The Penn's Grove record., 1886-05-29
STATE NEWS

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ufacturing Company, OF Columbus,
Ohio. Fifty hands will be gwen work
in the establishment.
Minnie Shaffer's baby, which was the
cause of Prison Keeper Laverty's i'm
parchment, is dead.
There was a frost In Cumberland
county on Tuesday night.
A bell weighing 2000 pounds has
been ordered for The new Court House
at Woodbury..
The engineers and fremen on the
West Jersey Railroad have had their
wages increased.
n daily afternoon newspaper, to be
| called the Gazette is to bs started at
Atlantic City when the season opens.
Rev. Jabe2 Ferris will terminate his
pastorate of the Canton Cumberland
county, Baptist Church OH the first of
July.
George McCaulley, of Greenwich, a
sturgeon fishermen i'll the Delaware
Bay, while trying to land Il sturgeon
weighing 800 pounds Il few days ago
was struck by the monsters tail with
such force as to break his leg.
The custom houses at Little Egg
Harbor ''cost mole than they come
to-" For the year ending June Both,
1885, the receipts for the Great Egg
ITarbor custom houses were Sl,l6O,
and tic expenditures were $2,3l3, thus
costing the Government $1.99 to col
lect St.00. AT Little Egg Harbor it
was even worse; there the receipts
were but $3.50 and the expenses $3.50,
and the cost Of collecting IL dollar
was &5.42.
A verdict in favor Of Wilhelmina q.
Dover for 5000 damages against tho
Pennsylvania Railroad has been rem
dered in the Camden Circuit Court.
Tie plaintiff was injured while being
! driven across the railroad track at Mer'
clantyille last October. Her coachman'
who was also injured, secured a verdict
of S., 900 Il few days ago.
At the recent term Of Cumberland
Courts Charles Z. Bellows, q druggist
| of Bridge ton, was fined $50 for selling
| BOYS a patent medicine known as
Duffy's Malt Whisky.
1t cost Burlington county $4,000 tt
feed the tramps i'll the jail last year
Presiding Elder j. S. Gask i'll, of The
| New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference has purchased the church builc
| ing of the Free Will Baptists at FL
wood, Atlantic county, and it viii b'
transferred to the NJ. Il. Church ant
dedicated on the first Sunday in June.
The Cumberland County Board o
! Freeholders were short sighted enough
to order the annual statement printed
in only twoo of the county papers instead
of five us heretofore. Vineland Is lei
out altogether.
The Postmaster General has appoint
ed the following fourth class Postmas
tiers In New Jersey: D%enisyille, Thoma
Ludlam; Dividing Greek, James NJ
Batemen; Uarmersville, Linwood }
Holiday; compton Plains, Theodore
G. Doremus.
Cumberland pays its officers as fol
lows: Collector, $500, Solicitor, $40
Clerk, so, Trustees of Aims House
$50 each, County Physicians 5000, Man
ayers of each draw bridge $40, Of other
bridges So each.
A suit has been decided in the Mon
mouth Court regarding the liability o
~proprietors of summer hotels for TN
value of jewelry and money given then
for safekeeping by their guests. INT
suit was brought by Mrs. DR.. j. )
Spring, of New York. In the summe
of 1884 she boarded at the Ocean Wayi
Hotel at Long Branch. One day sh'
DEPOSITED in the hotel safe diamond
iewelry valued at $1,000 and $500 il
money. Mrs. Helen c. Traphagen, TIN
p~roprietress, refused to pay for th'
Jewels and money after Edward Hard
ing. her confidential clerk, ran ava.
with them. The jury rendered a yer
dict in Mrs. Springs favor for the full
amount.
Detective Henry e. Garrison VIII
was appointed by the State Board Q
Health as an Inspector under the ne'
law regulating the sale OF oleomargai
inc and other imitation and 'doctored'
buffers, is making IL tour of all tn
grocery stores and places where butte
is sold, and distributing copies 81 til
law. In n3ary cases the officer find
the law being violated through iBht
rance. On this account no arrests III
being made until the storekeeper5 haF
been notified of its purport. and lgno
rance of the provisions of the act vii
then be considered no excuse for non
compliance with its provisions. IN
new law requires that all packages {
oleomargarine or mixed butter shall I
conspieuously labeled in a manner pr'
! scribed, ana that IL card announcer
its quality, shall he furnished TO cle
purchaser.
Woodbury. Notes.
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