The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-05
stale News.

AENAbtAbA AtaiN NNNNs I
Eleven persons are confined in Glou-
ccster county Jail at Woodbury..
The Briageton Potriot states that
from various parts Of Cumberland
county farmers report loosing hogs
from the cholera.
A shark ten feet long ard weighing
316 pounds was recently caught at
Somers Point.
The New Jersey State Fair will open
at Wayerly on September Is and con.
time L week.
In tie vicinity of Rio Grande, Cape
May county, there is hardly "A farmer
whose hogs are not afflicted with chc!-
era. The disease in Cape May prom
Uses to be worse than il was last fall.
The crematory at Mount OIivet, N.
l., with its two furnaces, or r%etorts;
win he in operation by October /. Al
ready more than forty bodies have been
stored in vaults. awaiting incineration.
During n discussion at Hacketts-
town, r~eeantlv, over The question Of
what constitutes q ''h0rse power" q
local sportsman offered II wager that
twenty men conld pull more than a
horsa. The Offer was accepted by
John SIikes, and the trial was made.
The men won easily.
DR.. McCosh has compiled a list of
! twentv-seven Princeton students who
belong to the athletic department of
the university, showing that in schol-
| arship they are well down in the ranks.
Fifteen of them are in the lowest
third; all but seven are below the mid.
die, and only two are up to the second
grade.
The crop of chestnuts, hickory-nuts
and walnuts in this state is said to he
unusually large. Weather prophets,
upon the strength ofthis, predict a Sc
we're Winter.
Passaic County owes but S717,17
above its cash asserts of taxes due, etc,
less than Mt any time in its history,
and less than the debt of any other
county in the state.
The great camp meeting just closed
at Ocean Grove was the most success
full in the history of the association.
Thousands were attracted from all over
the county, there being visitors
from more than two-thirdsof the States
in the Union.
. The citizens of Holly Beach, where
an attack was recently made upon one
of the Menhaden fishing steamers, say
they will take the law into their W
bands and make war on the "pirates,"
as the menladen fishermen are termed.
The feeling is growing all along the
coast.
Jersey City has a new elevated rail-
road chat will be also a cable road.
Tie machinery is now being tested.
The cars will be put on and the en-
pIoyees set about learning how to run
the grips Ia "a few days, and tile road
be opened 20 the public about Scpssn4
Der %.
"~BoRaparte Park" the celebrated
estate near Bordentown, has recently
been gone over by Philadelphia survey
ors, aud there is great local interest
over rumors that it is either t. be ta-
ken by the Pennsylvania Company for
railroad uses or cut up into building
lots.
1t is said that the glass factory at
Swedesboro VIII be run curing the
coming season with non-union men.
This action is causing quite a stir
among those int rested, and the gener-
al impression is that the factory VIII
be ii failure if run on that plan. a
Swedesboro correspondent OF the Bird
g4ton NeUs asserts that a factory run
n this manner cannot pay. lie also
says that what is worrying the blowers
who took stock in the factory there
last year is how they are going to get
back the money they invested if it is
to be a non. union factory. The blow
ers who invested their money in the
factory did so with the expectation Of
getting steady work.
Next year the double track Of the
West Jersey Railroad is 10 be extended
fIom Iona to Newfiell, where the A.
lantic City branch joins the main line
The gross earnings of the West Jersey
for July, Il statement of which is Just
issued, are SlG9, 505, II decrease OF
S0027 compared with the same month
of 1884. The total operating expenses
were SltS,13I, an increase Of Sl9.716
4 the net earnings S51,37l, adecrease
of SIS, l53.
For the seven months ending July 81
The total yeceipfs we're Sis0,209, a de-
crease of SIS, 743 com.eared Win The
corresponding period Of 18sa The OPP
Grating expenses were si4l, 04G, D. IN
crease ofS3333, and net earnings $685.
263 ut a decresse Of S29,07G. The net
income of the West Jersey Railroad,
after paymeDt of Al, Obligations for the
seven months. was $hi 81 2 decrease
com pared with last year Of sr2,6o5.
a. G. Graw of the Camlen TeaDer-
aaee Ga-ctcc, has been arrested for IL
bel, on complaint Of James Russ a
Beverly saloon keeper, The Gazette
said that a Beverly Temperance Re
form Club backslider had given Russ
$50, of which ST WAS pension motley,
within two weeks,
Gretchen Margaret, aged 10 years