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STATE NEWS.

complain that the recent blizzard car
ried the growing wheat away with the
soil
There was recently born in the negro
precinct of New Brunswick a child
with perfectly fiat head above the
eyes.
Over three millions of clans and
three thousand bushels of oysters were
shipped from Somers Point by rail
during 1885.
The present tie in the Salem County
Board of Freeholders is the third one
that has occurred in that organization
in recent years.
William Murphy, of New Egypt,
Ocean county, has killed sixty capons
that weighed 635 pounds. He is the
heaviest raiser of capons in the State.
The National Guard of New Jersey
numbers 1884 commissioned officers and
1858 enlisted men, total of 1857,
being increase of 2O4 over the previ-
Gus year.
A stock company is about being
organized at Cape May for the publica-
ton ola weekly Democratic newspaper,
under the direction of ex-senator and
Postmaster w. 2 Miller
An advance of from five to ten per
cent. has been made in the wages of
the employees of the Camden Woolen
Mills, on Cooper's creek. About 600
hands are employed in the mills.
Taking an average of thirty two
farmsin Burlington county, milk dairies
gave product of $62 per COW; butter
dairies of $39,34 per COW, and herds
where calves were raised brought $27.37
per COW.
Suit has been entered against the
Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Com
pany for the widow of the late John E.
Stratton, to recover 100000 damages
for his recent death by drowning while
working on one of the company's slips.
Miss Elizabeth Miptum, who was re-
ported to have lost $150,0OO in bonds
that she had placed in the care of Ogilby,
the defaulting cashier of the New
Brunswick Savings Bank, has pub
lished a card denying the entire
story, and stating that she never lost a
cent through Mr.. Ogilby.
Israel Bartleson, boy employed at
the South Millville glassworks, while
running through the factory recently,
collided with another boy, who was
carrying hot glass waste, and had the
sight Of one eye destroyed, and it is
feared was fatally injured.
Rev. A. E. Ballard states that he does
not intend resigning his position as the
representative of the New Jersey State
Temperance Alliance and Church Tenn
perance Commission, and says: II can
hardly conceive the circumstances
which would tempt me to abandon
now the system of action which have
been five years in constructing.
An inundation of oil is reported to
have occurred in Sussex county last
week, because of the bursting of the
pipe line near Deckertown. The oil
overflowed large territory and thou
sands of gallons were collected by
farmers and others, who filled all their
available barrels for future use before
the flow was stopped.
Taylor Devinney, of Wrightstown,
Burlington County, recently killed
his twenty hogs, with which he e&-
pected to beat the record of Joseph
Carter, of Recklesstown. His heaviest
hog, however, only weighed 91S lbs,
and the twenty averaged 7S0 pounds,
while Carters twenty hogs, raised and
killed last year averaged $50 pounds,
and the heaviest was 1,079 pounds, with
Others following at 1855, ,035 and ,025.
One of the most remarkable religious
revivals seen in the lower section of
the State for years is now the sensa-
ton in Cape May County. The meet
ings are held at the Court House, both
afternoons and evenings, and people
drive from fifteen to twenty miles to
attend them. The M. E. Church is
crowded continually, and people are
turned away. The conductor of the
revival is Rev. William Mitchell, a
magnetic orator. who is known as "the
young Moody of South Jersey
When David Bowling, a young man
employed at Dodge & Co.'S planning mill
in Jersey City, returned to his home,
at No. 1856 Second street, in that city,
for his supper, one night last week, he
found his mother sitting beside the
table with her head resting upon her
hand. He spoke to her, but receiving