Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-07-09

to waste. The Cumberland Iron and Nail
WORKS employ from 400 10 500 workmen
and turn out immense quantities Of nails'
gas pipe, etc. There Is also n floursbina
wooden mill, and glass factory employing
several hundred hands, where Is now be
ing made glass for the centennial buildings
at Philadelphia. There are also planih,
mills, four canning factories, and several
shin wards, where sioops, sehooners and
other craft engaged in the coal, lumber and
fishing trade are built and repaired.
That the Bridgetonians take an honora
BILE pride in their educational facililie, ia
not to be wondered at. Besides the Iine
public school buildings conveniently 10.
Gated In the several wards, there are three
institutions OF learning which are liberal.
ly patronized namely, the West jersey
Academy, Ivy Hall Seminary, and The
South Jersey institute. The latter is a new
and large institution under The control of
the Baptist denomination. The churches
OF which there are fourteen or fifteen, are for
the most part fine structures. The hotels
the fact cannot be regarded as very dis.
crediiable to the place--are not Of char.
acter 10 deserve special mention. AS for
patronage, they probably have a fair share,
but here, as ia Vineland, the temper.
ance people have the upper hands, and no
licenses are granted. Liquor selling nm.
der the bau, and those who follow il are
Obliged t. exercise some caution in the
prosecution OF their traffic. drunkenness
here seems quite as rare as In Vermont.
The inhabitants are for the most part hon.
orable, honest, law abiding and church.
going people. Generous, polite and cordial
in their manners, they are especially al
tentivc TO strangers, aud always eager 10
lend a helping hand 10 those standing 10
need. In customs and in dialect the "Jer-
sey Yankee Is a cross between the New
England Yankee and tho real Southerner
and parlakes of the good qualities of both,
The climate Of Southern New jersey il
delightful. NOrtberners afflicted with bfon.
chial diseases find the sea air and mild eli.
mate OF uIis section very beneficial. The
winters are short and mild; the mercury
rarely reaches zero, and the snow seldom
9scu mulates sufficiently for sleighing.
MELVILLE,
also in Cumberland county, ten miles cas-,
of Bridgeton, and only a snort distance be.
low Vineland, is a place of about 5000 in.
habilanls, and is the site or extensive col.
ton mills and other large manulaelur-
ing establishments. There Is q grand wa.
ter power here, and like the other places
named, Millville is a live, growing town.
To the south Of Millville, along The shore
of Delaware Bay, the country is mostly
low swampy wilderness, TIE abode of wild
fowl, and the resort Of sportsmen.
THE SEASON
has been dry and cool, as at the North, and
the crops are backward Notwithstanding.
the strawberry crop Of this section has been
immense. The berries have relailed in
Bridgeton for O, g, and IL cents per quart
The grass crop is Light, and wheat, which
will be ready for (he harvest about The finl
of July, is also generally light, though
few fields we saw are estimated TO yield "
to IS bushels 10 the acre. Peaches promise
a more than average crop. The opening
up Of better northern markets by the ex-
tension OF railroad facilities and the build
ing of canning factories has been of great
benefit TO the peach growers, who are not
now, rs in former yearsof uncommon fruit
fulness, obliged to see their peaches rot for
want of a market. The West Jersey rail-
road brings Philadelphia within two hours
ride from Brdgeton; aud tue New Jersey
Southern road have within a few years ex-
tended their line through this place to Del
aware Bay. The infringement have it In
contemplation also 10 extend their connee-
tons across the bay TO the peach region of
Delaware, which will open TO the New
York market large farming district hilh.
er;o shut out from Northern consumers.
Vegetable and fruit growing are profitable
sources of employment in this section, and
will not be less so, in all probability, for
many years to come. BENDER.