Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-15
JERSEY ITEMS.
News Gathered Up and Down the
State.

tion numbering twenty-five members.
Cranberries, to limited extent, are
successfully gro wn in Cape May county
DIR. John Sinnickson, of Salem, has
been prostrated by slight attack of
paralysis.
The Salem milkmen have refused to
serve milk on Sunday during the win
ter months.
Three citizens of Atlantic City have
gone to North Carolina on deer
hunting expedition.
The United States hotel, at Atlantic
City, is to be sold to syndicate who
are to make important Improvements
in the building.
bob" Gwynne, Jr., of the Salem
Sunbeam, lost valuable horse a few
days ago by being killed by running
into an iron fence.
The ocean tricycle. at Atlantic City,
is to have new and stronger machinery
to better adapt it for the use for which
it was designed.
Some of the South Jersey canning
factories are making success of their
attempts to can sweet potatoes
Chas. K. Richman, of Sharptown,
has dug 924 bushels of potatoes off 3
acres of ground.
The Baptist church membership has
increased 8. 400 in New Jersey during
the past year.
Salem people are alarmed at the
prevalence of diphtheria.
Electric lights will surely be intro
duced in Salem. Sufficient stock for
tt. tic venture has been secured.
Pennington Seminary will be fur
nished with fifty barrels of sweet
potatoes, by Sharptown, Salem Co.,
farmer.
A large factory for making Gardeners
iron wagon, is being erected at Mullica
Hill.
The cars on the New Brunswick city
railroad tracks are soon to be run by
electricity, on the storage system, in
stead of being drawn by horses.
Asbury Park is. enjoying building
boom. 1t is estimated that over $500
900 will be expended this fall in new
buildings and Improvements.
The number of farms in New Jersey
is 81, 357; farms cultivated by owners,
25,S69, rs per cent; farms cultivated by
tenants (cash rentals) 3,6OS; number of
farms cultivated by tenants (shares).
4,s3O
The first iron made in New Jersey
was at a place just south of Trenton,
from the limonite or bog ore that
abounds in that section, and the forge
master was Governor Lewis Morris,
who came to Monmouth from Barba-
: does before the year 1880.
The cranberry bogs of Rev. E. H.
Durrell, in Cape May county, yielded
this year nearly 5000 bushels,
The residents of Five Points,
Gloucester county, intend to change
the name OF their place to Redwood.
Asbury Park people expect to make
building improvements before the
opening of next season, to the amount
of $3OO,0OO
1t is estimated that Sussex and War
rem counties will this year produce
300, 900 bushels of onions.
A whale forty feet long, has been
seen off Asbury Park.
Large mines of valuable plumbago
(black lead) have been discovered at
Greenwood Lake.
Duck shooting has been active in
Barnegat Bay, this week.
1t is understood that beet sugar
factory will be erected in the vicinity
of Lakewood.
During six months of high license, it
is reported the number of saloons in
Patterson has been decreased by 1876,
and the receipts from licenses increased
by $4,000. 1t is estimated that the
taxpayers will be relieved of taxes to
the amount of 100000 per year, from
the increased revenue from licenses.
A force of fifty men will soon begin
work on the Notifications at Sandy
Hook.
A new cemetery has been laid out at
Freehold.
1t cannot be denied that the coast
pleasure railroad, or the "shore line,"
is one of the strong probabilities of
the future.
Ocean City polled IA Prohibition
votes on Tuesday, while at Sea Isle
only was polled.
The Gloucester Print Works, which
have been idle for two weeks for re-
pairs, will resume operations to-mor-
row