Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-17


already buying young trees.
Much excitement has been caused in
Camden by the discovery that Charles
ii. Dawson, a well-known resident,
has sold his own child, a little three
year-old girl, to Francis Westly. The
price paid was $3.50. 1t is claimed that
the child was only half-dressed, half
fed, and that Dawson whipped, beat,
and otherwise maltreated her. Dawson
offered as an excuse for selling the lit
tie girl that she was his own child and
that he had a right to do with her as
he pleased. He had only recently Sc
cured possession of her by law, she
having been taken away from him on
account of cruel treatment.
Philip Lyons, who resides at Allan
tic City, was one hundred years old
last Sunday week. A number of his
friends called on him that day and the
old man was ''chipper as bird" He
shaves himself twice week without a
mirror, and says "a man who could not
shave without a glass has no right to
be shaved" While his intellect is
bright, he is feeble in body and rarely
leaves his residence, though he was out
at the last election and voted the
straight Republican ticket. He has
been an Odd Fellow for fifty-six years,
and for many years has been under the
care of the American Star Lodge.
An experiment with a new electric
light recently, at the residence of Mr..
George H. Stout, at Red Bank, Mon
mouth County, will revolutionize our
system of lighting, if what is claimed
for it can be sustained. Mr.. Stout says
a small compact battery will furnish
several lights for about two weeks, and
that the chemicals needed in its re-
newal make it cost less than gas 1t
requires only an hour or two each
month to renew the battery This
makes householders entirely independ-
ent of light companies, poles, street
wires, meters, sc. Mr.. Stout extends
an invitation to the public to witness
his lights, which can be seen at night
or day.
A few days since the house of Aaron
Strickland, near Port Republic, Allan
tic county, took fire from an unknown
cause and his wife, an invalid, and
daughter Emma, who We're sleeping
together, barely escaped with their
lives in their clothes. The old gentle
man occupying another room up stairs,
was unable to escape and was burned
to death before any assistance could
be given him. Every article of cloth
ing and all the contents of the house
were consumed and the sick mother
and daughter walked about mile and
a half bare foot, to Mr.. Daniel Higbee's,
where they remained for the night.
Some clothing has been sent them and
purse of $25 has been raised in their
behalf
The statement that the colony of
Russian Jews near Vineland is to be
increased by the arrival of 200 more
of the prosecuted people is denied by
the New York society. There are now
about fifty or sixty families remaining
of the eighty who first settled the col
ony. Seven of the vacated farms have
been purchased by weavers who were
thrown out of employment by the
strike at Manayunk, Pa, who have
found that they can make comforta-
BILE living from the soil by raising fruits
and vegetables. Five more of these
families will take up land in the spring
The Jews have earned the past Sum-
mer about $4,000 picking berries, a
number of them selling as high as 5000
worth of small fruits raised on their
own places. Some own COWS, others
horses, while nearly all are we'll sup
piled and make a business of raising
poultry.
Thomas Mcdowell, who died at Green
Village, in North Jersey, recently, was
an old New Yorker. He was born in
Ireland in 1918. He was one of the
early Abolitionists, and during the
draft riots the mob threatened to burn
his house but were prevented by the
arrival of troops. The day before, at
a news stand kept by an Irish woman,
he had had the temerity to ask her for
Tribune i'll the presence of surly
crowd. The woman gave him the
newspaper and, with wink to the
loafers around her. said: THE price is
ten cents" 1T is worth every cent of
it," replied Mr. Mcdowell, as he laid
down the coin and walked away. He
was followed by some of the crowd,
who marked the house into which he
had entered. Mr. Mcdowell was an
Old Line Whig until the Fremont cam
paign, when he became an ardent Re-
publican.
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