Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-02-11
STATE NEWS.
so Per Year.

The Salem County Freeholders have
elected for the eleventh term David
M. Baker Steward of the Almshouse
The Directors of the Mount Holly
Fair have decided to hold the Fair
this year from October 18th to the
10th.
The Prohibitionists of Camden have
nominated city ticket to be sup
ported at the approaching municipal
election.
There is greater demand for farms
at present in Burlington county than
has been known for years, both on
| the part of renters and buyers.
j. Biddle Black, Bordentown
farmer, has shipped five year old
bullock to John Taylor, of Trenton,
the weight of which was 1850 pounds.
A team of runaway horses were
struck and instantly killed by train
on the Amboy Division of the p R. R.,
near Palmyra, Burlington county, a
few days since.
The mills at Birmingham, near Penn
berton, Burlington county, owned by
Alexander Sinclair, are being fitted up
with machinery for the manufacture of
Administer carpets.
Several prominent residents of Rio
Grande, Cape May county, are making
arrangements to start a settlement on
the gulf coast of Florida, and it is be-
lieved that small colony will be ready
to start in the early Fall.
Ex-Congressman Samuel A. Dobbins
celebrated his golden wedding at his
home, near Mt. Holly, on Thursday
night. The old couple have eleven
children and thirty-four grandchild-
rem, all of whom We're present
The new glass works which are to be
established by A. G. Lamar, on Front
street, below Kaighn's avenue, Cam
den, will cost $25, 900, and will employ
100 hands. The contracts have all
been made, and operations will begin
in April next
Winter visitors at Atlantic City this
season have been numerous, and while
many of them are invalids there are
scores of others who go simply for rest
and pleasures of the sea in Winter.
After Lent opens the number will
largely increase.
In the cause under the Canada This
tie Act of this State, recently tried at
Glen Gardiner between two farmers of
Hunterdon county, the Court rendered
decision in favor of the plaintiff for
eighty-three penalties of twenty five
cents each and costs suit.
With the loss of the schooner evil
liam Ireland" Captain Fisher, the
following, all of Somers Point, Allan
tic county, are supposed to have found
watery grave; Captain Fishers eld-
est son, aged 1S years; Charles E.
Smith, Fred Smith, and Walter Rob-
inson.
The engineers of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad have taken accurate
measurements of the ponderous iron
draw of the Long Branch Railroad
bridge over the Raritan river at Perth
Amboy, and sketches of the machinery
that moves it, with view of using the
data for the Staten Island bridge.
United States Commissioner Blacks
report shows that in this State 1O,039
persons are drawing persons from var
ious causes. These are divided as fol
lows: Invalids, 8,0O3; widows, 1856;
minors, 9o4; mothers, 9O3, and fathers,
70. The numbers of men furnished by
the State during the war, was 1854.
At the annual meeting of the Mon
mouth County Agricultural Society,
the premium for the largest crop of
rye was awarded to John w. Herbert,
of Marlboro. He raised 246 bushels of
grain on 5 54-10O acres, or an average
of A bushels per acre. The net pro-
ceeds from the rye crop per acre were
$3.50.
To fright is attributed the death of
a fourteen-year-old Jersey City miss
on Saturday. One day last week a big
white dog sprang upon her. 1t did
not bite her, but the girl was so fright
ened that she fell in faint on the side
walk. At her home she was seized
with a hysterical fit and was sent to
the city hospital. where she expired.
While Annie Doran was crossing
Waldo avenue bridge in Jersey City
Thursday night, strange man seized
her by the neck, threw bag over her
head and was dragging her away,
when her stified cries attracted the at
tention of a citizen, at whose approach
her assailant ran away. William Name