Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-06-26
,[}fe Pioneer.
Published every Thursday morning. at No. 60
East Commerce Street, Cup stairs.)
MCGOWAN & NICHOLS, Publishers.
STATE NEWS,
so Per Year.

days ago. 1t was sold for 20 cents per
pound.
Asbury Park has more hotels than
any other seaside resort in New Jer-
sey. They are of all sizes, styles and
prices.
The Sussex Herald says that Harry
Peters, of Bushkill, while fly fishing
for trout the other day, caught at one
cast two trout and one snake.
The hay crop in Salem county this
season will be about one half as large
as last year. Sixteen acres of standing
grass were sold a few days ago for $1S
an acre.
DeVoe, the Hackensack weather
prophet, predicts a cold storm about
July 4th, and cool weather during the
whole month. He says the Fall will
be long and mild.
Henry P. Jones and Charles Heath
have been elected to fill the vacancies
in the State Agricultural Society,
Jones and General N. N. Halsted.
At the funeral of Samuel Halsey, at
Newark. on Thursday, the pall-b
ers were George A. Halsey, Silas G.
Halsey, William A. Halsey, George E.
Halsey, Charles T. Halsey and James
A. Halsey.
Twenty trains will leave New York
every day this season, for Long Branch
and Point Pleasant, under the new ar
rangements perfected between the
Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia
and Reading Companies.
A meeting of Camden druggists and
physicians has been called to protest
against the newly enacted high-license
ordinance, which compels druggists,
as we'll as saloon keepers, to pay a IL
cense of 5000 for the sale of LIQUOR.
Sussex county farmers are being
swindled by sharpers, who sell them a
new and superior kind of clover seed,
and organs, and induce them to sign
paper by which they are afterwards
compelled to pay large sums of money.
Joshua Salmon, of Mt. Olive, Nor
ris county, is over "a years old, and
owns horse that is past 80. He has
recently plowed four acres of ground
with his old horse, and thinks there is
no octogenarian in the Safe who can
beat his record. He says his horse is
able to jump six rail fence, in spite
of his age.
The annual meeting of the New Jer
sey State Division of the League of
American Wheelmen will be held at
Red Bank, on Saturday, July 5th.
The business meeting will be called to
order at II a. m., to be followed by
the banquet at 1, and the parade at
p. IN. In the evening there will be
moonlight run to Matawan over one
of the finest roads in the State.
Henry E. Chitty owns greenhouse
at Paterson, and James Norwood has
house on the adjoining lot. Nor
wood complained to the Board of
Health that the fumigation from Chit
ty's greenhouse was nuisance.
Chitty then hired a surveyor who dis
covered that Norwood had built his
house a fraction of an inch over the
line. He has begun suit in the
! County Court for damages.
Major Benjamin Depue, the vener-
able father of Judge Depue, died at
his home in Belvidere, on Wednesday
of last week, aged SS years. He had
been resident of Belvidere, for about
fifty years, and was greatly respected
for his many noble qualities. He
came to Belvidere from Mt. Bethel
Pa, and was for many years proprie-
tor and conductor of the leading ho-
tel in the former place, known as the
| Warren House.
Peter Tatro, who some time ago
purchased a house in Washington
Warren county, for his daughter, q
woman boating on the Morris canal,
and who afterward stole $50 from her
and decamped, has been sentenced to
two years in Jail and a fine of $500,
for swindling soldiers out of pensions.
He is fifty years old and in the last ten
years has been married to not less
than five different women, all of whom
are living in different States. His
plan has been to hunt up widows,
marry them and then steal their prop
erty, and decamp. His latest victim
was a well-todo widow in Maryland,
whom he married after leaving Wash
ington.