The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-08-04
NUGGETS OF CHAT.
Scraps Of Gossip and Dashes of Ad-
venture to Please Everyone.

Druggist Frank o. Cole, whose establishment
is near Bergen Hall, is a close observer and
Student of national, social and religious Gus
toms.
Superintendent T. NJ Sayres. of the Jersey
City and Bergen Railway car stables, who Is at
present visiting the Catsltills, is reported to be
rapidly improving from the condition in which a
severe attack of rheumatism recently left him,
Clerk George Bouton, of the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners, is a member of the
Citizens improvement Association of the Sixth
district
Pastor Bruce of the Reformed Church Of
Greenvile, once had journalistic aspirations, but
chose the ministry of the Gospel in preference.
One of the most efficient and thor
ouhRly- conscientious OF the city officers
is Warden George o. Osborne of the
City Hospital, aud he handles the mower over
that beautiful grass plot surrounding the insttu-
ton with his own honest hands.
1t is claimed by some of the members of the
Hoboken Fife and Drum Corps that their Major
George Durstewitzs talent for drilling body Of
men is something akin to genius
County Clerk Patterson of Monmouth county
says, regarding investigation Of Monmouth
county officials, that the statement that Mr..
Patterson admitted that the Clerk had devoted
to his own use $4,000, for which he had given a
check" is a falsehood from beginning to end.
Among the guests at the sixth annual ball Of
the proprietors Of the West End Hotel Long
Branch, one day last week, were Governor
Green, ex-Governors Albeit and Bede, Senate r
Blodgett, General Kearny, Miles Ross, Miss Alb
hett. E. s. Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lelong, Of
Newark; Miss Lelong, ex-senator Hobart and
Attorney General Stockton.
Miss Carrie Tenny Of Rosee, invited young
lady friend to spend the night with her during
the absence Of the family. Burglars entered the
house, but fed when the young ladies' rang a
dinner bell from an upper window, calling neigh.
bors to the rescue.
Landlord T. S, Robbins, of the Hotel Claren-
don, Haekettstown, has just been appointed a
special pension agent at salary of $4,000.
Mr.. Charles +. Clark, of No, "a Montgomery
street, is confined TO his home seriously i'll with
typhoid fever. He is a member of Hancock
Lodge No. ia, X, of p.
Those who judge, from his keenness that the
''E" in Congressman Kean's name gives it its
sound, will be Interested to learn from the New
Brunswick Fredonian that it takes its sound
Too bad The new Postmistress at baskerville,
Cumberland county turns out to be democrat.
Theodore Haveneyer, the rich sugar merchant
is buying up all the land obtainable adjoining his
great dairy farm in the Ramapo Valley He re-
Gently paid $4,000 for the William Van Horn
farm, S35, 900 for the Emanuel place, and has Of
fered $25, 600 for the Sheffield property Work
men have been engaged for nearly two years on
astone and brick residence on the hilltop over
looking Mr. Havemeyer's present home and
model dairy farm buildings which cover many
acres The new mansion is an immense struc
ture, ecclesiastical in style, and win be richly dec
GRATED, and finished inside with every conven
fence. Water will be pumped up by steam, and
the sewage win empty into Ramapo River, ove.
half mile away. 1t is claimed that this will
be the grandest residence in New Jersey
DR.. ]. Naylor, of this city, has been made first
vice president, DR., A. II. Mcintosh treasurer and
DR.. Charles Kuehn secretary of the New Jersey
State Veterinary Society.
General e. Burd Grubb and his daughter Effie
are spending part of the summer at Sea Girt,
The General il an enthusiastic military man and
takes much interest in the camp and rifle con-
tests.
DR.. II. A. Benedict of this city, is nominated
for vice consul of the New Jersey Division of the
Wheelmen's Association.
Ex-Governor Albeit is expected to deliver an
address at the Spruce Run Harvest Home to be
held on Wednesday, August Z.
The residence of Assemblyman c. f. Harring,
ton at Lyndhurst was struck by lightning Tues
day afternoon and considerably damaged Par
OF the slate roof was demolished and the wood
work on one side was ripped off, but the intero ,
was not affected, nor did the building take fire.
Mr. Harrington and family were absent at the
time,
Judge Van Syckle has the name Of being the
most studous member of the Bench of the State
This summer in addition to the duties of his own
circuit, he also acts for Judge Magic during his
absence in Europe, and for Judge Depue, in the
important Essex circuit, during the vacation of
the latter. Judge Van SICKLE occupies during
the summer his residence at Montolokng, on the
coast, in Ocean county.
Mr.. Adolph Ernst, Of Toms River, is probably
the champion tax collector of the State He has
settled up with the Township Committee of
Dover township, Ocean county, aud it WAS found
that he had collected every cent his duplicate.
This is as it should be everywhere.
DIR. Robert Bond, of Knowltoa. VIII be candi-
date for Assembly this fall in the Warren district
The last Legislature changed the lines of the
Assembly districts in this county, and now Hard.
wick and Blairstown are a part of the First
district.
Ex-Alderman John A. Shawda, went fshins
yesterday in company with o New York friend
aud had splendid luck Together they caught
eighty seven fine specimens of weak FISH, Mr..
shawda expresses the opinion that Barnegat Bay
in the vicinity of waretown n. j., is the best fish,
ing ground agong the New Jersey coast
Mr.. Frank J. shawda, a promising young civi
engineer in the employ Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, has just returned from an ex,
tended trip West He visited Chicago, Grand
Rapids, Niagara Falls, Buffalo and many Other
places of interest TO tourists. He returned well
pleased with the splendid trip, and settled down
Immediately to business,
The Tilden Club.
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