Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-03-04
GENERAL NEWS.

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The Macon Telegraph says that dur
ing the present Winter no fewer than
one hundred children have been burned
to death in Georgia ''The majority
of them were left alone in the houses
of their parents"
A nine hundred pound anchor has
been dredged up by an oyster steamer
near New Havan Light, Conn. 1t was
partly covered with four-year-o oys-
ters, and is the third fished up in that
vicinity within year.
Mrs. Sarah Paide, of Adams town
ship, Ohio, who died few days ago,
had lived ninety-seven years, given
birth to eleven children, and counted
among her descendants thirty-five
grandchildren, eighty-one great-grand-
children, and eleven great-great-grand-
children
An exciting scene took place in Mac
clesfeld police court in London re-
Gently. A notorious character named
Flanagan, convicted of brutal assault
upon woman, was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment. On being SEN
fenced he became very excited, using
most disgusting language, and threw
hic hot OF fha or 10 or
of them.
At ten minutes after twelve O'Clock
on Sunday morning Alexander Crew.
ling, one of the Oldest citizens of Phil
lipsburg. N. j., died. He had been
sick for long time, but was not con-
fined to his bed until Saturday after
noon. His one great wish from his
boyhood was that he should live to be
eighty years old. At 12 o'clock he
was eighty and ten minutes after he
was dead.
On Friday last alife saving craft was
made at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 1t
is constructed of canvass saturated
with a waterproof material, and has
ribs of wood and cork so arranged
that the boat floats like on umbrella
when not in use. When lowered from
the davits it expands automatically,
and the inventor claims that it cannot
sink, and if upset will right itself.
Several notorious American default
ers and embezzlers, who have found
Canada a desirable health resort, at
tended a fashionable ball at Quebec
the other night, and reports state that
society people in that city were much
shocked by the circumstance, the
Lieutenant General going to the point
of refusing to enter the ballroom when
informed of the presence of the Ameri-
can extractions.
A curious disease. for which the doc
tors there have found no proper name,
has been affecting many adults at High
Hills, in Saratoga County, N. Y. The
side of the face and head begins to
swell and soon becomes very painful,
and in some cases the patients have
been compelled to have the swelling
lanced which has generally effected a
cure, although in one case the lance
was applied second time.
In Germany apothecaries are not al
lowed to sell miscellaneous articles, on
the ground that such sales are likely
to divert the clerks attention from the
delicate duty of compounding medi-
cines. There are drug stores where
miscellaneous articles are for sale, but
no prescriptions can be prepared in
them, under severe penalties. Poison
GUS articles are kept in a room re-
served exclusively for them.
A young woman of Dakota moved a
few months ago from the Black Hills,
and, while debating whether or not to
move her old cook stove also, was Of
fered 100 shares of Iron Hill stock for
it. The stock was then thought to be
worth just about as much as the paper
on which it was printed. She took the
Offer has also been offered $4,000 for
her stock, is holding on for more
money, and the shares are still rising
The body of Juliana Schueler, an
aged German woman who died in New
ark, Saturday afternoon, was wrapped
in sheet and laid on a bed in second
story window. A lighted candle was
placed at the foot of the bed. Late
in the evening the wind blew through
the crevices in the frame and carried
the flame of the candle against the
sheet. An alarm of fire was given and
the firemen extingnished the flames,
but not before the corpse was burned
up.
The curtains up. the plays begun,
strained my neck to see the fun.
And why? In front sit two fair girls
With large, round bonnets DER their curls-