Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-02-04
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STATE NEWS.


The Liquor League of Atlantic City,
has one hundred and twenty members
who are engaged in the traffic
The Camden County Game Protect
i've Society, which has recently been
organized, will liberate 1000 quail in
the Spring.
Rev. E. L. McKeever, at one time
the Baptist minister at Woodstown,
has accepted pastoral call in Dakota
City, Minnesota.
Robert Newell last year, raised on
his farm at Warrington, Salem county,
about $50 tons of millet. Millet hay is
now worth $14 per ton.
Charlotte L. Metcalf was arrested at
East Orange recently, for defrauding
Mrs. Eads. stepmother of Captain
Eads, the jetty builder, of $1,000 by a
bogus stock operation.
Four dogs invaded the abbatoir of
Henry Walker, at Mile Run, Hudson
county, recently, and before morning
killed forty five sheep and two hogs.
The sheep belong to the Chicago
Dressed Beef Company.
McNeals iron foundry at Burlington,
is to be purchased by a syndicate COM
posed of New York capitalists, who
will organize stock company in
which Mr. McNeal will be largely in
terested. The works will be enlarged.
In the case of Deputy State Prison
Keeper Mott, who shot himself at Tren-
ton, one day last week, his relatives
say that he always sleeps with re-
volver beneath his pillow, and that it
was accidentally discharged as he rose
from bed to dress.
DR.. Jones, of Philadelphia, the we'll
known expert on insanity, has pur-
chased fine property at Merchant
vile, which he proposes to fit up for
a private lunatic asylum. There is
considerable objection to the doctors
enterprise from the citizens of the
town.
George W. Hall, of Railway, at one
time a rich and prosperous merchant,
who lost everything by business re
verses, has received word of having
fallen heir to q large fortune. A. Oakley
Hall has worked the case up and it is
asserted that the money will soon be
| received.
A st. Bernard dog named Roxy, be-
longing to a gentleman of Plainfield,
gave birth to thirteen pups in June,
1882; nine in January, 1888; thirteen in
July, 1888; fifteen in January, 1884; one
in July, 1886, and twelve in May, 1885,
making record of sixtythree pups in
twenty-three months.
Messrs. Gordon, proprietors of the
bathing establishment at Ocean Beach,
are to erect pavilion with a frontage
of sixty feet on the ocean and sixty.
three feet deep, two stories high, simi
lar to the Fifth avenue pavilion at
Asbury Park. 1t will be finished be.
fore next season opens.
The Republicans of Woodstown de-
clare that they are not boycotting the
new Postmaster, but that it is being
done by dissatisfied Democrats. In
the meantime the boycott is not of a
Serious character. as the returns of
the office for the last quarter are larger
than any one quarter for two years
past.
Secretary Whitney has ordered the
first government vessel that touches at
Rio de Janeiro to bring to this country
the body of George w. Salter, native
of Barnegat, who died of yellow fever
in 1880. Mr.. Salter was son of Hon.
Edwin D. Salter, and was paymaster's
clerk on the steamer Brooklyn. His
remains will be inferred in the GENE
terry at Barnegat. The body was not
removed before because of law for
bidding the removal of the body of a
yellow fever victim until five years
after death.
When old John Leonard, of Leon
ardsville, died recently he left an estate
of $14, 900, much of which was in ready
cash. He forgot two of his relatives.
The Methodist Church at Navesink
has the use of 5000 for ten years, and
at the lapse of that time the principal.
All funds not otherwise devised re-
vert to the fund for the support of
broken down Methodist ministers.
His sister, Mrs William Davis, of Neve-
sink, and a nephew, who were unpro-
vided for, will contest the will on the
ground of the testator's mental inca
pacity.