Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-02-05
80 Per Year.
STATE NEWS.

Cape May expects to have direct
steamboat connection with New York,
next season.
Vast quantities of CLAIMS have been
cast upon the beach at Atlantic City,
by the recent high tides.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Il
few days ago, received a conscience
contribution of $400 in an envelope
postmarked Newark, n. j.
Constable |. b. Coles, of Woodstown.
claims to have the heaviest hog in Sa-
lem county which, it is believed, will
weigh, dressed, 800 pounds.
William Murphey, of New Egypt,
Burlington county, has just marketed
thirty-two capons that weighed 357
pounds-an average ofabout II pounds
EACH
S. H. Breeze, of Dover, Morris Co.,
has invented a tricycle. which is said
to surpass any now made. He will
have it patented and placed on the
market.
Michael Potter, the Willow Grove
centenarian, assisted at the annual hog
killing few days ago, and stuck one
animal weighing between 400 and 500
pounds.
The Cape May Wore thinks that if
the State assumes control of the oyster
grounds to lease or sell them, the oys-
tering days of the poor man will about
be over
The Sugar Hill Glass Works of Clay
ton, which were built by Fisler, Nor
gan & Co., have shut down, throwing
about one hundred hands out of en-
ployment.
A history of Ocean county, prepared
by Mr.. Edwin Salter, is soon to be pub
lished. 1t will include historical and
genealogical notices of the first settlers
of Ocean and Monmouth counties.
Thos. Shourds, of Hancock's Bridge,
Salem County, has been engaged to
furnish a report of the Hancock s
Bridge massacre, to appear in the Ad-
jutant Generals report when issued.
Mrs. Mary Sanders, who appeared
in court with a sealskin sacque and
diamond earrings, was on Thursday
convicted in Hudson county of as
saulting her servant while intoxicated
The State Board of Agriculture has
awarded premium to Joseph Erick-
son, of Delaware township, Camden
county, for having raised $1,S00 worth
of Strawberries on two and a half
acres of ground.
A Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
express train was wrecked at Green
vile, few days ago, and nearly twen-
ty passengers injured, mostly Phila-
delphians. The disaster was caused
by the breaking of an axle.
At Newark, recently, Tong Ling,
the Chinese stewart of the Greeley
Polar relief expedition, who was ar
rested for gagging and robbing fell
lowcountryman, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to seven years impris-
onment.
A Newark lawyer in making search
has found deed which contained the
following conditional clause: If at the
second coming of Christ the dead shall
inherit the earth, said property shall
revert to the grantor. The deed was
drawn in 1910.
ii. II. Warner q Co., of Rochester,
have just made a contract with Whit
ney Brothers, of Glassboro for 7, 500, 600
bottles, which will weigh 10000, 900
pounds and fill 500 freight cars. This
is said to be the largest contract for
! bottles ever made
The citizens of Manahawkin, Mon
mouth county, called a public meeting
in the lecture room of the Methodist
Episcopal church, one night last week,
and assumed the entire payment of
two mortgages upon the church prop
erty amounting to $4,000.
The tremendous gale on the nth of
January, caused a very low tide in
heyport and Princess bays, Monmouth
county, leaving exposed hundreds of
acres of the best oyster beds. 1t is es-
timated that from $25, 900 to $4,000
worth of oysters were frozen
Captain Thomas Bond, of Tucker
ton, Ocean county, who was supposed to
have been drowned on the 18th inst.
while crossing the bay from Tuckerton
in small boat during gale, has
turned up safe and sound at the light
! house, where he had taken refuge.