Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-12-06
GEO. w. MCGOWAN Editor and Publisher.
VOL. XII.
BRIEF JERSEY NOTES.
Newsy Chips From Our own
State.

Newsy Chips From Our own
State.
The handsome new library of the
Drew Theological Seminary, at Madi-
son, was formally opened on Tuesday.
The edifice cost $4,000, and contains
10000 volumes and pamphlets.
Twelve hundred new buildings have
been erected in Newark, the present
year.
Hunterdon county sto be thoroughly
canvassed in heinterest of local option.
John Corrigan, an inmate of the
Morristown jail, indicted for murder,
has become violently insane.
Petitions are in circulation in Mon
mouth county against the repeal of
the local option law passed last Winter.
At the annual meeting of the Egg
Harbor Agricultural Society it was re-
solved not to unite with the Atlantic
County Agricultural Society.
A Chautauqua Circle has been or
ganized at Elmer.
A chicken with four feet was Matched
in an incubator belonging to w. A.
Sack, at Pennsgrove, Salem county.
A Long Branch man cured milk
thief by dropping little croton oil in
the bucket which sat out over night.
Magistrate Pierce gives notice that
''all persons who are found on the
public streets of G]assboro after II
O'Clock p. H., and unable to give an
account of themselves, will be regarded
under the law as 'disorderly persons
and will be dealt with accordingly"
The reunion of the Twenty-fourth
Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers,
will take place at Woodbury., Thurs
day, December 13.
General William ]. Sewell, wife and
daughter, arrived home in time to eat
their Thanksgiving dinner at their res
idence, in Camden. General Sewell
has visited the various soldiers homes,
and President-elect Harrison, on his
trip.
At the meeting recently held at Null
lica Hill, to consider the propriety of
changing the name of the town, a
majority of those present voted
against d change.
Andrew Newkirk, of Elmer, carted a
white oak log "a feet in length and 6
feet across the butt, to Stephenson's
saw mill, on Thursday. 1t made a
load for six horses.
The Camden Board of Excise Com
missioners have fixed the wholesale
and retail liquor license fee at $3.50
each, instead of $1,000.
Mays Landing is to be incorporated.
Benjamin Pritchaxh and Harry
Adams, of Pennsgrove, were among
the crew of the steam collier "Allen-
town, which is supposed to have been
wrecked off the coast of Massachusetts,
during the recent storm, and all on
board lost.
Millville will have a Lodge of the
Order of the Financial Union.
The New Jersey Southern Railroad
Company will erect new freight sta
tion and make other improvements in
Vineiand. Judge Hendee recently pur-
chased considerable land for the Com.
pany in that place.
The new hotel at Dennisville will be
thrown open to the public in about
three weeks.
The Camden City Council has di-
vided the Fourth ward into two, and
the city has now nine wards.
The Tippecanoe Veterans of Cam
den, numbering rs, will go to Wash
ington during the inaugural cere-
monies next March.
There seems to be no certainty when
the second house of Woodbury. bottle
works will commence operations,
though there is talk of starting up
about Christmas.
1t is probable that lodge of Good
Templars will be organized in Lake
wood during the winter.
From headquarters it is announced
that a through fast express train will
soon be run between New York and
Atlantic City, over the Central, N. J.
Southern, and P. & A. G. railroads.
Begin Early,
Persons who contemplate building
next season should sacuros thoir 1ooo