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STATE NEWS.

Pilesgrove township, Salem county,
has very prosperous Dairy Associa-
tion.
The President has appointed ex-
State Senator Waters B. Miller post
master at Cape May.
Assemblyman Whitaker, of Salem,
was showed in all one night on the
Delaware River R. R. during the late
blockade.
The West Jersey Railroad Company
has increased the freight on gun pow
der to most South Jersey towns, from
twelve cents to 50 per keg.
The militia encampment at Mana.
squan last year cost the State between
$4,000 and 100000. This and other
items in the expense of maintenance of
our home guard cost in 1885 the sum of
$S7,911.23.
Thomas Applegate, of Extonville,
Monmouth County, has raised a hog
which is supposed to weigh 1900
pounds. 1t has been purchased by
Thomas Matthews, a hotel proprietor
at Bordentown, who will slaughter it
one day this week with great cere-
mony.
The Chancery case of Chas. Lands
VS.. John L. Burke. which has been
pending for some time, has been de-
cided against Mr. Landis. The case
involved the title to certain lots in Sea
Isle City, which now, according to the
Chancellor's decision, will revert to
Burke,
At Paterson, recently, George Jack
son, a large manufacturer and very
wealthy man, was sentenced to con-
finement in the State Prison for one
year, and to pay a fine of $1,000 and
costs for shooting at William Schauz,
man with whom he had quarreled.
Schauz was not injured.
A few days since as patrolman Van
note, of Life Saving Station, No. 6, was
on his beat near Asbury Park, he dis
covered a portion of a human body in
the surf. He took it out of the break
ers, and it proved to be the arms,
shoulders, back and one leg of a man.
1t is supposed to be the remainder Of
one of the crew of the Mary G.. Far1, of
whom part was found Immediately
after the wreck.
Peter Hapenny, a compositor, and
Benjamin Frazier, colored, are in the
Newark City Hospital suffering FROM
the effects of alleged jokes Two we >.ks
ago Hapenny went into Market
street saloon and fell asleep in a chair.
He was suddenly awakened bv a terri
BILE burning sensation, P nd with cries
of agony he tore off .Is clothing. On
his thighs and bac' < were three red hot
copper pennies which had terribly
burned MS flesh. Two days after
T FRAZIER le L asleep in the same saloon
"A p''i' of young men tied newspapers
t'ro' .aa his feet and heated poker il
''-e stove. When the iron reached
I white heat one of the party set fire te
| Tire paper around the slumberer's feet
A while another drew the poker over hi
knuckles. He was terribly burned
Hapenny hiss wife and three children
destitute.
During the dense fog of Tharsda,
the Austrian bark Kraljovika, from
Marseilles, France, struck on Barnega
Shoals, and. eleven lives We're lost
The Life Saving crew of Barnega
Station went to her assistance, whel
their boat was swamped and three o
the men were drowned. The crew Q
the bark, fearing that the Life Guard
would be unable to save them, had lef
the vessel in their own boat. 1t cal
sized and sunk and eight of the GREY
were lost. The master and five of tn
sailors saved their lives by swimmin
ashore. The three men of the lif
saving crew who were drowned ar
Solomon and John Soper and job
Perrine. They resided at Barnega
village, and leave large families. Th
Kraljevika sailed from Marseilles o
December 18th, in ballast for New Yorl
: and for nearly four days the maste
had been unable to make an observe
ton. His first intimation of sho'
water was when the vessel strucl
The bark will be a total loss.
Alderman George S. Smith, of New
ark, died from blood poisoning fe
days since, aged 46. He was born
Jersey City and his father was the fir
superintendent of the New Jerse
Railroad and Transportation Coz
pany AT eighteen years of age tt
son settled in Newark and soon b
came prominent in political and III
department matters. He served in