The Penn's Grove record., 1885-05-02
County Gleanings.

| ChaS IL. BnTt, OIL upper EllLSBTONe
has bought and sold owe sixty horse,
this Spring.
The large barn on the farm Of s.
Preston Carpenter at Warrington
was struck 10y lightning on Tuesday
night and totally destroyed, together
with three horses, a mule and several
head Of cattle.
Therental of the Salem Lecture Hall
amounted to over 81 300 last year.
Last Tuesday week Nathan II. Lip.
pincott, near WuudstOwn, sold a Lance
cewood colt for 5000 10 a Philadelphia
horseman. This makes three of Lance
woods colts that Mr.. J.. has sold for
which he has received S2400.
Purnell, who started the forest fires
in the lower part of the county, has
left for parts unknown.
The Penn's Neck bridge has been
flushed, but is not yet accepted.
III 9othy NJ. Smith, the long lost son
of Samuel Smith, of Salem, an account
of whose loss was published recently i'll
the RECORD, arrived in Salem on Nom
day, from West Virginia. The reu-
Mon was "a happy one.
Constant NJ. Eakin, President of the
Salem National Banking Company,
died in tliaV city oil Sunday last, aged
AZ years. He was the son of Alphonso
l.. Eakln, Esq for fifty years IA lead
ing lawyer i'll Salem. President Eakin
married a daguhter of the late Thomas
). Smith, who with two children sur
vive him. He leaves a large estate.
Woodstown has raised s20,0 900 to-
wards a shoe factory. $4,000 more is
needed.
Empson Atkinson, of Woodstown,
lost recently a valuable horse, and last
winter he los 81 head Of pigs and hogs
valued at more than $500.
Some days ago both James Randolph
ai aged resident of Alloway, Salem
county, and his wife We're stricken
with paralysis within a few hours of
one another, the latter dying.
A farmer living near VoodSt0wn
clailus to lave killed all e~ight-pound
rat on his place recently.
IL is asserted that there is quite "a
liquor traffic carried un between Salem
and Melville i'll d~emijohns aboard of
sand boats.
Mayor Acton, of Salem, notifies the
public that the ordnance against im-
moderate driving will be inforeed.
Edward Wallace has retired from
the firm Of f.. b. Humphreys Il Co.,
after a service OF seventeen years.
Salem county has two pupils in the
State School for deaf mutes.
Charles Plimmer, of L. A. Creek,
while blowing turned TO the surface a
turtle weighing seven pounds. How
it survived the winter encased in the
frozen ground is a mystery.
The Woodstown telephone line has
been completed as far ~ ShaIptown,
Elmer has subscribed 5000, and poles
are being erected between that place
and Glassboro.
Salem's skating rink closed for the
season on Tuesday.
The workmen at Halls Foundry,
Salem, have received an advance of ten
per cent. in their wages.
The Salvation Army have rented the
Rink in Rumsey Hall, Salem, for two
months and will carry on their war;
fare against sim and the devil in their
peculiar manner.
The recent forest fires in the lower
part of the county destroyed much
valuable timber land valuedat $50 per
acre. and also considerable cord wood
and thousands of cedar rails. Ex-
Sheriff VIM. A. Casper places his loss
at 5000, and other owners each lost
nearly as much.
The old stone bridges in Pilesprove
are reported to he in a bad state and
the board of Free holders have taken
measures to remove several of them
and replace them by substantial WOO d.
en- ones. That over Nickomus run
near Fl. W. Austin's has been taken
out.
The theatre goers of Wookstown are
frequently accommodated by IN extra
train from Salem to allow them to re-
turn after hearing pr sformances in the
Salem Lecture Hall.
Toodstown's celebrated case, the
Getaway on East Avenue and wheth-
er it il an obstruction to pedestrians, is
to be tried at The comingterm of Court.
The aven ne has been surveyed a mum
Der of times.
Large quantities of coke have been
recently brought to Salem city by rail-
road and carted out to Quiuton, where
it is used to keep up the fires whilo the
blowers are at work. This coke comes
from " estern Pennsylvania and with
the long railroad haul to Salem city
and the carting to Quinton, it costs
less delivered there than wood does.
Peter Harris has in his possession a
iooNarro IF his nra udfatbar Iobp Har.