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STATE NEWS.

year Tor damages Tor Sheep and fowls
killed by dogs than the dog tax amounts
to.
The house of E. d. Sedll, in Newark, !,
was robbed of $4,000 in cash and a
quantity of jewelry, and other articles
on Saturday night last.
Steward Charles F. Adams, who has
obtained possession of the Camden
County Almshouse after three years of
litigation, talks of suing the county
for the salary since he was elected.
One hundred and sixty carloads of
people went over the West Jersey
Railroad on Sunday from Camden to
Cape May. The rate was fifty cents
for the round trip, hence the great
crowd.
Fifty acres of land in the Great
Meadows of Warren county are planted
with oniops, which will yield $500
bushels or more. G. H. Albertson has
1090 celery plants set out on lands
near Vienna.
John Roberts, of Iowa, who claims
title to about 10000 acres of the most
valuable land in Salem county, prin-
cipally in Warrington township, has
arrived in Salem, and is engaged in
making surveys.
The Somers Point wreckers have
saved from the schooner Lookout,
ashore near Hereford inlet, lot of
anchors, chains, sails rigging, boat,
and 100000 laths, which were sold for
the benefit of all concerned.
Ex-senator w. B. Miller, of Cape
May, has announced himself as a can
ddate for the Democratic Congress
sional nomination in the First District.
He was recently appointed a Sinking
Fund Commissioner by Governor Alb
bett
The Rio Grand Sugar Company in
Cape May county on Monday, started
for the season with a newly invented
machine for stripping and cutting up
the cane, which is expected to accom-
plish great results. The crop of cane
of its plantation is the greatest ever
grown there.
! The oldest milestone that now stands
in South Jersey can be seen on the
road from Sharptown to Sweedsboro.
tits battered and worn by the elements,
but almost as plainly as in 1773, (when
it was erected) it tells the traveller that
it is ''21 miles to Cooper's Point as
Camden was then called.
An effort is being made by G. X.
Lands and others interested in sea-
coast property to secure part of the
unused river and harbor appropria-
tions for the purpose of deepening the
inside sea-coast channel from Cape
May to Atlantic City, The Secretary
of War has detailed engineers to make
the necessary survey.
One of the freaks of lightning was
displayed in Lower Penn's Neck town
ship, Salem County last Sunday even
ing. A hired man in the employ of
James johnson, (son-in-law) of George
B. Grier, was milking a COW under a
shed, when lightning struck the build
ing, killed the COW and only slightly
stunned the man who was milking her.
| The wife of Elias Van Amberg, a
well-to-do florist of Arlington, eloped
recently with Charles Byram, the hired
man, taking with her three children
and all the household furniture. Van
Amberg knew that Byram and Mrs.
Van Amberg contemplated an elope-
ment, and was so considerate as to ad-
wise his wife to "weigh the matter
| WE'LL"
Judge Woodruff, of the Trenton Dis
trict Court, has rendered decision in
a test oleOmargarine case under the
actpassed by the last Legislature. John
Connell, a grocer, was the defendant.
The Judge held that the law does not
require guilty knowledge on the part
of the defendant to make him guilty,
the act of selling bogus for genuine
butter, whether knowingly or unknow-
ingly, constituting the offense.
The report for the second quarter of
this year shows total membership in
the Grand Army department of this
State of 5,9S1. The total number of
recruits mustered in during the last
three months was 337, which is the
largest number of recruits shown in
any quarter since the organization.
The total loss of membership was 80,
outside of the loss caused by the ex-
pulsion of 2 Camden Posts for insub-