Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-05-06

for six years, laid an egg on the 18th
of March and another the day follow
ing Then she began sitting on the
eggs and never left the nest until Tues
day of last week, when a pair of eagles
were found to have been hatched.
They are strong and apparently
healthy. Eagles rarely breed in cap
tivity.
Mrs Ann Jane Mercer, who recently
died in Philadelphia, has bequeathed
her fine estate, called ''The Mount"
in Montgomery county, Pa, and $780,,
900 for the purpose of establishing
there an institution to be called 1.-THE
John c. Mercer Home for Disabled
Clergymen of the Presbyterian Faith"
John G.. Mercer, her husband, died five
or six years ago, leaving Mrs. Mercer
his entire property worth about ST.
O,OOO.
For many years the temperance peo-
pie of Middletown, near Long Branch,
have beed trying to prevent the issue
of a liquor license to the proprietor of
the American Hotel, the only hotel in
the town. They tried to secure the
indictment of the landlord for illegally
selling liquors, but without success.
They have now succeeded in renting
the hotel over the head of the old land
lord who had occupied it for twenty
years, and will now run it as temper
ance house.
The movement against President M.
E. Gates of Rutgers College, which was
begun by the students, who charged
him with lying, using insulting Ian
guage to them and other conduct un-
becoming gentleman, has increased
during the past two weeks Professor
Hasbrouck who resigned his position
as head of the State Agricultural
School, is willing to make an affidavit
that he was compelled to resign on ac-
count of the repeated insults of Presi-
dent Gates. 1t is claimed that the
State is still paying the salary attached
to the vacant professorship, although
no one has been appointed to fill the
position. The State authorities will
investigate the whole matter.
Miss Lorie Backman, the young
school mistress who recently achieved
the distinction of attempting and fail
ing to thrash ex-senator E. p Empson,
of Ocean county, and who paid the
court $50 fine for the privilege, has
been arrested at Golfers Mill, charged
with improper conduct with Wins D.
Reynolds recently one of the School
Board, and with whom she resided.
Miss Blackman was bound over to ap-
pear at court in the sum of $500. G.
w. Foulks, one of the School Trustees,
became her bondsman. Reynolds is
already under indictment for theft. A
warrant was also issued for the arrest
of Miss Blackman for cruelty treating
a number of scholars in her charge.
Quite building boom has developed
itself in Camden. The firm of Roberts
& Cohn, builders, has fifty houses in
course of construction and proposes
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season. Assemblyman George Pleiffer,
who has just sold twelve brick dwell
ings at tSeventeenth and Federal streets,
is building twenty more at Federal and
State streets. About fifty houses are
under way or contracted for at Liberty
Park, the new German settlement in
the Eighth ward, at which all the
Camden and Atlantic railroad trains
now stop. Houses in pairs and small
rows are going up all over the city, to
meet the increased demand for small
dwellings at moderate rent by the
people who are employed in Philadel-
phia. Along the river front the lum-
ber and shipyards are doing larger
business than for several years.
Nellie Smith, II years old, of Mataw-
an, Monmouth County, was bitten five
weeks ago by dog, which, after being
killed, was found to have been suffer
ing with rabies The girls brother,
Thomas, IA years old, was playing by
her side, but he did not say that he
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was cauterized and she has been pro-
crossing nicely, her brother being her
constant attendent. Recently Thomas
was attacked by all the symptoms of
hydrophobia. He bit at everything
within his reach, frothed at the mouth,
his eyes rolled wildly, and his cough,
it is said, resembleda a dogs bark. He
has been attacked by violent par
oxysms, during which it required sew
eral men to hold him in bed 1t is
said that two scars were found ON his
leg, and that in his lucid moments he
said the dog which had attacked his
sister had also bitten him. 1t is feared
that the lad will die.
A few moments spent at the New