Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-01
STATE NEWS.

The Newark Conference will meet at
Jersey City on Thursday, April 1st.
New Jersey will soon publish map
of the whole State on the unusually
large scale of five inches to mile.
Postmaster Levi C. Albertson, of
Atlantic City, has rendered his resig
nation to the President, to take effect
April 1st.
The grape growers of Egg Harbor
have organized an association to secure
legislation for the suppression of arti-
fetal wine making.
Chancellor Runyon has refused to
appoint Receiver for the Dime Say
ings Bank of New Brunswick, and the
Directors will settle the affairs.
James Dennis, 80 years old, an in
mate of the alinshouse of Reading, Pa,
hanged himself because he was ordered
to move from the old hospital to the
new.
The triennial convention of the New
Jersey Diocese of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, is to be held in Camden,
on May 4th and 5th. Bishop Scar
borough will preside.
The State Prohibitionists Executive
Committee has decided to call the State
Convention this year at Newark, on
May 25th. The basis of representation
will be one of every twenty-five voters
Mrs. John Watkins of Almena, Mich,
dreaming the other night, kicked vio-
lently as she dreamed, and when her
husbands shouts woke her she found
she had broken several bones in one
of his feet.
Pretty sixteen-year-old Mrs Alice
Dawson of Omaha is suing for divorce
from her husband, William s. Dawson,
on the ground that he can't support
her, She married him because clair
voyant told her he had 100000.
VIM. J. Thompson, the well-known
hotel-keeper of Gloucester City, and
Councilman Guy, have leased the
Howell & Hunt shad fishery at that
place, and will operate it the coming
season. They will make the first haul
with the big seine on April 10th.
The employees of r. d. Wood & Co. s
foundry, at Millville, quit work on
Thursday, after having waited a week
for an answer to a demand made by
them for an advance in wages, from
81. 40 to $3.50 per diem. The employees
are mostly all knights of Labor.
Mrs John Miller, of Orange, has
been separated from her husband for
some months. On Thursday she was
found lying in a pool of blood, which
came from a knife wound She is
thought to have ATTEMPTED to take her
life in a fit of temporary insanity. Her
recovery is doubtful.
By an act of the Legislature, ap-
proved on the 1st instant, hotel keep
ers are required to have their applica-
tions for license signed thirty days be-
fore the first day of court, which makes
it requisite for persons applying for
license at the May term of the courts
to have their signers not later than
April 9th.
An illicit distillery near GAINESVILLE,
Ga, which for six years has escaped
detection, has been discovered and
raided. The proprietor had damned
small creek, ostensibly to make q
fish pond, and under the dam he placed
his distillery, with tunnels for ingress
and egrees. The smoke was conveyed
to his house and passed out through
the kitchen chimney.
Attorney-General Stockton is nearly
ready to present his case to the Court
of Errors and Appeals, appealing from
the decision of the bench of the Su-
preme court on the Railroad Taxation
laws. He has expressed himself as be-
ing confident that the decision will be
overruled upon full traverse of the
case. 1t is also believed that a major
ity of the Court, law and judicial, are
of the opinion that the position taken
by the bench is untenable.
The citizens of Dunellen, Union Co.,
were awakened at 80 o'clock Thurs
day night, by terrific explosion. An
investigation showed that 200 pounds
of gunpowder had exploded in the
grocery store of Leesbury Il Rogers, on
Prospect avenue. The building, which
was frame structure, was burned to
the ground, together with large brick
building adjoining, occupied as
dwelling by the owner of the grocery
store. The loss is $1,000 The shock
of the explosion was plainly felt at
Plainfield and Fanwood.