The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-19
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

The Delaware and Raritan canal will close for
navigation at midnight on Friday, Decemher 20,
unless sooner closed by ice.
Mr.. William R. weeks, who married a daugh-
ter of the late Andrew Lemassena, of Newark.
has received from Paris a passport signed by
Andre Massena, one of Napoleon's marshals, and
an ancestor of the BRIDES family, Portraits in
the Versailles gallery and medals bearing his
bust have strong likeness to, and the signature,
Massena, Is almost a fac smile of the handwrit-
ing of the late MI. Lemassena, of Newark.
There was a sudden interruption in a Chancery
case at Newark, Monday, owing to a discovery
made by Vice Chancellor Pitney that one of the
persons interested was a relative of his wife.
The Keyport Brick and Tile Company some time
ago secured an option from Rachel Van Buskirk
for some property for which the company agreed
to pay $4,000. The company was so slow in
carrying out the contract that Mrs. Van Buskirk
became tired, and accepted an offer from Jacob
Lorillard for the property. The Brick and Tile
Company thereupon filed a bill in Chancery to
compel Mrs. Van Buskirk to fulfill her contract,
saying that the sale to Mr.. Lorilard was subject
to the option. Vice Chancellor Pitney discovered
that w. A. Halstead, a member of the company.
was a near relative Of his wife, and declined to
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cellor McGill
There were two or three houses in the lower
portion of Elizabeth mysteriously entered Mon
day night, and the actions of the perpetrators of
the offences are similar to the doines Of the
mysterious visitor who, last Spring, became
notorious as "Jack, the pepper" MIR. Reach, of
No. sss Court street, says the visitor wore a
hunting coat and a fur cap. At Mr.. Fallon's, No.
s54 Fulton street, the intruder went up stairs
and lighted the lamp in Mrs. Fallon's room.
The Battin High School, the magnificent brown
stone mansion built by A. w. Dimock, president
of the Atlantic and Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany, and presented to the city of Elizabeth by
Mr.. Joseph Battin, will be open for public in
spection on Monday and Tuesday of next week.
Addresses will be made by Governor Green, Mr..
Battin, President Wheeler, of the Board Of
Education, and others. The city has furnished
the building with modern school furniture and
appliances, and it is a very complete educational
institution. The original cost of the building
was oyer one-half million of dollars.
Carrot Murray, the principal witness in the lie
Coney murder case in Camden, has requested a
parole in order to visit his dying mother.
There were four hundred marriages in Camden
during the month ended ON Sunday last. In the
same time there were 1875 births and 70 deaths.
The mother of Governor Albeit was a Miss
Howell, of Cumberland county. and the wife of
Jefferson Davis a Miss Howell, of New Jersey,
whose ancestors were from the same family of
Cumberland.
1t is reported at Trenton that William Cloke,
editor of the Trenton State Gazette, is to be APP
pointed Clerk of the United States District
Court.
The Clifton track will reopen on Monday
when the Elizabeth track will be closed and the
Cliff on and Gutenberg tracks will run the same
as last winter, viz;-Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at Clifton, and Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday at Gutenberg.
A meeting of the Board of Managers of the
New Jersey State Agricultural Experimental
Station was held at the station at New Bruins
wick Tuesday. The Committee on New Director
reported that DIR. Atwater, of Washington, de-
clined the position, in view of his heavy duties
at W ashington. 1t was the sense Of the Board
that efforts be steadily maintained to secure a
thoroughly competent man of first rate ability
and scientific training for director. Meanwhile
a resolution was adopted requesting DR.. Merrill
f.. Gates, president Of the State Agricultural
College, temporarily TO assume the duties of
acting director of the station. DR.. Gates ac-
Mi. H. b. Crosby, representing the Paterson
Board Of Trade, went to Washington Monday for
the purpose Of endeayoring to induce Secretary