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STATE NEWS.


from six rows of beets, 100 yards in
length, 224 baskets.
The seventh annual Spring Fair at
Moorestown will be held on June Sth
and 9th, and the Fall Fair on Septem-
Der 21st and 22d.
Patrick Egan, of Camden, who threw
a lighted lamp at his wife, and set fire
to the house, has been committed to
Jail for trial in default of 81, 900 bail.
Ageneral movement has been started
among the carpenters of Essex county
to secure reduction from ten to nine
hours for a days work. There are L.
750 carpenters in Newark and vicinity.
Within the past week burglaries
have been committed at three unoccu-
pied cottages at Long Branch. The
police also report that five unoccupied
cottages at Monmouth Beach have
been robbed.
At public meeting held at Cape
May recently a resolution was adopted
to arrange for the sale of the public
water works, it being deemed inexped-
lent to bond the city for $4,000 addi-
tional to make needed repairs.
The general government is about to
furnish the Life-Saving Stations on the
Jersey coast with the Mcclellan appa-
ratus carriages. They are said to prom
Use to greatly facilitate the movements
of the apparatus and to be of great aid
to the service.
Aunt Betsy Warren, of Red Bank,
died suddenly of old age few days
since. She left about $4,000 in
Charleston bank, and came North at
the time of the bombardment. She
died poor, at the age of ninety-fve.
Proposals for the $4,000 worth of
Woodbury. bonds, for the construction
of the water works at that place, were
opened recently, and the entire amount
awarded to Sailer & Stevenson, the
Philadelphia bankers, at three per
cent. premium. The city guarantees
an interest of four per cent
When Rev. DIR. Alfred Yeomans en-
tered the lecture-room of the Central
Presbyterian Church in Orange, one
night last week, to conduct the cele-
bration of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the church, he was button-holed by
Anson E. Maltby, who presented him
with purse containing $500 in silver
certificates.
Daniel P. Dorrell, of Alloway, Salem
county, sold during the year ending
February 1st, 1886. from twelve COWS,
three of them two-year old heifers,
milk and butter amounting to 81, ,046. 72
an average of over $S7 to the cow, be-
sides supplying his own family, which
is quite large, with all the milk and
butter they could use.
Bergen county is struck with man
ufacturing fever. Congressman Will
liam Walter Phelps offers land for a
mill site at Englewood; George Foster
Hopper will give site at Fairlawn
on the Bergen County Short Cut, and
at Ramseys there is movement to
convert the skating-rink into silk
mill
General brakes Veteran Zouaves,
of Elizabeth, had benefit, a few
nights ago, from which they realized
$1,000 Gen. Drake and his veterans
start for San Francisco on the 27th of
next July, to be absent nearly four
weeks and the sum realized goes into
the fund for the greatest tour ever
contemplated by military organiza-
tion in this country
John M. G. Marsh, of Westfield,
Union county. combines in his own
person the several professions of State
detective, deputy sheriff, town consta-
BILE, township assessor, notary public,
commissioner of deeds and census taker
with the occupation of Insurance
agent, newspaper correspondent, civil
engineer, surveyor, real estate agent,
collector and appraiser.
Chancellor Runyon has rendered a
desision which settles the long vexed
question as to the requirments of an
employee to keep the secrets of his en-
ployer. He decides that an employee
is restrained from divulging or making
use Of any secrets of his employer which
may come to his knowledge through
his employment, and is liable to prose-
cution for such use or divulgence.
The Pennsylvania Railroad officials
have posted in the station at Jersey
City an order directing that for the
present no further applications for