Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-05-27
& NICHOLS, Publishers.
STATE NEWS.

Brunswick, has donated $4,000 to the
Peddie Institute, at Hightstown.
Hon. A. Judson Rue, has been ap-
pointed Inspector of supplies for the
State Prison, and entered upon his
duties on Friday.
A special boat is run at night from
Atlantic Highlands to New York, for
the accommodation of asparagus grow
erS.
United States Senator Sewell will
succeed the late General Mcclellan as
manager of the National Soldiers
Home.
Charles j. Noel, his wife, mother,
grandmother, young son and boarder
have all been poisoned at Plainfield by
eating greens purchased from peddler.
A box containing valuable private
letters stolen from the house of Mr.
Margerum, of Pennsgrove, a few nights
ago, has been found intact on the out
skirts of the town.
Hon. Edward BEETLE, at his country
seat in the outskirts of Camden, has in
full bloom double Towering English
hawthorne The tree is twenty-five
feet high and is mass of pink bios
SONS
The late DR.. J. G. Aver, of patent
medicine fame, first started in business
as an Indian DOCTOR at Belvidere' in
1919. The first sign he used there is in
the possession of relatives now living
in Warren county.
Recently a Mrs. Aston, who resides
on Beach street, Red Bank, gave birth
to child having six fingers on each
hand and six toes on each foot The
superfuous fingers and toes have been
amputated successfully.
There are 905 convicts in the State
prison. Among them is colored man
who has been in the institution twenty
six years. In his youth he held a little
white boy under water until he
drowned. Heis serving life sentence.
Major-General Sewell has issued
orders for the Second Brigade of the
State National Guard to go into en-
campment at Sea Girt from August 23d
to the 2Sth The men will be paid
under the law just signed by the Gov
ernor.
The number of licensed liquor places
in Princeton has been much reduced
recently by the present borough ordi-
nance. Each saloon-keeper must have
twelve signers to his papers by Free
holders living on his street, and the
same man can sign but one paper.
The Pennsylvania railroad is making
a small experiment in iron tics by lay
ing about two miles of them on the
main line in the Philadelphia yard.
They are of inverted channe[bar sec
tion and are made by the New Jersey
Steel and Iron Company of Trenton.
The horses of Somerset county,
especially in the vicinity of Milestone,
are suffering from glanders, the number
afflicted being great enough to war
rant the term epidemic. Many farmers
have been compelled to kill valuable
stock, by the orders of the State
Inspector.
The Clinton Democrat is informed
that John w. Sharp, wealthy and
esteemed old resident of that neighbor-
hood, about 80 years of age, has never
taken a railroad ride, though a depot
(Annandale) has been within quarter
of a mile of his residence for more than
thirty years.
Mayor Garret, of Atlantic City, an
nounces his intention of stopping the
delivery of goods on Sundays by trades
men and others, and the wholesale
beer men who are up in arms against
the law. They declare that if their
wagons are interfered with they will
prosecute every violation of the Sun
day, no matter how trivial.
The river pirates whose fishing
smack, laden with stolen laths from a
Philadelphia lumber wharf, was sunk
and abandoned off North Camden one
night recently played sharp dodge
on the parties who were watching it.
They represented themselves as the
persons who were robbed, and they
were permitted to raise the boat and
its load and take it away.
Leonard Bausch, who rented an ex
cursion house at Lakeside from the
Camden and Atlantic Railroad Com
pany and was severely injured in
collision on that road over year ago,
has rfapnVArp1 n xrar1int aOnjnSf tha