The Penn's Grove record., 1885-10-31

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work on which is being performed ell
trrely by the ingenious woman WHO
OWNS it.
Building operations are now brisk in
Camden, aud presscd-brickiayers are
receiving s. per day. There is such
demand for bricklaycrs that those en-
p!oyed in the erection of a new boiler-
house at Starts foundry are receiving
81 pr day.
The Eastlake Wooden Mills, at
Bridgeton, win resume operations this
week after an idleness dating from
early last winter. The old hands are
being engaged, and are returning from
various sections OF the country.
Seven hundred miles of wire are re-
quired for the telephone service in
Trenton. There are 276 instruments in
use.
A large addition to the Parliament
sary Fund IA made at Sundays meet
ing of the Trenton branch of the Irish
National League.
The Presbyterian Church at Holly
Beach, which was destroyed by an in
cendinary some mouths ago, is to bc
rebuilt as soon az the Insurance money
amounting to $1,000, is secured.
Judge Parker Monday announced
that the Camden Circuit Court will
convene OH the first Tuesday in Janu-
airy, May and October, instead of the
second, as Las been the case for years.
Postmaster Higgins, Of Glassboro, is
accused of having Disseminated in the
matter of bids for carrying the mail
between his Office and the railroad de-
pot i'll favor of Ely Braddock, a warm
political friend.
The Camden preachers now have q
brisk business marrying couples from
Philadelphia who don't want to an
swer the questions required law toget a
marriage license in Penns ylyania.
The strike at the Gloucester Cling
BAN Mills is not yet settled. The
operators demand IN increase in wages
Of 10 per cent, The superintendent
has told the workmen the mills will
not start up at any advance over the
old rates.
A Whale ten feet long came ashore
on Barnegat Beach Oh Saturday night.
Robert Ayres, of Hopewell, has rails
ed a round potato weighing two pounds
four ounces and a ha:f.
There is some excitement in Barring
ton over a rumor That one of the police
officers who was dismissed ON Tueday
night by the City Council has made a
statement That the ballot-b0x i'll the
First district was tempered with in the
M~ayerality election last spring, and
enough votes changed to give the
preseat Mayor his majority oven ex-
Mayor Rigg.
Ex-Sheriff Henry t. Garrison, of
! Swedesboro, has arrested two hundred
and forty persons since 1870, every case
being tried in the Gloucester county
court. The list embraces every crime
except couBterfeiting know to the law.
The mansion aud county seat at
Bordentown, n. j., that was nee the
residence of Joseph BonapArte, king
of New Jersey, will be put up for sale
ON November "a. The laud measures
PSI acres, and was formerly occupied
by Henry Beckett, whose executors are
dispo3ing of it.
A resident of Woodbury. has a block
that was used III the rigging of the
Augusta, that was sunk 10y the British
near the mouth of the Mantua OF Wood
bury creek during the Revolution.
Hiram d. Shute, of Mullica Hill,
discovered seven English dollars in a
lot of coal ashes lie was sitting IA few
days ago. Several months ago Mis-.
Shute placed them iii the stove for
safe keeping and had entirely forgotten
that she did so.
The largest tank in Whitney Bros 5
glassworks, at Glassboro, gave way on
Monday aud twenty ions of glass were
destroyed. Tie loss is estimated at
$1,000. A numbero of men will be
thrown out of work until the damage
can be repaired, which will take a num-
Der of days.
School Superintendent Thurber, of
Morris county, has removed two school
trustees from the Upper Bloomingdale
school district. The cause given for
the removal was that the trustees could
could not read or write. The. Bridge
ton NetDs is authority for the statement
that there are several trustees in Cum-
berland county who are lacking in the
same qualifications
Miss Mary E. Adams, of Mays Land
ing, was to have been married last
week to Maurice Taylor, the captain
of a fishing vessel sailing from that
village. A few days before the day
set for the ceremony the Young lady
was taken sick and died. Mr.. Taylor
was off GU a business trip at The time
and every effort was made to commn-
nicate with him by telegraI h, but with
out success. On the day of the fuuer-
al he returned home, anc was on his
way to visit his sweetheart when he