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Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

That was a singular will, written
January 1S, 1867, admitted to probate
on Monday, in Philadelphia. 1t is
short, Towering but half a page OF
foolscap, and is in the handwriting of
the decedent, Judge James R. Ludlow,
one of the foremost jurists in Penn
sylvania He wrote: II request my
executors to incur at my funeral no
expense not absolutely required. My
estate is small, and my wife and chill
dren ought to have every dollar for
their support. Let no false pride die
tate ostentatious display, for after the
soul departs from the body it matters
little what becomes of that body, so
that it is decently buried God will
protect the dust, and on the resurrect
ion day gather all together and recon
struct it according to his sovereign
rite.n He then devises his entire estate
to his wife, Henrietta E. Ludlow, and
appoints her guardian of their children
and executrix.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

At Norte Dame, Indiana, early one
morning last week, burglars broke into
the church of the University of Norte
Dame and stole two silver and gold
crowns embellished with precious
stones and miniature paintings on
porcelain, which had been presented
to the shrine of the Blessed Virgin Both
crowns were exquisite specimens Of
artistic work. The larger was present
ed by thirty American ladies, among
them Mrs. General Sherman; the
smaller was a gift from the Empress
Eugenie, and took the prize for jew
elry work at the Paris Exhibition of
1867. The robbers broke the crowns
into pieces They were followed, and
the one who carried the booty was
captured and lodged in Jail at South
Bend.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21
BAKING POWDERS

Under the directions of the New
York State Board of Health, eighty
four different kinds of baking powders,
embracing all the brands that could be
found for sale in the State, were sub
mitted to examination and analysis by
Prof. c. F. Chandler, member of the
State Board and President of the New
York City Board of Health, assisted
by Prof Edward g. Love, the we'll
known late United States Government
chemist.
The official report shows that a large
number of the powders examined
many of them to such an extent as to
render them seriously Objectionable
for use in the preparation of human
food.
Alum was found in twentynine sam
pies. This drug is employed in baking
powders to cheaper their cost. The
presence of lime is attributed to the
impure cream of tartar of commerce
used in their manufacture. Such
cream of tartar was also analyzed, and
found to contain lime and other i'm
purities; in some samples to the ex
tent of SO per cent. of their entire
weight
All the baking powders of the mar
ket, with the single exception of the
Royal mot including the alum and
phosphate powders, which were long
since discarded as unsafe or inefficient
by prudent housekeepers) are made
from the impure cream of tartar of
commerce, and consequently contain
lime to corresponding extent.
The only baking powder yet found
by chemical analysis to be entirely free
from lime and absolutely pure is the
Royal" This perfect purity results
from the exclusive use of cream of tar
tar specially refined and prepared by
patent processes of the N. Y. Tartar
Co., which totally remove the tartrate
of lime and other impurities. The
cost of this chemically pure cream of
tartar is much greater than any other,
and on account of this greater cost is
used in no other baking powder but
the Royal"
Prof. Love, who made the analysis
of baking powders for the New York
State Board of Health as well as for
the Government, says of the purity
and wholesomeness of Royal
Il have tested a package of Royal
Baking Powder which | purchased
in the open market, and find it COM
posed of pure and wholesome ingre-
dients. 1t is cream of tartar powder
of high degree of merit, and does not
contain either alum or phosphates or
any injurious substances.
E. G. LOVE, PH.D
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21
NO. 2O13
A SWEETHEART'S INGENUITY.

"A minister who used to live here in
the town of Perry" said he, was once
visited by another minister on a Sun
day, so he killed two ducks and ordered
his hired girl to dress and cook them
for dinner. The girl did as she was
told, but while the ducks were roast
ing, her beau came and made her
call. Being hungry and tempted by
the smell of the sizzling fowl he seized
one of the ducks and ate it,
THE girl was driven to her wits end
by this unlucky incident. She was
rather glad her beau had such g. nice
dinner, but despaired at finding an
excuse to tell the minister-let's call
missing duck. When minister Brown
came home to dinner with visiting
minister Jones, the girl had hit upon a
scheme. She asked her employer to
go out to the grindstone which stood
in the yard, and sharpen the carving
knife. He went at work on the knife
at once, being hungry for those ducks.
The girl stole upstairs and asked the
visiting minister to look out of the
window
"'See, there. L came up to give you
warning. You little know the danger
you're in The man l work for is crazy,
and he is sharpening that knife to cut
your throat.
1.-THE girl succeeded in thoroughly
alarming the visitor, and he hastily
put ON his hat and ran as fast as his
legs could carry him.
When he had run several rods the
girl called her master and asked him
what kind of a man he had brought
home to dinner The minister in
quired why she asked, when, pointing
to the flying brother the girl exclaimed:
There he goes, running away with
one of your ducks .'"-Le,uistorn, Ne,
Journal
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

In referring to the free-trade pro-
clivities of Southern members of Con-
gress and the ruinous effect practical
carrying out of their principles would
have upon the workingmen of the
North. Mr. Blaine, in his Philadelphia
speech of Saturday evening, says:-"I
repeat here that while you pay $175
to men who are making pig iron in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, they are
making pig iron in Alabama and pa
Tag seventy-five cents a day; and those
two products must meet in the same
market. The Democratic party is an
swerable for it. They wish, on the
one side, to break down the tariff and
throw the Northern laboring man into
competition with foreign ill-paid labor,
and at the same time, by maintaining
the dominance of the Southern De-
mocracy, to bring up the 100000 and
soon-to-be 2,0000 900 workers upon not
more than half the wages that North
ern men get, and in many cases not
one-third of it.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

A Spanish shepherd killed by light
ming recently was made the subject of
scientific post mortem to discover
how the electric bolt had done it's fatal
work His eyebrows and eyeiashes
were burned off. his eyeballs were
dried up, all his left side was scorched
and burned in spots down to the ankle.
while the right side of the body and
right leg were uninjured. Serious as;
these Injuries were, none of them APP
peared sufficient to have caused his
instant death. But as soon as the
breast was opened the cause of death
was apparent. The lungs We're fright
fully congested and the heart was
enormously dilated and filled with CO.
agulated blood. With all this damage
to the man his clothing was very little
injured, the only traces of the light
ming upon it being small hole bored
through the rim of the hat and a slight
singeing of the shirt collar.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

Antiquaries assert that two OF the
largest castings in the world are to be
seen at Nara and kamakura, Japan,
the one at the latter place being AZ
feet high, and the other, at Nara,
being 539 feet from the base to the
crown of its head. The statue at Nara
is supposed to have been erected in
the eighth century, but it was destroy
ed and recast about 700 years since.
In endeavoring to recast it several
mishaps occurred, and when at last
success came some few thousand tons
of charcoal had been used. The cast
ing, which is an alloy of iron, gold, tin
and copper is estimated to weigh 450
tons.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

AtCanton, China, recently Chinese
girl aged eighteen underwent the Ling
Chi" execution, which is that one piece
after another of the victims body is
cut away until the body is divided up
into exactly 1000 pieces. The victim,
as in this case, always dies from loss
of blood before the horror is completed
The woman here mentioned was
charged with having poisoned her
husband and three relatives. Although
it was shown on examination that she
was innocent of the crime, the people
of the district insisted on her eXecu-
ton, which the viceroy finally ordered.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

1.-The Republican party has done
more during the thirty years of its ex
istence for labor and the laboring man
than any other political organization
here or elsewhere has done in cen
tury," is the just verdict of Ex-Gov-
ernor Kirkwood, of Iowa.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

The cotton planters of South Caro-
lima are testing this season a newly
invented cotton harvester, made at
Charleston, which if successful, will do
the work of cotton picking at about
one tenth of it's present cost. Here is
impending trouble for the plantation
hands. If the new machine works well
it will probably not be long before
some vociferous agitator will be career
ing through the South organizing the
negro laborers to resist the encroach-
ments of machinery
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21
OCTOBER CROP REPORTS.

The report of the Department of
Agriculture for October gives local
estimates of yield per acre of small
grains, with condition of corn, potatoes
and other late crops.
The results corroborate the previous
returns of wheat, confirming expecta-
tions of slight increase from the first
records of thrashipg without making
any very material addition to the crop
aggregate. The average yield, upon
an area of fully 37,0OO.OOO acres, ap-
pears to be close to 124 bushels per
acre, making the crop an average of a
series of years. The area actually har-
vested is now the principal object of
exact determination. The result will
vary little from an increase of 100, ,000,-
900 bushels over the crop of last year.
The averages of principal States are:
New York, II bushels; Pennsylvania,
13; Kentucky, 11.5; Ohio, 1917; Michi-
gan, 1853; Indiana, 15.1; Illinois, 1871;
Wisconsin, 1873; Minnesota, 1875; Iowa,
1876; Missouri, 1876; Kansas, II; Ne
braska, 90; Dakota, 1915; California,
lis; Oregon, 1875.
The average yield per acre of oats is
26.6 bushels, making crop of over
600, 900, 900 bushels. The Ohio Valley
averages over 80 bushels per acre,
Iowa over "a bushels, with lower yields
in Missouri, Kansas and the Southern
States. The Eastern States have high
yields.
The barley crop averages 22.4 bush
els per acre and the product will come
nearly up to 10000, 900 bushels.
The average yield of the rye crop is
11.S bushels per acre and the product
over 26, 900, 900 bushels
The high temperature of September
and the absence of frost have i'm
proved corn-crop prospects, made the
expectation % bushels per acre, rem
dered certain a crop Of at least 1, $780,
100000 bushels. The final averages Of
condition of the seven States which
produce seven-tenths of the crop are:
Ohio, 80; Indiana, SO; Illinois, "A; Iowa,
7S; Missouri, 6S; Kansas, 65, and Ne
braska, 70. The averages of the East
ern States are above 90, and those of
the Southern States mostly between
so and 80. The general average is
nearly 80, against 95 last year, when
the yield was 265 bushels.
The general average of October con-
dition of potatoes is 81, against 80 last
year, SS in 1884 and SO in 1S93 The
average of New York is 80; Pennsyl-
vania, 81; Virginia, 50; Ohio, SO; Michi-
gan, II; Indiana. 81; Illinois, 70; Iowa,
SO; Missouri, 72; Kansas, 65.
The average condition of tobacco is
nearly 81; Kentucky, 90; Tennessee,
90; North Carolina, so; Virginia, II;
Maryland, rs. Cigar tobacco averages
high except in Wisconsin.
The promise of buckwheat is for a
crop slightly under an average. The
condition in New York and Pennsyl-
vania is 81, which is nearly the general
average.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

The Salvation Army, at its recent
International Congress in London,
claimed to have 1858 army corps and
1902 officers, and to have held %, 200
weekly and 1,446,40O daily services,
and to print its newspaper in nineteen
different languages.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

Richard Cauteler,a Baltimore sports
man, made remarkable record the
other day on the marshes of the Gun
powder River. He began the day.
shooting with 115 shells and a twelve
gauge gun. At the close OF the day
he had one hundred reed birds, twelve
water partridges, five blue wings, two
rail birds, and five plovers.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

The Louisiana orange crop will be
almost a total failure The freeze of
last year did terrible damage. The
crop usually amounts to between 3d.
100000 and 100000 but this year
will hardly pc 100000.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21

Eighteen carloads of oysters left
Port Norris to-day, en- route to the
large cities.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-10-21
q|fe Rioneer.
01.5O Per Year.

Published everv Thursday morning. at No. go
East Commerce Street. Cup stairs.)
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-24
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, March 23.-Reagan,
:rom the committee on commerce, re-
ported back the Senate bill to establish
q national live stock highway and pro-
mote commerce in live stock between
The states. House calendar.
the morning hour the House passed
he Fourth of July claims bill; the
amount involved is S23S, 200.
: number of bills were introduced.
At the expiration of the morning hour
The House went into committee of the
whole or the Indian appropriation bill.
After a long debate on point of or
der against the clause appropIiating
$1,000 as an ann al allowance to Cap
ain z. Z. Pratt, while in charge of the
Carlisle Indian school, the Chair sus-
aimed the point of order and the ap-
9ropriation was ruled out.
NJ. Nelson pursued his announced
Intentions by raising a point of order
against the appropriations for the Sa-
emit Oregon) Indian school.
Pending decision, the committee
rose
Mr.. Burnes, of Missouri, submitted
he conference report on the urgent de
icieacy bill and it was agreed to.
Adjourned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-24
Railway RumbIes.

GALVESTON, March 23.-The annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe Railway, which
was adjourned two weeks ago, was con-
tinued to-day. The reports of various
officers were submitted, and the follow
ing board of directors were elected:
George Zaly, Walter s. Davis. R. s..
Willis. ]. H. Hutchings, ]. E. Wallis,
Leon Blum and H. Kempqer, all OF
GALVESTON. This is q decrease of tour
members in the directory, and reduces
Inc board to its minimum under the
charter. This fact gives rise to the re-
port that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Company viii shortly be represented
in the directory. The progress of nego-
tiations for the control OF the Gulf.
Colorado & Santa Fe system is care
fully guarded from the public, but it is
stated, on good authority, that the
transfer is almost certain, and that the
basis of exchange of stock will be made
public within few days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-24
An Accident to the secretary.

WASHINGTON, March 23.-Rumors have
been ahoat all the afternoon of the i'll
ness OF Secretary Manning. They grow
out of the fact that the Secretary had
been taken home from the Treasury in
his carriage and was carried from his
office to the carriage, being unable to
walk. Upon inquiry at the Secretary'S
residence, it was stated that he had
simply met with a painful accident
while returning to his office from a meet
ingof the Cabinet. He had walked over
from the White House and without
waiting for the elevator to take him to
his room, on the second floor. walked
up two fight of stairs. On reachiI.g the
upper landing his foot suddenly turned
under him, severely wrenching his
ankle. He limped into his room with
oLt calling for ass stance. Shortly after
wards, DR.. Eamiltor, Ct the NJ irine
hospital service, happening to be In the
building on business. attended to the
injured limb and the Secretary was then
taken home in his carriage. When he
reached home, DIR. Lincoln. the Secre-
tary's family physician, was summoned
to attend him.
Dr. Lincoln. who attended Secretary
Manning at his home, gave the follow
ing statement 10 an Associated Press
reporter. The Secretary was seized with
vertigo on his return to his Office from
the Cabinet meeting. He bad been
working all day without taking any
nourishment and was feeling very weak
He walked up two flights of stairs and
on reaching the top was attacked with
vertigo and partly fell and partly sat
down. His sudden illness alarmed his
friends and he was taken home. His
mind was perfectly clear and he had
the free use of all his limbs and gave a
very clear account of every thing that
occurred. Two or three hours after his
attack he has improved very much
WASHINGTON, March 23.-At mid
night, DR.. LincolQ, who had just left the
Secretary's bedside, said that Manning
was holding his own and had slightly
improved since his last visit. The iecr :
tary's mind wss still clear and he did
not anticipate that there would be
change for worse during the night. He
had rallied from the vertigo and pros
tration and was resting comfortably.
The Secretary's illness, DR.. Lincoln
says, was caused by prostration from
overwork. He has been working very
hard and had a great many things on
his mind lately. and the result was
this prostration. In spite of the hopeful
view of the case taken by Lincoln, some
of the friends of the Secretary are ex-
ceedingly anxious and consider his con-
ditfon quite serious.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-24
Pasteur Makes One FailuIe-What
{ Does it Establish?

: PARIS, March 23.-Nineteen Russian
arrived here and were placed under
Pasteur's care on March 18th. All had
been attacked by mad wolves and ter
ribly lacerated. Pasteur willingly I'M
dertook to treat them and at once
placed them in his hospital. The man
who died last night had been carefully
operated on and regularly inoculated
with virus twice day since he arrived.
His terrible death with all the symp-
toms of hydrophobia in its worst form
has seriously shocked the public con
fidenee in the effectiveness of Pasteur's
discovery. The first positive indications
that the patients system was resist
ing the treatment manifested them
selves on Sunday after he had
been in the hospital over five days. He
soon afterwards became the victim OF
most terrible suffering, and this seemed
10 increase hourly up to the time Of his
death, which occurred while the man
was mad and wild with physical tor
ture. The corpse has been removed to
Pasteur's laboratory, where it will be
made the subject Of experiment by
sclsntist. NJ. Pasteur is much annoyed
by the unfavorable comments caused by
this failure of his method, but he insists
that it esta blishes nothing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-24
Proceedings in Both Houses
Yesterday.
D.sgAGE OF THE LAND BILL.
q-ss Nev seRator-wiil strike if They
Dc cot Get What They Want
Il Long Fight.
SENATE.

NAsa-sGroS, March % The Chair
aid Defors the Senate a number OF
House bills, among them bill granting
apsnsion of 80 900 a year to the widow
OF General Hancock. On motion Of
Blair, the bill was at once passed.
ingalls, resolution OF inquiry, offered
yesterday, was agreed to, asking whether
the Postmaster-Genera had received
the Sc nate resolution, calling for infor-
nation as to the number of fourth class
pOstmasters removed under the pres
ent administration.
The Chair laid before the Senate.
Logan's bill to promote the efficiency of
the army.
Henderson spoke in favor of the sec.
ton increasing the force to 10000 en-
listed men. He read from the testimony
given and letters written by Generals
Schofeld, Pope and others, to show the
inadequacy of the present force.
Unfinished business, being the judic-
ary committees resolutions, was then
taken I'D aud Jackson addressed the
Senate IN opposition to them.
At 1.50 the pending order was laid
aside and on motion of Van Wyek the
Senate took up and passed the bill to
confirm entries heretofore made on
public lands in accordance with the
rulings of the land Office in force at the
tine the entries were made.
Upon the motion OF Van Wyck, the
Senate lookup the bill to confirm the
entries heretofore made on public lands.
n accordance with the rulings OF the
and Office in force at the time the entries
we're made.
P,umb suggested that an amendment.
be made, declaring that the measure
shall not apply TO scrip entries.
Van Wyck accepted the amendment
and the bill passed.
Mr.. Logan introduced bill repeating
the provision OF the existing law, which
declares that when avacancy occurs in
the Office of General or Lieutenant-G Gen.
eral of the Army, such Office shall
cease. Referred.
At O'Clock the Judiciary committee
resolutions we're placed before the Sem
ate and Mr.. Jackson resumed his speech
n opposition to the majority report.
After debate the Senate adjourned.