
scornfully to surrender some papers
which had fallen into their possession,
in spite of dazzling offers of gold,
which. as agent of the French govern
ment, he was authorized to offer them.
They knew the horror and the terrible
and appalling Importance of the domes-
tic secret in the life of a great man of
which they held proofs, but they deoid-
ed to keep the proofs until they thought
it right or wrong to publish the story
to the world. And, though they refused
the gold, they never told the secret, and
France and Europe were saved one Of
the most cruel and devastating scandals
of our times. New York Herald.
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X
Last Tour of the Season via Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad.


The last of the present series of popular
Pennsylvania Railroad personally-con-
Quoted tours to Jacksonville will leave
New York and Philadelphia by special
train of Pullman Palace cars on Tuesday,
March 7.
Round-trip tickets, valid to return on
regular trains until May 81, 1899, and
including railway transportation in each
direction, and Pullman accommodations
Zone BERTH, and meals on special train
going will be sold at the following
rates New York, $50; Philadelphia,
$48; Canandaigua, sass; Erie, $54.85
Wi~lkesbarre, $5o.35; Pittsburg, $500
and at proportionate rates from other
points.
For tickets, itineraries, and full inform.
alton apply to ticket agents Tourist
Agent, IIe6 Broadway, N. Y; Thomas
Purdy, Passenger Agent Long Branch Dis
trict, 78o Broad street, Newark, N. J..
Thos. E. Watt, Passenger Agent Western
District, Pittsburg, Pa; or address Geo. W
Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
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kKRC'S
TELEPHONE No. 6

TELEPHONE NO.
Store closed Tuesday and
Thursday evenings at s o'clock.
Fine graduated sugar nc.
Imperial and Gold Medal
flour, CSC per IA.
Dried Apples. = The old
fashioned Jersey dried apples,
the kind our grandmothers
made. This is bright new fruit,
&c a lb.
C0Re.-We have been sell
ing it all winter and lots of it.
There is pound, marble, lady,
bun, jelly roll and layer, at 1oc
per ID. Then there are sponge
cakes, small Turks heads at &C
and bricks at Ioc each.
Sour Kr0Ut.-The season
for this will soon be over. We
have just opened a new lot it's
nice and white. The price is a
little higher, &c per at.
Boiled OotS.-We sell lots
of this loose. The reason is
plain enough. We sell the best
and sell it at the right price, &C
per ID. We don't want to make
a small fortune on each barrel.
Canned Pe0ches.-Cali-
fornia fruit in heavy syrup.
Great large halves and elegant
flavor, zoe per can.
PHIL KARC,
81 King ST., Mount Holly
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ADJOURNED PUBLIC SALE OF
STOCK, FARM IMPLEMENTS, &C.
Will be sold at public sale,
m M0MnAV March & 500

On MONDAY, March 6, 1899.
on the farm of the subscriber, on the road from
%Jobstown to Georgetown, I mile from the former
V STOCK.-Six horses, good for work or
driving, &c cows, some in profit now, the rest will
be by day ofsale. These cows Tss-7r
TEH1aEN were selected expressly for M I'M
WpSNS dairy purposes and are a fine T9S
%&A@6@ lot, 2 bulls, II SowS with pig, &@@&s
s turkey hens, I gobbler.
WAGONS, FARM IMPLEMENTS, &c.-Three
two-horse farm wagons, one broad and two narrow
tread, 2 sets shelvings, dump cart and harness,
large carrya1l wagon in good repair, small carry
all, milk wagon jumpseat carriage, phaeton, land
roller, horse rake, hay tedder, z moving machines,
3 two-horse plows, 3 one-horse do, 4 cuitiyators,. 2
wheel plows, 2 harrows, 2 striking-out sleds, grain
fan, grass seeder, grain drill, hay loader, milk
cooler, milk cans, pals and fixtures, hoes, shovels,
forks, boxes, barrels, neckyokes and swingletrees,
wood sled, truck body with springs, drag and other
chains, so grain bags, hay ropes and pulleys, calf
rack, hog box, truck baskets, hog troughs, large
feed chest, churn and horse, half and one bushel
measures, &c,
chain ends, milk harness, set driving harness, col
lars. brides, lines, pillow harness, sc.
HAY, GRAIN, &c.-Forty tons mixed hay, 1000
bushels corn, so bushels white potatoes, 10 bushels
sweet do, 1000 bundles stalks.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS.-Beds, bureaus, bed
steads, secretary, parlor and other stoves, sofa,
clothes horse, brass kettle with copper bottom,
large cook stove, -four chest, kitchen table,, halt
barrel pickles, lard press, and the usual variety OF
household goods. Also, lot of cord wood, 900 cedar
shingles, dozen cedar barrels, heart pine railing,
pine boards and siding.
Sale begins at 10 O'Clock A. M, sharp. Condi-
of $40 and over on note with approved security
under $40, cash.
This sale will be without reserve, as the subscri.
Der is going to quit farming owing to ii h bealth;
+, H. WHITE. Clerks Feb 1s-8t
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WHY do the Republican papers groan so
hard at the Democrat for not saying any
thing about Howard Mathis? Didn't the
Solicitor for the Board of Freeholders ex-
plain the whole matter to the entire salts
faction of the Board at its last meeting?
The Democrat is not in the business of find
ing fault without a use.-DemOcrGt.
No, the Democrat does not find fault
without a cause. 1t jumped IN Freebooter
Colby because he made a statement with
reference to its business. 1t criticised
Solicitor Chambers for a cause" but we
regret to say the cause was not that of the
public good, but the result of spite of long
standing. The cause" for the attack on
Mr.. Darnell is not so apparent, but it is
limited that jealousy on the part of one of
the directors of the Democrat, who fears
that Mr.. Darnell's honest actions will
overshadow the wordy nothings of the
other, is at the bottom of that movement.
Can any one show where our neighbor
has raised its voice in criticism of the
actions of men who are deserving of
censure2 Take the case of Mr.. Mathis.
Solicitor Chambers did not satisfactorily
explain the matter. He did say the charge
of receiving money to which Mr.. Mathis
was not entitled was fully sustained.
Then he read a letter from the accused
official in which the latter went all around
the point and tried to show he was entitled
to illegal fees because he had done lots of
work for which he had not received more
than the law allowed. Look at the trans
action of the same Freebooter in connect
ion with the proposed building of a road
in Bass River township. If it had been a
Republican who had done the same as
Mathis did what a howl there would nave
been. But our neighbor says never a
word. Another instance may be men
toned. One of the justices accused of
taking fees to which he was not entitled,
said he would refund the money, provided
the committee decided he had come into
the possession of it illegally, and with the
further proviso, eff the others would do
he same" The decision of the com
mittee is a matter of record. Why should
an honest man be guided by the action of
others? The officer in question is a Dem
ocrat, hence the paper of that persuasion
which accuses Mr.. Darnell of shielding
officials for partisan reasons occupies the
same position itself by neglecting to crit
icise this justice and demanding that he
act honestly regardless of Others. When
we look at the personnel of the manage
ment of the Democrat, it is really amusing
to notice the charges of ~partisanship
against others. One of the members of
the board of Directors is Freebooter Con-
row, who is lauded each week as the only
honest man in the county. The Democrat
is very anxious to pose as a reformer, to
which nobody takes exception, but let it
clean the doorsteps of it's own party and
not attack the reputation of honest men
merely to attract attention from those of
its own ranks who are more in danger of
investigation and exposure than the Re
publicans it has, for personal motives,
attacked.
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RIED.

observation-disclosures %, at Florence, by
Rev. A. L.. Iszard, C. Monroe Booz and Miss
Temperance Irons, both of Florence.
Bs.-February 81, at Pember-
ton, by Rev. E. G. hulse, Hiram II. Earnest,
ter of Mrs. Mary E.. and the late Daniel f.
Gibbs, of Pemberton.
GRATz-JoHNsoN.-February2 %, by Rev. JOS
eph G. Symmes, William Henry Gratz, of
Jobstown, ana Miss Mary Evaline johnson,
OF Jacksonville.
KRAUs-SCHALLER February II, at Haines-
port, by Rev. j. c.. D%iZtnger, Theodore Kraus,
of Camden, and Miss Anna Mary Schaller, OF
Mount Holly.
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Senator Stokes, of Cumberland, has
drawn and introduced in the Legislature a
new bill to take the place of the old jury
commission bill, which was recently intro
duced, and which reused all the sheriffs
in the state in opposition. Mr.. Stokes
bill takes from sheriffs the power of des-
ignating who shall be grand jurors and
provides that grand jurors and petit
jurors must be drawn from a list of all
persons in the county eligible for jury
duty.
Each sheriff at the beginning of his
term shall make up and file with the
county clerk a list of those eligible to jury
duty, accompanied by an affidavit that he
has not knowingly omitted from the list
any n eligible to jury duty. The list is
subject to revision by the court.
Under the jury commission bill the
court appointed two commissioners to Sc
lect jurymen. Under Senator Stokes bill
all men liable to jury duty are listed and
any of them are liable to be called. Each
bill removes the element of favoritism,
partiality, political scheming or criminal
intent from the appointment of jurors,
and in some counties of the state the
cause of justice would be greatly ad-
vanced thereby, and the rejoicing of Grim
inals and lawbreakers would be short
lived. -EhzG5eM Journal.
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OHERIFF,s SALE.
UEsDAY MARCH es, 1899,

By virtue of a writ of ieri tacias, to me di.
the State of New Jersey, l will sell at public
sale, on
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1899,
between the hours OF II and 5 O'Clock in the
afternoon Of said day {fo;wit, at o%'clock), at
Zelley's hotel, Mount Holly, N. j.,
All the hereinafter described piece or lot of
land situate on the west side of Clifton street,
in the town of Mount Holly, county of Burling-
bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at a stake
in the west side line of Clifton streetaforesaid,
directly opposite the middle of the partition
wall between the land hereby conveyed and
the lands adjoining on the south belonging to
stone, and runs thence ~ south lightweight
degrees and ten minutes west through the
middle of said partition wall, one hundred and
ifty-six feet to a stake in the east side of a
twelve feet wide alley thence (2) north one
degree and fifty minutes west thirty feet to a
stake in the east side line of said alley, and
corner TO Lot. No. 8 thence (3) north eighty
eight degrees and ten minutes east one hun
dred and itty-six feet TO a stake In the west
side OF Clifton street and corner to Lot No. 3;
thence az along the west side line of Clifton
street south one degree and fifty minutes east
thirty feet to the place of beginning, be the
contents thereof what they may.
Together with the right of ingress, egress
and regress, in common with Others, at all
times hereafter, of, in, to and through said
twelve feet wide alley, on foot or with ami
mails, vehicles, loads or otherwise.
Being the same premises of which Julia X.
Taylor became seized by deed from Joseph E.
Taylor and wife, dated June II, 1896, and re
county in Book 1922 of Deeds, page $50, &C.
Seized as the property of Jul K. Taylor, de-
PENDANT, taken in execution at the suit of
Eleanor T.. Wikof, complainant, and to be
sold by
JOSEPH S. FLEETWOOD,
s. A. ATKINSON. Sol'r. Sheriff.
Dated Feb. p, 1899. [Prs adY. fee, 5000
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story of George ".

In Lady Gregory's newly published
"reminiscences she says of George Tvs
trip to Ireland in 1921 1.-THE king ar
rived after a good passage, during
which much goose pie and whisky hWa
been consumed. Word had just come Of
the death of Napoleon at st. Helena.
The story goes that Sire, your enemy
is dead, were the words he was greeted
with. When did she die?' was his re-
sponse. But the queen was indeed also
1oad