Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-05-20

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was stated that the 11-year-old daugh-
ter of John A. Matthews, who had
gone to visit distant relative in the
town, had disappeared, and it was
feared she had met with foul play
Searching parties were organized,
houses were visited, kilograms sent to
various points and great excitement
aroused. The girl was finally found in
bed at the house of an acquaintance
which had been overlooked.
( The seventh annual Spring exhibition
of the Moorestown Agricultural and
Industrial Society will be held on
Tuesday and Wednesday, June Sth
and 9th, on the grounds of the society,
in Burlington county. Field trials of
moving machines, self binding har-
vesters in rye, cultivators and gang
plows, plows and pulverizing harrows,
and new machinery, will be made on
the first day; and on the second, trials
of corn shelters and feed mills, appara-
tus spraying trees, hayrakes, tedders
and leaders, self-binding harvesters in
wheat, corn and potato markers and
planters, fertilizer distributors, small
seed drills. A special effort is to be
made to have full display of straw
berries, including all the new var
ieties, for which many premiums are
offered.
William Mains, of Lincoln Park, long
regarded as the biggest as we'll as the
heaviest man in New Jersey, was
buried Friday in the Ponpton Plains
Cemetery, Passaic County. Mr.. Mains
stood upward of seven feet in his
stockings. He was we'll filled out in
proportion, tipping the scales at nearly
400 pounds. Despite his corporal
ponderosity and his more than middle
age, Mr.. Mains was as spry and supple
as schoolboy and was the wonder of
all who witnessed his unlooked-for
agility ofmovement. A few days since
Mr. Mains was taken i'll and, after a
brief confinement to his bed, died.
The remains were placed in IA massive
satin-lined California cedar casket, COW
cred with cloth and satin and richly
mounted, and as this magnificent
specimen of manhood lay in all the
dignity that death lends for brief
space, even to the ignoble and insignifi-
cent, it was not difficult for the spec
tator to imagine that he was gazing
upon one of the race of giants of the
olden time, which seems to have not
become quite extinct yet. The services
Of ten pail bearers were required to
convey the remains to the hearse and
thence to their final resting place.
The trial of the suit of Mary Ann
Stone, an aged domestic, for 100000
against the administrators of Stephen
A. Todd, a wealthy farmer, who died
in Dunellen three years ago at the age
of II, was begun in the Circuit Court
of Elizabeth, on Friday. Todd was an
eccentric bachelor and the only person
he tolerated was the plaintiff in the
suit, who for thirty years was his
housekeeper. He never paid her any
thing, but said when he died he would
leave her $2O,000 He died intestate,
leaving 100000 in personal property
and $50, 900 in real estate. His brother
took charge of the estate, and the old
housekeeper put in her claim for SEQ, 900
for services rendered. The heirs offered
to allow her $500 year as long as
she lived, together with small cottage
on the farm, but she declined the offer
and demanded the old homestead,
which was refused. The defense
claimed that she handled all the farm
money, and when the old man died she
had $400. One witness, DR.. Edicott,
testified that he borrowed small sums
of money from her at various times
The Jury on Saturday, after four hours
deliberation, brought in Il verdict of
$4,000 for the plaintiff.
The usual quietness of the ancient
JOWu Oh burlington WAS ulSIurDeu OH
Saturday morning by the reports which
came from the southern section of the
township that Thomas Assay, a young
farmer, had shot and killed his wife
Crowds assembled at the street corners
and at the town hall, and eagerly
sought for every item of news that could
be obtained about the tragedy. The
story of the shooting, as learned in the
inquest held in the mayors Office in
the afternoon, is as follows Assay is
twenty three years of age, and resided
happily with his wife, Laura b. F. Assay,
in house on the farm of George
johnson, on the Rancocas road. They
have been married about two years.
and have a little boy nine months old.
Assay got up early in the morning and
attended to his usual work, and as the
crows have been stealing his chickens
Of lata ba took hic o,t ~ lii