Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-08-20
S1.5O Per Year,
MCGOWAN & NICHOLS, Publishers
STATE NEWS.


The crop of huckleberries, both
swamp and upland, is almost an entire
failure in Salem county.
A. S. Gay, of Hammonton, Atlantic
Co., has picked and shipped $1,000
| quarts of blackberries this season.
The annual press collation. of the
State Agricultural Society will be given
at Waverly. on Wednesday, the Goth
inst.
Salem County has %, 605 acres of tide
marsh; Gloucester County, 995S; Cape
May, 5S,S24 Atlantic, 10000, and Ocean,
81, 1856.
The New Jersey Cranberry Growers
Association will hold their semi-annual
meeting ON the 2Sth inst, at Toms
River.
Rev. Father Webb, now in his Goth
year, pronounced the benediction at
the Grant memorial services in New
Brunswick.
The chicken cholera is playing havoc
among the poultry yards of Burlington
county. In many cases individual loss
will foot up $500.
The annual camp meetings at Sea-
vile and West Jersey Grove COM
menced on Thursday, and will continue
until the 22d instant.
A dog was accidentally locked in
overnightin James Clark hens house,
at Mays Landing, and amused himself
by killing eighty valuable chickens.
A man named Oldstead, from Salem
| county, was sunstruck while working
on the premises of Ed Ham, at Vine
land, few days since, and died soon
after.
The citizens of Woodbury. will hold
special election on the last Thursday
of this month to decide by ballot if a
water works shall be built, at a cost
not to exceed $SO,OOO.
John Nicholl, the Orange centenar-
ian, who died recently, bequeaths by
his will $1,000 to the Presbyterian
! Church Foreign Mission, and $500 to
the Domestic Mission Board.
The Methodist Church at Vernon.
Sussex county, was damaged $3.50 by a
hail storm last week. and over fifty
panes of glass in the windows of the
| Episcopal Church were broken.
The Standard Window Glass Works.
at Woodbury., will be operated here
after on the cooperative plan, the
blowers and cutters to be stockholders
Operations will be commenced in Sept
The congregation of the Tabernacle
M. E. Church, of Camden, has decided
to rebuild it's edifice, the walls having
been ruined by the recent cyclone.
About $4,000 have been subscribed for
the work.
Richard Sked, the head of a family
at Ringoes, Hunterden county, and
Maggie Woodruff, school teacher
who had been boarding with the Skeds,
are missing, and it is believed they
have eloped.
Several burglaries which have oc-
Cured at Red Bank, Oceanic and other
points along the Shrewsbury river, are
attributed to the occupants of a mys-
terious yacht that has been seen cruis-
ing up and down the river.
At meeting of the Mount Holly
Board of Trade recently, subscriptions
to the amount of 50, 900 for establishing
shoe factory there were received.
George Kendall, Philadelphia manu-
facturer, will remove his plant to Mt.
Holly.
Quail and rabbits are reported to be
unusually plentiful in Ocean county
this season. Residents of the county
have formed game protective society,
and will strictly enforce the laws of the
State for the protection of game in the
county.
A New York syndicate desires to es-
tablish new gas works at Burlington,
and an ordinance giving it the right
has passed first reading in the City
Council. 1t is proposed to supply Bev-
erly and Edgewater Park from the
plant in Burlington.
During last Thursdays storm barn
on the farm near Bridgeport, owned
by Rev. Joseph G. Summerill's heirs,
and occupied by Jacob V. Holdcraft,
was struck by lightning and destroyed
together with 100 bushels of wheat.
The barn and contents were insured.
A Vineland farmer named Isaac Kes-
sler, has been charged with cruelty to
his fourteen-year- old daughter, and has
been compelled to give her into the
custody of the Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children, paying