The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-19

a large number of blankets, uniforms, etc.
Eight of the privates lost all their cloth
ing.
While cutting hay four weeks ago,
Peter Remaley, who resides in Pahaquarry
township, Sussex county, came across
seventeen quail eggs. He placed them
under bantam hen and she has just re-
warded him by Matching fifteen young
quail.
AT last Jersey City is to have a new
post office. A committee representing the
United States attorney general, postmaster
general and secretary of state inspected
the Jersey City post Office and decided to
recommend new post Office building for
that city.
After working quietly for six weeks
Detective Lore, of Bridgeton, has ar
rested and lodged in jail Gormelia Bar
Gus. Victor Cuff, George Brown and Pete
Brown. all colored. They have confessed
to completely in robbingl no less than
eleven stores since last June, and carrying
off over half ton of gas pipe from the
West Jersey tube works.
Mr. Pedrick, of Pedricktown, a BROTH
er of Howard Pedrick, of Woodbury., has
sold land it is authentic) 81, 400 worth of
tomatoes and strawberries off of nine
acres of ground this season. Can any
body beat this2 Add to this, also, that it
is clear of expenses, and expense is big
item in the strawberry line. Last year he
cleared 81 900 from his white potatoes.
Never before has the peach crop in
Salem vicinity been so promising as at
present, and although the indications are
that the prices will be low, the growers
will receive handsome returns for their
crops on account of their size. For the
last several years the crop has been almost
or totally ruined by insects and storms,
but this year it seems to have escaped the
devastations of the plague of all pests.
Work at the Hudson river trolley tun-
mel is progressing rapidly. Daily extra
forces of men are put to work in the north
tunnel. Only few hundred feet remain
to be dug from the New York side. The
electric plant that furnishes light in the
tunnel has been completed, and laborers
in the different locks can see better now.
The south tunnel may be started within
the next month. Openings to it on either
side of the river have been cleared.
--Tramps have been numerous around
Redwood of late. A half dozen of them
have been living in an. unoccupied house
near the home of j. S. Clendenning, and
during the absence of her husband
through the day Mrs Clendenning was
annoyed considerably. Clendenning took
home Winchester rifle a few evenings
ago, and his wife has been practicing at
target shooting. The tramps have kept
clear of the property of late
The Camden police are looking for a
man giving the name of D. A. Caulk, who
it is alleged, passed a bogus check on
avenue. Dankleman met Caulk the day
after he had passed the check, which was
for $50, and calling a passerby gave him
30 cents to assist in giving Caulk thrash
ing. Right royalty did they pummel the
alleged swindler, and Caulk, after max
ing his escape, ran for several squares.
Dankleman then notified the police.
After a long litigation over the title
TO the property of her father, in Califor-
mia, Mrs. Arnold Teneriffe, who is living
at Chimney Rock, few miles from Plain
her suit, and is the owner of 10000 acres
Of land in the Sunset State. The land is
valued at 500 on acre. 1t was acquired by
her father, a forty miner, but in common
with much property acquired in the rush
and hustle of those days, had flaw in
the title
"A peculiar accident occurred at the
KATE brewery, Paterson. A whiskey bar
rel exploded and one of the heavy wood
en- slaves that were sent flying in all di-
rections about the room, struck Carl
Kramer's right leg, causing fracture.
Kramer inserted gas jet into the bung
hole of the barrel The illuminating gas
and air coming into contact with the ny
dro-carbonic gas generated inside the bar
rel, produced an explosion that could be
heard throughout the big esta blishment.
Arthur W. Chase, New York city
business man living in Bay View court,
Bayonne, has written to the board of
health of that city, complaining of a
rooster belonging to Mrs. Josephine Skill
Ian whose house is directly opposite to
Mr.. Chase's. The rooster by its early
morning growing aroused Mr.. Chase earlier
than suits him. In his letter he says one
morning when he was awakened he
counted the crows and ''that rooster
crowed 1870 times"
Superintendent Pearce and Assistant
Superintendent Saville, of the Philadel-
phia Pinkerton Bureau, and Constable
William r. Dobson, of Woodbury., caught
gang of wire thieves on lonely road
two and half miles from Woodbury. on
Thursday. The detectives came upon the
men in the act of cutting the wire from
pole. There were four in the gang and
they gave their names as William Potts,
Patrick Kelly. John McNally and Albert
Potter, all of Philade lphia
Attorney General McCarter on Friday
asked that receiver be named for the
Dime Savings and Loan Association, of
Paterson, on the ground that it is insol
vent. The association was organized I'M
der an act to encourage the formation of
such concerns, and its victims are chiefly
poor people in Paterson. All the books of
record, according to its officers. were de-
stroyed in the Paterson fire, and the bank
ing examiners declare that no systematic
effort has since been made to get them
into shape.
AS John Armstrong, 10 years old, of
Kearney, was cutting down tree, he was
bitten in the wrist by garter snake. He
rested one hand on the trunk of the tree,
while he swung Ratchet with the other
Suddenly, he felt a singing sensation on
his right wrist, and was Mortified to see
snake about foot long dangling from his
arm. He tore the reptile away and hur-
ried home, where medical aid was sum-
moned. One of the fangs was found still
buried in the flash. The wrist is much
swollen, but no serious results are antici-
pated.