West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-07-25
NEWS ITEMS.

per ton, and manufactured ice from $40 to
S22.
A chemistry student, hearing sailor
spoken of as an sold salt" afterward alluded
! to him as venerable sodium chloride''
A man of seventy and a woman of thirty
were married in Augusta Ga, and immedi-
ately after asked for certificate to the poor
house.
The British Government will require an
increase of revenue this year over last of
about e3, 500, 900, but the returns of the
quarter just ended show falling off of
about e50,000.
Pennsylvania has six thousand miles of
railways, and yet so immense are her natur-
al resources, and so rapid is their develop
ment, that there is a constantly increasing
demand for greater facilities for transport
ing them to market.
1t turns out that the snake "as large as a
mans leg" killed by fourteen year-old
girl in Sheffield, Georgia, was only as large
as Hon. Aleck Stephens leg. This makes
the story much more probable, and greatly
reduces the size of the snake.
A little Quakeress at Long Branch has so
far shown two new dresses every day. The
Jersey daughter of retired cranberry
merchant got ahead on three. A San Jose,
Cal, girl visiting at one of the cottages
sometimes wears $50, 900 worth of diamonds
when in evening dress.
Henry Councillor, a colored man, en-
ployed as waiter at the Stockton House,
Cape May, was drowned on Saturday last,
while bathing. He ventured out too far and
before help could reach him was lost. His
body has not been recovered. This is the
first drowning case here this season.
A delicate complexion is best compared
nance is disfgured with Blotches and Pim-
ples like weeds in a rose bed, the sufferer
should promptly use DR.. Bulls Blood Mix
ture, which quickly and effectually eradi-
Gates such unsightly evidences of impure
blood
A method of making pure birthstone
from iron pyrites is said to have been dis
covered bya Georgia chemist Inexhausti-
BILE quantities of the pyrites are found in
the northern part of that State. A fine
quality Of birthstone can be produced at
about one third the cost of the birthstone
we now get from Sicily.
At Columbus, Ohio, last Saturday, an
old soldier extended his left hand to Gen
eral Sherman, and said: "You will have
to excuse my left fist, General, for 1 lost
my right arm while marching with you
to the sea-" "Certainly, sir; certainly"
responded the General sympathizingly, and
he gave the remaining hand the heartiest
kind of shake.
1t may be we'll for some readers to know
that there was law passed by the last Leg
islature, which went into effect on the 4th
of July, requiring all chattel mortgages to
be accompanied by an affidavit of the holder
setting forth that the amount mentioned
was actually due and that it is bona fide
transaction. OF course, chattel mortgage
without such affidavit, is worthless.
The "Baby's Best Friend" is the most
appropriate title for DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup.
1t is absolutely free from Opium, Morphia
and other powerful agents, is perfectly safe
and reliable under all circumstances, and
by allaying the usual Stomach and Bowel
Disorders of Babyhood keeps the child from
fretting and crying, SO injurious to itself
and annoying to all. Price 25 cents.
The Secretary of the Treasury holds over
$780, 600, 900 of coin and Bullion. This will
become part of the currency of the country
as soon as coin payment is resumed, carry
ing the circulating money up to more than
5000, 900, 600. Why should this not be done
at once? 1t is an expensive folly to hold
so much coin as commodity, when only
word is wanted to change it into money.
One of the delights of the Atlantic City
small boy is to attach string to ahandker-
chief, run it through knot hole in the board
walk and hide beneath to wait for bite
from an excursionist. When they stoop to
pick it up he jerks the string and the hand
kerchief disap ears. The utter surprise
depicted on the faces of the victims is dis
described as intensely amusing.
The back counties of Virginia are coming
to the front in sensational affairs. In Grant
county a negro named Bowley killed an
other negro named Row for some trivial Of
fense, and on Tuesday last young man
named Hamilton violated the person of an
eleven year old child at Maddington. David
O'Brien was sent to Jail on the same day,
at the same place, for assaulting Miss Kuhn,
12 years of age. Henry Simpson also as
saulted young woman at Maddington, and
two criminals.
At Quitman, Georgia, Second Advent.
ist has been convicted of violating the stat
ute which makes it a misdemeanor to labor
on the first day of the week. He vainly
tried to shelter himself under the clause of
the Constitution guaranteeing to all men
the right to worship God according to the
dictates of conscience, but the court ruled
that the law under which he was indie ted
had nothing to do with his religious belief,
but only declared that he should not labor
on the Sabbath except in cases of necessity
or charity.
John Smith, who murdered his wife some
time ago by cutting her throat and was
sent to the lunatic asylum instead of to the
gallows, because the jury believed him in
sane when he committed the crime, escaped
Wednesday from the Morris Plains Asylum,
at Morristown, N. j., where he was confined.
Since his escape sixteen men have been
| searching in vain for him, Smith is large