The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-27
STATE ITEMS

The Legislature Of this State con-
yenes on the 18th OF next month.
OF the 81 members of the next Legis-
lature Of the State, - are lawyers,
The p1stal receipts last fiscal gear in
Ne~ Jersey were sllo,5 1 over eXpen-
ditures.
Egg Earbor City makes 100, 900 GAL
Ions of wine annually. 'Ylrare are
about 800 acres in grapes in tuG about
the town.
Tue Piman Grove Camp sXIeetp4
Association has decided, to, ,!apeil tie
camp meeting at that place for 1885, on
the 2Jth Of July.
Hudson county is in a fhaf&ial fix
owing to the failure Of cities and towns
in the county to pay their taxes, a fad
ure that bias, in some instances, resulted
from embeZzlenlent CT defalcatiun.
There are 299 postmasttrs in, New
Jersey receiving less than $1,000 per
dnnum, and who are appointed By the
Postmaster General without consulting
the President, The Senate or the civil
service examiners.
The Camden and Atlantic Railroad
Company, under the recent tax law of
New Jersey, wilt pay into tha State
Treasury tue sum of SI3. 1876. while the
West Jersey will pay 81, 43Q, and the
Reading connection, formerly known as
the narrow-gauge, S3,251.
JOS. Daniels, of Mantua, has in his
pc session an interesting relic in the
shape of a cooking spit which was for-
merly the property of Thos. Carpenter,
the founder of Carpenters Larding,
now Mantua. The implement is prob
ably ole hundred years old. 1t has a
clOckwork movement, by whichi it was
kept turning automatically. =
Tie proposition to build a bridge
across Staten Island Sound, joining the
states Of New York and New Jersey, is
again the subject of comment il Tren
ton. The act permitting the erection
of the bridge failed to pass Congress ut
the last session, and it is said that it
will de difficult to put through atthis
session. The measure will be strongly
opposed by the Jersey Representative,
as being part of a serious movement, it
is said, to divert railroad traffic from
the New Jersey shore to the water
front of New York. -
Morris county ranks third in the
Union i'll the output Of IRON, ore, but
little is being done at present. a num-
Der of mines have stoppe entirely, aud
oilers are working with one-half tile
usual force. Last week nearly all the
mines put up notices that after the lst
of December wages would be but 81
INl boA u HpAiiil ~ IN c
duction. The cause of the reduction ls
the tack of a market for ore. Some of
the furnaces that formerly relied on
Morris county ore nov use Spanish ore,
train loads of which pass oycr tine rail
road daily.
The Improved Sewerage and Sewage
Utilization Company have commenced
laying pipes in Atlantic City, and ex-
pect to have the work completed by
June /, 1885. The system, which is
known as the "West SYSTEM - gives the
grade of the pipe a fall of seven feet to
the mile, and no pipe must be placed
nearer the s~urfacethan three feet. The
seHage will first he received into a large
well on the north side of the city, and
pumped from there to the rendering
sheds, which will be located on the
meadows, when it will undergo the
process of deodorization, tiltering and
be manufactured into Il fertilizer. s
President Stokes fifteenth annual re-
port of the Ocean Grote Assoc alton
shows that The expense for the year
were $50. 316 .05, and the income s.. 169.-
80 over that sum, In years previous
the aggregate deficiency has been 400.
There are in the plaeeS3l cottages
and go hotels, and the largest popuIa-
ton during the season was 10000.
During the three and a half months
ending September IL there Were ESQ.,
coo arrivals at the Ocean Grove and
Asbury Pa;k railroad station. In enc
day there were 300 regular pasSen-
gers. and ON another day the arrivals,
including eXcurSionists were $500.
Three miles of sewers were laid during
the year, making seven miles in all in
the Grove.
WIN more money than at anything else hy tax
WlTinE an GeanVY tor the best selling book out,
Beginners succeed gfandiy. None ful.
Terms free. HALLETT BOOK Co. Portland
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