The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-05
PERSONALS.

Grace Episcopal Church, of Elizabeth, has re-
ceived q substantial gift from Mrs. Eliz abeth
Dean, of London, England, Of six valuable build
ing lots at Elizabethport as a site for a new
church and rectory. She has likewise contr ibu-
ted the stone necessary for constructing the
buildings from a quarry which she owns at
Esopus, on the Hudson River. The gift is made
as a memorial to. her two children, who were
born in Elizabeth.
1t was thought that the flying squirrels, once
so numerous in Salem county, were extingu-
ished, but a cunning party last week found a
colony Of these curious animals in the heavy
timber near the lower point of Alloway Creek
neck.
The Junior Mechanics at Pennsgrove, like
those of Bridgeton, are going to place flags on
the public school houses. This work is a capital
idea on the part of the boys, and ought to be-
come generally contagious among the order. 1t
shows out the thoroughly american" principle
of their order in bright relief.
The New Jersey State Grange will meet at the
State House on Tuesday, December 10, and re-
main in session until the business is disposed of.
The senior, junior and freshmen classes of
Rutgers College have had their photographs
taken, also the Varsity football and baseball
teams, and the senior, junior and sophomore
teams. The groups were taken by Pach, of New
York. Work on the new dormitory is progress
ing rapidly.
Miss Sarah Monahan, of this city, who has
been visiting with her sister, Mrs. James F'eeney,
of New Brunswick, has returned home.
vineland's Borough Council and the Gas Com
pany have had a misunderstanding and the
borough is in darkness, and is likely to continue
so. The people are clamoring for electric light.
The City Bank of Long Branch, heretofore do
ing business under the State banking laws, has
been reorganized under the national banking
system, and will hereafter be known as the
''City National Bank of Long Branch
Colonel R. A. Donnelly, of Trenton, will, 1t is
said, soon be appointed to succeed the late
Ouartermaster General Perrinc, and General E.
Burd Grubb will be appointed colonel of the
Seventh Regiment.
An attachment has been issued in New York
city against the East Lake Woollen Company, of
Bridgeton, for $4,000, in favor of James NJ.
Whiting.
The new iron bridge over Stockton street,
Hightstown, was put in its place on Sunday
morning. Every preparation had been made,
and when the market line passed over at about
h~alf-past eight, Boss John Ford began the work
of moving. Inside of two hours the old struc-
ture had been replaced by the new one, and
Supervisor Young had the tracks down ready
for the trains.
The New Jersey State Horticultural Society
will hold its fifteenth annual meeting in the
Trenton State House on Wednesday and Thurs
day, December IS and 10, beginning at half past
ten a. m. daily.
Long Branch has an odd character, Henry
C~arrigan, who lives in an unfinished building
near the New Jersey Southern railroad station,
alone with about o dozen goats and nearly as
many dogs. The milk of the goats he sells, and
with the money supplies himself with food. All
live in a single room. Calrigan sleeps on a dirty
cot in one corner, the goats and their straw and
their fodder occupy another corner, and the
dogs are in a third. The unfinished walls are
decorated with odd tin and iron utinsils, Old
boots, bits of iron and broken harness ard other
scraps and odds and ends. The goats forage in
the neighborhood in the day time, greatly to the
annoyance of the residents. Carrigan Is about
sixty-ive years old.
In the Court of Errors and Appeals in Trenton
Monday, the case Of Thomas Marsh VS.. Mary A
Buchan, in which Governor-elect Leon Albeit is
the counsel on one side and John w. Griggs OF
the other, came up for argument. Everyone
looked around with interest to see the twt