The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21

j Florence Black will sell dwelling an
store property at Columbus on Februar
10.
The ice house connected with the BIZ
mingham Inn was filed with a goo
quality of ice last week.
Herman P Shinn has accepted a pos
ton in the printing Office connected wit
Wetherill's paint factory, Philadelphia.
A handsome monument has been erecte
in the Mount Holly cemetery, to tn
memory of the late ex-Judge Benjamin F
Lee
Elwood Stead has bought the bricl
house on Garden street, opposite the Bap
fist church, belonging to the Brown es
tate
Edward Wills, President of the Noun
Holly National Bank, is confined to hi
home with sprained ankle, the result O.
falling on an icy pavement.
A divorce was granted on Thursday t.
James Mcfarland, from his wife, Sallit
Mcfarland, of Vincentown. Jacob G
Hendrickson represented the petitioner.
A ticket was shown us yesterday thai
was voted in Northampton in 1865. fol
township officers. OF the number elected
but two are living Ellsworth Holeman
and Franklin Cook.
The condition of j. c. WEIGH, husband
of the actress, Dot Karroll, who has been
confined for two weeks at the Arcade
hotel with complication of troubles, is
much improved Mrs. WEIGH Joined her
company yesterday at Coatesyille, Pa.
In order to settle the estate of Israel
Powell, deceased, Jacob G. Hendrickson,
executor, offers for sale a one-half inter
est in cranberry bog and tract of land
of "a acres in Pemberton township for
$1,000. The net income of the present
year of the half interest was 1886. 1t is a
rare opportunity for good investment.
Richard Wills, son of Benajah P Wills,
the young man who took such promi-
nent part in the defence of his brother-in-
law, Harrie A. Baxter. whose courtship
aud marriage to Miss Mabel Wills created
such sensation in Mount Holly last sum-
mer, was quite severely injured by fall
ing from his horse on Thursday.
Charles T. Mahan, laborer employed
at Macpherson, Willard g. Co.'S steam
forge, at White Hill, stepped out of the
way of Pennsylvania Railroad train
Saturday afternoon and was struck by
another in front of the works. His skull
was fractured and he died as a result OF
his injuries. He leaves widow and sew.
eral children.
AS the result of thorough investiga-
ton into a disturbance which occurred on
December %, at the hotel of Samuel S.
Witcraft, at Evesboro, by which, it is al
legged, John Riley, who was elected from
the bar room, subsequently died in a
Philadelphia hospital as the result of in
juries received, Prosecutor Samuel A. At
kinson has been unable to obtain any
evidence tending to show that it was a
case OF murOer.
Joseph Michaels, of Allentown. has
been held to bail in the sum of $500 to
answer at the Mercer County Court at
Trenton. charge of cutting with knife,
Joseph Fenimore, of Bordentown. from
which he nearly died from his injury, dur
| ing quarrel at Trenton on the night of
No. la s1I>o !, \
cut Fenimore he made his escape and was
not apprehended until Thursday, when he
made his appearance in Trenton.
The remains of Samuel G.. Clevenger,
after resting in the cemetery at Pemberton
for % years, were taken up on Tuesday
and brought to Mount Holly, and on We'd
nesday they were reinterred in the same
grave with his first wife, Sarah A. Colby,
mother of Justice John D. Clevenger,
who was buried in the Mount Holly GENE
terry that afternoon. The husband was
buried first, and on top of his ashes was
placed his tombstone.
Rev. Percy Perinchief, pastor of St.
Psuls M. E. Church, Trenton, has gone
to the Bermuda Islands. He was accom-
panied by his daughter Lucille. The par
ty sailed on Saturday morning on the
steamer Trinidad for Southampton East.
The official board of the church has grant
ed Rev. Mr.. Perinchief an absence of
four weeks that he may visit the islands
Bermuda is Mr.. Perinchief's birthplace,
and his boyhood days were spent there.
Twenty years have elapsed since his last
visit to his old home.
Miss Grace Solomon returned from a
visit among relatives in Chestertown, Md,
few days ago, and has been stricken
with smallpox. This is the third case in
Riverton. Miss Solomon is popular in
society, and large number of her young
friends called on her after her return. 1t
is feared many new cases will develop.
In the family of James Shea, at Palmyra,
there are three cases resembling a light
form of smallpox, although the attending
physician thinks it is chickenpox. One
of the daughters is servant in the home
of D. Henry Wright, in fashionable
quarter of Riverton, where she is now
sick with the same disease
James Lippincott, of Garden street. had
an unpleasant experience one day last
week. In company with Frank Earl, ex-
Senator Trick, Henry s. Haines and one
or two others. he went to the pines,
near Shamong, to survey some land on the
Wharton tract. About o'clock, the time
for returning, Mr.. Lippincott could not
be found, he having become lost from the
party. His companions, of course. would
not desert him, and after an exhaustive
search Mr.. Lippincott was found at IL
o'clock that night walking on the railroad
track heading for home. He was discov-
cred none too soon, because short dis
lance ahead of him was a small bridge,
over which it would have been necessary
to walk on very narrow plank. dan
gerous feat for man of his age to &C
complish at that hour of night.
Agents of the Camden Law and Order
Society have been creating CONSERVATION
in Burlington and Bordentown where they
made a raid and caused the arrest of sew
eral lawbreakers. One of the agents paid
visit to Mount Holly a couple of Sun
days since On getting out of the train
he made inquiry of bystanders where he
would be likely to get a drink. Nobody
seemed to know. So he sauntered W