The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-14

Charles u. Burden; Con. ,---; o. G.
Gsrry S. Tusseyb 1. c., james a. Den
ny; r. S. N. g., James G.. Murphy; J..
5 MG John j. Lloyd; r. 5. v. g.,
John Patten.
PENIS Grove wants an Opera nouse
of sufficient capacity to accommodate
tine large travelling troupes and conf
binatiouse Of frst-class merit.
A farmerin Dakota writes the Conn
try Gcadenten that he Iaiscs good peach
crops, though the thermometer gets as
low as so degrees below zero. lie
plants his trees ii long rowson the side
Of a sleep BARK, tie trunks being
slightly inclined toward tho tank. As
cold weather comes on tie trees are
bent so as to come in contact with the
ground aud they are then thieSly Gov
cred with corn stalks, straw aid like
material The covering is taken off
in the sPring, the trees are propped up
and the processes of budding and bloom
ing 20 OF in safety. This plan Of peacll
growing, though lmpractieable on the
scale m which the business IS managed
hete, will strike Delaware farmers as
novel and interesting.
Anew method of getting rid Of mice
has recently been discovered by a lady
OF North Plainfield. III her pantry was
a hole through which a mouse entered,
and one day Tie lady, actuated by a
sudden inspiration, placed in the hole
a little sprinkling of cayenne Pepper,
and awaited results. Towards even
ing she heard an unusual noise of jump
ing, running aud squeaking in the pan
try and as she opened the door to des-
patch the intruder, the mouse darted
into its hole, and since then no more
nice have been heard iii that pantry.
IN MEMORIAM.
WHEREAS, II has pleased Almighty
God to remove by d, atll one OF the oiii.
GERS of this Board, Thomas S. Smith,
Esq, who departed this life on Noyem-
Der 8, 1881 in the thirty first year of
his age; and whereas, we, the said
Board of Chosen F~reeitolders, of which
he deceased was Clerk, would givs
some expression Of Il sorrow at hi.
sudden decease, and of our regard for
a faithful officer, therefore,
RCcfnT rrn VI,at ura Iax. bao,J ,x,tI,
sorrow the sudden death of the late
Clerk Of the Board, and deeply sympa-
thize with his bereaved family and
large circle of friends.
RESOLVED, That in his death this
Board has lost a faithful ard efficient
Clerk, and our county an ehterprising
citizen.
RESOLVED, That a copy of these res
olutions be sent to his bereaved family
and entered upon the minutes.
B. Is. Westcott,
Richard Bassett,
NJ. L. Riley.
Committee.
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
Governor Ludlow in his first annual
message says that in looking back over
the history Of the State for the past
year the only sorrowful Remembrance
is the death of President Garfield at
Elberon. The finances of the State
are in good condition. The receipts
for 1881, with the balance on hand,
were 81, 1868, 4S7. 80, and the disburse-
n.ents 81 ,096, 203. SO, leaving a balance
at the close of the year OF S167, 274.33.
For the next year a state tax will prob
ably be imposed to meet extraordinary
expenses. The Srate school fund is
now $3.50, 75S, having increased in
1850 S135, 5Ss .0j, and it is probable
that if The present state of affairs con-
tinues it will go OH increasing every year.
The change made by the law of last
year in lcvying the two-mill tax for the
support OF puplic schools will produce
over the yield of the previous yea: an
increase of 1904, 355. 3e. The number
of pupils enrolled was 203, 542, a de-
crease of ll,419 from that of the pre-
ceding year. The State Prison ran in
debt last year SOS, SSB. 94. This may be
due to a law passed by the last Legisla.
ture limiting tbs number Of men TO he
employed in any ops branch eff labor TO
100, which has been strictly complied
with. There have been ased aud paid
for about 4l9 men daily. Even L all
the convicts we're employed the State
would not receive more than 500, 600
per annum. To meet tie usual and
ordinary expenses vi the prison 1920, |
600 is required. Tile reformatory
schools of The State are al in good con-
ditiou. The Normal School is flourish
ing. There were during the last year
236 pupils, and the last graduating
class numbered so persons. nearly all of
whom in mediately found employment
in schools throughout the State. In
the two State insane asylums are now
1,21s patients; about $50 900 was paid
from the State treasury to these two
iu~stitutions. Attention is called to the
wholesale destruction of fish along the
coast by the use of purse nets in the
catching of menhaden or mpssbnnkers
for manufacturing purposes. The re-
suit of the pursuit of this business is,
that food fishers are either destroyed OF
are driven away in search of food, and
hundreds of citizens are deprived OF
their na.nral occupations. Every
means should be resorted toto prevent
this injury TO the people in that locality,
and if advisable the attention of the
General Government will be directed
to the subject and its i~nterposition in