Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
JERSEY ITEMS.
News Gathered Up and Down the
State.


county.
Perch, weak fish and striped bass
are plenty in the bays and sounds of
Cape May.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, it is stated, will spend over a
million dollars in elevating their ira cks
in Jersey City.
The West Jersey Railroad has been
granted authority to change it's line
through Sea Isle City.
Charles Bell, of Sharpstown, husked
for Charles Humphreys four 40-bushel
loads of corn in day, quit before sun.
set, and had eight bushels husked on
the fifth load when he quit.
The handsome audience room of the
First M E. Church, of Salem, will be
dedicated on Sunday, the 25th of this
month, by Bishop Goodsell, one of the
new Bishops elected at the last Gener-
al Conference. This Church will be
one of the finest and most commodious
in South Jersey.
William Baker, near Canton, Salem
county, has succeeded in raising some
cotton in his garden this year. The
seed was sent him by his son John,
who owns farm in Louisiana.
Improvements at Anglesea are to be
carried on all through the winter.
Cape May City Council is agitating
the subject of building new City Hall.
Mrs. Rachel Richman, of Pittsgrove,
is the fortunate possessor of a glass
jar of canned peaches that were put
up twenty years ago. They are still in
good condition.
George Abbott, the Salem milk deal
er, has removed his entire business to
Atlantic City.
The Burlington cigar makers turned
out 70, 800 cigars during October.
1t is said that ex Senator Emson, of
Ocean county, paid as high as $500 a
day to cranberry pickers during the
recent harvest, and that he would have
willingly doubled the amount if he
could have got the pickers. His crop
will reach fully $4,000 bushels.
South Jersey lawyers want Judge
Reed re appointed this Winter.
The reunion of the gath Regiment of
New Jersey Vols. will be held at Wood
bury on Thursday, Dec. 18th, 1888, at
10 o'clock.
Two criminals who had been SEN
fenced to State Prison for ten years
each, we're married in Camden Jail just
previous to their departure for Tren-
ton. They and their brides will pass a
queer kind of honeymoon.
The vote of Landis township, which
includes Vineland, shows the towns
population has increased by about
2,70O since 1884.
A resident at Little Silver, few
days ago cut down a ''bee treee," from
che hollow of which he took six pals
of fine honey. The tree has been in
the possession of colony of bees for
several years.
During the last six months four
alligators have been captured near
Eatontown, in small stream that
empties into Sandy Hook Bay.
A petition for Communication of the
death sentence to life imprisonment
for Robert Elder, the Hammonton par
ricide. is being circulated and exten
sively signed in Atlantic county.
The West Jersey Construction Com
pany filed Certificate of incorporation
in the office of the County Clerk at
Camden Saturday. 1t is stated that
the real purpose is to start an electric
railway from Camden to Merchant
vile.
The Woodbury. Republicans are or
ganizing high hat and broadcloth
brigade to go to Washington on the
occasion of Harrison's Inauguration.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has begun the work of elevating the
tracks on Railroad avenue, Jersey City.
The opposition to the work on the
part OF property owners has been
futile, and they will now await the
completion of the work and then ap-
ply to the courts for whatever dam.
ages they may think they have sus-
tanned.
During the month just closed 42O
marriages, 9S deaths and ia births
were recorded in the city clerks office,
at Camden.
= An examination of candidates for
teachers certificates is to be held in
Salem, on Saturday, November Gath.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. it is stated, will spend over a
million d el'ars in el-vating their tracks
in Jersey City.