The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-16

sons for the purchase Of a lot on which to build
tie proposed monument, rendered a report.
Their statements were of a satisfactory nature,
as nearly all the money had been secured,
amounting to IS, 900. and there now remains but
about $500 to collect. The sum Of 81, 800 re-
presents the actual cost of the site, and with the
unprecedented amount of 5000 collected in one
week, it nowiremaius for q little under 500 to be
raised. This is the largest amount ever collected
in New Brunswick for one object.
An event quite unusual in Asbury Park win be
the opening Of a winter hotel on Friday, Deem
Der 20. On that day the new Ocean Hotel will
be ready for guests, and we understand that
most of the rooms have been booked several
weeks in advance.
The Young Republican Club of Newark has
elected James E. Howell president. The club
will soon take possession OF its handsome new
house in Park Place.
Mrs. George B. Mcclellan, who has been visit
ing in Orange for the past week, has consented
20 allow a large number of hunting trophies,
now in storage with Colonel E.. II. snyder, to be
used in decorating the Armory there. There are
a number of deer heads and antlers in the col
lection,
Marion Bright, age fourteen, and W. R, VIII
hanson, seventeen, who eloped from Whining
ton, Del, were married in Camden Wednesday.
The bride was a schoolgirl They returned
home, were forgiven, and are living with the
brides parents
The New Jersey State Veterinary Association
held its quarterly meeting at Newark last week.
There was some discussion of the new Veterinary
Surgeons Registration bill. The president was
instructed to appoint a committee of FIVE to
prosecute ali veterinary surgeons who are prac-
ticing without being registered.
Captain C. H. Miles, now a resident of Allan
tic City, was the officer in charge of Jefferson
Davis when he was a prisoner at Fortress Mon
roe. Clement NJ. Clay, Vice President of the
Confederacy, and General Fitz Hugh Lee were
prisoners there at the same time. Davis was
given food on a tin plate with only a spoon to
eat it with through fear that he would commit
suicide if given a knife or fork. He dashed it to
the floor and exclaiming ~ am not a dog
grabbed the gun of the sentinel ana almost
wrested it from him. He was placed in irons.
He felt his position keenly and was very bitter
toward his captors.
The reference in The JERSEY CRY NEWS TO the
wife of Anarchist Shevitch as a countess, stirs
up the Dispatch to tell the following interesting
story about her.
She is a Princess by right of her husband being
q Russian Prince. She is in her own right q
Polish Duchess of high renown. When she was
q mere girl her great beauty dazzled the eyes of
all who saw her. She was In love with a noble
man, but she had another intense admirer. Both
could not have her, SO she agreed that, like
gallant knights, they should fight a duel for her
alabaster hand. They fought, and her hearts
love fell. She was in honor hound tn wed the
slayer, so she married him out of pity. He was
sickly, and soon died. Then she was short of
cash, and having a beautiful head of golden hair,
a winsome face. a willowy figure, and ecstatic
grace and fullness of limb, she went on the stage
as a dancer. She is now a clever newspaper cor
respondent, and lives in happiness with a
devoted husband, a monkey, a dog and a parrot
at the Park Hotel, Hoboken, where wealth is
tabooed as a vulgar tyranny and ana chism is
considered the coming millennium.