Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-09-02
STATE NEWS,

STATE NEWS.
the cranberry crop in this State this
year will not equal the average by
one-half.
Stillwell Townsend has been ap-
pointed Sheriff of Cape May county to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of the late Sheriff Benezet.
The annual convention of Burlington
county brass bands will be held at
Florence on Thursday, September 9th.
About twenty bands and eight
drum corps will take part.
George I. Seney, formerly of Bernards-
vile, this State, who failed for large
amount few years ago, has not only
paid all his creditors, but last week
made good donation of 100000 to
the Wesleyan University at Middletown,
Conn.
William s. Taylor, of Burlington,
has been appointed commissioner for
New Jersey at the American exhibition
to be held in London in 1887. Parties
desiring to make exhibits will find Mr..
Taylor alive to their interests, and
will do well to communicate with him.
Jessie J. Carlin, who was so.seriously
injured in trying to save the life of
Miss Wockoff, at Elizabeth, a few
weeks ago, was conveyed, on Thursday,
to the Morris Plains Asylum. Mr..
Catlin is violently insane, and his
physicians say he cannot live, as his
brain is softening.
The New Jersey Historical Society
will meet at Schooley's Mountain on
Thursday, September 2, at eleven a. m
The Rev. DR.. Tuttle, president of
Wabash College, will make historical
address; and papers on the early
histories of Schooley's Mountain, and
on the early settlement of the Evan
gelical Lutherans in New Jersey will
also be read.
A reunion of the Fifteenth Regiment,
New Jersey Volunteers, will be held at
Dover, on September 23d. 1t is claimed
that this organization, which was re-
cruited in Morris, Warren, Hunterdon
and Sussex counties, lost more men in
killed and wounded than any other
regiment that went from New Jersey.
The command was engaged in all the
! battles of the Army of the Potomac
after Antietam.
A sunfiower grown in the garden of
w. G. Taylor, Haddonfield, shows
curious resemblance to an Indians
| face and head. 1t is a twin flower,
united at the top the two parts grow
ing back to back, and leaving the cen
ters to represent eyes on either side OF
what is thus made to look like an oval
| face, while the arrangement of the
petals takes on the aspect of the con-
ventional feather decorations of an
Indians head.
Sylvester w. Carr, of Mt. Airy,
Germantown, Pa, was drowned in the
surf while bathing at Asbury Park, on
Thursday. Miss Lizzie Cooper, his
financee, was on the beach and wit
messed his death struggle. His body
was not recovered Bathing Master
Brown made heroic efforts to rescue
the unfortunate bather, but failed. Mr..
Carr was a rubber merchant at No.
1883 Market street, Philadelphia, and
was secretary of Mount Pleasant
Methodist Episcopal Church. He was
"a years old.
A party of tourists from the Ccnt,Ty
of New York, has been at Bordentown
in barge, travelling by the Delaware
and Raritan Canal On the way not a
nook or crook escaped their sketching
observance. The party consisted of
r. w. Glider, editor of the Centu1y,
and five of its talented contributors
They visited Bonaparte Park, took
sketches of the old Hopkinson mansion
and other noted historical places.
Their craft, while cumbersome-look-
ing on the exterior, was filled within
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furniture, bric-a-brac, antediluvian car
pets, swinging censors, easy chairs,
and luxurious lounges. An awning
covered the upper deck, under which
were swinging hammocks and easy
chairs of antique patterns, consonant
with the travelling party's taste and
comfort.
A queer old relic of the late civil war
was brought to light at the sale of the
personal effects of the late John b.
Decker at his late home, Deckertown,
Sussex Co. 1t was a large, old fashioned
paneled wagon body, used in the South
before the war, and usually drawn on
the plantation by four mules. The