Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-06-11
STATE NEWS.

house, is $103.24 per annum.
1t cost the county of Salem onl,
81, ,l5328 to arrest, convict, and hans
Sullivan, the negro murderer.
DIR. I. III. Address, of Sparta. Suisse,
county, has an unusually thrifty aspar
agus bed that is over one hundred
years old.
A large and handsome livery stable
10 cost not less than $4,000, is to be
build for the Hollywood Cottages. at
West End, Long Branch.
In this years graduating class of 81
members, at the Z. S. Naval Academy,
at Annapolis, George w. Kline, OF
New Jersey, stands eighth.
A parlor car on the Bound Brook
division of the Philadelphia and Read
ing railroad, which cost 81, 900, made
ST., 800 the first year it was run.
A Hackensack woman set a speckled
hen on dried apple pie, and in three
weeks the hen Matched fourteen night
mares with blue ribbons on their tails.
Bartram L. Bonsall. editor of the
Camden Post, has drawn a check for
one cent, to be presented to John L.
Smith, payment of damages awarded
by jury in libel suit.
John Gross, of Hackettstown. re-
celved pension of 5000. He spent it
III two weeks, and has been sent to the
insane asylum, of which he had pre-
Vlously been an inmate.
The premium books of the New Jer-
sey Agricultural Society show that
premiums will be offered amounting to
$4,000. The fair will be open Septem-
Der 14th and continue five days.
New Jersey banks rank ninth in the
list of States in their amount of capi-
tai, circulation, deposits, loans, and
discounts. The total capital of the
banks aggregates over S12, ZOO, 900: cir
culation SIS, 500, 900; individual deposits.
$28, 743,3 311
The ladies of the Valley Church, near
New Hampton, Hunterdon county.
nave, by means of sewing and making
toward Ware tfie9 Erection sale, raised the
The amount is the result of three years
labor.
The Mount Holly Ne,rs says there is
an oak tree in the grounds of the
Friends meeting house at Crosswicks,
which measures twenty-five feet and
seven inches in circumference. The
NeGs thinks this beats in size the his
toric old oak in the Friends burying
ground at Salem.
The report of the Masonic Grand
Lodge, just issued, shows the member
ship of the order in New Jersey to be
1880, with 155 lodges. Seven lodges
have over 200 members each. Eureka,
of Newark, has most, 26S; Camden
Lodge has 224. The smallest lodge is
at Hopewell, with fifteen members.
The prolonged contest over high
license for Atlantic City was settled by
the Municipal Council passing the Or
dinance last week, by a vote of to 3.
No liquor license will be granted for
less than S150-an increase of $50
the larger hotels being fixed at $500.
This will add considerable to the rev.
enues of that city.
The Alloway correspondent of the
Salem Standard, who is responsible for
a great many tough stories, is the
author of this: The latest remarkable
production in the way of hen fruit is
an egg produced by hen belonging tc
Mrs. Sarah E. Milford which con
tanned eleven yolks, one of ordinary
size, and ten small ones about the size
of a large pea.
A sudden death in the State Prison
at Trenton recalls inevitably some sol
emn changes in the society of the State
The man who died from apopleXy, wa
the ex Auditor of Newark, and has EN-
bezzled $125,000. He died in the arm
of his two cellmates, one of whom wa
Cashier of the Mechanics Bank, anC
the other of the First National Banl
of Newark; and in his sudden sickness
he was attended by DR.. Peacock,
convict from Jersey City, who is con
sidered very skillful physician.
James Rankin, Totowa, Paterson
was examining a blasting cartridge
one day last week, to ascertain whethe
it was made of powder or nitro-g lycel
inc. While picking at the content
the cartridge exploded in his hands
tearing off both thumbs, three finger
: from his left hand, and badly lacerat
, ing two on the right hand. His fac
was also badly injured and fears ar
| entertained that lockjaw will set il
/ 1t is not known what the cartridg
contained, but since Rankin's skin wa
not blackened by the explosion, an
,, no powder grains We're found in tn
; wounds, it is believed the cartridg
uaS charua1 with nitro ulycprine