Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1886-01-21

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increased wonderfully From October
18th to November 18th, 208 couples
were united; from November 18th to
December 18th, 257 marriages were
solemnized
The Presbytery of Newton, Sussex
Co., has determined to find subject to
discipline all members of Presbyterian
churches who are engaged in the liq-
uor traffic either Immediately as vend-
ers or indirectly as recommending the
granting of licenses. In resolution
recently adopted it recites that it is the
sense of this Presbytery that the bust
ness of selling rum and other intoxi-
eating drinks is sin against God, for
hidden alike by His word and the
ften-expressed sentiment of the Pres
| byterian church.
John L. Kilgour, of Passaic, who has
! been extensively advertised as having
fallen heir to a fortune of $3.50 900, first
heard of the death of his cousin Peter,
late>owner of the fortune, about ten
years ago. The prosperous condition
of the bluestone business at that time
led him to overlook the matter. A
few weeks ago his attention was again
directed to the prospective legacy and
he at once instituted inquiries, which
resulted so much to his satisfaction
that he has decided to send an agent
to take charge of the case.
When Richard H. Clark removed
from Morristown, Morris County, a
short time since. there was uninten-
tionally left in the house a mahogany
chest, containing valuable family and
religious relics, including some from
Rome and Jerusalem, an old watch
and seal formerly his fathers, besides
many other articles of comparative lit
tie value. Thieves broke into the box
and rified its contents before it was
missed from the large lot of goods
which were removed. The chest had
been taken from the second to the
third story and hidden behind the
water tank. There is no clue to the
rascalS.
Mrs. Louisa Steeger, who leaped from
a fourth-story window at Hoboken, in
| November last, with her babe in her
arms, and so caused the death of the
child, was on trial recently, in Judge
McGill's court, in Jersey City. The
jury, having heard the evidence, ac-
quilted her on the ground of insanity.
She had been driven to her attempt at
suicide by want. Her husband cut his
throat, and in a frenzy of grief she
leaped to the window casing and down
to the street, She had recently arrived
in this country. She was sent back to
the Commissioners of Emigration of
New York. They may either send her
back to Ireland or to the asylum at
Blackwell's Island.
The West Jersey Game Protective
Society held its annual meeting at
Gloucester City on Thursday. The Sec
retary's report showed that the bounty
paid on hawks killed was $716.95; for
special officers, $414, As; other expenses,
$4,000, making the total s., 1888. AZ.
The Secretary was instructed to petit
ton the Legislature for the following
changes in the game laws of the State:
Opening of the reed bird season on
September 1; squirrel season from
September to November 1 to close
the season for deer three years; to Sc
cure the passage of a law making it
finable for any person to have game in
his or her possession killed or caught
contrary to law. This is to cover cases
in which game is now trapped under
the protection of law.
The mills of the United States Dyna-
mite Company, located about two miles
west of Toms River, on the Manchester
road, exploded Saturday afternoon at
5 o'clock. The company employs
about twenty men, who stopped work
at half past 4. They all had left but
three or four, who live at the works.
About ten minutes before 5 fire was
discovered in the packing house, in
which was stored about 5000 pounds
of dynamite. The packing-house was
blown to atoms and the other build
ings badly damaged. About 1000
pounds of nitro -glycerine and large
quantity of gun-cotton that was stored
in the magazine seventy yards away
did not explode. The building is
heated by steam from the engine-room,
fifty yards away, and the cause of the
fire cannot be accounted for. No one
was injured.
In case the authorities take no steps
towards preventing the Menhaden
fishermen, who are exterminating the
food fishes along the Atlantic coast
from operating in the water contiguous
to Holly Beach, people there will
probably take the law into their own