Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-01-28
Walter Robinson, all single men and
residents of Sorners Point.

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State Prison for all purposes during
the year were 1884, .S5, the earnings
amounted to $27, ,541.S5, making the
cost of the State Prison $77, 109.99 The
| Government commends the ''piece
price system now in use, and, with
keeper Laverty, expresses the belief
that the future will show up better re-
turns than the past.
While the Quartet Club was giving
concert at Odd Fellows Hall, in Ho-
boken on recent Sunday evening,
Frantz Schwartz, one of the musicians,
fell dead in the orchestra circle, of
heart disease. The managers did not
want to disturb the performance, and it
was given out that he had been stricken
beneath the stage. The remains were
taken to the morgue, and the mirth
and music went on as though Death
had not stalked into the hall.
Minnie Schaeffer, convict who has
just been released from the State
Prison, at Trenton, Saturday preferred
a charge of seduction against Prison
keeper Lafferty, and swore out war
rant against him. Lafferty was taken
before Police Justice for a hearing,
but the woman's testimony was of
missed the case. Lafferty at once
caused the woman's arrest on the
charge of perjury and blackmail, and
she was committed to answer.
The stockholders of the State Agri-
cultural Society held their annual
meeting in the Supreme Court Room,
at the State House, Jan. Goth. Thos.
T. Kinney, of Newark, was elected
chairman. The Treasurer's report
showed that the receipts from all
sources during the year were $26, $685.
81, and the disbursements $25, 7O4. rs.
Amos Clark was elected President of
the society, and Charles B. Kilburn,
Treasurer. All but two of the old direct
ors were reelected, and in their places
Franklin Murphy and George B. Jen-
kinson, of Newark, were chosen.
What is supposed to be case of
transmission of hydrophobia has been
discovered near New Brunswick. On
January 14th, a young son of Seward
Applegate died from that disease.
Now another son of Mr.. Applegate
shows signs of being attacked by the
same disease, although he was not
bitten. 1t is thought that the expla-
nation of the case lies in the fact that
! the boy and his brother who died had
been eating candy when the one was
attacked by the disease, and that the
surviving brother swallowed some of
the saliva from his brothers mouth,
as both were eating the same piece
and taking turns in sucking it.
The annual meeting of the West
Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural
Association was held Thursday after
noon at McAllister's hall, Woodstown
The following officers were elected:
President, Omar Borton; Vice Presi-
dent, DR.. M. j. Paulding, John W.
Dickinson; DIR. L. A. D. Allen; John
Hanes; Secretary, James D. lawson;
Treasurer, Samuel T. Lippincott; Ex-
executive Committee, Robert Hewitt,
Israel A. Hewitt, George Coombs,
Barclay Edwards, Charles R. Burt,
Isaac c. Dubois, Clark Petit, Henry
w. Austin, and Alfred Lippincott.
September 18th and 10th, 1886, was fixed
as the date of the next annual Fair.
The term of subsidy which the State
granted several years ago to encourage
the production of sorghum expires this
year. 1t has never been availed of
except by one corporation in Cape
May county that has established large
sorghum mills and drawn many thous-
ands of dollars of bounty from the State
treasury annually An effort will be
made this Winter to secure from the
Legislature the extention of the bounty
for another term of years. The effort
will opposed, on the ground that the
experiment has gone far enough to
demonstrate that the business of sor-
ghum raising can never become an ex-
tensive one in the State or profitable
except for the subsidy.
The Passaic County Grand Jury at
its late meeting, brought in a present
ment against the Board of Chosen
Freeholders for alleged loose method
of doing business. 1t has been gener-
ally claimed that the business of that
county was transacted in better
manner than in any other county in
the State. An amusing feature of the
presentment is the fact that one of the
Grand Jurors, who has been most
strenuous in urging some reflection on
the Board, was one of the chief origi-
nators of the present business methods
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