Conveyances Listed by Monmouth County Clerk Ending March 1 1879
List of property transfers recorded by the Monmouth County Clerk for the week ending March 1 1879. Transfers include Ocean Grove Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association to Elwood H Stokes and others in Ocean Grove Long Branch and Red Bank properties with sums ranging from 50 to 1305 dollars. Wills admitted to probate and letters of administration granted follow, including Elizabeth Rosa Jacob Smith and Mary Seiller among others. A fatal fire near Oxford destroyed a widow’s house, with a lamp explosion suspected. State death rates by county listed, Monmouth ranking high in health.
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Ocean Grove
Ocean
Rove Camp Meeting Association
Elwood H. Stokes
Henry ©. Freeman
Catharine Daly
Long Branch
Gershwin D. Wailing
Alexina Walling
Keyport
Robert R. Walling
Mary E. Walling
Harriett A. Hill
Edward D. Wilt
Leonard Rodle
Taylor W. Walling
Haritan
Mao
Geo. W
Warren Leland, Jr
Raritan
John Costello
Thomas Costello
Holmdel
Pe Beharten Allen
Fanes Reynolds
Entontown
Joseph V. H. Rogers
Elizabeth Q. Roop
Red Bank
Elizabeth C. Rosa
Pennsylvania
Dee d. Fan Ross
Asbury Park
B. Seiller
Wall
Mary Seiller
David Buck
Freehold
David J. Buck
William W. Thompson
Jacob T. Smith
Wm. J. Smith
Public debt report and session notes from Washington
The February debt reduction stood at $311,511.23 while Congress adjourned at noon on Tuesday and approved extra session for March. The Navy Secretary may fund a voyage to the Arctic with the ship Jeannette. January bond subscriptions reached $158,904,100. February $90,101,750. total $249,005,850. Six percent bonds called totaled $250,000,000. The Leonta legislative actions covered Civil, Legislative, and River and Harbor bills, plus the Pension bill amid a debate over excluding Jefferson Davis benefits. The President vetoed a bill restricting Chinese immigration. House vote 110 to 95 failed to override. Major laws passed include tobacco tax reductions, internal revenue amendments, Census measures, debt refunding via small treasury certificates, disease containment, and arrears of Civil War pensions.
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Congress
Secretary of the Navy
Arctic
Jeahnefle
James Gordon Bennett
Leonta
Jeorson Davis
Legislature approves lower legal interest rate
Minnesota lawmakers pass a bill cutting the legal indorsent rate from twelve to ten percent. Also reported are a major Reno fire causing $1,000,000 in losses, heavy hog slaughter in Chicago, a fatal house fire in Iowa, and various court and corporate actions across the country.
Vessel building resumes at old Tugtown industry site
Reports note revival of vessel construction at a historic Tugtown plant. Newark Bay sighted two cenla adrift on ice Tuesday morning. Central Railroid Company reportedly retires from coal cartel. A Salem man supplies patent road scrapers to New Orleans and southern cites. Bergen county board fined for bridge repair refusal. State law and order societies plan a New Brunswick convention on April 7. Hotna for Friendless Children building in Mount Holly destroyed by fire. Beet sugar factory project discussed at Somers Point. Lodi Chemical Works to move to Passaic city by Locke factory. The James Simmons family slave Frank died at 96 in Dundes. Trial of Jennie B. Smith and Covert N. Bennett postponed. Weidman dye works workers strike over wages. Deriventwater steamship reaches Perth Amboy after delays. The Conventicater sails from Bonn to Algiers with 1500 tons iron ore to Bowring & Archibald for Bethlehem Works. First vessel in a fleet to bring ore and goods to Perth Amboy. ships will return with grain and provisions.
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Tuckahoo
Cenla
Newark Bay
Central Railroid Company
Salem
New Orleana
Board of Freeholders
Bergen County
Knapp
Weidman Dye Works
Paterson
Deriventwater
Perth Amboy
Sandy Hook
Robertson
Porth Amboy
Bonn
Algiers
Bowring
Bethlehem, Penna, Tron
The Legislature Senate Bills and Actions Recap
In the Senate last Thursday Beekma presented a Freehold petition against repealing their town charter. Many bills were offered or passed, including sewers and improvements, uniform weights and measures, and penalties on liquor to minors. A prison reform theme ran through sessions with bills about structure, salaries, and public instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Beekma
Court of Chancery
Morris Canal
Washington St
Jersey City
Cimp-Meeting
State Reform School
Hoboken
Weehawken
Devda
Hracn
Crane
Hytor
Kel
Supreme Court
Common Pleas
Toboken
Two Prides in Town and a New Post Office
The page notes Monmouth town events including a death at Brick Church Pine Brook of an 85 year old African American man, likely from heart disease. It mentions Wickatunk Post Office with James V. Muldoon as Postmaster and Turkey Postmistress Esther B Hall. Also reports on legal licenses in New Jersey Supreme Court, anti-polygamy petition to Congress, library diary success, a near robbery in Keyport, local business moves, a boat engine contract, and plans for an opera house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gloster
Brick Church
Pine Brook
Africa
Wickatunk
James V. Muldoon
Esther B. Hall
Turkey
New Jersey Supreme Court
W. A. Low
Toms River
B. 2
Ogden
Keyport
Miles Ross
Congress
Sarah M. Barclay
Phebe Marshall
Eatontown
Yicinity
Hubbard Hendrickson
New York
New Jersey Southern Rail
Marah
Pavilion Hotel
Tong
Red Bank
Acme Edition of Cyclopedia of English Literature
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Acme
Avork
Elizabeth
Tord Bacon
Walter Raleigh
Burton
Bishop Hall
John Knox
Milton
Dryden
Jeremy Taylor
Nts
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Sewell Avenue
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Long Branch Village
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J. P. Coulton
Coalville
Webster County
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Cornelius J. Vanderbilt
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Runyon
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Annie Hopkins
Malin Street
George Slocum
George McC. Taylor
Taylor
A. R. Jones
Aaron Jones
Shrewaury
Red Bank Standard
Wely
Bishop Jones
W. EB
Walling Hall
John Rogers
Brown's Point
Matawan Journal
Charles W. Fountain
Colorado
Monmouth Gold Mining Company
James Bedle & Son
Ita Creditora
David Warne
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