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Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
For Lunacy.

Tuesday morning in the Court House
there was a twenty one man jury
arraigned to inquire into the lunacy
of John G. Edwards, a former resident
of Port Elizabeth, but for the past
fourteen years an inmate of the State
Insane Asylum. The following gen
tlemen were on the jury:-Daniel
Sharp, Benz. Hancock, Francis Seeley,
John F. Sharpless, VIM. Moore, H. v.
Camm, Chas. F. Dare, Joseph Putnam,
Charles R. Scull, Geo. H. Whipple,
David P. Mulford, Chas. K. Fithian,
iona. D. Ayres, Charles g. Hampton,
Chas. H. Mickle, Theo. F. Baker, Mar
tin Anderson, Bentley w. Rogers,
Constant Albertson, ]. F. Daley, and
John Brady. The jury were sworn in
by A. r. Fithian. The commissioners
through whom the inquisition was
made, were A. R. Fithian, I. G.. Smith
and Robt. DnBois.
DIR. Ward, of the State Insane
Asylum, testified that Edwards had
been an inmate of the institution since
October, 1874, and he pronounced his
case hopeless, as he had not had a
lucid interval for ten years.
James Edwards, half brother, tes-
titled to the insane man owning a one
third interest in house at Port
Elizabeth, the whole valued at $780,
The jury found a verdict according
to evidence above.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
BUSINESS CHANGE.
w. w. Robbins Purchases w
Fl. Woodruff's Estab-
lishment.

Saturday morning W. w. Robbins,
the boot and shoe and clothing dealer,
took entire charge of the dry goods
establishment of w. H. Woodruff, on
Commerce street, having purchased
the entire business, building and prop
erty. The negotiations were carried
on very Quietly, and very few knew
anything of it until the sale was an
nounced and Mr.. Robbins took DOS
session.
A PIONEER representative went in
and found Mr.. Robbins in his new
place of business. He says that he
intends to make the store one of the
finest dry goods establishments in the
State, and he will be off to the large
cities next week to purchase all man
ner OF new and desirable stock. He
will not enter into the business with a
great flourish of trumpets and ten
per cent. reduction, but will carry on
the business as permanent institu-
tion.
The force of salesmen and salesladies.
he thinks, will remain much the same.
A few will possibly leave and take a
position in the employ of Mr.. L. Swing.
The change is a great one, and ex-
cites considerable interest. Mr.. Rob-
bins is gentleman of rare business
ability, ,and will be sure to continue the
success the ablishment has enjoyed.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
Public School Statistics.

State Superintendent of Public Tn.
structlon is engaged in preparing his
extensive tables of statistics for his
annual report, which will be issued
soon. One of the most interesting
tables completed is that showing the
percentage of the whole number of
school children which the school build
ings of the State will accommodate.
In all the principal cities there is a.
large difference between the number
of children who attend school and the
number which the building will accom-
modate. In Newark the attendance is
Al per cent. and accommodations are
only 43; in Elizabeth, 43 and 20: JERSEY
City, 43 and 30; Dover, 70 and 81; Pater-
son, 6S and Al. As a whold, 90 per
cent of the school census of the cities
OF this State attend the public schools,
while the buildings will only accom-
modate 43 per cent.
In many of the cities the rooms are
very much crowded. Eighty children
is considered the limit for one teacher
to have control over. Elizabeth has
two rooms with over 120 pupils in
them, and Jersey City has seven such
rooms. There are nineteen school
rooms in the State containing over
eighty pupils, thirteen over ninety and
nine over 1870.
There are 313 districts in the State
which raised tax to pay teachers
salaries and 376 districts which raised
tax to build or repair buildings-a
decrease of fifty-eight There is also
an increase of fifty eight districts which
pay no tax at ALL There have been
thirty three new buildings erected in
the State during the year and fifty
three repaired. There are now 1910
buildings in the State.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
Fast in a Blazing Car.

Early Thursday morning as the west
bound passenger train on the Ohio,
Illinois and Western Railroad was
passing Troy siding, an ont-of-the-way
track, fire was discovered issuing from
a hole in the top of box car standing
on the siding. The train was stopped
and the fire extinguished When the
door was opened the body of a woman
was exposed lying upon the floor.
Her clothing was scattered about
the car and her flesh was blackened
and burned. Later developments
show it to have been the body of a
woman Of doubtful character, named
Angeline Boles, we'll known in Coving-
ton, Ind. The car doors were fastened
1t is still mystery whether it was a
suicide, murder or accident. 1t is
thought the woman may have been
driven to build fire'in the car to keep
from freezing, the night being extreme
ly cold.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE.
He Expires in Washington
Friday Morning.

Chief Justice Waite, of the United
States Supreme Court, died in Wash
ington at six o'clock Friday morn
ing.
Chief Justice Waite attended din
ner on Saturday evening, and upon
returning to his home was taken ill.
DR.. Winslow, the family physician,
was called in, and against bis advice
the Chief Justice attended the Supreme
Court on Monday, to read the decision
in the Bell Telephone case, which he
had prepared, but he was too III to
read it from the Bench, and that duty
was therefore performed by Justice
Blatchford.
In the afternoon a consultation OF
physicians was held in the sick cham
Der, but the conclusion reached at the
conference was not given out. None
of the Supreme Court Justices had
any information to give to inquiries,
and extraordinary efforts were made
by all having knowledge of the facts
to keep the Chlet Justlces Illness
secret.
His death was due to trouble with
his liver and spleen, complicated with
very painful stomach disorders. The
Justice was a hale man to look at, but
he had stroke of paralysis some years
ago and his friends have been solicit
GUS about him on that account, fear
ing recurrence of the old symptoms.
After his recovery from this Illness J, he
travelled and sought recreation by pro
longed abstention from the duties OF
the Supreme Court.
On January 81, 1874, he was appoint
ed Chief Justice of the United States,
by President Grant, being the seventh
man to hold that position.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
DR.. schock Assumes Charge.

Centenary church Camden was COM
fortably filled Sunday morning to
hear Mr.. Schock preach his initial
sermon. His text was the 27th verse
of the first chapter of the Epistle of
James: ''Pure religion and undefiled
before God and the Father is this: to
visit the fatherless and widows in their
Affections and to keep himself unspot-
ted from the world.n The sermon was
a short but plain exposition of the text.
No allusion was made whatever to
the condition OF affairs in the church,
and after the benediction had been
pronounced Mr.. Schock stepped down
inside the altar enclosure and exchang-
ed greetings with number of the
church members.
Mr.. Schock stated Sunday, in an
swer to an inquiry, that he had moth
ing whatever to say on the subject of
the church difficulty, as it was no af-
fair of his, but was purely matter
between the church and the Bishop.
He said he would go right on perform
ing his work as Pastor of the church,
and that he had many warm friends
among the members of the church, and
he had no doubt but that he would
receive kind treatment while he was
Pastor of the church. He also said
that the matter of reducing the salary
of the Pastor from $4,000 to $1,000 per
annum would not give him any worri
ment in his pastoral work.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
The Hay Fork SWindle.

The hay fork swindle is the latest.
and Is worked in this way:-A plausible,
well dressed fellow drives up to a
farmers house in wagon, which con-
tains two or three of the cheaper kind
of machine hay forks. The stranger
asks the privilege of temporarily
storing the forks in the farmers barn,
and the accommodating farmer gives
permission. After the forks are stored
away, the sharper remarks that they
are the last of a large lot that he had
been peddling through the neighboring
county, and he is anxious to close out
the consignment, if the farmer will sell
Dne or'more of the forks5cwhile thew
are temporarily stored in the barn. he
shall have fifty per cent. commission
on the sale. The offer is a tempting
one, and the farmer accepts. He is
then requested, merely as business
form to aff1x his signature to a docu-
ment specifying the terms on which
the forks are stored on his premises.
The farmer sigas the lengthy printed
document, without reading it, perhaps,
or, If read, without understanding its
contents, and at the end of thirty days
is astounded in finding himself called
upon by third party to pay outright
an extravagant price for the forks.
When he kicks he is shown his sigma
ture attached to an agreement to this
effect, which agreement, his LAWYER
tells him, is drawn in good legal form.
In two recent cases, where the game
was successful in New York State, the
victims suffered to the extent of 1926
and $500, respectively.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
Beef Packing House.

The Swift Beef Packing Building is
rapidly nearing completion. The
building is one of the strongest and
largest in the city. Both the first and
second stories of the structure are
divided in three apartments. In the
rear of the up and down stairs is the
refrigerator or stock room. The
rooms have three coatings of sheathing
and paper between each one and is to
be perfectly air tight. The company
will soon be ready for business. 1t is
a. good enterprise for the Central
railroad, as their freight during the
season will be considerable. The COM
pany have their own cans and ship all
of their meat right through from
Chicago.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
Game Killed by the Storm.

The Game Protective Societies of
this. state,x probably lost allothe
money expended in purchasing quail
in the last three years. There is every
reason to believe that the late storm
exterminated nearly all the game
birds. 1t was just the kind of storm
to do it. First came the soaking rain,
and closely following it without giving
the birds a chance to dry a feather,
came freezing weather and drifting
snow such as no New Jersey bird ever
encountered before. The wet and
draggled quail and grouse are sup,
posed to have perished by thousands.
Noidea of the extent of mortality among
the gamebirds can be formed but it is
believed that nearly eighty per cent. of
the birds in New Jersey have perished.
The hardy little sparrows were nearly
exterminated in the cities, where they
were partially sheltered from the fury
of the storm. Hundreds of birds were
found in the snow around the Second
Presbyterian Church and the chat
ter i'll the ivy clinging to the walls has
greatly diminished since the storm.
If these plucky birds with evergreen
shelter perished in such numbers, there
seems to be little reason to believe
that meadow larks, quail and par
tridges Jared any better Those that
did escape from the fury of the storm,
had little chance of finding food in the
snow
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29

Colonel Charles W. Fuller, who was
recently elected as State Superinten-
dent Of Public Instruction, was on
Thursday, sworn into Office and i'm
mediately entered upon his duties in
that department. Justice Magic, of
the Supreme Court, administered the
oath during the noon recess of the
Legislature, and Immediately on the
opening of the afternoon session, Col.
Fuller presented his resignation as
member of the House, which was ac-
cepted.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
DEATH AND DISASTER.
Events of the Past Few Days.

Misses Margaret and Annie O'Reilly,
sisters, were struck and killed by a
train at Waterford, Rhode Island, SUM-
day.
A gas explosion occurred at Flowery
Fields Colliery, near Wilkesbarre, on
Friday night. Several miners were in
jured, one of them, named James
George, fatally.
The body of Rosa Goebel, 70 years
old, was found in the cellar Of 62 Willet
street, New York, Sunday. She
lived alone. During her lifetime she
was fond of cats and chickens, and kept
a number of each in her room. Every
sick cat she found on the streets she
took home. When found Sunday
portions of the body had been eaten
away by her pets, who had been locked
in the room with their dead mistress
for about week.
Fifteen days having elapsed since the
missing New York pilot boatsP hanton
and Enchantress put to sea, and moth
ing having since been heard of them,
they are given up for lost.
A severe storm of wind and snow
ragged Sunday throughout northern
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota.
The wind blew at the rate of 80 miles
an hour, and from three to five inches
of snow fell. The temperature being
comparatively mild, the snow was
heavy and packed. Out in the coun-
try the fall was deeper and railroad
travel was interrupted. In st. Paul,
street car travel was abandoned.
A telegram from Ottawa says the
lumbermen in Ontario are uneasy in
regard to the log supply. An enor-
NOUS number of logs has been cut, but
it is feared there will not be sufficient
water in the tributaries to float them
down to the Ottawa river. A great
deal of the snow has disappeared, but
thus far the ice remains firm and the
breakup may witness the rivers with
low water. Over 100000 900 feet of logs
are now cut.
A gorge in the Missouri river at
Washburn, Dakota, broke on Satur-
day, and the river rose rapidly. Pre-
parations were made at Bismarck in
anticipation of a Good. The greatest
danger is threatened at Sibley Island,
where disasterous gorges have always
formed in the past. Snow was falling
in Dakota on Saturday.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
Trouble in a Camden Church.

At meeting of the board of trustees
of Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church Thursday night the pastors
salary was reduced from two thousand
to twelve hundred dollars, and a reso-
luton was unanimously adopted de-
clining to rerent parsonage in
future.
The action is the logical result OF the
cabinet having refused to transfer DIR.
Cleveland to this conference. This re-
fusal is attributed to DIR. ]. B. Graw,
and he is the man against whom Cen
tenary is said to be directing its bat
teries
A member of the official board of
the church said to Courier represen-
tative:
Centenary Church is one of the
most influential, even if youngest,
churches in the conference. The
church was a unit in asking for the
transfer of Rev. DR.. Cleveland from
Philapelphia and had no choice. The
bishop and his cabinet saw fit in its
inscrutable wisdom to send us DR..
Shock-a very estimable man and an
accomplished theologian, but not Dr.
Cleveland-and l think the conference
will see cause to regret the action of
the cabinet before this time next year.
THE public must not understand by
off ho
that any slight is intended to Mr..
Schock. Our new pastor has host of
warm friends who will amply provide
| for him If he comes here, but it will not
be done by the church, as a church.
Mr.. Graw is responsible, we think,
in great measure, for this unfortu-
nate and somewhat unchristian state
of affairs. He always has some ulterior
| motive or purpose to subserve in
everything he does. We at Centenary,
have been fighting his spurious tenn
| perance schemes, and have all along
advocated the local option bill, a
measure he fought. In the cabinet
our elder was too yielding, and DR..
Graw, observing this, took advantage
of it. The least the cabinet could have
done would have been to send us a
young man who would have consid-
cred the appointment only temporary,
and given us an opportunity to look
around.
There is not the least feeling
Iagainst, DR.. Shock. The doctor was
stationed at Centenary Church several
years ago and was remarkably success
full in church work, though his forte is
rather in preparing scholarly sermons
than in pastoral work. He is known
all over the country as an accomplished
theologian.''
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
BRIDGETON N. j, THURSDAY MARCH % 1883.
Her Last Visit.

George Dunham's wife paid a visit
to him Saturday afternoon. This is
only the second time she has seen him
since his sentence for the murder of
Barbara Handle, her mother. She
came to see him, she said, for the last
time, and with the hope that he would
speak with her freely about the crime
for which he is to be hanged next
Thursday.
She saw Prosecutor Perry, and from
him obtained permission to have an
interview with her husband. She said
she believed that the reason he had
never told her anything about the
murder was that they had always been
compelled to carry on their CONVEX
sations in the hearing of an officer,
and she was confident that if allowed
to talk with George sufficiently aside
not to be overheard, he would fully tell
her all. Mr.. Perry concluded to grant
Mrs. Dunham's desire for private
conversation, and directed Constable
Yearicks, the watchman at the Jail, to
remain at one end Of the corridor while
George and Martha had an interview
at the other, in sight but out of hear
ing if they spoke in low tones. Mrs.
Dunham carried in her arms their
year-old baby.
The interview lasted about an hour,
with no interference by the officer ex-
cept strict watch to see that nothing
was handed to the prisoner, and Mrs.
Dunham then came out. She reported
to Mr.. Perry that George had refused
to make any confession whatever to
her. He spoke of the statement made
to his counsel, and said he had nothing
more than that to tell, and what that
was he did not want anybody but his
lawyer to know at present.
Mr.. Lippincott and Mr.. Dillon, Dun
hams spiritual advisers, had a very
unsatisfactory visit with him Saturday
forenoon. They found him much
changed in his manner since Thursday
afternoon, when they were last with
him. He was not only unwilling to
make the confession promised on the
former occasion, but was less free in
talking with them and rather spurned
than encouraged religious instructions.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
The Shad Fishermen.

The shad fishermen are preparing
for their annual onslaught on the sue
culent Delaware shad. The recent
cold weather has prevented their ap-
pearance in the Delaware as yet, but a
few warm days with southerly wind
will soon drive the first few stragglers
into the fisherman's nets. Several
fisherman left last week to try their
luck at rock fishing, but no boat has
as yet returned with fish.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29
A Decision Affecting Taxation.


The Supreme Court of New Jersey
has filed an opinion in the case of Sea
Isle City VS.. the County Board of Asses
sors, of Cape May county, in which it
decides that the Board of Assessors
possesses no power to tax any town
ship or city upon valuation less than
the actual valuation as shown by the
township or city duplicate, and has no
power to tax such cities or townships
for more than the valuations of. the
respective duplicates without first
making thorough and equitable COM
parison of all the duplicates. By this
decision Sea Isle City RECEIVERS about
$1,000 from Cape May county.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29

The ground-hog's contract expired
on Wednesday, and he will retire from
the weather business unless new
agreement is entered into. He has full
filed all the conditions of the obliga-
ton he made on Candlemas Day in
manner entirely satisfactory to coal
dealers.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29

Among the new laws just passed
is one which provides for the appoint
ment of clerk for grand juries in all
counties where there are none, by the
Court of Oyer and Terminer for torn
of one year, at salary of not over
800. The Governor signed the bill
yesterday.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29

During the years 1888, 80 and 'S6,
more damage was done to property by
lightning in New Jersey than in any
other State in the Union. Statistics
place the whole amount at $1,636, 900.
The destruction made during 1887 will
swell the foregoing figures enormo nsly.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-03-29

All persons owing the late
firm Of MCGOWAN & Nichols
for subscription or printing
are requested to call and set
tie as soon as possible.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1888-10-16
slsl.aias specimen Of Humanity.

Tho degree q Iiocy u which young man
q low int.lligenos may attain. n bis low In
tslligenco turns towards drsss, va. Illus
traiel tho other day CA q New Yark AMI
New Haven train He was About u years u
age, but u slight phys.que. ami b. was
sdOrci by large. fat AMI afectionAts
woman. who oallei him "Derti3- The
makeup u Iiertie would have dons credit b
. theatrical oostumsr. lie ran % stripes
lie wore q striped collar. the bani q his hat
was white and blue liars, his cravAt Wa o.
similar pattern, aud ~ we're bis ho.e, bis
handkerchief. and bis shirt His Trousers
we're black AMI white strips, and the ooat
blue and white.
IL would cause an luimsnsity % detail 10
describe the different shades u the VARIOUS
collection u stripes, but, altogether, IL was
Q very unusual ard startling arrangemsnt
The young man wore his hair hansel, and
spent most u bis time In arranging bis bang
with bis tslewel~i hand lie was sicksn-
Ing specimen % mankind In one snss u
ILL wuri. but wondsrful sxhib iiiOn q What
may 10 accomplished By devotion 10 an
ldsal on the other Nsw York Sun
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1888-10-16
That Bedroom,

what about ~ Well. Q good many
things might be said. II ought 10 be
place for quiet and refreshing sleep. But
IL IL not saeh q place. Restless tossinss
with troubled dreams are there. Morning
sftsr morning hnds the sleeper weary, list-
less, and dumplsh. lie wonders Why II 10
so, and We wonder, too. Hut our wonder
IL that he does not make its matter OF
thought aud learn how 10 sleep ~ he
should. when anything Ia wrong with Ne,
there IL . cause for H. AZ q rule. the
cause IL not so obscure a. to require The
aid ola modern scientist. with all his or.
gon OF incomrehensible tschnicall,les COW
ering his stu more lneomprshensible ideas
or want OF ideas, to ferret II out
To exercise the demon OF rcstiessness Ia
not beiioom work alone. lie Who seeks
the comfort OF sound, refreshing slc,p
must properly control hi. habit, by day
a. well |. by night
so much may be said about sleep In gen
eral that the bedroom IL In danger of bstng
forgotten. AFTER al. that particular bed.
room does not difff materially from many
Others Of its Kind. Twelve feet long, teu
feet wide, and seven feet sir inches high,
II has Q capacity of nine hundred cubic
feet IL has q door opening Into The nss,
room. and another lnto the hall leading To
the stairway and hall below. One large
window with sash supported by pulleys
and weights sd1rds. or ought IN ,niri.
air and llgh, from on, doors. The fourth
vail L. solid The bed stands la corner
with the head 10 this vail Two wall.
counne The sxhslei air abou, the head OF
The sleeper. The bed rests on spfings
with mattress aud f,s,her. above. The
breath Of the sleeper IL doubly foul from
late and full suppsfs, and from ulesrs,lon
% the respiratory membrane, osussi by
chruuic estsrrh. In such case good ven
,lla,iOn IL more than usual . necessity. Il.
~ attended to' Take peep al ths, room.
Doors ciosed-~iniow carefully closed Ia
keep out night ait Any good vork on
ventilation can be consulted - ascertain
how long nine hundred cubic feet ~ air
will supply respiratory material In such
room for one ooeapsnt And yet that IL .
nice bedroom. gvnieelly furnished. "
good steering L. not done there, The fsilar.
IL less ehsrgeshls 90 The room than ~ is
m.n.gsment How many e,.e. OF The
hind have yoa met with, rssisfi