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Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09
BRIDGEToN, N. j., THURSDAY, DECEMBER g, 1886.

attention to them as formerly, for fear
she will learn to like them too well,
and the liking lead to spelling. She is
firmly grounded in the belief that old
times were better; that people were
not SO bad when she was young, and
that things were more substantially
made-more for use than ornament in
the good old days. AS proof of this,
she showed the writer some of the
identical knives and forks with which
she first commenced housekeeping,
over fifty years ago.
Her latch-string hangs outside the
door, and we venture to say that no
other in the village of Cedarvile is
pulled so often. For old-time Incl
dents for local history, for past dates,
we go to Aunt Susan. How she first
certain it is that whoever set the fash
ion, it soon spread, until now you
never hear her spoken of in any other
way.
Since the death of her husband, in
part of the old house, which has stood
for a century, she has lived alone.
Alone, and yet not lonely, for throng-
ing memories of friends who have
come and gone, of friends who have
often made. her the recipient of sub
stantial proofs of their love and esteem,
are ever with her-a delightful COM
pany. Not forsaken, for friendly Wis
tors are numerous and always well
come.
The peculiar tie which binds her to
the hearts of the village folks is not
explained by any tie of blood relation
ship, for none exists, but in that
broader touch of humanity which
makes all the world akin.
Doubtless, some time in the future
some other will wear her title, but it
is the earnest wish of all, that we may
long have with us 'Aunt Susan.''
ANTHONY POPLAR.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09
An Old Document.

On the twenty-frst day of Noven-
Der, seventeen hundred and eighty-six,
DR.. Samuel M. Shute sold to Joseph
Moore, grandfather of DR.. Joseph and
Samuel F. Moore, of this city, negro
boy. The note on the outside of the
document read-'Samuel M. Shute to
Joseph Moore, Bill of sale for Negro
boy, Tom, born in the Fall OF the year
1776, in October or thereabots, 1776. )"
The body of the paper reads, Know
all men by these presents, that |,
Samuel M. Shute, one of the executors
of the last will and testament of Will
liam Shute, late of the county of Salem
and State of New Jersey, for and in
consideration of the sum of siXty-five
pounds to me in hand paid, the receipt
of which l do hereby acknowledge,
have granted, bargained and sold, and
by these presents do bargain and sell
unto Joseph Moore, of the county of
Cumberland, State aforesaid, his heirs,
executors, administrators and assigns,
a certain Negro boy, named Iom.
And then follows the usual form of a
bill of sale, sealed and delivered in the
presence of Richard Coles and David
Dare.
Tom, in his after life, proved to be
of very practical turn of mind. One
time he, in company with another
slave named Caesar, was hauling wood,
when Caesar fell off the load, the wagon
passing over his leg and breaking it.
Tom drove on home, put up his team,
and, taking an ak on his shoulder,
started down the road. When ques
toned as to where he was going, he
replied that that nigger Caesar had fell
off the wagon and broke his leg, and
would never be of any more use, so he
was going back to knock him in the
head.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09

We clip the following from the Phila.
Ledger: Sweet potatoes are in con-
siderable demand for shipment. The
crop has been large and the tubers OF
excellent quality but their properties
are said not to be as good as usual.
When not subject to the handling in
cident to taking and repacking and
shipping, the potatoes will keep as in
ordinary times. Prime sweet potatoes
are selling at from 50 to 81. 40 barrel.
The smaller potatoes enter largely into
the canning process, it being stated
that a firm in Philadelphia has received
an order for 800 barrels, to go West for
canning. These potatoes bring from
81. 10 to 81. 40 a barrel.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09

The approaching session of the Leg
islature promises to be a long and te-
dious one. The sessions and caucau-
ses will last long into the night and the
State will have some enormous gas
bills to pay. If the members of the
notorious Loco Foco Legislature of
1s43-44 were alive to-day they would be
amazed at the cost of the single item
of light for legislative sessions. In a
pamphlet issued from the State Ga
zette office in 1874, reviewing the pro-
ceedings of the preceding Legislature,
the members are charged with extrava-
gance for having spent so mnch more
for candles than the previous Whig
Legislature. Their candles Alone" it
is recorded, ''burnt in secret caucus
and charged to the State cost $113,
while last year the candles cost only
$4S.n 1t is doubtful if the last-named
sum keeps the legislature of to day in
lead pencils, while the single item OF
light for the State House cost nearly
two thousand dollars last year.
Atlantic City Reuieu.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09
Ten years ago Ada Martin, of Bron-

Ten years ago Ada Martin, of Bron-
son, Ohio, fractured one ofherlegs and
PARALYSIS of the member followed, with
loss of speech. During her affiiction
she devoted much of her time to max
ing crazy quilts and has received
patches from Presi dents Hayes, Gar
field and Arthur Friday she received
a patch with the compliments of the
present President, and the pleasure of
the event induced her to rise. Her
sons revolver lay on stand nearby
and it joggled off, its falling causing
the weapon to be discharged. The
ball passed through the invalids par
alysed leg. The shock restored Mrs.
Martins speech and her limb will be
useful after the bullet wound is healed.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09

Farmer Hillman, of Sharon, Ga,
looking for gold on his farm found a
spot where the soil was curiously dis
colored. He set his negro hired man
to digging, and he found that he had
struck simply a clay bed. No gold
was found, but the negro, who was
rheumatic, discovered that when he
dug in the clay his pains ceased. He
excavated quite pit, and now per-
sons in that vicinity declare that the
soft clay Of the pit is sure cure for
rheumatism, and it is reported that in
valids who go there on crutches, after
applying the clay to the affected parts,
go away unaided.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09
Stricken Down by Paralysis.

MTS. heUeCCd L. I1dlUuOTu, WIDOW OI
the late Daniel Hanthorn, who died in
January, 1900, was STRICKEN WITH par
alysis Friday morning, and died Satur-
day morning about five o'clock, at her
residence No. 81 Vine street.
Yesterday morning about half past
ten she was about the house doing her
work when stroke of paralysis came
upon her and she fell helpless upon
the floor. Unable to arise she was
compelled to lie there until a few min
utes past twelve o'clock, when her son
John came home from work for his
dinner. Entering the house he found
his mother lying as she had fallen,
and he Immediately sent for aid,
and medical assistance DIR. Henry Ell
mer responded and everything was
done for the suffering woman that
could be. She renaineds conscious
until two o'clock in the afternoon,
freely conversing with those about her.
After the time mentioned she became
unconscious and knew nothing more
until this morning when she died.
Mrs Hanthorn was in her sixty
seventh year, and had large circle of
friends who greatly esteemed her for
goodness and purity of character. She
leaves five children, William, who for
many years has been in business in
Council Bluffs, Iowa; Daniel, who is in
the marble business, in Woodbury.;
Belle, wife of Daniel E. Souders, of
this city; John and Laura who still re-
main at home.
Mrs. Hanthorn has been for many
years a consistent member of the
Trinity M E. Church, being one of its
original members. Her death is a
severe loss to all who knew her, for
she was a good mother, true friend,
and kind neighbor.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09
STOCK. GAMBLING.

OF late years gambling in stocks has
become craze in many of our large
cities notably New York. Chicago, st.
Louis and San Francisco. In the lat
ter city thousands have went wild over
mining stocks, and many fortunes have
been won and lost upon the street.
On Thursday there was another
period of excitement in the Stock Ex-
change at San Francisco, such as has
not been known there for decade
A persistent effort was made by specu-
lators to put up the price of mining
stocks, with the result that boom was
created in Comstock shares, also in the
consolidated California and Virginia
mines, and they were run up to very
high figures The excitement seized
all classes, and many people drew their
hard-earned deposits from the savings
banks and invested in stocks, eager to
secure the fortune which they saw al
most in reach.
The reaction came, and several fail
ures were at once announced. One
firm, L. B. Frankel & Co., failed to the
amount of 1915, 900 carrying with them
another firm, Greenbaum & Strauss,
with liabilities for 100000. These fail
ures demoralized the street, and stocks
tumbled way down. The losses, as
usual, fell on the small spectators,
;o II
with those who risked their little all
on the market, with the hope of COM
ing out rich. The list of losers includes
several clerks and miners. and num-
Der of women. One of the rascals en-
gagged in the movement has fled for
parts unknown with a large fortune
made out of the calamities of others.
Had he remained it is believed that his
life would have been taken, such was
the fury of the people.
The lesson to be learned from this
craze in stocks, is the old, and yet ever
new one, that the best and surest road
to fortune is through the honest path
of industry. Those who amass for
tunes in day or week are just as apt
to lose them in a brief season, and
finally become poorer than ever, for
that man who obtains sudden wealth
is prone to squander it while he who
acquires competence by slow meth
ods, and in the rugged road of labor,
will generally retain it, The former is
the dishonest method, the latter is the
honest one. The recent terrible dis
closures in San Francisco should prove
a lesson to all who may hereafter be
tempted by the allurements of the
stock market 1t is species of gamb-
ling as bad as that practiced by the
rascal who presides at the green ta-
BILE, and should be frowned upon by
every honest man.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09
THE CURRENCY.

Mr.. Trenholm, Comptroller of the
National Currency, has submitted a
very able report to the Secretary of
the Treasury. In discussing the ques-
tion of National Bank circulation he
says:-'Banks now holding three per
cent. bonds, and newly organized
banking associations are forced into
the market as purchasers of the four
per cent. or the four-and-a-half per
cent. bonds, and this constant demand,
in connection with the prospective
scarcity, sustains and tends still fur
ther to elevate the premiums on these
bonds AS the time approaches for
the payment of the four. and-a-half
per cent. bonds, it is reasonable to eX-
pect a still greater demand for the
four per cents, and it is a question of
serious importance whether the banks
can afford to hold or buy four per
cent. bonds after 1891"
The Comptroller argues that any
legislation directed to the improve
ment and permanent establishment of
the National Banking system must in
clude some provision for the mainten-
ance of a National Bank circulation.
1t appears that whatever opposition
exists to the National Banks attaches
to them mainly as banks of issue. The
problem now to be solved is how to
remodel the currency features of the
National Banking system so as to OBJ
tain popular approval.
In reply to the objections made by
those who believe that there is no
necessity for National Banks, and that
all paper money should be issued
direct by the Government, the Comp
troller says that sit is evident that our
people will have paper money in one
form or another, and that of all forms
of paper money of which we have had
any experience the present national
bank currency is the least objection
able, even to those who think that all
such money should be avoided. That
while bank currency based on Gov
ernment bonds and redeemable in
greenbacks may be considered as a
kind of Government money on which
the banks are getting the profit, yet
without this privilege or some other
equivalent the National DanK system
could never have been established nor
can it now be maintained and that
this is the cheapest price at which the
people of the Government could have
got any banking system so good in all
respects and so valuable as this has
proved to be. That the want of flexi-
bility in the currency and of elasticity
of volume are consequences arising
from the scarcity of bonds and the
high prices to which they have risen,
and that this could not have been fore
seen nor provided against in the origi-
nal acts, but may now be remedied by
proper legislation"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09
NO. 2O2O
Port Norris Notes.

Saturday evening there was mas
querade party at Capt. Geo. Webb's
residence. 1t was quite surprise for
the Captain, as he was totally in the
dark as to the matter About thirty
persons were present, and they had
good time
The sloop Trader" has not vet been
heard from, and there are grave fears
as to whether both vessel and crew
havn't been lost
Mr. S. Glands trotting horse has
proved very smart. He offers to bet
that the animal will go a mile in 2. "A,
and he values it at 1850.
Rev. j. r. Thompson, of the NJ. E.
Church, commenced a series of illus
trated sermons at yesterdays service.
They are very interesting
Sutton & Haines are selling first-class
beef steak, and many people say they
are the most enterprising butchers we
have ever had at the Port.
Sunday morning and evening the
AeCN' W. W. louliOCh, vi MdE1lOIl, Cdul-
den county, preached in the Baptist
Church. His text in the morning was
from 1st Peter, 1st chapter, part of 18th
verse:-"Wherefore grid up the loins
of your mind" In the evening the
text was from 1st Peter. I'd chapter,
9th Behold I lay in Zion
chief cornerstone, elect, precious; and
he that believeth on him shall not be
confounded" Mr. Bullock is a fine
speaker, and both sermons were ex-
cellent.
'Dickie" Compton is an old, expert
enced hand in the painting business.
He served his apprenticeship with his
father, T. G. Compton, for twenty one
years, and has since been contracting
for a period so long, he says, that his
memory runneth not to the contrary
Capt. Henry S. Robbins informs us
that the vessel, launched not long
since, of which he owns a share, is
named Isaac T. Nichols" of which
name he is proud. Port Norris Ga
zette. ROB.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09

The exceeding low tide of Friday
night, in the Shrewsbury river, Mon
mouth county, exposed thousands of
bushels of oysters, which were badly
frozen, thus destroying the crop. 1t is
an i'll wind that blows no one any
good, consequently our Maurice River
Cove oysters will be more in demand
because of this calamity to Shrews-
burys.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09
Seriously Injured.

S. L. Tubman, theformer stagemana at
Dividing Creek, was carting wood Fri
day afternoon about o'clock, with
two horses. His load was very heavy.
and consisted of heavy oak wood, and
while on the road his wagon ran into
hole, throwing some of the wood.
upon the horses This caused the
horses to run, and they soon got be-
yond the control of Mr. Tubman, and
ran away, throwing him from the
load, so that both wheels on one side
of the wagon passed over his body, in
fiicting serious internal injuries, and
fracturing one of his legs. The horses
ran on until they got the wagon
caught in the trees in the woods, and
were compelled to stop.
Mr.. Tubman lay for some time in the
road, and as no help came he was COM
PEELED to crawl on his hands and
knees for nearly a mile for aid Last
night he was very restless, and it is
feared that his injuries may prove
fatal. Mr.. Tubman is we'll known
around the county, and is much re-
spected, and his many friends join
with the family in earnestly hoping
for his recovery.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09
TO KEEP APPLES IN WINTER

The great secret of keeping apples
through the winter is to store them in
well-ventilated room or cellar that is
kept as near the freezing point as pos
sible without actually freezing the ap-
Piles. Apples and potatoes should
never be kept in the same cellar, or if
this is unavoidable, the potatoes should
be kept in the warmest part of the
cellar, and the barrels of apples, we'll
heaped up, near the windows, where
on days when the air outside is only a
few degrees above freezing, they can
be treated to cold breeze from the
open windows, while at the same time,
the atmosphere in the part of the eel
lar where the potatoes are kept does
not fall below forty degrees. With a
thermometer in the cellar it is quite
possible to cool off the apples without
injuring the potatoes. Do not unhead
the barrels until the apples are wanted.
1t is rarely a good plan to sort over the
apples to pick out the rotten ones.
Better let them remain undisturbed.
Apples in ripening give off carbonic
acid, which cannot be allowed to ac-
cumulate in the house cellar, but mnst
be removed by ventilation. This de-
leterious gas. carbonic acid, aids in
preserving the fruit, and it is one of
the advantages of an outside cellar
that this can be allowed to remain.
American Agriculturist.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09

In the second week of September,
1886, the flour mills in Minneapolis pro-
duced 142, $50 barrels, averaging %, ,797
daily, against 1890 barrels in the cor
responding time last year, being pro-
badly the heaviest weeks work in that
great milling city.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09

A Sonoma, CAL, hunter saw a deer
under small madrona tree 200 yards
away. He fired and missed the deer,
but hit the tree about six inches above
the animals head, knocking off a
splinter four inches long that struck
the deer's head with such force as to
penetrate the skull and cause instant
DEATH
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-12-09

DIR. Jacob VanWinkle, of Hacken-
sack, has shot 100 gray squirrels, II of
them in one day, this Fall. He has
also bagged number of red squirrels.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-31
High License. the Remedy.

What Is the remedy? That is, what
Is remedy that, considering the nature
of the population, has the best chance
of salutsry effect? We believe that 1t is
a high license, a license so high that no
small groggeries can be kept open under
1t, and the number would be reduced to
a very few. These few should be con-
spicuouslv placed open to public and
police inspection. A license fee Of 81 900
each would hot be too high, and perhaps
not high enough. Liquor selling as 1t Is
carried on, with all its known dilutions
and authorizations, Is a very profitable
business. In some cases Ii has been
shown that the profits OF retailing whis-
key are thousand per cent. Now,
one effect Of very high license is to put
the burden, or good part OF 1t, Of look
ing after the crime and disorder that
bar-room drinking produces where II
belongs. Another effect Of 1t Is to close
up the small groggeries and hidden
drinking holes, which are much more
temptations and subversive OF good or.
der than large saloons which are open
to society's inspeotion.-Hartford Cour-
ant
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-31
Prince Alexander has forbidden the
Of Russian coin In Bulgaria.

! Prince Alexander has forbidden the
circulation Of Russian coin in Bulgaria.
A widespread revolutionary plot, with
branches In Paris and at st. Petersburg,
has been discovered at Warsaw, Poland.
The announcement that Emperor Will
liam was dead caused Il fall Of Rentes on
| the Paris bOurse from 50 francs TO 10
francs.
Able Liszt. the pianist, is dangerous
ly Ill at Beyreuth.
TIL Tynneyalley theater, British In
dia, burned aud 100 Hindoos killed.
The German steamers on the Austral-
ian routes will hereafter touch at South
amptOn, England.
The reports OF William OF Germany
being very sick a e unfounded.
Captain Thacker and Lieutenants
Whitall, Thurston and Michael. who
have been acting on detached duty
holding oourt-martial at Fort RInggold,
returned yesterday TO duty at Fort Nc
lntOsh.
The senatorial convention for the dis
trict composed OF Tarrant, Wise,
Parker and Jack counties, met at
WeatheriOrd and nominated j. }. jar
Wis, of Fort Worth, by reclamation.
Messrs. Thomas +. West and J. Guthrie
withdrew before the convention was
called to order.
The negroes have been ordered to
leave COmanche county by their white
masters, and are fleeing in all directions.
Many Of them have turned up in Nc
Lehman county.
The Knights of Labor and part of the
Farmers Alliance met at Decatur in
convention yesterday morning and NOM
mated a full county ticket, from senator
down.
The district convention, X. Of L., in
session at Bath, Maine, instructed its
delegates to vote for POwderly's reten-
ton in Office as general master work.
man.
At the Hampton mines, Williamsburg
district, Pa, 200 miners have struck
against reduction from II cents per
ton to 90 cents.
House passed bill appropriating $780,
600 for a public building at Jefferson,
this state.
The house refused to pass over the
presidents veto the $50 q month PEN
sion for General Hunters widow. Hun
ter was the officer who presided at the
court-martial..wh found FitzJOhn Por-
ter guilty OF INSTRUMENTATION and DISC
bedience OF orders.
The Del Rio Dot is in financial diff
culties, but 1t is hoped that the plucky
young ladies who manage that paper, do
all Its work and literally man the con-
Germ, will be able to pull through. Del
Rio should put its shoulders to the
wheel.
Bowie county ins tructs for Swain.
Bread, 1000 pounds Of it, went down
from Austin to San Marcos barbecue to-
day.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-31
BRIEF MENTION.

The Medical Times says that about
%, 600 deaths from typhoid fever occur
In this country annually, and this repre-
sents fully 10000 cases OF disease.
The New York Tribune has already
sent 1877 children into the country by
aid OF the "fresh air fund" as against
1868 for the same length Of time last
year.
A table giving the price OF gas in
ninety-fve Of the principal cities VI the
United States show total range In the
price Of from ninety cents to 81 per 1000
feet.
London is going to celebra the l0OOth
anniversary of the restoration of the city
by Alfred, king of the West Saxons, in
1856, after it had been destroyed by the
Danes and other barbarians in $50, A. ID.
The number of men in the three pro-
essiOns-dIvinity, law and medicine
was, in 1860. 254 1920, of whom 81, 69S
we're ministers, 81, l3 lawyers. and S5,-
GIL physicians and surgeons. 1884 den
dentists and 2.7O0 pharmacists.
Mr.. Francis Charming, who has just
been elected to parliament in East
Northsmptonshire, England, is a Bos-
ton boy, being the son Of the late Rev.
William II. Charming, Of Brook Farm
memory, and q brother-in-law of Ed
ward Arnold, poet-editor.
The Richmond correspondent OF the
Baltimore American on Thursday asked
Governor Lee the news: The governor
sat down and wrote the following
"rhe governors family on the 2lst OF
July consisted of two little girls and two
little boys. To-day. the 23d, the COVER
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