Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-01-28
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STATE NEWS.

last, mas Oeen sentenced TO De nanSeQ
on March Goth.
The Baptist chapel at Sewell City is
about completed. The interior has
been handsomely grained in oak, and
it is seated with chairs.
Ex-senator A. G. Cattell, of Mer-
chantville, Camden county, has recov-
cred sufficiently from his recent illness
to attend to his business affairs again.
The real estate men of Atlantic City
have formed an association for mutual
protection, with John J. Gardner as
President, A. w, Irving, Secretary,
and J. G. Adams, Treasurer.
John Matindo, Hungarian residing
on First street, Passaic City, Passaic
county, attempted to strike his wife,
but instead struck their child, one
month old, on the head, causing con-
cussion of the brain from which it died.
Three of the Newark boys who were
bitten by mad dog and treated by
M. Pasteur. in Paris, are now on ex-
hibition in dime museum in New
York. The managers of the museum
tried to secure DIR. Billings for exhibit
ton, and made similar proposition to
M. Pasteur.
Thomas Hart, a machinist in the
shops of Samuel l.. Moore & Sons, at
Elizabethport, met with a shocking
accident recently. He was working a
press, and while arranging some part
of the machinery got caught between
two metal bars Before he could be
extricated his head was crushed almost
to a. pulp.
Horace f. Nichols, who is said to
have been one of the Oldest and best
known ringmasters in the country, died
at st. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, a
few days since, in consequence of in
juries sustained by fall from his stoop
six weeks ago. He had cracked the
whip for fifty years. His last engage
ment was with P. T. Barnum.
The famous war horse, "Old Spot"
which carried the late General Kill
patrick through part of the Virginia
campaign, and the great march from
Atlanta to the sea. is still living, and
well cared for on Mr.. Fitzpatrick S farm,
near Deckertown. He has become
quite deaf and partly blind, but other
wise shows very little effects from old
age.
There has been shaking-up among
the Pennsylvania Railroad officials at
Jersey City. Recent Investigations
showed that a number of employees
were abusing their positions and tax
ing advantage of the company. Sew
eral discharges and number of sus-
pensions were made, mainly in the
grain elevator and lighterage depart
ment.
1t is stated that the building of ex-
tensive glassworks by A. G. Lamar, of
No. 81 Market street, in South Cam
den, along the river front, will not
cause the abandonment of the Elmer
glassworks at Elmer, in which Mr..
Lamar is largely interested. Mr.. La
mar, it is stated, will simply withdraw
from the Elmer works, and the remain
ing stockholders take charge and run
them.
The Great body of ice that has been
packed in Great Harbor Bay, moved
on Friday and carried away the wharf
of Townsend & Vansant. The ice was
piled several feet high along the shore.
Great quantities of CLAIMS and oysters
have been torn from the beds and
carried into the bars, while the latter
are alive with millions of crabs which
the ice has routed from their winter
quarters.
The old Freeman Tavern, at Morris
town, N. j., is soon to be demolished.
1t is said to have been erected about
174O, and that when the American
army was quartered on the hills about
Morristown in the Winters of 1S77-S1
General Washington there took the
rites of Free Masonry. A grand ball
was also given there by the officers Of
the army, the tickets being $500 Con-
tinental money.
Great anxiety prevails at Somers
Point, Atlantic county, in regard to
the fate of Captain Richard Fisher, of
that place, who sailed on December
Gath in the schooner William lrelan, of
Philadelphia, from Baltimore to
Charleston, and which has not been
reported. Among the crew was Cap
tain Fishers eldest son, aged IS years;
Charles E. Smith, Fred Smith and