West-Jersey pioneer., 1883-04-19
NEWS ITEMS.


The Norfolk Tiginian estimates that
there is coal enough in the mines re-
| Gently opened in Pocahontas County.
West Virginia, to supply the demands of
the North for 200 years.
There are said to be as many as twenty
or twenty-five deaf mutes in the Crow
Nation-quite large proportion in less
than 5000. They are all well versed in
the sign language.
Olives can be successfully grown in
many places in the Southern States.
An enterprising California farmer has an
acre which, planted eight years ago, bore
200 gallons of olives, equivalent to $50
gallons of oil, worth IS per gallon.
The late Peter Cooper was the fonnder
of the iron trade in Trenton, having in
1916 established the first wire and rolling
mill on the river bank. Thursday flags
were at half mast over both the Trenton
Iron works and the New Jersey Steel
and Iron Works.
The Rio Grande Sugar Company now
offer the farmers of southern New Jersey
$3.50 per ton for sugar cane, delivered at
any station ON the line of the West Jer-
sey Railroad. The bounty given by the
State, which is $1.00 per ton, brings the
amount up to $3.50.
One of the leading industries Of Ger
many is the manufacture of pins. The
eight factories of Iserohn alone con
sumed last year 600 tons of wire and
produced 2, SOC, 900, 900 needles and pins,
employing 1900 workpeople, besides
seven steam engines and four water
wheels of 230 horsepower.
Chinese labor is no longer considered
cheap in mining and railroad making on
the Pacific coast. The Chinamen's will
ingness to work for low wages is accom-
panied by inability or indisposition for
hard labor. Several large contractors
have rid themselves of them, and begun
to employ Scandinavians
Mrs Langtry sent the buff shoes she
wears in "Rosalnd to shop in Pitts
burgh to be repaired. Some ladies at
the Central Hotel heard of it, and per-
suaded the shoemaker to let them try
them on. Only one of them could get
into Mrs. Langtry's No. 4, although she
has been charged with being beetle
crusher.
The man who claims to be the greatest
opium eaterin America lives at Manches-
ter, N. H. He began in 1916 with minute
doses, but slowly increased them until
now he consumes a pound a month
He swallows enough every day to kill a
score of ordinary men. Unlike most
slaves of the drug, he is very fat, and
has not become mentally wreck
An excellent class of immigrants is
pouring into Oregon this Spring. 1t is
said that 80 per cent. of the arrivalseby
steamer are actual settlers well supplied
with the means of making fair start in
new homes. The agent of the Bureau
of immigration, who meets every steam
er at Astoria, estimates the average
amount of money brought by each fam
lily at $1,000
A kitten was the means of saving the
lives of the occupants of No. 1873 Eldridge
street, New York, when a fire occurred.
The fire broke out in the basement,
and when the house became filled with
smoke, the kitten jumped upon the bed
Occupiedby young woman and scratch
ing her face until she awoile just in time
to arouse the other inmates and get out
of the house before the flames took com
plete possession.
This winters lumber cut in Wisconsin
is as follows: On the Wisconsin river,
1862, ,000,0 900 feet; On the Black river, 212,-
100000 feet; on the Chippewa and, Flam-
beau rivers; 232, 900, 900 feet; on the st.
Croix river, $50, 100000 feet; on the Me-
nominee river, 400,000,000 feet; on the
Wolf river 90, 900 feet; in the vicinity
of Colby, 23,00000O feet; in the Lake
Superior region, $4,000, 900 feet; at other
points, perhaps 100000, 600 feet. Total.
1 1,595, 100000 feet.
A contract has just been closed at Fort
Worth, Texas, for the shipment of rs, 600
head of cattle from the grazing region
south of that city On the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe Railway to Wichita Falls,
ia miles north. It will require 5000
cars or 215 trains of fourteen cars each,
at a total expense of $105, ,000 The
shipment is rendered necessary by the
large amount of fencing recently put up
in the southern part of the State.
shrewd fellow has a way of taking a
store in a Western village, and filling it
with cheap, snowy goods. At the end
of few weeks he is prostrated- a
few hours-by a telegram conveying
the sad news of his fathers death in
England, and urging his return at once
to settle up the estate. He groans at
being compelled to sacrifice at auction
his valuable stock, which goes off like
hot cakes, and then this enterprising
pioneer moves further West.
Northampton has been the chief seat
of English shoelnaking ever since the
days of Magma Charta John, who was
himself shod there, as an ancient record
shows. The spirit of the redoubtable
baron still bears fruit in the radical
politics of the place, which to day sends
Labouchere and Bradlaugh to Parlia-
ment, and which, when Cromwell's army
marched through it, furnished the sol
diers with 10000 pairs of shoes. More
than 10000 persons are now employed
there in the shoe trade.
John Neihoff, a centenarian, living, in
East New York, was born two years after
the Declaration of independence was
written. He is 105 years old, native of
Holland, and a shoemaker His age is
vouched for by his son, himself man of
eighty, and his great-grand- daughter, a
| woman of forty Naihoff FOUGHT at