Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-24

El1ty-cent excursions Will be run to
Cape May, from Camden. every day
next Summer.
Ex-Mayor Green, of Woodbury.,
claims that a field of corn on one of his
farms will yield 120 bushels to the acre.
The most valuable calf in Salem Co.
is said to belong to w. F. Springer.
1t was dropped in March last and is
valued at $3.50.
The assurances upon the life of Adrian
Spear, of Camden, the victim of the
steamboat FELTON, explosion, amount
to nearly $4,000.
Mrs. Rachel Brown, who lives within
half mile of the village of Barnegat,
killed rattlesnake with nine rattles,
in her dooryard, one day last week.
McKiernan, the man who tore down
the American flag amid profane and
disgusting remarks about Gen. Grant,
has left Paterson, so ashamed was he
of his conduct.
The Island Heights Association is
again talking of fine hotel at that
place, and lot owners are to be asked
to subscribe $4,000 for curbing and
grading the streets.
The Cape May Star has unearthed a
man, property owner and supposed
to be intelligent, who did not know
whether the Governor of New jersey
was Republican or a Democrat.
DeVoe, the Hackensack weather
prophet, says: Snow will reach us this
Fall very early, and your readers had
better order heavy overcoats and rub
Der boots for the first week in October.
Three indictments have been found
blythe Grand Jury of Middlesex county
against Mrs. Elizabeth Hendricks, of
New Brunswick, who so cruelty beat
Emma Belmont, an eight-year-old girl,
in May last.
The largest bass caught in the Rar-
itan river for long time was captured
by John S. Field a few days ago, near
Bound Brook. 1t weighed 4 pounds.
Mr.. F. says he was nearly half an hour
in landing the monster.
The Princeton Seminary Library has
just received a consignment of pur.
chase made in London of nearly 5000
volumes of Puritan literature. The
books are principally of English origin.
Very few are American.
Large purchases of blackberry
plants, pear trees, sweet potatoes, etc.,
have recently been made in Camden
county, for shipment to England, by
the representatives of the firm OF
Collyer & Co., in England.
The bondsmen of the ex-Internal
Revenue Collector Tatem of the First
district, have been discharged, the lat.
ter having squared his accounts with
the Treasury. During his term Mr..
Tatem collected over $15,000,0OO.
William H. Bell of Branchville, is
seriously i'll from blood poison caused
by wearing red socks The trouble be-
gan in one of his toes, on which there
was troublesome bunion, into which
some of the coloring matter is supposed
to have found its way.
Ex-Sheriff Adams, of Tuckahoe, has
decided to be candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for State Senator
on the party's ticket this Fall. He
claims that he was obliged to step aside
to make way for Mr.. Miller six years
ago, and he thinks it about time to go
in for change.
DIR. w. s. Leaning, of Cape May
Court House; Ex-Sheriff Corson, of
Seaville; EX-Sheriff Steelman, of Tuck
ahoe, and Andrew J. Tomlin, of Goshen,
are the gentlemen at present most
prominently mentioned for the Re-
publican nomination for Senator in
Cape May County.
A party of wealthy Philadelphians
are negotiating for the purchase of a
tract containing two hundred building
lots, adjoining Life Saving Station No.
33, at Sea Isle City, and offered $40, 900
for the tract. If the purchase is made
they will at once build fifty cottages,
which will be sold on the installment
plan.
A horrible accident occurred on the
railroad near Salem, recently, AS the
morning train was enroute for Phila-
delphia, the locomotive struck the two
year old child of William Lecount, who
had wandered upon the track, and lit
orally cut it in two within sight of it's
mother. The body fell on one side of
the track and the head on the other.
The engineer says he thought the child
was dog.