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STATE NEWS.

the market this year than for several
years past. Without an exception all
the beds are unusually full.
The actual loss to the Rio Grande,
Cape May, Sugar Company, by the
partial destruction of their seed stacks
is about $500. First reports greatly
exaggerated the probable loss.
The net revenue to the City of Cam
den from its water works during the
past year was $54, 4,695. 50. The superin-
tendent recommends the Introduction
of water meters in industrial establish
ments
The late Judge John Terhune left as
relic the first directory of New Bruins
wick ever published. 1t was compiled
by Mr.. Terhune, in 1899, and includes
364 names 'as the most prominent
citizens"
Several of the big mills in Paterson
and Passaic are being run nights to
keep pace with increasing business.
Mill owners say that the prospects in
nearly every line of manufacture are
daily growing brighter.
The latest scheme is said to be for
the Jersey Central, Bound Brook and
North Penn. Railroads to be leased by
the Lehigh Valley, thus blocking the
Baltimore and Ohio's plans and bene-
fitting the Pennsylvania.
A Phillipsburg, Warren county, man
owns chicken that gets up in the
middle of the night to lay eggs. The
only trouble is that caused by her
waking the family at unreasonable
hours by her triumphant cackling.
The New York Hebrew Emigrant
Committee has sent the Vineland colo
nists formal notice that unless they
sign the new lease required of them.
and give up their old deeds by the end
of this month, they will be rejected
from their farms.
Thousands of wagon loads of sea
clans, torn from their ocean beds and
thrown ashore by the late storm, line
the beach at Ocean Beach In some
places they lay in winrows two feet
deep. The farmers are carting them
away for fertilizers.
Egg socials are now the go in Woods
town, Salem county. Every lady at
tending the social brings boiled egg
with her name written on it. The gen.
tleman drawing the egg from basket
held so that he cannot look into it at
the time, takes the lady out to supper.
The morocco factory of L. f. Hague,
& Co., at Burlington, was destroyed
by fire on Thursday night. The loss
is estimated at about $4,000 on build
ing, machinery and stock. There was
an insurance of $4,000 on the building,
which belonged to the estate of Ed
ward Evans.
Receiver Hufty, of the broken
Gloucester City Savings Bank, has
failed to dispose of the $23, 500 worth of
bonds, which draw per cent. He has
$4,000 cash on hand, and as soon as
the bonds are sold he will make another
dividend of 25 per cent. in addition to
that of 30 per cent. already paid.
Some years ago the Delaware Rolling
Mill, at Phillipsburg, Warren county,
was sold under the hammer at a great
sacrifice. Since then it has been closed.
1t is now said that the mill is to be
overhauled, new machinery put in and
the works started up in March. The
mill cost $25O,0OO, and employed 200
men.
John Swayn, of Oxford, Warren Co.,
attempted to kill himself few nights
ago. He locked himself in his barn, and
securing a hatchet he cut twenty five
gashes in his head. Five of them pen
etrated his skull and exposed the brain.
Physicians say it is impossible for him
to live. 1t is supposed that he was in
sane.
Travel, on the Sea Isle and Ocean
City Railroad, which had only been
resumed short time, having been sus-
pended owing to heavy washouts dur
ing the last storm. is again entirely
suspended the entire length of the road.
The railroad officials report several bad
washouts on the road, and state that
it will be several days before the re-
pairs can be completed.
The popularity of Camden as place
for the tying of nuptial knots is evil
denced by the figures of record in the
City Clerks office. Previous to last
October the average number of we'd
dings per month was about forty-five.