The Sunday morning news., 1889-12-08

recently, the price of $40 per mile offered by the
company for laying pipes through the borough
streets was not accepted, and it is feared that
the Board of Commissioners will refuse them
permission to lay their pipes through Asbury
Park. The water mains will run through several
sourhera townships as far as Spring Lake and
north to Long Branch. The water will be drawn
from little branch of Shark River, and dis
tributed from pumping reservoir on the Hlil
near the County Poor House farm. If per-
mission cannot be obtained from the authorities
to pass through Asbury Park the pipes will be
laid to the west of the New York & Long Branch
Railroad crossing again at Deal Beach.
snow white crow attracts attention and
lodges many gun shots about Aloway Greek,
Salem county.
George W. Patterson has secured the contract
from E. Bachelor TO drive $500 piling along the
north shore of Shark River, at Key East. He
will also furnish piling for a 500 foot board
walk along the ocean front, opposite Avon Inn,
north of the bathing pavilions.
John Sheehan. Document Clerk of the House
of Assembly died Wednesday night at his home
in Paterson. He was eighteen years old and his
death was due to consumption, from which he
had been great sufferer for several months
There is little doubt that the performance OF his
duties last winter att Trenton hastened
his DEATH The Iooml in which the
documents are fled is damp, unyentilated Gel
lar beneath the State House, and there Sheehan
spent most of the day.
The Long Branch Iron Pier is giving way. For
several months the waves have been eating into
the shore end During Tuesday nights high
tide and rough sea about thirty feet of the abut-
nent gave way and the pier was wrenched fuily
two feet The heavy iron girders that supported
the shore end of the approach snapped off, and
nothing is now left to brace up the approach
but a few. piles driven last fall The expensive
concrete sea wall built six years ago has also
| given way.
South Jersey farmers are complaining of ethe
depredations made possible by the powers OF the
West Jersey Game Society.
AT the ANNUAL sophomore oratorical contest OF
the closophic Literary Society of Princeton
College, the prizes of valuable gold medals were
awarded as follows: FIRST prize, John Van Ness,
of Johnsonburg, N. j.; second, V. Lansing Col
| Inns, of London; honorable mention, Conrtland
! P. Butler, OF Blairstown N, j.
vein of mica was discovered in the Orange
Mountain Thursday, as the result of blasting to
increase the reservoir overflow. The rock con
tains over twenty per cent. Of mica with an un-
derlayer of potters clay. Mineralogists who
have examined the ground say that the noun
tain is rich in mica quartz and gneiss and it is
believed that the discovery will lead to othel
and more important Developments
The Hughes Sorghum Sugar Company has
closed the mills at Rio Grande, Cape May county
for the season, although it has been proved that
sorghum cane can be raised prohtably in the
county.
The creditors of George Frost Sons at Pater
son. have decided TO accept the firms PROPOSE
ton to pay 100 eents-on the dollar in Install
ments and secure the payment by genera
mortgage ON the firms property
Congressman J. n. Pidcock is having lot o
trucks made at Van Deryoort s Teeters' TO b'
sent to his timber land in Georgia. The wheel
are ten feet high, with feiloe and tire eigh
feet wide. After the Quitman Lumber Company
are through with them Pidcock xil use then
in the Gnbernat0rial race in 1893, as he hen e.
poets to run for Governor Of New Jersey.
Tommy Rodnlan the colored man who 10 lopl
served coffee, sandwiches and pies 70 the Stat