Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-06-11
NO. l943

Inc new Monmouth Board of Free
holders will build a new iron bridoo
over Shark River at Ocean Beach. The
contract price is $3.50
Nathaniel Fields, florist at Middle
Town. Monmouth county, has century
plahC over seven feet high, that will he
In bloom about the middle of tho
month.
In late speech before the Presbv-
eerlan General Assembly, Rev. Mr.
Nicholson, of Albany, said that New
Jersey raised Presbyterians as readily
as sweet potatoes and Democrats
Lydia Elizabeth Gray, a one-armed
woman from Pottsville, Pa, was found
oy the Newark police in a swamp on
the outskirts of the city recently. She
lad peen living for week with party
Vi mai tramps in burrow under q
salt hay stack. She was locked I'M
pending arrangements to send her hack
TO Pottsville. The tramps escaped
James Dufy's son was expelled from
the Long Branch high school a wear
ago by the Board Of Education. Duffy
TOOK the boy to the school house and
ordered him to take his usual chair
and when Principal Green refused To
allow the boy in the building Duffy
raised disturbance, which resulted in
MS arrest. He was convicted but car
fied the case to the Supreme Court
where he was again worsted
Gar NO ), OF the United States Fish
commission, which is fitted up as a
shad-hatchery, has arrived at Trenton
1t Is In charge of Fish Commissioners
ellis, who states that the object is 10
STOCK the Delaware river. He is pro-
Vlded with 10000 eggs, and will use
also the spawn obtainable from fisher
men. He expects to place several mil
non shad IN the stream in a few davs
A consultation with the State Commits
sioners will determine at what points
the fish shall be distributed.
A despatch from Cape May Court
House in the Philadelphia Press saws.
A few days ago Ephraim Sloan. an old
farmer living mile from this place.
while on his way home from Dias
creek, small village on the bG,,tsl,f,re
saw what he supposed was al [s:-lgt
nIiu I-ldEr't- -iatehing it Caro-
ter of mile long of the 6fssss d quaf
mosquitoes. He directed u1se Nse hilie, ol
of several farmers to the cloud, and
all admitted that Mr.. Sloan's sight did
not deceive him. 1t was heading in a
Northeasterly direction, and, if moth
ing interfered with its progress, would
probably land somewhere in Atlantic
county. They are supposed to have
come from the Eastern shore of Mary
land or Delaware. They made no stop
for refreshments while in this neighbor-
hood. Several years ago similar
cloud settled down in Dennisville, in
this county, and made things extremely
lively for the inhabitants. and num-
Der of cattle were killed by them.
One of the most interesting docu-
ments published this year, the May
report of the Bureau of Agriculture,
contains a comparative record of wages
and prices for the twenty-five years,
1S60-1SS4, in Somerset County. The
average prices obtained by the farmer
for wheat, corn, oats and hay are
given; the average wages paid per
year, per day in haying, and per day
in harvest; and the quantity of corn,
wheat and oats which the years wages
would purchase each year. The latter
statement is, of course, the epitome of
all the rest: it shows what proportion
of the products of his labor the farm
worker gets each year for the labor
given. In 1860, the years wages would
purchase 90 bushels of wheat; in 1884,
the years wages would purchase 1877
bushels of wheat, shade more than
twice as many. In 1860, the years
wages would purchase 173 bushels of
corn; in 1884 the years wages would
purchase $50 bushels, a little more than
twice as many. In oats, however, the
increase has been small, from 433 to
$50 bushels. Reckoning the three to-
gether, the increase in purchasing
power of wages has been 17.6 per cent
Major Peters editor of the [VatSaL,n c