Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-10-07
MCGOWAN & NICHOLS, Publishers
STATE NEWS.

James A. Hedden, the Newark Bank
wrecker, having been pardoned by
President Cleveland, has been released
from State Prison.
The house of &. D. French, near
Forest Grove, Cumberland county,
was destroyed by fire on Friday, caus-
ing loss of 81, 200. There is an insur-
ance of 1000
A sharks tooth, perfect and well
preserved, was brought up, the other
day, out of the new artesian we'll being
bored at Atlantic City. The well has
reached q depth of between 500 and
600 feet.
The Swedesboro Ne,cs notes a snake
with two distinct heads captured by
Henry Fisler The snake was taken
from an egg in nest that Mr.. Fisler
found, and was alive when the egg
was broken open.
Catharine Keevan of Kingston was
arrested in Somerville, Somerset Co.,
recently, for killing her husband, by
striking him on the head with sugar
bowl She plead not guilty. She will
be tried on Oct. 7.
Judge Robert Stockton Green, whom
the Democrats have nominated for
Governor, is IS years old, Of middle
height, erect and soldierly in bearing,
has firm, determined face, and is de-
voted to his family.
Henry Wilkinson, a colored local
preacher of Burlington county, who
was arrested while leading revival
services at camp meeting, charged
with assault and battery on his wife,
was convicted at Mount Holly on
Thursday.
Captain Jethro V. Alberson, who
disappeared mysteriously from his
home in Atlantic City on September
14th, was found in a demented con-
dition at the National Saldiers' Home,
at Hampton, Va. His son, City Clerk
Henry R. Alberson, brought him to
his home, on Wednesday.
Arthur Lamb, a dissipated young
man who lives with his mother in
Third street, Jersey City, went home
drunk at dinner time one day last week
and began to find fault with the din
ner. His mother told him that if he
did not like it he was not obliged oeat
it. The youth resented the insult by
attacking his mother and gouging one
of her eyes out.
AS the last herd of deer was being
removed from P. Lorillards game pre-
serve at Jobstown for shipment to the
new preserve at Tuxedo Park, N. Y,
few days ago, two of the bucks got
together and commenced fighting.
The attendants failed to separate the
maddened animals, and the combat
ended in the larger buck killing his
antagonist.
The total number of teachers in this
State is $500, of which Gil are males.
The school age is from five to eighteen
years, and the school population is
3O3, 997, the number enrolled in the
public schools being 209,526. The ex-
penditure for salaries of teachers is
each year 81, 1,776,052. There are four
colleges in this State, the value of
whose buildings and grounds is 81, 210,
900.
Charles Gulluba, of Newark, died re-
Gently of a wound received at the battle
of Gettysburg. His leg was struck bya
bullet and the wound never perfectly
healed. On Saturday it reopened and
blood poisoning ensued. He was born
in Germany in 1885, He served in the
Thirty-ninth N. j. Volunteers, and
afterward organized company in the
Fourteenth Regiment. For many
years he kept the Fifth Ward Hotel in
Newark.
The barn, cow-stables and other out
buildings on the farm of Benjamin Mid
dleton, the wealthy coal operator, of
Philadelphia, situated one mile South
of Moorestown, were destroyed by fire
on Saturday night. -Four valuable
horses, one of them Katie S.; a Patchen
mare, with a record of $50, six cows,
200 tons of hay and lot of farm ma
chinery and implements were also de-
stroyed. The loss will reach $4,000,
on which there are insurances of
SO, 900 in the Franklin and the Liver
pool, London and Globe Companies.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The congregation of the Broad st.
Methodist Episcopal church, of Bur-
lington, are surprised by the announ-