The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-20
STATE

'NfhNf
ali over the State.
A vein of coal has been struck at
Egg Harbor, Atlantic county.
The Beatty orgau works, ut Wash
iugtnn, have gone into the hands Of a
receiver.
New Jersey canning factory proprie-
tors state their business has shown a
serious failing off this year.
Atlantic county has lis pensioners
who draw from the Government an
average monthly sum Of 1928 each.
The drying house of the American
Wood Powder Company, ~cOn aiming
20,0O0 poudds Of pov%sr,;a ct secaueus,
was destroyed by au explosion on
Tuesday.
Governor Albeit, of New Jersey, has
appointed Charles r. Garrison, of Cam
den, Judge Advocate Gen ;ral of the
National Guard, in place Ct Garrett
Ackerson, resigned.
The Townsend Wrecking Company
has succeeded in b'owirg up Tire 'ueck
of the Sunken steamer Melphar, in
Townsend's inlet. One year will be
required to remoye the entire hull.
Nearly 5000 lots have been sid at
C~hiselhurst, the new town in Camden
county, and building material is being
HAILED there. "A Building Association
has ibesnrepened, and new series will
b. opened every three months.
General Plume, brigadier-General in
the National Guard OF New Jersey, is
thought to have the best chance for
being promoted to the Major-General-
ship vacated by the death of General
Mott, owing to his seniority.
From various sources there ale now
over $40, 0O0. 200 of unclaimed money
in the United States Treasuuy. The
post Office department i'll constantly
yielding moneys from letters which
furnish no possible clue 10 the owner
or sender.
Snuaax Loo 1g oil rti or anp,,4.ac ~ tho
State in the value oI its buckwheat
crop which, according to The last CELL
sus, was lis, $50 bushels. Warren
county ranks next at l0l, $50, Hunter
don third, 81, 0J9, and somerset county
fourth, l2,4s5.
Governor Albeit and the Rilu ri. n
Commissioners have been, during the
past week, in South Jersey inspecting
the oyster beds along lhec,ast with Il
view to determine what suggestion he
should offer regarding the necessary
Legislation Ill his annual message to
the legislature.
1t is said that it has been decide | to
change the name of Egg Walbor City.
1t has been contemplated for a To- g
tine. When Gen. W. 5 Hancock Wis
tied the town last week, lie asked to be
shown the harbOr. This led to the
appointment of u Committee to select
another name.
The State Grange ut its annual
meeting iu Trenton elected the follow
ing officers: Master, Richman Coles;
oyerseer, John StateSlr; lecturer, Nor
timer Whitehead; steward, Henry F.
BOdlne; assistant steward, George ii.
Gauntt; chaplain, Charles Shoemaker;
treasurer, G. A. RulOn; secretary, NJ.
D. Dickinson; gate-keeper 4. E, Hol-
comb.
John IL. Dialogue, proprietor of the
kaighn's Point Engineering and Ship
building Works, has been awarded the
contract for building a lighthouse
steam tender, to be used at San Fran
cisco. She is to be 179 feet long, Is
feet width of beam, and 10 feet depth
of hold. Two other steamers one for
Jacob s. Ridgway, to be used in car
ryihg passengers between Philadelphia
end Ridgway Park, and the other for
the Prospect Mining Company, are
also mcoprseGf constr uctiorL About
800 men wIilfbs employed at the works
during the winter.
The oldest person, perhaps, now
living in the United States is Sylvia
Duboice, a negress and former slave,
who, in August last, celebrated hpr
10th birthday, and who lives in desti-
tuition on the bleak summit of the
Sourland Mountain, in uanterdon
county, New Jersey. In a little frame
cabin, with one room hardly large
enough for the swinging of a cat, and
whlehis hidden amid the stunted UNI
derdush huge powders that lend a
ragged and barren picturesqueness to
the lone spot, this famous mountain
pink" drags out her buidensome life,
attended by her baby" as she calls
her youngest da lighter, Elizabeth Alex
ander, who is herself 10 yeaIs of age.
OF the $50 convicts in the State
Prison but $50 are employed, and,
owing to the expiration of contracts,
these will oon be thrown into idle
ness. The enactment of the law abol-
ishing convict labor prevents the
making of new contraets, and conse-
quently all the prisoners will soon have
to live in idleness. The Board of