Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-02-11
BRIDGEToN, N. j., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1886
was arrested and Miss Doran inden-
titled him.

The families of Captains l. Fl. Terry,
of the schooner Franklin which sailed
from Baltimore December 2Sth, 1885
for Newark, N. j., and Gibbs, of the
schooner Jefferson, which also left
Baltimore December 2S, who reside at
Riverhead, Long Island, have given
them up for lost, as nothing has been
heard of either vessel since they sailed.
Seth Green, the veteran fish cultur-
list, says: ''In my opinion the black
bass is one of the most valuable fresh
water fish we have in this country for
several reasons, and if he were to be
banished from all United States waters
more anglers would cry for his return
than for any other fish we have If
he was a foreigner, knowing him as
well as | do, would say: Spare no ex-
pense to get him.
Swindlers are operating quite sue
cessfully in the upper part of the State.
The farmers in Hunterdon, Somerset
and Warren counties have been swim
died by new scheme. Two we'll
dressed young men requested their
signature to petition to the Legisla-
ture for a reduction of the State taxes.
The last clause of the petition turned
out to be promisary note, which they
filled out and had discounted at a
neighboring bank.
The President of the Baltimore and
New York Railroad-the Eastern di-
vision of the Baltimore and Ohio
whose Office is in Newark, has pre-
pared a petition comprising 1900
names, which is to be presented to the
Legislature protesting against any
alteration of the general railroad law.
The petition consists of 100 feet of
names set in solid agate. The Presi-
dent is receiving an average of 1000
names per day to the circular petition
which he sent out some days ago.
M. Pasteur, the famous French chem
list, in reply to letter asking advice
as to the case of Councilman Denizot,
of Cape May City, who was bitten
while separating two fighting dogs on
New Years Day, writes:
when a dog is enraged he dies in
the madness in few days. So if the
dog of which you speak in your letter
of January Sd lives yet it is because he
was not enraged. And the person
whom he bit has nothing to fear
Let him take care of his bite as an Or
dinary wound"
Suit was begun few days since be-
fore Judge Stilsing, in Jersey City, by
E. T. Mclaughlin to compel Matth-
iesen & Welchers, the sugar refners,
to vacate Washington street. At the
present time the street is obstructed
with hogsheads, old iron and freight
car belonging to the refinery. AS the
street is closed by the canal, the sugar
firm claim that it is immaterial whether
they use the terminus for storing their
wares or not. The street terminus is
the site of the proposed Washington
street bridge.
Last Monday week the Jacksonville
public school, Middlesex county, closed
and has not been opened since. The
cause, it appears, is that on that day
just after the school opened young
ster, 1a Years old, got up and made a
clever speech and called upon his fell
low pupils to vote whether or not they
considered the teacher capable of con
Quoting the school. A vote was taken
at once and it was decided unanimously
that she was not. Having arrived at
this decision the pupils arose, packed
up their books and left.
The Hoboken School Trustees are
in quandary. The appropriation
for schools is exhausted, and they will
violate the law if they exceed it, and at
the same time they are liable for clos
ing the schools The fiscal year of the
State begins in December. The fiscal
year of the city begins in May The
Tax Commissioners in making the ap
preparation for the schools neglected
to embrace the share due the Board OF
School Trustees of the States appro-
priation from December until May.
The trustee have appealed to the Leg
islature.
Women's screams attracted the at
tention of Policeman Reynolds, early
one morning last week, to a tenement
house on Fourteenth street, Jersey
City, and on going thither he found
the wife of George A. Graham suffer
ing from injuries received at the hands
of her husband. Graham had struck
his wife on the head with poker early
in the evening, and although she was
thrown into convulsions, her husband
refused to- let a physician be summoned
His mother-in-law interfered, and Ora
ham struck her with his fist, and
threatened to cut her with a carving
knife. Graham was arrested, and is