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ffic pioneer. Bridgeton, N. J„ May 12,1887. Advertisements and communications to in sure inset-i Vo,should be handed In by Tuesday evening el' each week. No notice will bo taken of anonymous com munication!, Marrtmccs and deaths inserted gratuitously. LOCAL NEWS. n , railroad trainmen have donned their white caps. This is a sure sign that Spring is here. Moonstone Jewelry.. Latest New York craze. tf Wilmkr B. Smith. The Bay is said to Vie so full of fish ermen that there is hardly room enough for all the nets. The YVest Jersey Express Compauy will have their new office open for business on Friday. May 00th. Forepaugh will take his big circus to Millville next month, and then we may repay our Millville friends their visit of last week. A majority of our merchants have decided to cle-e their places of business at as early an hour iu the evening as they did last Summer. The State Board of Health is after dealers in coal oil who sell oil not up to the State standard. .Several Cam I den dealers are being pushed. Those having charge of the school census taking will now be busily en gaged until it is finished, which must be by the first day of June. The Board of Health of Landis township is after slaughter houses, and recommends a common abattoir for the use of all butchers. Mr. YV. N. Hewitt gathered about a half peck of Colorado potato bugs off bis patch on Saturday. As many as 42 were found on one hill. Over 50.0. > of Mrs. Cleveland's pho tographs have been sold already, and the photographer expects before the year is up to double the Dumber. The net earnings of the YYest Jersey Railroad for March were $41.CSS. being an increase of $3,929 compared with the corresponding month of last year. The Sunday-school that is proposed i to be formed when the new building of the Cumberland Glass works is finished, will be under the control of Central M. E. Church. John Co-nwell, of Fairtou, formerly of this city, who for several years has been in the employ of Theophilus Treuchari is now employed as driver for Richard Lott, the flour dealer. ! Notwithstanding the great crowds in town on Friday there was not a single arrest. Few people were seeD drunk and no disturbances with the exception of a single fight took place. Justice of the Peace Riley will be j found at nearly every court session, j taking in all points of law for future ! usefulness in his court on South Pearl street. Justice Riley was complimen ted by C. V. D. Joline, Esq., of Cam den, as being one of the best Justices he ever appeared before. Some of the bricks which are being | taken up on the Commerce street front of the new Bank, which were j directly in front of the old Davis House, are so worn that many of them are not more than an inch thick. When it is taken into consideration the thou sands who have walked upon them, it is not greatly wondered at. 10 cents pair, Good Eye Glasses. Finest Optical Goods in the city. Rock Crystal .Spectacles and Eye Glasses. Gold Spectacles and Eje Glasses, $3.75 up. Newest and largest line in the city. Wilmkr B. Smith, Optician. Jeweler, and Watchmaker. tf Preparations are being made already for Children's day service which comes off in less than a month. The First Baptist Sunday School, Pearl street Baptist and South avenue schools will hold children's day services on the first j Sunday in June. The last Sunday in ! this month is the time for the holding of the h'ortli Pearl street Sunday I School service. Word was received at the Mayor’s office Saturday evening that a man j had been robbed of $75.00 while attend- ; ing Barnum’g show at Salem. Mayor i DuBois and his officers were instructed to keep a sharp lookout for the parties I should they appear in this neighbor'! hood. Pick pockets were reported to have had a harvest in Salem, owing to * the number of open-hearted, unsophis- i ticated countrymen appearing on the i show grounds. Mrs. Hannah W. Young, wife of John W. Young, died at their residence : in Dennisville, ('ape May county, on Monday morning, May 3d, aged 37 j years, 3 months. Mrs. Young was the ! only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John ; E. White, and was born at Bridgeton Cumberland Co., on February 3, 1850. She married Mr. Young on January 17, 18G0, by Rev. Geo. C. Haddock. j She made a profession of religion at the i age of fourteen and joined the M. K I Church at Bridgeton. CITY COUNCIL THE RAILROAD NOT YET CROWDED OUT. Ordinance No. 38 Passes a Third Reading and is then Killed. A New Ordinance Presented. The lirst meeting of City Council in the month of May. was an eventful one. It was not as many supposed it would be. a dull, uninteresting meet ing. but a rather lively one. It wit nessed the killing of Ordinance No. 3$, known ns the Railroad Ordinance, and tl'.e substituting of one that is likely to prove more satisfactory to th.e railroad company. The members of Council discussed the matter fully, and those who are known as opposing the extension of the railroad, exhibited considerable feeling and claimed that those intro ducing the Ordinance were taking advantage of two persons absent. As one of those absent. Mr. Robbins is known to have been an ardent rail road extension supporter, it is hardly likely that the result would have been changed. Members were all present with the exception of Robbins and Harding. The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. Recorder Moore read au invitation from Committee of O. A. R.. asking the honorable body to attend memor ial services in Moore's Opera House on Decoration day. The communication was received and the invitation ac cepted. A large number of permits were read as granted by the Mayor. Permit was granted for the building of a store for J. R. El well on North Laurel street. A unanimously signed petition was read, asking that a lamp on North Laurel street should he lighted. A motion that it be left to the light com mittee with power to act. was carried. John T. Miller has been appointed night watchman of the W. J. R. R. depat. and asked that he be sworn in as a special officer. His communica tion was not signed, therefore not acted upon. The firemen chosen to increase the fire company of this city, were sworn in as follows:—Jacob Herrscher, Wm. I Husted. John Miller. Robt. E. Craig, Charles Paynter. Aaron Smith, Jr., James Neal and William J. Kienzle. The following budget of bills were read and ordered paid:—J. DuBois, Mayor, sundries and salary, $54.80; National Meter Co., supplies. $32.00: Penna. Globe and Gas Light Co..J$91.00: T. Woodruff, maintainance account. $51.42: Pierce & Carll. burial of pauper, $4.00; Pierce 4: Carll. burial of 2 pau pers, $12.00: T. Woodruff, construction account, $38.53: T. Woodruff, salary, $35.00; W. H. H. Elwell, work and bell hammer, and work on engine, $32.10: Bridgeton Electric Light Co., $337.50: Reading Fire Apparatus works, hose carriage, $195.00: Morning Star, print ing. $15.57: Cos A Sons, pipes for j engine, $380.00. Jane C. Applegate presented a bill amounting to $12, for chickens killed by dogs. An affidavit of the apprais ers accompanied the bill. After con siderable discussion the bill was or dered paid. Mr. Miller entered at this point with his petition signed by the name of station agent Atkinson upon it. Mr. Miller was accordingly sworn in as a special police officer of the city, by President Rogers. Mr. Seeley, of the Fire Committee, reported that the engine had been thoroughly repaired and was now in better condition than it had been for some time past. Ordinance No. 38. Mr. Hancock moved at the Rail road Ordinance be taken up on its third reading. The motion was carried and the Recorder read the Ordinance. This is as far as the Ordinance ever got. A motion was made by Mr. Seeley that the final passage of the Ordinance be indefinitely postponed. The motion was lost by a tie vote. Mr. Hancock then offered a motion that Ordinance No. 38 be declared null and void. The motion was carried by the following vote: Yeas—Randolph, Hancock, Keen, Dailey, Jerrell, John son, 0. Nays—Rogers, Seeley, Pro basco, Horton, 4. Mr. Randolph produced an Ordi nance which had been carefully drawn and which differed materially from the one that had just been crushed. It gave 20 feet at the water works instead of 13 as in the last Ordinance and in other matters was changed consider ably. The Recorder read the Ordinance and it was moved by Mr. Randolph that it be considered its ilrst rending. At this there was considerable spirit shown between the Councilmen for and against the admission of the railroad. The anti-gentlemen seemed to think that undue haste was being made in the matter, but the motion prevailed and it was considered its first reading by the same vote as presented above. A motion of Mr. Hancock’s was carried that the next consideration of the matter should be on Thursday evening, May 19th, and that fifty copies of the Ordinance be printed and placed in the hands of Conncilmen. Voted that orders be drawn on the city treasury in favor of C. K. Carnes #50; D. O. Fox, #200; David Adcock, #50; School Supt. Daniel Sharp, #2,178.30. Bonds for Rond Overseers, D. Fox and ,T. N. Spence, were read and ap proved. A request from Mr. Seeley that the members of the First ward be em powered to build a culvert across Pearl street at Washington street, was granted. The members of the F;rstand Sec ond wards were appointed a committee to look into the matter of the grade of the pavement at the new national bank, ns the culvert laid there some time since, had been raised above the grade of the street. It was ordered that the houses on Cagle and Grove streets should be numbered. Mr. Seeley said he had been asked to bring to the attention of Council the case of David Fry, au old and destitute resident who, with his wife, lived in the Fourth ward. The sum of #1.00 per week was appropriated for Mr. Fry. It was decided that the telephone aud electric light companies be notified to keep their poles neatly painted in accordance with the Ordinance. A numerously signed petition was presented, asking that Church street, between Commerce and Cedar streets, be widened, five feet to be taken from property on the West side of the street. It was ordered that three com missioners be appointed to take charge of the matter. Benj. Keen, Jona. El mer and Lewis H. Dowdney were chosen. A request was read, asking that com missioners be appointed to vacate Mt. Vernon and Grant streets. Benj. Keen. Jona. Elmer and Lewis H. Dowdney were appointed commissioners to take the matter into consideration. The Mayor's report was read, and Council adjourned to meet on Thurs day night. May 10th. Through the courtesy of Chief of Fire Department W. H. H. Elwell, the reporter of the Pioneer was per mitted to look upon the new four wheel hose carriage recently purchased for the Third ward. The hose carriage is very pretty, being finished up in the best of style and highly ornamented. The reel is placed high above the ve hicle and upon it is wound five hun dred feet of hose. The carriage weighs between four and five hundred pounds and two men can easily run with it on level ground. Mr. Elwell deserves much credit for the purchase as the wagon was purchased at a bargain, onlv $195.00 being paid for it in Reading, while the freight was $10 more. Such a wagon if it was newly built- would cost between $400and $500. The Councilmen who have seen it declare that it is a fine carriage and highly satisfactory, just meeting the needs of the city exactly. An ex change of the two carts of the com pany for carriages similar would be a good thing for the city. Mayor DuBois says that it is not foreign tramps that are worrying chicken coops in the vicinity of the outskirts of the city, but that they are “home tramps." He says there are a number of persons in the town who are camping out in ‘the woods and building fires to roast their stolen chicken over, Only a few days ago he says a number of beer kegs went to one|of the camps not far from town, and it is expected that a jolly good time was had by the worthless gang. If it be so that this is the class of people who are raiding our citizens’ chicken coops we hope they may be caught and dealt with as severely as the law will allow. The Musical and Literary Society of the Central M. E. Church, on Wednes day evening of next week, propose to give a grand strawberry festival. It will be a lawn party, and will be held in the beautiful grounds of Mr. Joseph Clark, on North Laurel street. Tables will be set under the trees, and the grounds will be handsomely decorated with bunting and Chinese lanterns. Arrangements have been made to have an extra electric light on the grounds for the occasion. Further notice of the affair will be given. The fishermen at Bayside liave formed an association called “The Sturgeon Fishermen’s Protective As sociation of West Jersey,” and have collected a fund of $500 for the purpose of making a test case to try the consti tutionality of the law by which Dela* ware claims the exclusive jurisdiction over the waters of Delaware Bay and Itiver. The case will be taken to the United States Supreme Court to see if West Jerseymen liave not the right to fish in the waters which wash their shore. Almost all the $100,000 worth of stock for the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank of Woodbury, has been subscribed, over half of it being secured through the personal efforts of James Mickel, one of the original organizers of the institution. As Lawyer VanSyokel warmed up in his vehement defense of Harris, he kept the Court reporter busy ducking and dodging to save a sore head from the swinging arms. THE FREEHOLDERS Morris Bacon Re-elected Director The annual meeting of the Hoard of Chosen Freeholders was held in the Grand Jury Room in the Court House to-day. Board convened at 11 o'clock, when all the members answered to their names and were sworn. Morris Bacon, of Greenwich was re-elected Director by a unanimous vote. Mr. Bacon made a brief and appropriate speech on assuming the chair. Alplionso Woodruff was re-elected Clerk by a unanimous vote. Minutes of last meeting were read and approved, after which the Board transacted the following business: Reports of Freeholder Woodruff, of the Second ward, Bridgeton, on the dispute between Coroner Bellows and Justice Jona. Learning, of Greenwich, as to the fees in the drowning case of Chester Facemire, and the matter of ventilation of the Court House, at the hands of Freeholder Trenchard. Fourth ward of Bridgeton, were received and accepted. Freeholder Trenchard also reported on the proposed hose house which the city desired to erect on the Court House grounds, and left with the Board a diagram of the structure. • Freeholder Hand, of Commercial, made a report that the work on Steep Run bridge had been finished, and the bills were before the Board. Freeholder Beebe, of Maurice River, made a further report on the differ ences between Cumberland and Cape May counties as to the insane person', Hand. Report was accepted and com mittee continued. Ex-Freeholder Campbell made a re port on the Broad street bridge, stat ing that the Phoenix iron company would place iron creepers on the bridge, but this would add 14,000 pounds to its weight. The Board de cided to continue the committee, and have new wooden sleepers placed on the bridge. It was voted to pay $00.00, to Jere miah Burk for damages sustained to his vehicle at the Millville bridge a few months since. Freeholder Anderson, of Landis, made a report on County Collections and Trustees of Alms House accounts, in which the committee highly com plimented County Collector Jas. W. Trenchard on the accurate and hand some manner in which he had kept the County accounts. Freeholder Elwell, of Stow Creek, asked for a committee to look after the re-building of the Buckhorn bridge, Messrs. Elwell, Ott, Bacon. On motion of Freeholder Richman, of Lawreuce, it was decided that the Board of Freeholders meet on the Cedarville Mill Dam bridge, at 11 o’ clock, Wednesday, May 18th, to con sider the propriety of building a new bridge at that point. On motion of Freeholder Elwell, the Board agreed to meet on Monday, May 16th, at 10 o’clock, to look after the building of a new bridge near Seeley's Mill Pond, Stow Creek and Greenwich Township line. Freeholder Bateman, of Downe, said that the marsh bridge near Fortescue was in bad repair. The following committee was appointed to look into the matter: Bateman, Hand and Rich man. James W. Trenchard was, on motion, unanimously re-elected County Col lector, at same salary as last year, $3C0. His bond was fixed at $30,000. Board then adjourned until 3 o’clock p. m., in the meantime to partake of dinner at Holel Cumberland. David Starn, in Fairfield township, had in his employ a man named John Loper. A short time since he secured another man from an intelligence office in Philadelphia. Loper and the new man soon became quite intimate. After a time Mr. Staw discharged the Phila delphia man, whereupon he went to Loper’s house and asked Loper’s wife for a gun, stating that Loper wanted it to shoot crows. Mrs. Loper let him have the gun, but instead of taking it to Loper he started up to Bridgeton, where he tried to sell it. He did not succeed, so far as is known. The man or gun have not yet been found. The “spelling bee” does not pan out as well as expected. In fact, the chil dren and pupils of our county are not nearly as anxious as is the manager of the contest. It has been decided in view of this fact to extend the limit from this county to anywhere out side. This, of course, breaks the tirst agreement of the manager with those who expected to join, but a little mis representation like this is an everyday occurence with him. G. Wilbert More has on his farm in Upper Hopewell township, a land tur tie with the initials “A. M,” aHd the figures 1818 upon it. The initials and figures were known to have been marked by Mr. Azariah More. Mr. More says he lias seen the turtle every year for the last twenty years, and others have known the same turtle for a longer period than that. The coal men are not busy now, the ice men doing the trade. Our ic* men say a few days like those just past will bring out all their wagons. IT IS BOUND TO COME A Y. M. C. A. BUILDING. In this city of 12,000 inhabitants it is estimated that there are 2,000 young men. We will say for instance, there are 1,500 in Bridgeton. Most of these young men glory in seeing their own city grow and thrive, so as to be able to say truly this is a city. You often hear it remarked in pass ing by young men on the street, especially where hue buildings have been erected, such as the Hotel Cum berland, or the bank on the corner, or the Pioxkku building now in course of erection, that those buildings make Bridgeton look more like a city than ever, and a few more such edifices will make us feel proud of the place. Such are the remarks you frequently hear, and it’s quite natural and right for young men to glory over the growth of their own city, and why not? It is their home, and with many their birth place. We have no doubt they all are anxious to see line buildings erected, and often say within themselves, I wish 1 had the means, if I had, I would put up one of the finest build ings in Bridgeton. To all who think that way let us say to them, they can, or at least they can help to do so. How would a fine four-story build ing look on one of our principal streets or corners, with a cupola or dome one story higher, with the inscription “Y. M. C. A.” prominently inscribed upon its front wall? It would look grand and imposing, and would be something to be proud of. Such will be the case if the young men will just take hold of the matter. Let us tell you how this can be brought about. As was stated, there are at least 1,500 young men in Bridge ton, and we will count on 1,000 to help us in this movement in the following way, and which will not be much out of each pocket: We would like 500 to give $10 each, 250 to give $10 each, and 250 to give $25 each, which would make a grand total of $15,150.00, more than half of the whole amount asked for. | Don't you think that would be a good scheme in order to get an elegsint building in Bridgeton? We do. Then again, to make it so much easier to pay the subscribed amounts, we will adopt the following plan: Each sub scriber have the privilege of paying his amount in four unnual payments, by signing and filling out a blank gotten up for the purpose. A ten dollar subscriber as follows: “I prom ise to pay to the building fund com mittee of the Y. M. C. A., for the purpose of erecting a Young Men’s Christian Association building in the city of Bridgeton, the sum of $2.50 annually for four years, paying the interest on the whole at the first pay ment. Signed, Mr.-.” It is a possible thing for each of the 1,000 young men to give the amounts askf 1 'or. How many spend $5.00 in one evening in having a good time as they call it, and nothing to show for it the next day, except occasionally something that’s detrimental! Let the young men give this their thoughtful consideration, and we will have the building. A number have spoken about the freight on the railroad being higher since the new company has taken charge. We have found that this raise in freight is not owing to a change on the Cumberland & Maurice River road, but to a change on the roads under the Pennsylvania company. The new company is willing to make a reduc tion on the freights, but the P. R. R. Co., are not on very good terms with the Reading, or any of its branch roads, and are charging high for all freight moved over that line from that road.—Port Norris Gazette. Prosecutor Uoagland has won golden opinions on every hand for the way in which he has conducted the State cases at this term. I have beard many enconiums upon his work and think he deserves them. Sheriff Williams and Clerk Godfrey too, by their uni form courtesy have placed all those having business at Court, under obli gations, while genial crier Young has left nothing undone for the comfort and convenience of attendants. The peril of fishermen was well illus trated down the Bay last Friday, when two sturgeon skiffs from Pennsgrove were blown away and two fishermen at Bowers’ Beach were drowned. One boat, manned by Richie Bros,, was found at Mahon’s Ditch, full of water and sails and oars gone. The men were sitting in water up to their waists, half-frozen and unconscious. The other boat was found all right in Tombstone creek.—Salem Sunbeam. One of the luwyers on Wednesday stated to a jury “that it was a regular Xmas to a Millville man w hen he could get a quart of whisky; even'tliough he had to walk seven miles to get it.’’ As Van lived in Millville long enough to know, his statement upsets the oft re peated argument that “more liquor is sold in Millville now than when they had license.” Cape Map County Gazette. Millville is to have a ball club this year and will probably challenge the Athletics of this city. AT PITMAN GROVE. WHAT IS GOING ON AND THE SERVICES FOR THE SUMMER. Of Interest to Bridgetonians who Visit that Famous Camp Meeting Place. Pitman drove is likely to have such a season this Summer as will far eclipse any of the past. Much interest is be ing taken in the place, and all is activ ity about there. Carpenters are very busy with saw and hammer erecting new cottages and extensively repairing old ones. Persons from Philadelphia and other places are daily applying for cottages for the season. Many of the more prominent and desirable ones have already been rented, and others are being taken every day. The services will be unusually interesting it is said. The association, through its officers and directors, has about concluded its program for the coming season as follows: August 3d—Sunday-school conven tion for the district, under direction of Rev. S. W. Clarke, Secretary of State Sunday-school Association. National Camp Meeting to commence on the evening of August 2d, and con tinuing until the evening of the 10th, under the supervision of the Rev. Wm. McDonald, of Boston, President of the National Camp Meeting Association. On the morning of the 11th, regular camp meeting, of which David B. Up degraflf, of Ohio, the renowned Quaker Methodist, will have charge. He will be assisted by Rev. Dr. Degan Clarke, Capt. Kelso Carter, Rev. VV. C. Stock ton, Mrs. Lizzie Smith and other emi nent evangelists. The meeting will close on the evening of the 18tli. On Friday, the 19th, a woman's h(?P.e missionary and woman’s Chris tian temperance service will be held, and addresses will be made by some of the foremost women speakers of the and on both subjects. I recommend Dr. Kennedy’s Favor ite Remedy for Gravel. It cured me. —S. J. McCormick, U. S. Dep. Miner al Surveyor, of Bliss Station, Idaho. My head and face was a mass of putri fication. Dr. Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy purified my blood and I am now well.—J. A. Parker, Sunderlin ville, Pa. Price $1. Send 2 cent stamp to Dr. Kennedy, Rondout, N. Y., for book on Kidney, Liver and Blood dis orders. Mention this paper. DIED. CLARK.—In this city. May 8th, Carrie J., daugh ter of Atalanta and the late Robert G. Clark, aged 17 years. Relatives and friends of the family are re spectfully invited to attend the funeral services from the residence of her brother-in-law, Eli T« Robbins, No. 52 N. Pearl street, on Wednesday, the 11th inst„ at 2.40 o’clock, p. in., without further notice. MARRIED. SHEPPARD—MILLS.—In Shiloh, April 30thf 1887, by Rev. T. L. Gardiner, William W. Sheppard and Miss Anna P. Mills. GARTON.—In this city. May 5th, Joseph Gar ton, of Elmer, agea 67 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. Mordecai Hutchinson, No. 252 N. Laurel street, Tuesday, May 10th, at 10.30 a. m. Interment at Friendship. GOULD.—In Fairfield township. May 5th, Ed win F. Gould, aged 28 years. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his aunt. Miss Prudence Gould, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Services at Gouldtown Church. EWING.—In Greenwich, May 5tli, Anna M., daughter of Maskcll and Beulah Ewing. Funeral on Monday morning at 11.30. STANTON.—At Cedarville, Thursday, May 5th, Lizzie, wife of Richard Stanton, in the 26th year of her age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her husband, at Cedarville, Sunday, May 8th, at half past two o’clock in the afternoon. SLOAN—STEINMETZ.— In *hiscity, May 4. by Rev. Hebert H, Beadle, Hartly \v. Sloan and Miss Almira W. Steinmetz, daughter of Surrogate Samuel Steinmetz, GARDEN SEEDS! —AT— Chas. F. Dare’s ALL THE EARLY VARIETIES —OF— TOMATOES, CABBAGE, PEAS, Etc. A complete assortment by the Ounce, Pound, Quart or Bushel. Quality of the first importance. 94 E. Commerce Street, Bridgaton.