Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-01-07
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STATE NEWS.

The United States Fish Commission
will send to New Jersey, large num-
Der of German carp and white fish
from the hatchery in Michigan.
Whitlock Nixon and Joseph Allo-
way, of Vincentown, have been CON
victed in the Burlington Courts of
beating a horse to death with fence
rails.
| Washington Hall, at Long Branch,
is to be converted into an Opera House,
with a seating capacity of 1900. 1t
will cost about $4,000 to make the
| change.
DR.. G. M. Blair, of New Egypt, Bur-
lington county, has just killed thirty
capons, the average dressed weight of
which was eleven pounds, and the
heaviest thirteen pounds.
Benjamin Robbins, of Bordentown
while examining his two bee hives, re-
Gently, found in each a big nest of
mice, who had driven out the bees and
eaten about half the honey.
J. r. Adams, of Pleasantville, Allan
tic county, has four year old heifer
that has been the mother of four
calves Stock raisers consider this as
something very remarkable.
The four children from Newark, who
were bitten by mad dog, and who
| have been under the treatment of NJ.
Pasteur, sailed from Havre for New
York on Saturday last. They are all
| WE'LL
A Bordentown commission merchant
shipped, in the two weeks before
Christmas, 11,0OO pounds of poultry,
including 106 turkeys raised by one
man and averaging fourteen pounds
each.
Articles of ofincegporation of the Union
Electric Company, with a capital stock
of 100000, have been filed in the Cam
den County Clerks Office. The incor-
porators are principally Philadel-
phians.
Elijah Bennett for twenty-five years
| the station agent of the West Jersey
Railroad at Benefits Station, Cape
May county, died on Thursday. He
gave the company the land on which
the station was built, and it was named
| for him.
The kennel business at the stock
farm of p. Lorrillard, at Jobstown,
Burlington county, is to be abandoned.
1t has not met his expectations. He
has among his stock of CANNES several
valued at $4,000 each. He has now
seventeen deer running in the park on
| the farm.
After twenty years courtship, Miss
Louisa A. Lane and Joseph G. Potter
were married at Branchport, near
Long Branch, recently. The bride is
| the eldest daughter of Mr. James Lane,
well-to-do citizen of Branchport, and
| the groom is a well-known seashore
hotel builder
The trouble between Pastor Andreas
and the st. Johns Lutheran Church,
Fairview avenue, Jersey City, was
caused by girls in the choir talking
aloud while the pastor was preaching.
There are eighteen girls and only six
young men in the choir. The choir
has been dismissed.
Charles Hulmer, of linton Falls,
Monmouth county, ran silver of tin
into one of his fingers, while at work in
a tin shop, recently. He paid little at
tention to the wound inflicted, but in
a few days his finger, hand and arm
began to swell; and he is now suffering
from a severe form of blood poison.
1t is thought the arm will have to be
amputated.
Captain Jacob Tice. of South Am
boy, who, four years ago, after quar-
rel with his wife, suddenly disap-
peared, has returned to his family.
His canal boat sunk the night he left,
and it was thought he was drowned.
He says he has been working in the
brick yards at North River, a few miles
away, waiting for the domestic squall
to blow over.
ID. Emmons, of Jamesburg, and Miss
E. Eldridge, of Bordentown, were re-
Gently married in romantic way on
Marye's Heights, Virginia. The groom,
who was Federal soldier, had partici-
pated in the efforts of General Burn
side to capture the heights during the
war, and said he Thought he could
afford to risk his happiness upon the
spot where he often risked his life.
Miss Jane Perrine. of New Bruins
wick, has met with peculiar accident.
She was lying on lounge and asked