Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-03-18
STATE NEWS,

Ihe pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany reports net loss on the New
Jersey Division of $3.50, 1868 during
1885.
The new Board of Freeholders OF
Camden County will comprise fourteen
Republicans, three Democrats and one
Independent.
The Adjutant General has ordered
the disbandment of the Ninth Regi
ment, at Hoboken, on account of bick.
erings in the rank and file.
Detectives of the Pennsylvania rail.
road have detected resident of New
Brunswick using a hired Communication
ticket to New York. 1t is a scheme
which has been long practiced.
Taking an average of thirty-two
farms in Burlington county, milk
dairies have a product of $62 per COW,
butter dairies of $39.34 per COW, and
herds where calves are raised brought
$27.37 per COW.
Peter F. Randolf, the township clerk
of Bernards, Somerset county. was
fined $50 last week for not publishing
the annual report of the township for
last year twenty days before election,
as the law provides.
Editor s. G. Jennings of the Toms
River Courier, who was stricken with
paralysis in Camden last week, and
who is confined to the residence of DR..
Hunt, on Market street, above Third,
is slightly improved.
Henry Reed, farmer residing near
Jobstown, Burlington County, was
struck and instantly killed on Satur-
day, by the special train Which was
run over that road to accommodate
those attending Lorillard's sale OF
horses.
The township elections in Essex
county resulted in an increased Repub.
lican majority in the Board of Chosen
Freeholders, which will stand twenty.
four Republicans, fourteen Democrats
and one Labor member, Republican
gain of two.
1t has been officially ascertained that
the deficiency of Treasurer Ogilby, OF
the New Brunswick Dime Savings
Bank is $s0,674. His friends have al.
ready raised $58,OOO toward making
this good, and hope by tomorrow to
raise the full amount.
Mrs. Anna Maxwell Robeson, widow
of the late Judge William P. Robson,
and mother of ex-Secretary of the
Navy George M Robson, died at her
residence, 214 North Third street, Cam
dem, a few days since. The funeral
took place at Belvidere.
A Camden policeman found a fellow,
who claimed to be John Smith, OF
Darby, Pa, coming toward the ferry
on Thursday, loaded down with live
chickens which had been stolen from
farmers on the outskirts of the city.
He was locked up to await trial.
Richard Stretch, wealthy farmer,
living near Canton, Cumberland Co.,
committed suicide at his home early
yesterday morning by shooting. He
placed the muzzle of gun in his mouth,
and the discharge blew off the top of
his head. He was 80 years of age and
widower. No cause is assigned for
the act.
Fish Commissioner Baird is consider
ing the advisability of establishing
oyster propagating ponds at Gloucester
Point, on the Delaware River. He
says recent experiments have proved
that oysters can be successfully prop
agated artifcially, and the waning
bivalve industry materially benefited
thereby.
In sentencing several liquor dealers
for keeping disorderly houses, Judge
Stewart, at Mercer Court, on Friday,
said: "The rule will be to fine parties
$50 and costs for the first offence, and
on repetition of the offence to send
them to State Prison. We are deter
mined to see the liquor laws enforced,
and appeals for clemency will be vain. :"
George w. Farrow, of Camden, left
for Florida for his health early last
winter. January 7th letter was re-
ceived from him stating that he was
going into the interior as an engineer
for a sawmill. His wife has been
anxious as to his whereabouts. A
Florida paper states that he died at st.
Luke's Hospital, Jacksonville, on Feb
ruary 2d.
Rev. Oscar F. Brown disappeared
from Bayonne on Thursday last. The
clergyman was sought for in
New York last year when he was pas
tor of the Church of the Redeemer and