The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-22
THROUGHOUT THE 1TATE.

EtnO01fhO0t tAt&
Red Bank has a new licycle club
with thirteen members.
Camden is paying seventy thousand
dollars a year in interest on its debts.
A Vineland man has a flock of hens
that attack and kin every sparrow
that comes in their way.
Ex-Mayor Evans, of Vineland, has a
block of wood from the first timber
used / N the Brooklyn bridge.
Work was begun early this week
upon the extension of the Williams
town Railroad 10 Glassboro-
Farmers in some parts of Gloucester
county are cutting up their corn for
fodder.
A Vineland man says that he recent
" counted 702 fine pears on the branch
es of a tree not more than twelve feet
high.
A fair chorister 'not a thousand
miles from Brldgeton'' has a mirror
pasted in her hymn book.
A lawyer and All editor had a lively
spat on the train to court owe another
lawyers reputation one day last week
Sign in a Mays Landing segar store:
No smoker or spitten On the fore
And boys kepe quiett,"
Burt Plessey, the Hammonton licyc
list, wears five gold medals as the evil
dence of just that plumber of bicycle
victories.
Two thieves snatched the cash box
from a Hoboken horse car, and escaped
with about 81 in cash, Notwithstanding
the fight made by the driver to regain
possession of the box.
Over $4,000 have been subscribed
towards building the proposed iron
pier at Cape May. The cost will be
about $50, 600. When half of this
amount is secured work will be begun.
A ffteen-year-old son of David Har-
ris was caught in the machinery of the
bleachery at B~ridgeton, on Wednesday
and his clothing was completely torn
from his body. He suffered only slight
injuries.
Fire bugs have made their appear
nice in Mount Holly recently. Fires
occurred upon two successive evenings,
and rewards have been offered for the
arrest of the ~incendiaries'
Wolf Meyer, the Oldest resident of
Newark, died in that city on Friday
evening at the age of log years. He
was a soldier under the first Napelien.
A Bridgeton young lady dropped
several dollars on a much-traveled thor
oughfare. She came back in about
half an hour and found her money still
lying there. That's the good fortune
of living in the country, for, of course,
Bridgeton is Il country village.
The Delaware and Atlantic tele-
praph and telephone company are max
ing arrangements to open a branch
Office in Princeton and Lawrenceville,
thus giving the people in that vicinity
a telephone communication with Tren-
ton, Philadelphia, Bristol, Bordentown
Wilmington, Chester and other points
this fall.
A few days aco a carload of nitric
acid, belonging to the powder compa-
ny at McCainsviile, was destroyed by
spontaneous combustion. The car
was standing at the kenvil station at
the time. There were about fifty car
boys of acid in the car, each carboy
containing 160 pounds. Loss estimat-
ed al 81, 600.
Aaron Goldstein died at his daugh-
ter's home, at No. 175 Main street,
Paterson, recently, at the age of 105
years. His age is attested by his chill
dren who point to undoubted family rec
ords.
A wrecking company is now explor-
ing the bottom of the sea along the
coast for old wrecks. Near Elberon,
on Wednesday last, the divers found
/ th., ~, aoly af tho shin. EttpptAo xpraotl6
there 30 years ago. Opposite Long
Branch the remains of the English
ship Chauncey Jerome, lost in 1854,
was found. The wrecks will be blown
to pieces and the imperisllable part of
the cargoes recovered,
Lewis Horn, a boy thirteen years old
employed at the National Bureau OF
Engraving, at Burlington, caught his
hand IN the machinery on Friday, and
before it could be extricated the flesh
was stripped from the arm.
A New York rough who started a
fight on u race course at Jersey City
last THURSDAY, fou"d himself tlled, con
victed and in State Prison the ne>t
night. Jersey justice!
Cranberry picking in Camden and
Burlington counties has commenced,
and it is reported that most of the
boys will yield good crops. The berries
are said to be generally sound and of
average size.
An old gentleman from Orange, NJ.
fell into the hands OF thieves in New
York and received IA very farreible les
son of the danger Of drinking beer in
bad company. The robbers not only
took possession of his money and watch