Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-02-25
STATE NEWS.

to the Legislature against the Local
Option bill.
Mrs. Hannah Woolston, the oldest
resident of Burlington county, died at
Wrightstown, recently, at the ad
vanced age of 102 years.
The appointment of Ex-senator
Burr Miller as postmaster at Cape
May removes him from the contest for
Superintendent of the Life-Saving
Service.
A new Democratic afternoon paper
will make it's appearance in Camden
on Tuesday 1t will be under the man
agement of Fitzgerald & Smith. James
Fitzgerald, formerly of Philadelphia,
and a member of the Board of Free
holders, will be its editor.
A number of capitalists, Gen. E.
Burd Grubb of Burlington being one,
have invested $3.50, 900 in an iron fur
mace at Blue Ridge, Va, and as there
is practically inexhaustible hill Of
iron ore near the works they expect to
make large profit on the transaction.
The severe storms of few days ago
along the coast have cast up on the
beach great piles of sea weeds, contain
ing thousands of soft shell crabs The
people of Atlantic City, especially the
poorer class, gather them in baskats,
and have been feasting for several
days on this delicious fish.
John Mcmahon, the defaulting col
lector of revenue of Hoboken, who ran
away in 1884 leaving defiency of $751;
900 and who was arrested in New York
on his return from Canada last week,
was arranged in court and plead guilty.
He was shabby dressed and in lieu Of
white shirt wore check jumper.
An attempt was made on Thursday
to lock the African Methodist Church
at Mount Holly against the pastor,
Rev. J. H. Accoon. When the latter
learned of the contemplated action of
the Trustees he took up his station in
the church, where he remained all day
and night, having his meals sent in to
him.
A sensation has been caused at At
lantic City by the abrubt departure of
Philip Ertel, hotel proprietor on At
lantic avenue, below New York. He
raised considerable amount of money
in Philadelphia, and it is said he has
gone off with woman. His wife has
been allowed by the creditors to run
the hotel.
The singular spectacle of the beach
for miles at Atlantic City being strewn
with soft shell crabs has been witnessed
during the past few days. The recent
storm so disturbed the bed of the sea
that the crabs were torn from their
resting places and washed ashore.
The crabs have been gathered and
sold until they are drug on the mar
ket at 6 cents per dozen. Thousands
have been shipped to the leading cities
and still the sea washes them up on
every tide.
Fish Commissioner Frank Ward, of
Sussex county, deems the yellow perch
to be one of the greatest enemies of
young pickeral, and says that the
perch will entirely eXterminate pick
erel from pond in time. He relates
an instance where large quantity of
perch was caught in a Sussex pond,
and almost every perch was distended
with small pickerel. This led him to
watch the pickerel lying in the grass
in shallow water, and he frequently
saw the perch dash up and seize them.
Burlington was startled a day or so
ago by the announcement that James
Young, who was stolen from that city
in the summer of 1869, had returned.
Mrs. Young was widow, and being
employed in private family at gen
eral housework, was compelled to
board her child with Mrs Eliza Camp
bell. He was then three years of age
and while Jennie Campbell, the daugh-
ter of Eliza, and who was ballet girl
in New York city, was visiting Burling-
ton, she stole the child, teaching him
songs to sing in houses of ill-repute
with which she was connected at the
metropolis. He was then taught to
call her mother, and when twelve years
of age was told that he must earn his
own livelihood. He for a time served
as a stock boy, was afterwards a
waiter, and for time was an usher in
the Fifth avenue theater. He worked
several times in Philadelphia, and
managed to secure his education in the
Philadelphia public schools. His
natural mother did everything to learn