The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-02
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Misses Lulu aud Nellie Snedeker, of New York
avenue, were the principal vocalists last week at
the entertainment of the LoPgfellow Coterie, of
Harlem.
The Rev. E. 0. Martin, of Chicago, is the guest
of Mr.. Andrew L, Smythe, of Webster avenue.
Mr.. Martin is visiting the East to make observa-
tons of New York and its characters, with the
view of publishing a work on the chief cities of
the United States.
Miss Libbie Edelstein, daughter of President
John Edelstein, of the Board of Finance, was
voted the most popular of the bevy of young
ladies who presided over the flower booth at the
fair at st. Johns Protestant Episcopal Church
last evening.
In the window of MI. Thomas Marsh's restaur-
ant, New Brunswick, was exhibited a large pump
kin, weighing 1o1 pounds, that was raised by Mr..
John Croton, of the same city. Mr.. Croton says
it beats the record.
There has been presented to the Common
Council of Trenton, by City Clerk Owens, a
financial statement showing the value of the
property owned by the city and the amount of
insurance. The city owns 81 618,S4e. The public
school property is valued at 1924, 900. The total
amount of insurance of all public property, in
Guiding schools aud school furniture, is Sa3,-
100. IS.
The Directors of the Princeton Theological
Seminary held their fall meeting Tuesday in the
Seminary Library. The Committee on Building
a New Dormitory was reappointed, and definite
action will soon be taken. About forty seminary
students are at present rooming in town, ans
the necessity for q new dormitory is so strongly
felt that an effort will be made to OBJ tain the
necessary funds. 1t has not yet been d cidee
where the site Of the new building viii be. A
committee was also appointed 10 fill the vacancy
in the Board occasioned by the recent death Of
John T. Nixon, of Trenton.
DR.. Boyd is acting for City Physician Gray
during DR.. Gray's illness.
A. Stevens, of Lafayette, has won a prize from
the National Curriers'.
The government has established a branch post
office at Elizabethport, the manufacturing dis
trict OF Elizabeth, and William H. Huiskamper
has peen appointed superintendent.
Mark Young, a Chinaman who went to Bridge
ton from Burlington a short time since, is a
Christian, and for this reason is sorely prosecuted
by the heather Cinnamon of the former city,
who are doing their best a drive him out of
town. He was converte& in the Methodist
Church at Burlington, and when he Ment to
Bridgeton he joined the Central NJ. L. Church.
Immediately after the Cinnamon learned this
fact they set upon him and by threats and warn
ings have sought to drive him away on account
of his turning from their faith. He told his
pastor, the Rev. John Handley, of their actions,
and that gentleman waited on them all and adj
yised them TO cease their prosecutions, but they
are determined and finally offered Mark $50 to
leave Bridgeton.
The family of Mr.. John Taylor johnson have
returned from Plainfeld to their New York resi-
dence for the winter.
The Board of Managers of the New Jersey
Experiment Station, Of which State sGeologist
Cook was the head, on Thursday elected DR., w.
0. Atwater as director, to succeed DR.. Cook.
Prof. Atwater is well-known as the professor of
chemistry at Wesleyan University. He is now
head of one of the two Connecticut Experiment
Stations, and is director of the station at Wash
ington, D. c., which collects the reportssyand
directs the work of the sunsstations.
The post offices in the section Of theiState, ana
especially in Warren county, have been Wanna
makered in the interest of the New York Press
this week. Hundreds Of this Republican journal
have been distributed as q campaign document.
Ex-Mayor Frank A. Mcgowan and Thomas A.
Bell, of Trenton. sailed for Europe on the City Of
Paris Tuesday, where they will meet an English
syndicate and endeavor to sell out to them the
Central Rubber Trust in Trenton.
On the application Of ex-senator Schenck the
Chancellor has dismissed the appeal of Father
connelly, Of st. Mary's Church, Perth Amboy,
who appealed from Judge CowepAoYen's order