The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-07

soubH sue OF Une SJfeeC.
Saturday was pension day and old com
rades were around in full force gettin
their vouchers executed.
The name of John G. Hippenstiel ha
been dropped from the Masonic lodge O
which he was member
A number of the counterfeit silver hal
dollars that are in circulation, have fount
their way to Mount Holly.
Rev. Mr.. Blackiston, pastor of the M
E. Church at Lumberton, is recovering
from an attack of the grip.
Samuel P. Cline says that if you wan
to cut ice you should purchase YOU
skates at his hardware store.
Harry Gibson, of Palmyra, has sailed
for China. He will join his father a
Shanghai, where he has been living.
Choice beef, veal, lamb and mutton
turkeys, chickens, fresh sausage ant
scrapple, at Ogburn's, 80 Mill street
| The committee on court house and
grounds are considering the matter of put
ting electric lights in the corridors at the
Jail.
| William L. Butterworth, who recently
sold his hotel at Oxford, Pa, has pur.
chased hotel at Manasquan, where he is
now located
Col. Sloan, as usual made a prompt
payment of the loss sustained by the de-
struction of the Methodist Church at
Browns Mills
A large black snake that came out of
its alternating quarters a few days ago
at Bridgeboro, was picked up and carried
off by hawk.
Edward B. Jones bought twenty shares
of stock of the Farmers National Bank,
for 1858 per share, on Thursday, that were
sold at the Arcade Hotel by Auctioneer
Slack
Carlton Smith, of Camden, boy who
has just entered his teens, has been ar
rested on a bench warrant and lodged in
Jail on an indictment charging him with
stealing trolley wire.
State Road Commissioner Henry |.
Budd, having signed the specifications for
the stone road from Mount Holly to Bur
lington, the freeholders at their next
meeting will ask for bids.
A certificate of incorporation of the
Burlington Terra Gotta Company has
been filed in the County Clerks office.
The authorized capital is 100000. The
Incorporators are Lloyd Titus, c. B. Rog
ers and A. Dunn Rogers.
Prosecutor Eckard P. Budd is arrang-
ing a trip to Arizona, where he will join
his family, who have been absent from
Mount Holly for several months Mr..
Budd will be accompanied on part of his
journey by Hon. Joshua E. Borton.
During trial in New York last week
Judge Mott, who was called as witness,
refused to kiss the Bible He had pre-
viously delivered a lecture on microbes.
1t wouldn't be bad idea to furnish new
Bibles occasionally for the purpose of
swearing witnesses.
John Mcclellan had trouble on his
hands Thursday night. 1t appears that
two of his children had bad cold and in
administering some medicine to stop their
coughing, he made mistake in the bottle
and gave them laudanum. DIR. Flynn
succeeded in restoring them to conscious
ness.
Following is list of letters remaining
uncalled for in the post Office for the week
ending February 4: Miss Alice Armstrong,
Jess Clark, Miss Connolle, Jos. r. Coop
er, Barclay Evan, Thomas Holland, Will
liam F. Gaskill, Mary D. Jackson, JOS
Oten, Mrs. Julia Sank, C. H. Stidfole,
William W. Tyler.
The annual supper by the Ladies Aid
of the Methodist Church, to be given in
the. Masonic Temple on Friday and Sat
urday evenings, promises to be very
fine affair The bill of fare will be very
tempting, and the ladies want their friends
to come, bringing along good appetites
and fat pocketbooks.
These officers were elected by the Union
Hose Company on Wednesday evening:
President, William B. Wills; vice presi-
dent, Howard Batchelder; secretary, John
E. Elbertson; treasurer, Philip Karg;
foreman, John Forbes trustees, George
H. Peak Job Collins, Amos W. Aaron
son; janitor, George Dennis
William Dunphy, butcher working for
William B. Ogburn, met with painful
accident on Tuesday. A large cleaver
lay on a meat block and as it was about
to fall to the floor, he made grab for it
with his right hand, the keen edge cut
ting a cash between his fingers. An ar
terry was severed, causing the loss of much
blood
Robert F. Engle and his party of ex-
cursionists started on Thursday over the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for their five
weeks pleasure trip to California. There
were twenty in the party. By reason Of
one person being unable to go, Mrs. Rach
ell Sailer, of Mount Holly, who only sig
nified her willingness to take the trip af
ter the party had been made up, was en-
abled to join her friends, all of whom oc
cupied Pullman car.
After receiving his heavy sentence o.
ten years in the state prison, on Saturday
Charles Flora, after being taken back t.
Jail, broke down and wept. Up to tina
time his mother, who resides in Lumber
ton, did not know of his troubles, and sh'
made frequent inquiries of her neighbour
as to why her son did not come and SCI
her She was not made acquainted of hi
arrest and conviction until yesterday
Budd Harmon, who received eight years
frankly said he did not get any more thai
what he deserved. He thought it prett,
hard luck for person to lose his chicken
and turkeys, and said that under simila
circumstances he would prosecute his of
tenders the same as they did him. A
though Budd is a colored man, his whit
wife kissed him while on his way back t
the Jail. This feature of the proceeding
disguised the large number who wer
present Dougherty, the tough man froI
Camden, who said Mount Holly was to
slow for him, will probably find the stat
e prison fast enough. He is being kept SCI
t arated from John Shemeley on account
grudge he holds because the latter il
7 formed on him. Dougherty made brea
? for his informer in the Jail, but did NJ