Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-22
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STATE NEWS,


The marble cutters of Newark will
demand thatapine hours constitute a
day on and after May 1.
The United States Supreme Court
has affirmed the right of New Jersey to
tax the old Indian lands in Burlington
County
The family of Robert Hayes, of Cape
May, have been seriously i'll from eat
ing what they supposed was horse
radish. .5sThey all show symptoms of
poisoning, but the nature of the root
is not yet known
Property owners along the line of
the Salem Railroad have been ordered
by the company to move their fences
Off the company's land. Some fences
will have to be moved eeveral feet,
others only few inches. The owners
are indignant
Shad fishing is slowly improving in
the Delaware, but only few fish have
been taken from the Hudson River. A
Philadelphia paper says that Southern
fish are being taken down the river,
washed in the Delaware and brought
back to market, where they are sold
as Delaware Bay shad.
No attempt has been made to re-
move the wrecked ship Adolphus,
which was lost off the Capes of Della
ware Bay last winter. The wreck lies
near Cape Henlopen, bearing west
one-half south, six miles off shore, and
every vessel that nears that point runs
the risk of striking the sunken vessel.
The West Jersey railroad has ordered
the extension of its second track from
Temperanceville, near Glassboro, to
Newfield Junction, where the West
Jersey and Atlantic railroad joins the
main line, distance of about six miles.
The extension, it is expected, will be
completed before the opening of the
Summer season.
Asher Brakeley, Republican, has
been elected Mayor of Bordentown in
stead of Hudson, the Democratic can
didate. The Returning Board discov-
cred an error of nine votes in favor of
Brakeley, who has two majority. It is
now stated that Hudson will demand a
recount. There is considerable ex-
citelnent over the result.
Thieves broke into the Roman
Catholic Church of st. John Baptist,
in Paterson, before daylight Friday
morning, and after ransacking every
receptacle likely to contain money or
valuables without getting any, entered
the rectory adjoining, where they Sc
cured a solid silver chalice and wrenched
off the solid silver cup of another.
On Thursday morning at 9. 90 o'clock,
officer Allen and Kuhn, of New Bruins
wick, saw large object lying across
the track of the Pennsylvania Rail
road directly in the path of an ap-
preaching train. They found the OBJ
struction to be huge timber, wedged
in between the ties. The officers had
hard work to remove the beam, and
succeeded just in time. There is no
clue to the perpetrators.
There is considerable talk about the
informal announcement of the organi-
zation of hotel stock company in
Atlantic City, who propose erecting
within year large winter and sum-
mer hotel at an expense of $3.50, ,00O
The projectors of the movement are
Charles Evans, of the Seaside, and Ed
win Lippincott, of the Haddon. The
site selected extends from Pennsyl-
vania to North Carolina avenues, near
the beach,
The Rev. Father William H. Nc
Nulty, pastor of st. Johns Catholic
Church, of Paterson, made one of his
peculiar raids on Paterson liquor sa-
looms on Sunday night. He went in
the back way, as he saw others go,
then he backed himself up against the
door SO that none should escape. In
some places the crowd rushed through
rear windows, taking sash and glass
with them. He took down the names
of all he knew, and where there was
anything on the bar he tasted it. so
that he could swear that it was not
ginger ale.
The State Board of Education met
recently at the Capitol to agree upon
the apportionment of the State reserve
fund, $146, $3.50, which is ten per cent.
OF the school tax. The apportionment
agreed upon was that the following
seven counties should receive back just
the amount they raised: Bergen, Bur
lington, Monmouth, Morris, Pasaic,