Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-05-06
e. NICHOLS, Publishers.
STATE NEWS.

Senator SeWell has been appointed
member of the Republican Congress
sional Committee
The prospect for fruit in Hunterdon
county is good. The peach blossoms
are plenty and are opening under ia
vorable circumstances.
The Delaware Bay is fairly alive with
shad, and some extraordinary catches
have been made by the gillers. as high
as l 900 fish being taken at a haul.
Twelve weak fish weighing three
pounds each were taken by seine in
Great Egg Harbor bay at Somers'
Point. They were the second lot cap
tured this season.
The annual inspection and muster
of the companies comprising the Sixth
Regiment will take place at Woodbury.
on the 18th of May. Gatling Gun
Company B, of Camden, will be in
spected on the third of June.
James Titus, night watchman at the
Methodist Collegiate Institute at Hack
ettstown. has been arrested on circum-
stantial evidence and committed to
Jail at Belvidere, charged with being
concerned in Tillie Smiths murder.
A movement is on foot to secure a
bridge over the Delaware between
Burlington and Bristol, if possible, and
it is argued that such an enterprise
would prove of great benefit to Bur-
lington county as well as the town of
Burlington itself.
The Merchantville Driving Park AS
sociation will have its Spring meeting
on May 30. The programme is a
double team race, a race for trotters
under saddle, trotting $50 class to road
wagons, running race, with five en-
tries, and 2. .35 class to harness.
Domenick Cervasso, who stabbed
john Forester in the back in Jersey
City horse car because Forester pulled
him by the ear out of a seat which he
had just vacated, with the intention of
giving it to lady, has been sentenced
to three years in Trenton prison.
Messrs. Field & Osborn, of Mon
mouth county, have returned from the
Southern part of Florida, where they
have for several years been engaged in
planting cocoanuts. In three years
they have planted 100000 nuts. Most
of the nuts were obtained from Trim
idad. Their prospects of success are
very encouraging.
Minnie Schaefer has returned to Pat
erson. She proposes to push the mat
ter further. She is too poor to take
care of her baby, and she will apply
to the city for relief. This will neces-
state the arrest of Laverty and his
trial before the Paterson Recorder. If
he is convicted of being the father of
the child he will have to give security
to pay 50 a week for its support until
it is seven years old.
A few days ago Lewis Dayton, of
Piscataway, Middlesex county, went
into his barn-yard and caught a large
turkey, which he swung over his
shoulder and started out. A moment
later, to his great astonishment, he
was attacked from behind by COW,
always before peaceable, who gored
him in the lower part of his bowels,
causing them to protrude, and possibly
producing fatal injury. The COW
had a young calf, and it is supposed
she thought Mr. Dayton was carrying
it off, hence the attack.
The State Superintendent of Educa-
tion has issued to the County Superin-
tendents a circular letter, directing
them to hold examinations for first and
second grade certificates on Friday
and Saturday, the 2Sth and Goth of
May. and for third grade certificates
on Saturday, the 29th of May. The
first and second grades are to be
completed within two days, the third
within one day. No permits are to be
given in failures. Trustees will employ
as teachers only those who have legal
certificates.
The firm of Downs & Finch, of
Jamesburg, in order to settle their
claim of being the largest firm of fancy
shirt manufacturers in the country,
have purchased the entire fancy shirt
business of V. Henry Rothschild, OF
New York City. This was large con-
cern, and the firm of Downs u Finch
are now said to be supreme in the con-
troll of the fancy shirt industry of the
United States Their annual product
will probably reach the sum of 50, OO0,-
600. The whole of their work at pres