Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-01-14
BRIDGET0N, N. j., THURSDAY, JANUARY IA, 1886

the pastor, commenced a war against
| William Carpenter, an elder of the
| church, and two of his sons, because
| they manufactured peach cider Car
penters cause was Immediately taken
up By all the dissatisfied members of
the church, and before long they had
succeeded in reducing the pastors sal
| ary from 5000 a year to $780, Now
there is genuine split in the church,
and it is probable that the Carpenter
party, if they do not succeed in com
pelling Mr.. Long to resign, will leave
| the church themselves and form a
new one.
]. B. Lippincott, head of the we'll
known publishing house of Philadel-
phia, died of heart disease a few days
since. He had been confined to the
house for some time Mr.. Lippincott
was native of Burlington county. this
State. He went into the book-selling
business early in life, and at eighteen
years of age had charge of a store
y
1886, he founded the house of J. B.
Lippincott & Co. Lippinc0H's S Magazine
was first published in January, 1868
The Medical Times, later experiment,
is an authority on the subjects treated
within its columns. A large importing
business is done by the firm, which
established London agency in 1875.
Mr.. Lippincott had many acquaint-
ances among European authors, and
was friend of Dickens and Thackeray
His house has published about 5000
books.
John g. Stevens, president of the
| United New Jersey Railroads and
Canal Companies, committed suicide
one day last week. He had been at
his office in the Pennsylvania Railroad
building, Trenton, with Secretary Lee
roy II. Anderson, of the United Com
panie5, and had been attending to
business as usual. He was making ar
rangements to start for West Virginia
to inspect some coal mines there, and
! said be thought he had better take his
pistol, which be had purchased two
weeks ago with a view to his trip, and,
as soon as he was alone, shot himself
as is believed. He was about sixty
five years old, and was nephew of
Edwin A. Stevens, the inventor of the
Stevens battery, of Hoboken, and was
himselfone of the most distinguished
canal engineers in the country In
the days of the Camden and Amboy
supremacy in New Jersey, he was
power in the State. He was the en-
gineer who laid out most of the roads
of that company, and was President
of the Delaware and Raritan Canal
Company.
Articles of incorporation for the cele-
brated Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
project were filed in the Secretary of
States Office, Trenton, recently. The
new company is styled the Baltimore
and New York Railroad Company, and
it is organized under the Legislative
act of April 2, 1878, and acts supple
mentary to amendatory of that act
The road is to begin at point on the
Railway River. in Clark township,
Union county, about a mile north of
the northerly line of the city of Rah-
way, and to terminate at a point on
the easterly line of the State of New
Jersey, in Union county, at a point III
said boundary line near the mouth of
Morse's Creek, and opposite the city
of Elizabeth. The length of the road
will be six miles. Following are the
incorporators, with the number Of
shares of stock each has taken: Jona-
than H.. Blackwell. of Trenton, 246
shares; John A. Hail. of Trenton, 254
shares; Moses S. Higbee, of South Am
boy, 225 shares; Benjamin A. Vail, of
Railway, $50 shares; Henry w. Miller,
of Morristown, 270 shares; Cyrus s.
Sedgwick, of New York, 275 shares;
Thomas NJ. King, of Pittsburg, $500
shares.