Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-09-09
& NICHOLS, Publishers.
STATE NEWS.

l "a Z NE NVO.
The Prohibition Convention of the
First Congressional District, met at
Camden, on Saturday. and nominated
William H. Nicholson, farmer and
member of the Society of Friends, of
Camden county.
A syndicate, comprising G. G. Green.
John M. Moore, Jos. Parrish, Martin
Maloney and others, has purchased
the Newbold farm of 200 acres, at West
vile, Gloucester county, for $4,000.
1t has frontage both on Timber creek
and on the Delaware river, and will be
cut into building lots.
The police of the cities throughout
the county have been notified of the
disappearance of William H. Chase,
aged SO years, of Camden, who had
been missing since the I'd inst. When
last seen he had a considerable sum of
money in his possession. His wife is
greatly concerned for his welfare.
DR.. Newton, the State Milk Inspec-
tor, finds that the milk poisoning of
guests at Long Branch hotel was
caused by drinking milk that was too
fresh. 1t had been carried from the
COW to the hotel table without having
been cooled. The publication of this
fact ought to bring horde of board
ers to the hotel. Sojourners at Sum
mer hotels are so rarely treated to
perfectly fresh articles of food that the
Summer boarder would almost consent
to be poisoned by it just to enjoy the
novelty of the thing.
A barrel of kerosene oil in a frame
shed of the Pullman Palace Car Co.,
near the Provost street crossing of the
Erie Railroad, in Jersey City, about
five o'clock Saturday afternoon. ex-
ploded. Fire followed, and five of the
eight sleeping cars stored in the shed
were destroyed. They were valued at
$4,000 each. Thirteen freight cars and
a telegraph office of the Erie Company;
freight sheds and an assortment of
freight belonging to the Northern
Railroad of New Jersey and the New
Jersey and New York Railroad Com
pany, were destroyed, and fire
proof tool house of the Erie. The
loss will amount to about 100000
1t is said that Governor Albeit is
engaged to be married. For two weeks
and more it has been rumored at. Sea
Girt, and particularly in the Beach
House parlors, that the Governor in
tended to forsake his widower life, and
the return of the lady recently to the
Beach House after prolonged trip
through the East, and her appearance
at the military ball in honor of the
Governor, gave coloring to the story.
The Governors attentions to the lady
at the ball increased the belief in the
story. Then came an intimate friend
of the comely bride, who admitted the
truth of the story. The charmer of
the chief magistrate is Mrs Sharpsteen,
widow of the late Paris partner of the
we'll known firm of Arnold, Constable
& Co., of New York Every one knows
Mrs. Sharpsteen, and everyone likes
her. Her life has been devoted to her
only child, a little girl years old
who is worth $1,OOO,OO0 in her own
right. Mrs. Sharpsteen has a fine figure,
and a pleasant although not handsome
face. She has been a client of the firm
of Albeit & Fuller for years.
The members of the Twelfth Regi-
ment, New Jersey Volunteers Associa-
ton, to the number of one hundred,
gathered in the Town Hall, Clayton,
on Saturday, to celebrate their 18th
annual reunion. Captain Frank nj.
Riley, of Bridgeton, presided. Ad-
dresses which revived the memories of
the regiments campaigns, were made
by Rev. d. b. Harris, of Gloucester
City; William p Haines, of Nickel
town; Colonel r. S. Thompson, of
Chicago, and Captain N. M. Brooks,
of Washington, ID. G. The collation.
was spread at the village hotel. The
next reunion, which will be the twenty
fifth anniversary of the mastering in
of the Regiment, will take place at
Woodbury., on September 5, 1887. The
officers were elected for the
year: President, James S. Kiger, of
Trenton; Vice Presidents, Lieutenant
James White, Mullica Hill; Samuel
Roadstown; Jos. Bassett,
Salem, and Henry M. Avis, Camden:
Recording Secretary, Florence Bleyler.
Camden; Corresponding Secretary, Ar
thur Stanley, Camden; Treasurer, DR..
G. A. Weidemann, of Philadelphia;
Chairman Executive Committee, Col.
Henry Chew, of Camden.