Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-12-10
MCGOWAN & NICHOLS, Publishers.
STATE NEWS,

Governor Albeit has recovered his
health sufficiently to go to his office in
New York.
In about week the new opposition
gas works at Vineland will begin oper-
ations, the plant having already been
shipped.
Stored apples in the northern part
of the State are rotting badly. From
lot of fifty barrels overhauled by
Warren county farmer recently, only
twenty barrels were found to be good.
A petition to Congress is being circu-
lated along the coast for Federal ap-
preparation to dredge the thorough
fares between Cape May and Atlantic
City. Charles K. Lands has the mat
ter in charge.
A Womans Exchange is an enter
prise which is talked of for Plainfield,
Union county. The object is to afford
a place where women can bring the
products of their hands and have them
sold without publicity.
A blast was made at the Warren slate
quarry at Port Murray, recently, that
removed 100 tons of slate rock Twelve
holes were drilled twelve feet deep and
it took 200 pounds of powder and 25
pounds of dynamite to charge them.
In the Sparta mountain, in Sussex
county, the snowfall measured eighteen
inches. No such storm has ever been
known in November, although on the
Goth of November, 1885, there was a
snowfall which lasted until the follow
ing April.
At the annual meeting of the Nation
al Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, del
egates from thirty-three States showed
specimens of corn raised in their re-
spective sections, and that shown by
Richman Coles, of Salem county, was
declared to be the best exhibited.
Work on the addition to the State
Capitol, so far as it will 60 this season,
was completed few days since. The
foundation walls and the brick work
on the vaults have been finished and
arched over. Nothing further will be
done till the Legislatures pleasure is
learned.
One of the largest cranberry bogs in
South Jersey is to be set out near
Winslow, Camden county, by F. M.
Garrison, of Vineland, in connection
with the Hay brothers, of Winslow
The firm has bought the old Inskip Mil
property, 1S5 acres, and will put about
100 acres in fruit.
A small child of jeremiah Eldridge
of Cold Spring, Cape May county
while playing recently, picked up an ole
vest which had been hanging on the
fence for several months and found 6
roll of bills amounting to forty dollars
and promisory note for fifteen dollars
in one of the pockets.
During the present Fall, George w
Cronce, farmer living near Rockafel
lows Mills, Hunterdon county, has los
nearly three hundred head of yonns
and old chickens and ducks with chol
era, of the value altogether of abou
5000. There were thirty-five Rouer
ducks among the lot.
James J. Cook, of Philadelphia; ex
Assemblyman William r. Jernee, o
MiddleseX county, and three Others
have incorporated the Middlese1
Creamery Company, with 800, 1000 cap
ital and headquarters at New Bruins
wick 1t will carry ON cheese and but
termaking on a large scale.
The Rio Grande, Cape May County
sugar cane crop has been harvested
and the yield was large. The cultiva
ton of sugar cane in Cape May ha
proved profitable, but this is the las
year of the State bounty, and some fea
that it will languish when this sub
stantial encouragement is withdrawn
The prominent Democrats who hav,
recently been striving to effect the re
moval of United States Marshal w
Budd Deacon, of this State, now sa,
that they have abandoned the project
the President having pointedly init
mated that since his term expires il
February it will be as well to allow hin
to serve it out.
Daniel South, of Swartswood, SUISSE
county, about three weeks ago wa
trying to draw the ramrod from TIL
thimbles of his gun, when it suddenl.
loosened, and the gun wasthrown back
the hammer striking against the stow
with sufficient force to explode the cal
and discharge the shot in his face an,
up his nose. 1t was thought at frs
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