Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-22
BRIDGEToN N. J., THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1886.
GENERAL NEWS.


1t is said that the spray of the great
Yellowstone falls, in the National Park,
built up at its foot a mountain of ice,
scarcely yet affected by the spring
warmth, and almost as high as the fall
itself, which in midwinter was magni-
ficent in form and color
Society in Adrian, Mich, has been
stirred to its deepest depths on learn
ing that a pretty young woman, whom
it has known for some months as Miss
Alena Ripley, and has been very kind
to, is really the wife of one Friar, the
express robber of Glencoe, Canada.
The onions of Wethersfield, Conn,
have long been famous, but Sunder-
land township, in Western Massachu-
setts, devoted sixty-three acres to that
odoriferous bulb last year., which
yielded 524 bushels to the acre each,
worth $20,000 or about $317 to the
acre.
A woman in a remote Maine village,
crazed by excessive Bible reading and
revival excitement, endeavored to
gouge her eyes out, and afterward cut
off an arm with an axe, in order to
obey the injunction, IF an eye offend
thee, pluck it OUT sc. She is recov-
ering, but is still insane.
Success in farming depends as much
on energy and perseverance as any
other business. Alazy, shiftless farmer
is rarely successful one. As man is
known by the company he keeps, SO is
lazy farmer known by the looks of
his farm, loose stone, half-tilIed fields,
and thrifty hedgerows tell the tale.
At the foot of Main street in Dan
bury, Conn, stands house built by
Elnathan Osborn in 1896 1t is low,
hip-roofed house, studded with enor-
nous beams, and lighted by very
small diamond window panes. When
the British under Tryon fired the vii
lage this was the only house spared
There have been fought in France
since 1870, S47 duels, besides many be-
tween officers and between private
soldiers, which are scarcely ever men
toned in the papers. Out of these 847
duels, only nine resulted in one of the
parties being disabled. In9S per cent.
of the cases the combatants left the
field unscathed, though rehabilitated.
Norman Alter, Fort Plain Knight
of Labor. recently revealed some of
the secrets of the order. He has been
expelled, and the Knights not only will
not let him work in the village, but
have directed all saloon keepers not to
sell him liquor on pain of boycott.
As Alter has been a hard drinker, this
boycott on him is not an.unmixed evil.
Brigadier's Island, Me-, which lies
in Penobscot Bay, is said to be still in
possession of the family to whom Gen
eral Knox, of Revolutionary fame,
mortgaged it for grocery bill. David
Sears, a Boston merchant, was the
MORTGAGE, and his great grandson,
also named David Sears, still clings to
it, chiefly because of the historical
"reminiscences just mentioned.
An Atlanta COW fell into deep well
on Sunday, and her owner was unable
to hoist her out, so he brought many
loads of shavings from ii neighboring
planning mill and dumped them into
the we'll. AS fast as they fell the COW
trampled them under her feet, and
thus she came to the surface and
walked away.
John James Ingalls,, of Kansas, is a
statesman of whom the Republican
party may well be proud. Manly,
faithful, eloquent, thoroughly Ameri-
can and thoroughly patriotic, scorning
hypocrisy, and destroying imposture,
there is no leader of that party to
whom the people more gladly listen,
or whose influence over public affairs
is more wholesome.-Ne,0Y York Sun
Sixteen years ago 5-year-old Johnny
Foreman, of Reading, Pa, swallowed
one of the five-cornered little play
things the children call ''jackstones."
Commissions and partial paralysis fol
lowed, and to day the boy-a man in
years-is mental wreck, not knowing
even his own name. Physicians say
that the Jack" is probably pressing
against a nerve somewhere in his body.
The floods in the Warren, Coosa and
Tallapoosa rivers in Alabama, are sub
siding, but railroad communication at
various points remains cut off. Thous-
ands of horses, mules, cattle and hogs
have been swept away, and great
quantities of corn, cotton-seed and
provisions destroyed So far as known,