Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-07-29
NO. 200l
GENERAL NEWS.

lionaires, though reputed SO rich.
His fortune foots up $S50,0O0.
Jacqueminot roses which sold for So
a dozen last winter in New York. are
now to be had at a cent apiece.
By the new factory law of New
York, it is expected that 30, 900 children
will be turned out of the factories.
The cargo of a vessel which sunk up
in Vineyard Sound the other day in
cluded 50, 1000 Southern watermelons.
An inventory of the Culver BarcaIow
estate shows that it foots up over $780,
900. The personal property is $112, ,00O-
Reports from Montana say that live
stock there is generally in excellent
condition. During the season there
will be shipments East of 125, 900 head
of cattle 100000 sheep and 10000,
horses.
Ex Gov. Moses. of South Carolina,
is pining and failing fast in the Massa-
chusetts penitentiary. He is the only
instance in American history where an
Ex-Governor became common convict.
At 80 Moses was deemed the most
brilliant and promising man in South
Carolina
on Monday several New Haven lads
appointed themselves dog catchers
and secured the city thoroughly,
taking in all the unmuzzled CANNES
they came across A canard that the
city would pay them one dollar for
each unmuzzled dog delivered at police
headquarters, induced the youngsters
to make the crusade
Cape May channel is reported to be,
filling up in surprising manner.
Twenty-four feet was formerly the
mean depth of water, but now vessels
drawing fifteen feet are advised to
take the lower channel This course,
which has for many years been used
by coasters, is directly at the Cape
May Life-Saving Station.
During the past week men have been
stationed by the Pennsylvania and the
Philadelphia and Reading railroads at
the Union depot, Elizabeth, to count
the trains that passed. The totalnnm-
ber for the week was 1855, and the
number on single day of twenty-four-
hours was 400. More trains pass the
Elizabeth station, railroad men say,
than any similar place in the country.
An eccentric Connecticut citizen
died lately, leaving much money hid
den away, for which the executors of
his estate are now searching. They
have come across some of the cash. in
several instances finding it in bags so.
old that on being handled they fell to
pieces. In old-fashioned coppers alone
hundreds of dollars have been found
The prettiest girl in Washington is a
clerk in the Patent Office. Her father
was once a wealthy New Jersey manu-
facturer, but he failed, and four years
ago died penniless. His daughter sue
ceeded in getting department clerk
ship, and has been the support of her
old mother and a younger sister. She
is a remarkably beautiful woman, It
tall brunette.
Miss Hattie Johnson, of Bushy Fork
who resides near Oakland, Illinois,
went out to gather blackberries last
Thursday. After gathering in one
patch for about an hour she entered
another, and before she knew it had
knocked down a hornets nest The
hornets becoming enraged, stung her
in hundred places, causing her body
to swell to twice its natural size in less
than an hour
The number of Union soldiers cap
tured by the Confederates during the
Rebellion was 212,60 The number of
Confederates captured by the Union
troops was 476, 1863. The number of
Union soldiers who died while prison
ers was 30, 1875, or a little more than
one in seven of all captured The
number of Confederates who died while
prisoners was 96, IA, or very nearly
one in eighteen.
The late A. T. Stewart" says
HaTper's Weehly, found it to his AL
vantage to give to each head OF Il de
partment of his business a percentage
of the profits made in that department.,
in addition to a guaranteed salary.
One year the head of his lace depart
ment earned $27, ,0O0 and the head OF
another department $29,000, and the
percentage being about one per cent.
of the profits of his department.
According to carefully prepared sta
tistics the sugar crop of Cuba this past
season amounted to 800, 719 tons, against
631, ,967 tons the previous year. 1t was
estimated on June 1st that the crop
would yield 100000 tons. But for bad
weather that amount would have been
exceeded. The continued depression
of the pripnS of sIIvar in tho oroat oo,,