Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-05-13
MCGOWAN & NICHOLS, Publishers
STATE NEWS.

The fires in Estell's bottle-house at
Woodbury. have been put out, dissatis-
faction among the blowers being as
signed as the cause.
The forest fires near North Vine
land burned the residence of William
Fish with all it's contents. Loss about
$4,000. No insurance.
Mrs. John Cresse, of Rio Grande,
Cape May county, was greatly alarmed
day or two since by being chased
home by black snake.
A monument is to be erected at
Somers' Point to Lieutenant Richard
Somers, who was killed in Algiers at
the age of twenty five.
The cornerstone of the new Metho-
dist Episcopal Church at Pennsvile
will be laid on June 2. The dedicatory
sermon will be preached by Rev. W.
Hanlon, President of Pennington
Seminary.
The Report of the Proceedings of
the Convention of the Young Mems
Christian Association, held in Burling-
ton, recently, will be published
in book form by VIM. A. Baker & Co.,
of Newark, N. ].
Twenty-three of the twenty-nine
Democratic Assemblymen have signed
a petition for the appointment of Mark
Townsend, of Atlantic county, as SUI
perintendent of the life saving station
! on the Jersey coast.
The Salem County Board Of Free
holders has awarded $2S2 to Joseph
Hewitt and Constable Coles as part
of the reward offered for the arrest
and conviction of the negro boy Sulli-
van, the murderer of Ella Watson.
James Titus, night watchman at the
Methodist Collegiate Institute at Hack
ettstown, has been arrested on circun-
stantial evidence and committed to
Jail at Belvidere, charged with being
concerned in Tillie Smiths murder.
The will of the late Father Kars, of
Gloucester, gives 1000 to the church
of which he was pastor, $1,000 to the
Sisters in charge of the school, and
81 900 to the poor who are unable to
pay for masses. His life was insured
for $4,000
The fourth Annual Convention of
the New Jersey S. S. Association for
the Fourth District, comprising Allan
tic, Burlington, Camden, Monmouth
and Ocean Counties, will be held in
the First Presbyterian Church of Ham
monitor, Atlantic County, on Thurs
day, May 25 1886.
The May crop report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture indicates an inn
provement of two points in wheat
during April, with an average of 95.
OF cotton, the proportion to be planted
in May averages 20 per cent. In av-
erage years the proportion does not
exceed IA or Is per cent. In the corn
growing States it is estimated that 72
per cent. of the seeding is done, against
the usual proportion of IS per cent.
A number of delegates from Grand
Army Posts throughout the State of
New Jersey met in Grand Army Hall,
Camden, recently, and took action
against the proposed encampment of
the Grand Army this summer. They
claim that the amount they were taxed
for last years encampment was eXces-
sive. They also expressed their disap-
probation of the appointments recent
ly made by the Department Com
mander.
Mrs. B. A. Boeger, wife of the editor
of the Paterson V0lksfreumd, met with
a singular accident few days since.
Finding corked-up bottle of some
thing that seemed raspberry syrup in
cleaning house, she threw it into a
garbage barrel, upon which it exploded,
pieces of the sharp glass striking Mrs.
Boeger in the eye, and inflicting Sc
we're injury to the ball, so that for a
time it was thought the sight could
not be preserved.
The Hath annual convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese OF New
Jersey convened at st. Johns Church,
Camden, last week, Bishop Scharbor-
ough presiding. In his annual address
the Bishop reported having confirmed
707 communicates, ordained rectors
and 1 elder, consecrated churches,
and formally opened 2. The Commit
tee ON Constitution and Canons was
directed to urge upon the Legislature