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Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08

Sound seems to travel farther, or to
be heard greater distance on the Pa
cific coast than in some other sections.
The Yuma (Arizona) Sentinel says: A
train of cars is plainly heard on the
line of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail
road at The Needles for a distance of
IS miles to place called Cottonwood
Island. The discharge of the sunrise
gun at Fort Mohave can be plainly
heard at Colorado Canon, distance
of 100 miles. Sounds can be under
stood in the narrows of the Grand
Canon of the Colorado for a distance
of IS miles; or, in other words, if a
man in one end shouts Bob the
man at the other end can plainly hear
the echo. The whistle of Colorado
steamer can be heard from Ell Dorado
Canon to Weaverville, the head of
navigation, distance of 7S miles, and
if somebody tumbles rock over the
precipice at Lees Ferry, you can
plainly hear the echo down the river
at Weaverville, distance of So miles.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08
A REMARKABLE CASE.

Little Edith M. Thomas, of Maple
wood, a daughtdr of Mr.. Fred. NJ
Thomas, has recently past her seventh
birthday. When four years of age, she
became a victim of a most malignant
attack of diphtheria, probably aggra-
waited by scarlet fever. She was sick for
more than six months, and as she be-
gan to gain strength, she rapidly lost
both sight and hearing, and in few
months became deaf, and entirely be-
reft of sight. For some time she re-
tanned her speech, but being unable
to hear sounds of any kind; or to gain
help by watching the lips of others,
her speech soon became but series of
half articulate mutterings, and now she
is rarely ineligible. In the meantime,
however, she has developed into a
strong, healthy, rosy-cheeked girl, full
of romp, frolic and happiness, and
seemingly, fast loosing recollections of
those other days" previous to her
sickness, to which she would some
times allude before her speech wholly
failed. With her hands she is remark
ably dexterous, and, while unable to
receive impressions from others, she is
true child of nature, comes and goes
as she listeth, and sleeps whenever
tired. She dresses and feeds herself,
aecomplishes some rude feats at needle
work. runs up and down stairs, and
about the garden as if in full possession
of her sight, and even contrives to
make herself useful in household af-
fairs. Endowed with generous pro-
portion of feminine pride in fine attire,
this blind girl, when once she has been
arrayed in new dress, will by nc
means consent to return, even tempo
rarily, to the old one. She is a source
of constant study and enjoyment to
all who know her, and the brightest
hopes are entertained that, with her
patient, joyous disposition and mental
and physical activity, she will develop
wonderful possibilities, if she can be
blessed with those opportunities fol
the providing of which the States
Salons are soon to be approached. -
Boston Herald.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08

On the Goth of March last, there died
at Turnerville, Gloucester county,
John Mcneil, aged about "a years. He
had been living in that vicinity, off
and on, for several years. Nothing
was known of him farther than his
own statements revealed, and from
them it was gathered that he at one
time was wealthy, but through mis-
fortune had lost all, and was without
a kin in the world. During a sickness
three or four years ago, he was nursed
by Mrs. Martha p. Moore, widow
lady, whose good-heartedness led her
to pity the lonely and uncared for
stranger. A few days ago Mrs. Moore
was notified that John Mcneil had
left a WILL and in it had made her heir
to his estate and its sole executor. On
Wednesday, of last week, the will was
proven by Surrogate Livermore, and
Mrs. Moore received the legacy which
consisted of $4,000 in Government
bonds and Philadelphia City IS.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08

Lee Long, new Chinese laundry
man in Jersey City, rendered a bogus
dollar to coal dealer in payment for
coal. He declined to give good one
and was arrested. AT the police sta
tion Lee offered what he supposed was
a five dollar bill. 1t was an advertise
ment issued by business college.
The bogus dollar and the ''ad'' had
been accepted by the Mongolian as
good money. In his rage, when he
learned he had been duped, he tore
the advertisement in a hundred pieces
and broke the bogus dollar between
his teeth
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08

A celebrated case, and one with some
curious features, was lately terminated
at Rome. On the 22d of September,
1884, the advocate Nicolas went from
Siano to Rome, having with him a
small box containing a parcel of sugar,
weighing 300 grammes (about 10a
ounces.) The octroi officers at the
city gates demanded four centimes
octroi duty, and one centime stamp
duty. This the advocate at first re
fused, because the law eXempts from
duty all parcels under 400 CANNES; but
he finally paid under protest, and
forthwith commenced an action against
the Roman Municipality, for repay
ment of the five centimes. He was
successful, but the Municipality ap-
pealed; and, although he was again
and again successful, the case was
carried on at last by the Municipality
to the Court of Cessation, which has
given judgment for Signor Nicolas with
costs against the Municipality amount
ing to $500 francs.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08

Thirty-fve years ago two Mormon
missionaries labored industriously in
the isolated hamlets of Sussex county
and made many converts to their doc
trine. After a year or SO spent in
proselyting they were recalled, and
with a colony of their converts went
West to join the great body of the
Mormon Church in it's emigration to
Utah. Members of some of the lead
ing families in the county were in the
colony, and some of them became
leaders in the church. A number of
families that had embraced the faith
remained in Sussex county. Some of
them in a few years renounced it, but
others remained steadfast in their be-
lief. The last survivor of these Sussex
county Mormons who did not go to
Utah was Thomas Perry, who died
few days ago, one of the wealthiest
farmers in Montague township. He
believed in all the practices of the
Saints, but was much respected citi-
zen. vi une Gay lie dleu Elder Decker,
of the Mormon Church, at Salt Lake
City, and one of the Sussex county
emigrats, returned to his old home in
that county. 1t is an open secret that
he came East to live in seclusion among
the scenes of his youth, and to escape
the processes of law to which the faith
full in Utah are now compelled to sub
NIT, charged with unlawful cohabita-
ton. Elder Decker left four wives in
Utah.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08

The quite extensive use of Chicago
beef in Eastern cities will, no doubt,
tend to make all the more interesting
the following meat statistics of the
Lake City for the year ending Feb
ruary %: Hogs packed Qive) and
dressed, 4,9S4,309 Local arrivals of
cattle reached the unprecedented num-
Der of 1,9O2,S1S head; shipments 1884,
34S; cattle slaughtered at the stock
yards, 1,1S3,631.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STRIKE.

John Swinton, editor of ,SUinton's
Paper, published in New York city, is
one of the greatest of labor leaders,
Here is what he says concerning the
great railroad strike now on in the
West and Southwest
''The present labor movement in the
United States is not only far more for
midable than anything else of the kind
tain features, other than striking and
boyootting, which give it especial in
terest to every observer of popular
upheavals The habit of ''striking,' y
which is confined mainly to countries
that enjoy political freedom, has play
ed great part in English industry
during the past seventy years Of the
evolution of machinery
The present labor movement differs
from all it's predecessors in several res
poets. In the first place. it is wide as
the country and compasses the whole
body of wage workers. In the second
place, it is under a gigantic system and
combination such as has never before
been manifested. A hundred industries
are affiliated in the single society of the
Knights of Labor, which embraces
hundreds of thousands of members,
and possesses a strength far beyond
what is represented by it's membership
and there are other national fedora
tions, less imposing, which yet exercise
a power known only to those who
watch their operations. This extraor-
binary development of what the French
call solidarity is a feature of the utmost
consequence. In the third place, there
is deep and solid unity of purpose
and method among these huge organ
lied masses, SO far as their main ends
are concerned, which nobody can
deny" who takes the trouble to go
under the surface In the fourth place,
there is practice of mutual help
which is altogether novel among the
laboring classes. In the fifth place,
there is a marvellous habit of obedience
to orders, the manifestations of which
in recent times have surprised all OBJ
servers. In the sixth place, the de-
mands made are vastly more compre-
hensive than those which formerly
came from wage workers, AS may be
seen by comparison of any of the
present platforms of labor with those
of other times.
These things give to the labor move
ment of to-day it's massiveness, mo-
,mentum and solidity.
The new forces which enter into it
are offset by the new forces on the
other side, involved in modern machin-
cry, and in the modern combination of
capital, which are as revolutionary as
those of labor.
What is to be the outcome of this
unprecedented movement, that looks
so alarming to timid minds, and which
is evidently bound to go on with accel-
agencies of the times? No man will
deny that there are dangerous sympt-
oms on the surface when theexecutives
of four states issue proclamations com
manding the peace and prepare the
militia for active service But we have
a legislative system in our country
that is competent to deal peacefully
with every question that concerns the
people, and the impending dangers can
be averted by our representative law
makers in a way that will strengthen
our democratic system and give abid-
ing welfare to the whole community.
Give us real craftsmanship in the crisis.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08

Guiteau's sister and her husband are
both ruined by the division he brought
about between them. Mrs. Scoville is
living in poverty in Chicago, upon the
frugal alimony paid her by her former
husband, while the latter is struggling
unsuccessfully in his profession, and
making barely enough to pay this
alimony and live himself.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-08

Bishop Warren is authority for the
statement that one hundred thousand
new members have been added to the
Methodist Episcopal Church in. this
country, during the past three months.
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Washington's Birthday Salute.


The following is the report of the
American committee on preparations
for the proper celebration Of Washing
toms birthday by firing national
salute:
Contributions, limited TO one dollar
each, we're paid by the following
Americans, the total amount received
being sos
Col w F Allen, B Anterior,
E P Adams, L C Ables, Hon C r
Bishop, c A Brown. Maj Benson, ]
Bowen, A ] Cartwright, A ] Cart
wright Jn ] o Carter, A F Cooke, C M
Cooke, ] B Castle, Hon H N Castle,
B F Dillingham;, Hon S B Dole, 7 /
Dowsett, E c Damon, ] H Fisher, M
Grossman, w Graham, Gazette Or
Grieye), w s Hazard, Chas Hustace, +
M Hatch, ] Hyman, A Herbert,
F P Hastings, c Hustace Jr, w w
Hall, Geo Howe, Hollister & Co,
VIM Hopper, P c Jones, Hamilton
Johnson, Myron Jones, E Jones, ]
Lyons, M Louisson, E Lycan, R w
Lame, Robt Levers, Geo H Merrill,
L M Mather, Hon Paul Neumann,
John Mott, H ] Nolte, C ] Mccarthy,
B Ordenstein, John H Patty, w H
Pierce, U. S. Consul Putnam, w C
Parke, A w Richardson, H NJ Still
man, Jas G Spencer GeoW Smith, J
Spear, ] Tregloan, G w Tenney,
"Union For Ever" w H Whiting, F
M Winter, G K Wilder, Ed Williams,
West Dow & Co, J E Wiseman.
The committee expended in pay
ment for salute of twenty-one guns,
to Governor Dominis Sol; to ]. E.
Wiseman for express hire 81; total 500
Ohm H. PATTY,
Chairman Committee.
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certain as the politicians; that the bar
Dor is filling up with foreign merchant
men; that the determinations which
have been made in the past were in
favor of Uncle Sans ships; that the
facts are better than assertions; that if
the East says to the West ego to," that
is no reason that the North should
snub the commercial interests of the
South; that this is exactly the political
situation in the United States; that the
town has been alive with rumors for
several days which have filed the air
with lies concerning the Reciprocity
Treaty; that there is no foundation in
TACT for these rumors; that the merry
mlnstrels of Nuuanu street sometimes
get wet-with gin; that Fort-streetman
thinks rosebud in the coat button
hole is worth a whole bouquet on
somebody's bush; that the present
political triumph of the Administration
leaders is but the beginning of the
end; that every political wrong dealt
out by the Government will become a
popular right-in the future; that the
Ham'aiian Gazette is very timid unless
1t has valiant backing; that the Adsey-
ftSer is ordered when not to answer
back; that the taxpayers will soon re-
fuse to pay the fiddler if they are not
allowed to dance once in while; that
the political morning will dawn after the
financial sun has set; that the next
mail from the Coast will arrive early in
March; that Billy Emerson will arrive
from the Colonies shortly; that genial
Wash. Norton will give splendid en-
tertainment when he returns to town
between the fifth and eighth of March;
that the citizen who sat down in Mer-
chant street last evening was not SO
weary as he seemed; and that the way
ne was reminded of the condition of
the weather was by the water running
down his neck from water spout.
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NOTES.

The schooner canute sails on her FIRST TRIP
to EIilo, Hawai-, to-day.
The brigantine ]. D. Spreckels sailed fol
San Francisco yesterday afternoon taking s.,
3S3 bags sugar, and 649 bags rice. Domestic
value, $40, 622.4o.
The American tern Eva, Captain Wikman,
arrived in port yesterday morning, Ir51 days
from San Francisco She reports fine weather
the entire passage, sldi is locked at the Fish
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