The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-29
ssate News.

'tN-ff We A+hAhtn-L'A's tFAht atF ~ thA tllt
dinner privilege az the coming Bridge.
ton Fair. but G. $. Gosboa bid $50 and
got the privilege.
a meeting If The Dairymen's Asso-
citation fer the States Of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Delaware is to b.
held in Camden on the first Saturday
in September,
The Aumler Of convicts in the State
Prison has reached the enormous total
Of SEC. This isthe largest number on
the roll in the history of the institu-
ton.
The chicken cholera is playing havoc
among the poultry yards of Burlington
county. In many cases Individual loss
es will foot up 500.
Quails and rabbits are reported to be
unusually plentiful in Ocean county
this season. Residents of the county
have formed q game protective society,
and viii strictly enforce the laws Of
the Stare for the protection of game in
the county,
A special wire, for the exclusive use
Of salem, Woodstown and Harrison
vile, has been put up by the telephone
company between Woodbury. and Cam
den. This cuts out a dozen stations,
and makes talking with Camden and
Philadelphia much mole satisfactory.
James W. Marshall, the discoyerer
of gold in Californ q, diel in poverty
recently. He was a native Of tiope-
well, New Jersey,
Tic Cumberland County Fair will be
held Sept. 9th and 10th in Blidgeton.
Cumberland county oystermen are
making extensive preparation for tie
fall trade.
There is a general epidemic in
Gloucester county resembling dysen-
terry, and it has visited nearly every in
mate in The AImshouse and Insane
Asylum.
Atlantic City is said to have 4 flag
/ so wired THAT it cannot hang limp, even
if there is no breath of air stirring. IT
is fixed above tie gable end Of a hotel,
and is intended to convince the heated
guests that his discomfort is imagin-
AIRY.
Several South Jersey dairymen have
been swindled by the failure ef Il Phil
adelphia milk dealer.
The actual cost Of living a. Prince.
ton College is given at $500 per annum.
The members of Tabernacle 3Ietho-
dist Episcopal Cllurcl, i'll Camden haze
decided to build a new church, and not
attempt to repair the old one which
was paltly destroyed by the tornado.
The Monmouth Democrat chronicles
the appearance Of Il new potato bug,
which, though smaller insize. has more
power than the cid bug. Its color is
red, and after attacking the vine the
plant looks as if it had been! frozen.
A dam sixty feet wide is to be put in
the Delaware River, above Borden
town, at the expense Of the Govern
meut. Ii Will have the effect Of divert
ing the channel and improving nayi-
cation.
In one family in nridgeton there are
four persons whose age aggregate BIZ
years. They are William Burch, wha
is s.; Philip, 81; Richard, 10; Mary, &c.
The vicinity of English Greek would
be "a glorious country for m%mriagebie
ladies', there are no ISIS than fifteen old
bachelors there.
Senator Sewell and MIS-. Sewell sail
ed Saturday ffom Antwerp for
America by the Red Star Line steamer,
and viii arrive home in the eatly part
of September.
AZ d HIGStilS VI NhO 3AVeiC A81AA9
Board Of Trade recently, subso. iptions
to the amount Of 5000 for establishing
a shoe factory there were received.
George Kendall, Il Philadelphia manu-
facturer, viii remove his plant to
Mount IIol y.
On September 4, the reunion of the
18th New jersey Regiment will take
place in Bridgeton. The Regiments
monument at Gettysburg viii he I'M
yelled the latter part of September.
The case OF the Rev. J.. II. Pierce
against the school trustees Of Burling-
ton, which has in the past created con-
siderable comment, has at last been
finally adjudicated, 50 far as the law of
this state is concerned, by the Court
of Errors and Appeal, which has just
affirmed the de ;ision of the Supreme
Court rendered last year to the effect
that a pareat had a right to send his
Child to the most convenient school,
and thai 20 distinction coaId be md,le
by the trustees on account Of color.
The Cotw Of Pardons las liberated
40 State Prison convicts during the
five terms Of the Court, from tie March
term, 1855, inclusive. o. the prisoners
set free, Al hailed from Essex county,
30 from Hudson, 5 from Atlantic, }
from Bergen, : from Burlington , from
Cape May, 8 from Camden, 4 from
Cumberland, 9 from Gloucester, / from
Middlesex, 7 from Monmouth, 3 from
Morris, ? from Ocean, y from Passaic,
3 from Somerset, 6 from Sussex, 5 from
Uuion, aud 8 from Warren.