Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-07-22

Grated her left cheek and jaw. The
wounds were cauterized by DR.. L. H.
Armstrong, and the dog has been
killed.
In the conservatory of Nicholas
Jacobus, at Ridgefield, Bergen county,
is century plant which came from
Cuba and has been seen in his posses
sion for eleven years. 1t is claimed to
be the best specimen in the country.
The flower stem is thirty feet high,
and on it are twenty branches, each
bearing from $50 to 200 buds. The
color of the plant is yellow, and for
three weeks the plant has been in full
bloom.
Intense excitement was caused at
Asbury Park, at 2 O'Clock Friday
morning by the antics of DR.. Jacob
Henkkler of Paterson, who was
boarding at the Central House. He
became violently insane, and smashed
the windows in his room. His cries of
''police,n fire" and murder" could
be heart distance of two blocks.
Clambering out on the roof, he tore
down chimney and hurled the bricks
at the crowd of people gathered in the
street He was locked up.
Edward Gleason, of Jersey City, was
rescued from drowning few days ago
by his younger sister, Eta Gleason.
He fell into deep sheet of water on
Rampo Mountains (near Rampo, n. w.
while fishing. He could not swim,
but his sister Eta. who learned that
art while a small girl, bravely jumped
in after him after hastily pulling off
her shoes. By the aid of another
sister on the bank, who reached out
fishing pole to the pair in the water,
the couple succeeded in getting ashore.
The Hackettstown Presbyterian
Church will celebrate the one hun
dredth anniversary of its incorporation
on August 5th. A historical discourse
will be preached in the morning by
the pastor, Rev. John Lowrey. In the
afternoon, addresses will be delivered
by ex-pastors, by representatives of
Newton Presbytery, and by others.
In the evening the Lords Supper will
be administered This was by no means
the beginning of the church in Hack
ettstown. That was certainly as early
as 1868, but as in the case of many
other churches, those early days are
involved in much obscurity.
The contracts for the re- building of
the burned part of the State House
were awarded by the building commits
sion, Monday. The contract for the
mason work was given to Robert s..
Johnston, of Trenton, he to furnish
brown stone, for $11S,000. The iron
work contract was given to Post y
McCord, of New York. Their figures
are $65, $50. The carpenter work will
be done by Titus & Conrad, of Trenton,
for $33. 900. The plumbing contract
was awarded to Thomas S. Craig, of
Trenton, whose bid was So, ZIG. 1t is
expected that work on the building
will be begun at once.
After two weeks of hard labor and
an immense amount of talk the Senate
late Saturday afternoon passed the
River and Harbor bill, after making "a
uniform reduction throughout the bill
of twenty-five per cent. This reduces
the aggregate of the bill to about $14,-
100000, still leaving many of the
appropriations considerably above
what they were in the bill as it came
from the House. The vote on the
horizontal reduction stood 81 to IS.
An analysis of this vote shows that the
the only opposition it had was from
the West, and only two Eastern
senators, Platt and Salisbury, voted
against the reduction.
An Atlantic City dispatch says: A
mortgage covering more than 10000
acres of land in the townships of Null
lea, Hamilton and Galloway in Atlantic
county, on which 300 families are set
tied, is being. foreclosed. This tract is
in the shape of horseshoe, and sur
rounds Egg Harbor City on three
sides. In 1856 the land was purchased
by Henry Schmoele, German specu-
lator, from Stephen r. Colwell, and
it subsequently passed into the hands
of the Gloucester Farm and Land
Association, and was subject to
purchase-money mortgage made by
Schmoele in favor of Stephen X.
Colwel for over 100000. For time
the association thrived and sold off
considerable property. applying a
large portion of the proceeds to the
payment of the mortgages, until less
than $4,000 remained unpaid. Later,
however, there was no demand for
the land, and as the association failed
to pay the taxes, the vast tract re
manning unsold was put on the market
by the authorities for nOn-Dayment of