The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-30
PERSONALS.

Sergeant-at-Arms Haggerty, of the Court Of
chancery is growing a beard
Alderman Schermerhorn is so interested in
his district that he ran down to Lafayette TO the
early Sunday morning FIRE.
Mayor S. ". II. Moore is the daring man who
has taken the Republican nomination for Senator
in Bergen County against Henry D. Winton.
He viii not get there. Winton is one of the
most popular men in the county.
The Farmers in Mercer county are complaining
of apple thieves. In Burlington there is a great
cry about chicken stealing.
The very numerous colored population of Red
Bank is all stirred up over the alleged illtreat-
ment of negroes in the South. A meeting was
held at Morron's Hall Monday night, and very
excited speeches were made. 1t is needless to
say that Republican wire pullers were at the
bottom of the excitement.
The latest painting by Artist Julian Scott, Of
Plainfield, is entitled the Cattle Meen. " and is q
study from the plains that is likely to attract
more than passing attention at the national art
exhibitions, 1t is up to his usually high stand
ard in grouping and coloring, and is a bit Of
humor that will be appreciated by well informed
people.
A young lady, seemingly about twenty-five
years of age and neatly dressed, jumped from
the lies train at Summit, on Tuesday night, as
the train was coming into the station. A num-
Der of passengers, including many ladies, were
badly frightened by the recklessness she dis
played. The train was brought to a stand still
and a number of persons ran back to the engine
house expecting to find a lifeless body. Oliver J.
Martin, night Waterman at the depot, was the
first TO arrive, as he had seen her leap. He said
she rolled over a couple of times and then
jumped up and ran away towards Park avenue.
The night was very dark, and, though diligent
search was made for her, no further trace of her
was discovered.
The use of the waters of the Morris Canal for a
new water supply of Newark would seem to in
dictate the speedy closing of the canal. Some Of
the coal dealers say, however, that boatmen
assure them that the canal company has ordered
twenty-five new boats, and that this does not
look like closing up right away. Others point to
the fact that the canal company is building new
bridges double the present necessary width as
evidence that the intention is to replace the canal
with a railroad. Peter NJ. Mellick, the canal
company's agent in Newark, says that the canal
will not be closed for five years, nor until a new
main line from Roselle to New York over the
Newark meadows and through Bergen Hill to
Greenville is finished.
Congressman Buchanan, of the Trenton dis
trict, saw the President last Thursday, and
speaking of the Republican prospects in New
Jersey, gave him a view of the situation. The
campaign Of General Grubb, he said, was one of
the most aggressive and popular the people of
the State have witnessed for a long time. The
General is personally interested, and is giving
the campaign his whole attention. He failed to
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would be, and how the party "bosses'' were sell
ing the poor General out.
The artesian well being driven at the Electric
Light Works at Sea Isle City has now reached a
depth of 400 feet. The flow is about twenty gal
Ions per minute.
Personal friends of Postmaster Conklin, of
Newark, got some amusement out of him last
Tuesday, the second day Of his administration.
A lady employed within a short distance of the
Post Office, desiring to send word to her sister in
Woodside, mailed a letter at nine O'Clock, with a
''quick delivery" stamp attached. An hour and
twenty minutes later, a letter carrier appeared
at the desk of the sender of the letter and laid
the identical missive before her. Here's a let
ter for your sister, said he; .'we thought you
might take it up TO her when you went up TO
dinner" The carrier was not a little abashed
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the person whom he had so cheerfully asked to
deliver it. The story was too good TO keep, and
Mr.. Couklin was solemnly approached and asked
what kind of an administration this was, any
way The stmas admitted that the Incl
dent was rather rough on him." and while he
joined in the amusement he also took measures
to prevent another such travesty on the ''quick
delivery"
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mysteriously has been living along the Delaware
river shore, above Newton creek near Camden
Squire Chester, accompanied by Constable Hun
ter, visited the place and found a man in a small
hovel three feet wide and seven feet long, with a
canvas roof living the life of a hermit. He said
his name was andrew Archibald Hutchinson
and he was ffty-six years old. He came from
the lower part of Maryland, and served all
through the late war as a member of the Fourth
Regiment, Maryland Volunteers. He said he
had tried several times to be admitted into the
Soldiers Home, without avail. Hutchinson gains
his living by catching drift wood, and selling it
to persons in Gloucester.
A railroad official has disclosed plans which
are being contaminated to establish at Browns
Mills, Burlington county, a winter resort for
Philadelphians similar to that at Lakewood for
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railroad extension from New Lisbon to Browns
Mills is to be begun at once, and that the road
will be completed by January 4. The terminal
facilities now existining at Pembertou are to be
transferred to Browns Mills, and a magnificent
hotel Is to be erected. The new resort is the
beautiful pine region. There is q pleasant lake
in the neighborhood of the village, from which
hows Rancocas Greek. A Philadelphia syndi-
ate is backing the enterprise.
a well-known club man was asked one day re-
Gently whether 1t was true that General Crubb
had c~ockfghting at his country seat, Edgewater
Park. The club man smiled and replied :-sWelI,
that reminds me-. / had often heard of the
Grubb game chickens, and ono day a friend Of
fered to take me down. | put about SIS in my
pocket, knowing there would be some betting,
and determining to pick up a twenty-dollar note
if l saw the chance. There was a crowd Of we'll
known New York and Philadelphia men and
they were full Of fun when the birds were
brought out. kept my ears open for bets, and
the first / heard was a thousand on the main.
swhew. said / under my breath, I guess III
confne my ventures to the separate battles "A
hundred on the battle, was the next offer; then
two-hfty on the battle, and so on. There wasn't
a bet on the main for less than q thousand dol
lars. and not one on q battle for less than 500. ]
kept my little S75 carefully concealed, and it was
about as useful in that crowd as four cents would
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