Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-03
81 NICHOLS, Publishers.
STATE NEWS.

Large quantities of swamp moss are
being shipped from Ocean county to
New York, for the use of florists.
Out of 600 depositors of the defunct
Gloucester Bank, there are 140 who
have not yet presented themselves to
Receiver Hufty to collect their 80 per
cent. dividend.
The Moorestown canning factory will
put up very few tomatoes this season
as there are now stored in the building
nearly one million cans of last years
crop, awaiting market.
Mr.. J. B. Wortendyke, the inventor
of paper twine, as we'll as the first ma
chine to weave candle and lamp wick,
died at his residence in Bergen county,
on Friday night, aged 55 years.
Mr.. S. Carey, of Morris county, has
effectually cured snake bites of various
kinds with the following recipe: Make
poultice of fine tobacco saturated
with whiskey, and apply the poultice
w OiiC Noulld tlllll DluIl SClU oNCl oil.
During the past season 1000 shad
were caught at the Gloucester county
fisheries, GIG men employed, and 59,915
fathoms of net used; in Burlington,
county, 319, 400 fish were caught by $40
men with "a, 100 fathoms of net; in Cam
den county, 96,169 were caught with
Is, $50 fathoms of net.
A large rattlesnake was trodden upon
by boy named Albert Hopper, who
lives at Oakland, Bergen county, while
he was fixing fence in ameadow. The
snake struck at the boys leg, making
two scratches, about an inch long and
an inch apart half way through the
| leather of the bootleg.
Sussex county has gained only 631
inhabitants in the past forty-five years,
and in 1850 the population was 55S
greater than it is now. 1t has lost /, ,13S
in the past five years. The loss is prin-
cipally in Andover, Byram and Hardy
ston townships, and is due to the de-
preston in the iron business.
The Mathiesen and Weichers Sugar
Refining Company, of Jersey City,
have purchased from the Gregory es-
tate the property recently occupied by
the Adirondack Stove Works. The
purchase has frontage on the Morris
Canal and South Cove. The price is
$170,000 with annuities of $4,000.
The managers of the State Fair have
decided to add a dog show to their
other attractions at Waverly this Fall
For the purpose handsome building
81 by 1S1 feet is to be erected, which
will contain some 600 stalls on the first
floor for dogs. The gallery on three
sides will be arranged for seats, parlors,
etc.
The roller skating rinks down by the
sea have not been as prosperous this
season as their managers anticipated.
None of them have made much money,
and few have paid. James T. Barnes,
who runs the Third avenue rink at
Asbury Park, has failed, and wants to
pay his creditors forty cents on the
dollar, in notes.
AS Capt. Hatch of the yacht Howard,
anchored off Staten Island, was sitting
in the stern of the yacht, he saw big
shark with its jaws wide open coming
toward the vessel The shark came
within eight feet of the yacht and then
disappeared. Capt. Hatch said it was
the biggest one he ever saw. 1t was
about Is feet long.
DR.. Coleman F. Leaning, of Cape
May, in asserting some old papers the
other day, found a small piece of chew
ing tobacco which Henry Clay gave to
relative of the doctors at the time of
his visit to Cape May in 1914. Clay
cut it Off the plug, and was about to
put it in his mouth when he was intro
duced to Mr.. Leaning.
Atthe Rio Grande, Cape May County,
sugar plantation, the best crop of cane
ever grown on that tract will soon be
gathered. The work of grinding the
cane will begin the first of September
During this month the company will
have shipped 1,7OO barrels of Rio
Grande molasses, the heaviest ship
ment ever made from the mills.
A peculiarly inhuman act of brutal
ity is reported from Elwood, Atlantic
County. A father is said to have taken
a cord and tied the hands of his two
little boys behind them, after which
he compelled them to stand in the rank
grass to be punished by mosquitoes.
How long he would have kept them