Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-24
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STATE NEWS.

The scarlet fever epidemic IN JERSEY
City is believed to have been checked.
The Gloucester county pork crop is
greatly reduced this year by the hog
cholera.
Diphtheria is SO prevalent in some
sections of Atlantic county that some
OF the schools may have to be closed.
Governor Albeit is at his home in
jersey City at work upon his annual
message.
The Oceanic Hotel, at Barnegat. a.
building 2OOx60, is to be moved 500
feet back, the ocean having encroached
upon it.
Senator Sewell has introduced a bill
in the Senate appropriating 100000
for the erection of public building in
Camden.
The work of deepening and straight
ening the channel in Maurice River
from Millville to Silver Run, two
miles below that city, is now being
completed.
The appointment of Aida Martin as
Postmistress at North Vineland dis
places ). G. Dalton, the original ap-
polntee, against whom the people pro-
tested vigorously.
The new county iron bridge, over
the Shark river, is completed, and
cost about $4,000. The total length
of the bridge is 1,O4O feet, being the
longest bridge in Monmouth county.
The West Jersey Railroad was
mulcted in $3.50 damages at the late
term of the Gloucester court for the
death of horse, which was frightened
by a hand car and killed itself by run
ming away.
Judge Parker in the Mount Holly
Court, Thursday, sentenced William
Davis, Canadian thief, to three years
in State Prison, for robbing the house
of Albert G. Heulings, at Moorestown,
some months ago.
The Cape May Council gives notice
that application will be made to the
next Legislature for an increase of
$25, 900 to the city's Indebtedness, for
the purpose of defraying the expenses
of building water works.
The resignation of fPostmistress Mary
J. Martin, of Burlington, has caused
tlutter in the political circles of that
place. She was appointed by Presi-
dent Arthur, in February last for four
years. The cause OF the resignation is
not known. Samuel E. Lippincottis in
the field for the vacancy.
The Executive Committee of the
Ocean Grove Camp meeting Associa-
ton has ascertained that $4,000 will be
needed to repair the damage on the
beach caused by the late great storm,
which does not include the rebuilding
of several demolished pavillions. An
( assessment on lot-holders will be Or
dered.
Judge Diverty, in the Cape May
Court last week, in the trial of an as
sault and battery case, charged the
jury thus concisely: 'Gentlemen of the
| jury, as near as the Court can ascer-
tain from the testimony submitted,
one of the parties in this case is liar
and the other fool. We leave the
case with you"
The internal revenue authorities
have obtained a chain of damaging
testimony against John E. Wander
veer, distiller of Monmouth county,
between Marlboro and Freehold.
There have been several seizures of
whiskey in unstamped packages in
hotels throughout Monmouth county,
which, is is claimed, have come from
Vanderveers distillery.
W. c. Gatzmer, son of William H.
Gatzmer, Secretary and Treasurer of
the Camden and Philadelphia Steam
boat Ferry Company, who has been
missing from his fathers house, in
Philadelphia, for several weeks, was
found in lew York, recently, and re-
turned his home. The young man
is insane 1t times and it was while in
this condition that he left home.
The mtrriage between Mariana
Hunt Vahderveer, 14-year-old daugh-
ter of W Ealthy farmer at Manalapan,
in Monmouth county, and James Nc
Cormack, ,has been declared void by
the Chancellor. Mccormack was
farm hand hired by Vanderveer, ran
away to Trenton with the girl, blew
out the gis and almost suffocated him
self and her, was married to her the
next aftenoo arrested by her pur-
suing father an hour later, locked up
for several months, convicted of alb
duction aid fined $400.