The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-26


one of the kind neighbors who came
n TO nurse her found nearly 81 600 IN
~ old wig. Mrs. Hannah will now
support herself.
Tie u%ufavorgble reports Of the cram
berry crop 10Y being harvested do not
| appear to be borne out by the facts.
The Toms River Courier says: ''From
Ill we Lave been able to learn the yield
in Ocean county is likely to be 80 per
| cent. greater than that Of last year.
The cold which threatened the bogs
two weeks ago has not done as much
harm rs was feared"
In Mount Holly there are a Prohi-
bition League, a Reform Club, a W.
G. 7. IT,, a Temperance school, a Prr
llihition Cornet Band and one Of tile
oldest divisions Of the Sons Of Tenn
perance. The Prohibition League has
1870 members, and holds meetings, as
10 also the w. G. I. U. and the Re-
form Club.
Somers Point b. asts Of aguuime her.
| mia genial old man who lives in a
cave ding OH the banks of the Great
Egg uarbor Bay, and subsists on crabs,
! and such other food as the people Of
the vicinity contribute. lie is fond of
| visitors, and entertains with a pleasant
| conversation. With the exception OF
month or two in each winter he has
lived there in that way for about ten
years.
James II. Baird, Of Marisboro, Mon
mouth county, owns q COW whose re-
cord as a breeder is so marvellous asto
he almost in creditable. She is the re-
suit of a cross between tire Jersey and
AYRSHIRE breeds, ard is now seven years
old. At her first calving she produced
three calves, at her second c$lviug three
calves, at her third three, at her forth
two. and az her fifth year four calves;
IN all. fifteen perfectly-formed calves
in five years, at five calvings. And
each year she was bred to a bull differ
ent from the preceding one.
The UuBderton Democrat says. "m
an experiment with one hundred plum
trees a farmer busted five trees with
air-slacked lime just us the blossoms
were falling, and repeated the APP Ii
cation every two weeks several times.
From the five trees so trea' ed he seeur-
ed good crops of plums, but upon tn
remaining ninety-tive trees the cufcul-
10 did not allow Il single plum to ma
ture. This is an important discovery to
plum growers should the mathod prove
effectual hereafter"
Among the interesting exhibits il
the National Muserm, al Tasainste:S
10 one just added TO the colossal col
lection which is Of particular Interest
to New Jersey. IL is the first and orig
inal life-car in which POI men, woman
and children were saved from the wreck
Of the ship Ayreshire, ut Squan Beach,
n. J. on The night OF January II, 1850,
in a terrific snow-siorm, and tllro' a
heavy surf, when 10 boat could live IN
the angry sea. 1t is related that The
Iife-boat became ~entangled during one
of its trips from the AYRSHIRE to tie
shore, and the living cargo of six per-
sons were smotheied to death. The
government experimen.ed tpnyears with
life-cars ut great expense, and in 1Sl0
this original metallic car vas placed Oh
the coast Of New Jersey. The imyeu-
tor, Jos. Francis. is nowiiving at Toms
River, Ocean county, N. j. having
reached the ripe old age Of 50 years.
His invention has saved thousands OF
lives.
DR.. Joseph B. Roe has been nomina-
ted for the Assembly by the Republic
cans of Gloucester comfy.
At the animal meeting Of the West
Jersey Game Protective Society in Cam
den. last week, the following officers
were elected: President, VIM. Eisen-
brown, Philadelphia; Secretary, Charles
II. Barnard, Gloucester City; Treasur-
en-, George Il. Taylor, Camden: Direc-
tors, VIM. Eisenbrown, for Phllaaei-
phia; John II. MeMurry. for Cape May;
Samuel Reeves, for Gloucester; Jere-
miah Watson, for Salem; George Thorn
as, for Atlantic, and john II. Avis
for Cumberland. Mr.. Ba nlrd, Sec
rotary, reported th@t the expenditures
from April 16 to September 10Th, OF
the present year were S60o.54; amount
paid during the year from September
10th, 1884, to september 16th. 1850,
for police services, S79S. 90; foT bounties
ON hawks, S614.55; for the purchase OF
quail, s6s5.a3. Total S2120.3S. Bal
ance OF hand, SPILLED. The bounty
of fifty cents for the capture of hawks
,ras contjluFl.