The Penn's Grove record., 1882-07-15

The best game of baseball Of tht
season was played on last Saturday
afternoon on Harmony street, by q
couple Of mines Of our village, best
known by the names Of "Jnmbo" and
'Baby Elephants, Of which the cap.
tains Harry Smith and Charles Blohm,
were active members. Score of runs
Is to 10 in favor Of old Jumbo.
The Senate on Friday confirmed
Capt. L.. L. Milford as postmaster at
Salem. The selection seem TO suit
all who have any business with the Of.
Gee.
The farmers seem to be happy now
az they have got their bans full Of hay.
Last Saturday, a thief entered the
residence of Mr.. 81. Davis, near Quinn
ton, while the family WIS absent from
the dining room and tooka few PEN
MES and a silver dollar with a hole in
IL.
The Reliance Fire Company At Ss-
lem haveihed the name placed over the
entrance in large ~ietters, which i'm
prcves the looks Of the building very
much.
The new rules fer the governments
for the Republican party in Gloucester
county for making nominations 20 b
supported at the annual Fall elections,
framed and adopted November LIST,
1881, by . special convention appoint
ed for that purpose, BY direction Of the
Republican County Convention, held
September 2eth, 1882, have been print
ed and are now ready for delivery to
the members Of the Central Committee
| from the several townships Of the coun
ty. They may be had on application
| by the members at The Constellation Of
nee.
As the steamer "Reyboldn was neal
ing the wharf 1t Delaware City, on
her down trip, on Tuesday last, a lite
| girls hat blew off her head and fell on
the awning just aft Of the wheel. A
Swede named Gibson Of This city, in
attempting to get the hat, lost his bal
ance, aud fell overheard. Joseph OIL
yer, Jr., Of this city, q passenger ON
lhe boat, saw the accident, and quick
ly throwing a line to Il g man, succeed
ed in pulling him on board the boat.
The man was almost u~nconcious
whHs, rescued. but after being rolled,
he recovered. South Jerseyman.
Mrs. Rcovills being interviewed re-
gsrding the statement that the bou-
quet that she sent Guiteau on his last
day In jail was poisoned, said sarcastic
cslly: "Of courre they found poison;
1t is just like them. Besides, they
had to manufacture some story to ex
cuse their brutality in excluding ne
from Charles cell" She then denied
point blank having put arsenic in the
bouquet, and said she did not want
Guiteau to escape the gallows by such
means, and that be would not have
taken the poison il he could. She OK
presses the iniention OF continuing the
legal agitation over this matter antil
it is proved that an insane man was
hanged.
George Washington, a colored mar
living in Philadelphia, engaged Kim
self to a vessel In port, received 81 and
then went away promising to return.
He failed to put In his appearance.
Ard thusly Gorge Washington told
a falsehood.
The Iateligencer speaks plainly IS
follows: 1.-The Psalmist speaks of
those who dwell in the house OF the
Lord. BY this, he means that the
house of God is a place where the peo-
pl. ought to stay, in their relation to
it as Il home. II is a home, not a he
tel. 1t has home advantages, feelings
and interests, which belong to the fam
lily OF God. On the contrary, is it not
more of 2 hotel than a home to many
p~eople-a place OF strangers, and of
stranseness of interest, in which they
are mere guests, whose identification
with 1t is only MS that of a stranger AT
Il hotel? We might have used the
Migrants instead of stranger butwe
preferred the more respectable term,
though We have known many who, IN
their relation 10 the church, we're moth
iny MORE than mere Migrants, What
is the church to you-a home, or a ho-
telfn
The coast of New Jersey, that Is, tie
Jersey Bays" which extend in almost
unbroken continuance from the south
ern line of Monmouth county to Cape
May, ard the New Jersey and Della
ware shores of the Delaware Bay form
a fayorite region for oyster growth;
and, therefore, Mr., Ernest ingersrn,
WAC has Just completed a pamphlet fos
the u. s. Census Bureau on the "Oys-
ter Industry" Of the cou try, deyotes
considerable space to that OF New Jes-
sey. From this we find that the ar
nual sales eff Jersey oysters amounted
to 1927, 500 bushels Unloading 1880
bushels Of Chesapeake "p ants'') which
are valued at S1;910, 600. There are
employed 2 100 men, who receive $500
600 in wages.
ON the ! Ocean Shore there are en-
gagged S55 planters and shippers. Ex-
tent of ground cultivated 10000 acres
1915, 00e); vessels engaged, 6T5 (S2T0.-
O00). On the Jersey shore of the Del
aware Bay 6,000 acres ts50.0o0) are
painted, nufuber of vessels employed,