Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-01-14
MCGOWAN s. NICHOLS, Publishers.
STATE NEWS.


A one-mile driving track will be built
near Atlantic City next Spring.
Bartholomew Coles, the Salem Co.
centenarian, is said to have lost his
eyesight.
During the year 1885 there were 1897
deaths, $3.50 marriages and q, or
births in this State.
Over 1000 terrapins have been sold
from single pond at Jeffers, Atlantic
county, a handsome profit being real
lied.
There is family living in Atlantic
City, on Arctic avenue, four of whom,
all girls, were born with six fingers on
each hand.
W. W. Stearns, of Elizabeth, Union
county, the owner of Billy Button, a
trotter with a record, has been offered
$1,000 for the horse.
Ex-senator Emson, of Golfers Mills,
| Ocean county, regaled himself and
guests with a fifty-fve pound water
melon at the close Of his Christmas
| feast.
William L. Austin and S. A. Ed
wards, of ofPhiladelphia, are building cot
tages at Island Heights It's proposed
to build there a new 100000 hotel, with
| 100 rooms.
Alexander Burt of Friesburg, Salem
county, leads the big hog record SO far,
with an animal that weighed S45 Tbs,
and was suffocated in his own fat while
being removed in a wagon.
The New Jersey Game and Fish Pro
tective Association. of Plainfeld, will
have a bill introduced in the Legisla-
ture prohibiting the shooting OF quail
in this State for three years.
Asbury Park Sunday School teach
ers are reported to have each received
a Christmas gift of SO from James
Bradley, who is largely interested in
real estate in that neighborhood.
Hay Bros, of Winslow, and f NJ.
Garrison, of Vineland, have arranged
to plant 100 acres of bog near Winslow
with cranberries This will make one
of the largest cranberry bogs in South
Jersey.
Chas. G. Am Ende, the Hoboken
druggist who caused the death of the
Misses Holtz, in August last, by com
pounding morphine for quinine, was
acquitted of the charge of man
slaughter, in the Hudson County Court
recently.
A human skull was found along the
shore on Seven Mile Beach, Cape May
county, a few days ago. One side was
crushed in, presumably by a belay-
ing pin, and people in the neighbor-
hood think it is the skull of a MUIR
dered sailor.
Four men, Messrs. Daniel Stanton,
| Jos. Smith, Merrick Stanton and Ayers
Wiltsee, of Bridgeport, Gloucester Co.,
have captured 5000 muskrats this
Winter. They made a shipment of
1900 at one time. Mr. Daniel Stanton
captured about S00
Morris county has so many of its in
habitants in the insane asylum that it
costs twenty-five per cent. of the entire
taxes raised this year to support them.
The county has at present eighty-fve
inmates IN the asylum at Morris Plains
These inmates cost $4,000 this year.
The catalogue of the Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary for 1856 shows a to-
tai of $50 students, including twelve
graduates, forty seniors, fifty-four mid
die classmen, forty-two juniors and two
specials. Twenty are from Penn
sylvania and seven from the University
of Pennsylvania.
If George Disque, the condemned
expiate his crime upon the gallows, it
will be an unpleasant duty for Sheriff
Heintze to perform his part of the
work. The father of Disque was a
personal friend of MIR. Heintze, and
died in the latter's arms.
John j. Slater, of Elizabeth, went
home on Saturday night and found on
"a parlor table a note from his sixteen
year-old daughter, saying: Dear Papa
When I get settled | will let you
know" He at once started in search
of her, and traced her flight as far as
Philadelphia. There he lost the trail.
The Legislative Special Committee
on the State Reform School at James
burg will recommend many radical
changes, including shorter hours Of
labor for boys and additional time for
study. The committee are unanimous
in the belief that the boys are over