Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-02-05

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before the next meeting of the West
Jersey Presbytery.
Rudolphus Bingham, one of the
Trustees of the Cooper Hospital in
Camden, which was completed in 1876,
at q cost OF 100000 and has never been
open for the admission OF patients,
says that it will be opened in the
| Spring, the permanent fund OF $780,
900 set aside for its maintenance, hav-
| ing now reached a figure which will
support it.
Senator Sewell has written Receiver
Hufty of the Gloucester Savings Insti-
tuition, that he will do all in his power
to have the Senate act favorably upon
the bill to redeem trade dollars at par.
A large proportion of the suspended
banks assets is locked up in trade dol
lars taken at par and in good faith, and
which, if sold now, will entail serious
loss upon the depositors.
For some time workmen have been
employed at Pennington, Hunterdon
county, in the erection of a skating
rink, without opposition. The citi-
zens, however, not relishing this pro-
posed innovation, got up a petition,
employed counsel and have succeeded
in getting an injunction served upon
the proprietor, compelling him to stop
the prosecution of the work, on the
plea that it would prove a public nui-
sance.
The silk operatives OF Paterson have
appointed q committee of worhingmen
to confer with Congressman Phelps
about the proposed readjustment of
the silk tariff on the basis of specific
duties instead Of the present ad valor-
EN- duties. They complain bitterly of
the reduction from 60 to so per cent,
which was made by the tariff act of
1888 with the consent of most of the
manufacturers. They say that few, if
any, silk weavers, averaged 50 per day
last year
Salem has been annoyed for the past
year or so by a mysterious woman
catcher'-a man disguised in woman's
clothing-who stopped ladies in unfre-
quented parts of the town and kissed
them. The young men of the place
have long been searching for him with
loaded revolvers, but thus far he has
escaped arrest. Mayor Lawson has re-
Gently offered a reward of $50 for his
apprehension, and it is thought the
miserable coward will soon be locked
up to await trial.
The Hunterdon Republican SAYS:
Among the first bills introduced into
the Legislature was one to reduce the
rate of interest to per cent. In justice
to the farming community, it should
pass. The town, county, State or ma
ton can borrow all the money it wants
from to d per cent, as can also large
borrowers who have ample security.
1t is the small borrowers who suffer
the men who have homes and farms
partially paid for. An exchange puts
it: AT the present price of produce
the farms of New Jersey cannot pay 6
per cent. interest "
A strange fatality seems to have
struck the families of the jurors in the
Wainwright murder case at Toms River
The wife of WINS 0. Applegate died
Wednesday afternoon. He had nc
idea that her illness was fatal until he
was told that she was dead. The
brother-in-law of Moses Predmore,
another juror died Wednesday night
and his sister is lying at the point OF
death, The two jurors will be allowed
to attend the funerals, on Saturday
The wife of John H. Irons, another
juror, is down with paralytic stroke,
and, it being the second one, her death
is anticipated. 1t can thus be seen
that there are some uncomfortable mel
in the jury-boX.
Mayor Collins, of Jersey City, has
discovered law, passed last year, that
in his judgment will be effective in en-
the tax arrearages. The act provides
that any citizen may pay the delinquent
tax on any piece of real estate in ar
rears, and makes the tax so paid first
lien on the property. If the owner
wishes to redeem, he must pay interest
at the rate of per cent, and if there
be no redemption within five wears il
may be sold, if it be improved property
for term of years, and in the case OF
unimproved property the fee may be
sold. To make the act effective in any
city it must be accepted by such city
through the action of the local Legis
lature and by the people at the polls
The act presents an opportunity for
investments at large rates of interest,
and the Mayor has written communi
cation to the Board of Aldermen advis