Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10
MCGOWAN & NICHOLS, Publishers.
STATE NEWS.

starters, for a gold medal John B.
Bergen came in winner in 3:51 Al.
John H. Mount was second.
Henry Myers of Boonton, last week
caught a black bass weighing about
one pound, that contained small
swapping turtle, fish hook and piece
of line, and sundry other articles.
The Burlington County Executive
Committee met in Mount Holly on
Tuesday of last week, and decided to
hold the Republican County Conven-
ton in Mount Holly on September
Goth.
] A Salem county farmer proposes to
use cast steel fence posts in place of
wood, with barbed wire for fencing.
These posts are claimed to be cheaper
than wood as they are practically in
destructible.
The cranberry crop in Camden and
Atlantic counties will, it is said, in
many places prove almost total fail
ure. Hundreds of acres were burned
over by the recent forest fires and will
prove valueless
An investigating committee will re-
port to the Burlington City Council
that the charges against the night
police force of quitting their beats re-
peatedly and going home for a nap
have been sustained.
| Somers Point boasts of a genuine
hermit-a genial old man who lives in
a cave dug on the banks of the Great
Egg Harbor Bay, and subsists on
crabs, CLANS, and such other food as
the people of the vicinity contribute.
With the exception of month or two
in each Winter he has lived there in
that way for about ten years.
| The Trenton Times would resort to
extreme measures in dealing with raw
ishers of females. 1t says: ''It is rap
idly becoming a question whether it
would not be wise to infict the death
penalty on the man who criminally as
saults woman. This crime appears
to be steadily on the increase, and the
man who perpetrates it is no better
than the murderer and much more de-
testable."
Last Fall Rowell Merry, a farmer
living along the Passaic river in Morris
county, had a valuable young horse
stolen, and every effort was made to
trace out the thieves but without sue
cess. One day last week, when Mr.. M.
went out in the morning to look after
his stock, what should he see but his
stolen horse, which had been brought
back safe and sound, but in very poor
condition.
The Camden Board of Health has
found that the American Dredging
Company is dumping mud in the Jer-
sey channel of the Delaware just above
the Camden Water Works, with the
apparent intention of shutting off the
Jersey channel. The water supply is
already polluted, and is in danger of
becoming much more so, and the
| ioO1iNt Will ttiNe llltillS W nave luG
work stopped if possible.
The ten cent BARRIERS of Newark
have organized society for mutual
protection against the five cent
shaves, and at the next meeting of
the Trades Assembly of Essex county
they will apply for admission with the
same representation as other trades.
About fifty five cent" shops have
been started, and the union BARRIERS
propose to boycott wholesale firms sup
plying the half-price men.
A Cape May hotel clerk has been
employing his spare time in perfecting
a plan for railroad switch by which
he claims that the engineer will be
able to detect a misplaced switch two
hundred yards. away, and adjust it
without slackening the speed of his
train or leaving his cab. He has been
working on the invention eighteen
months and claims that it is a success,
and will soon be put into practical
operation.
The Hunterdon Democrat says: In
an experiment with one hundred plum
trees farmer busted five trees with
air-slacked lime just as the blossoms
were falling, and repeated the applica-
tion every two weeks several times.
From the five trees so treated he Sc
cured good crops of plums, but upon
the remaining ninety-fve trees the
curculio did not allow single plum to
mature. Thisis an important discovery
to plum growers should the method
prove effectual hereafter.