The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-21
PERSONALS.

The State Board of Canvassers having ofiici-
ally decided that Governor Abbetts plurality
over General Grubb was 14,253, Marshall & Ball.
the c~lothers, have made the award of their
prizes for those who should guess nearest to the
figures. The winners are:-Joseph Cochrane,
No. 65 Mercer street, IL, 300; G.. Brooch, No. 176
Newark avenue, IL, 1000; T. H. Danna, No. "a Oak
land avenue, $4,000.
The friends of Thomas B. O'Neii, secretary of
Court Glenwood, A. O.. F. of A., are hustling all
over town to secure that gold watch that will be
presented to the most popular forester at the fair
now in progress at st. Patrick's IF. C) Church.
The Philadelphia Record of Sunday said
Miss Florence Audenried. of Washington, would
soon be married to Mr.. Robert Green, son of
Governor Green, of New Jersey.
Since January / there have been ninety-seven
rainy days this year and Ave days of snow, in
Guiding little squalls and storms. 1t has rained
for five successive Saturdays.
Robert Lounsbury. the Moorestown farmer,
who preferred an Imprisonment in the county
jail to paying a fine ON a charge of adulterating
milk, to which he pleaded not guilty, has been
released.
Mrs. Eva Hamilton's occupation in her cell in
the State Prison is sewing buttons on shirts. She
has employed ex-Judge Hoffman to defend her
in the New York courts when the suit for divorce
begun by her husband comes up for trial. Ex-
Judge Hoffman is also examining the evidence
taken in the trial at Mays Landing, with a view
to finding defects sufficient to reopen the case
and secure for Mrs. Hamilton a new trial. Mrs.
Hamilton did not at first relish the prison fare,
but now she is beginning to thrive on the diet.
She seems of a religious turn Of mind and fire.
quently reads the Bible. She is writing q nara
tive of her life.
The Trenton Steel and Iron Company has been
awarded the contract to erect a new turn-table
under the drawbridge at Delanco, at a cost of
$4,000.
William T. Bailey. q. George Browning, E. N.
and r. S. Cohn and I. B.. Rice, of Camden, have
returned from a most successful cunning trip
through the Dismal Swamp, North Carolina.
Their victims are not confined to rabbits and
birds, but q 2Oa-pound black bear and q l63-pound
deer hang in front of J. R. Eastlake's grocery, at
Third and Market streets, and speak strongly Of
the success of the party. No one in the party
will disclose who it was that fred the fatal shot
that killed the bear, all claiming equal honors,
and claiming to have shot the same time the
bear gave up the ghost. 1t may be that the bear
was QlNlltu lNtO SeCllOuS, anu 6OCn killed. the
section allotted to him. Two carloads of game,
which was killed during the trip, is expected to
arrive daily, and will be placed on exhibition at
the same place. All the gunners arrived home
safely and did not receive a scratch.
When many residents in the Third Ward
| OF Paterson awoke Tuesday morning they found
their fences, gates and door knobs p~lastered with
axle grease, this work having been done by a
number of lads. Some of the young rascals are
known, and angry citizens contemplate having
them arrested. The grease was obtained from a
keg that stood on the sidewalk in Broadway, and
belongep to the horse railroad company.
The letter carriers OF Camden are 'kicking''
because Postmaster Browning has increased their
duties. They formerly made two collections and
two deliveries a day, but now are compelled in
| certain districts to make four deliveries and
seven collections. Postmaster Browning saysif
any Of the men are dissatisfied there were
plenty of other men ready TO take their places.
The Delaware Rolling Mill at Phillips burg
which has been idle for six or eight months
| started up Monday fun handed. After the works
| had been running an hour o hywheel on the
s'squeezers'' burst, and the pieces flew in all
directions, some going Through the roof, but no
one was injured.
Governor Green is reported to have said that
had he known at the beginning of his term the
necessities of the National Guard of the State as
he does now, there would have been very many
radical changes. 1t was too late now to inau-
gurate plans for the improvement of the Guard,
but his successor, Leon Albeit. no doubt would.
The Governor thought that there never would
be a division encampment, as the expense would
| ha foo oraaf hnt ln aid think THAT oil fha rauf.
ments would be SO changed SO as to contain