The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-29

lucTc anu III NEW 1OIk. las DecH dpBOihtC'
United States CONSUL at Dunferniline, Scotland
for which post he left on the 27th inst.
General Grubb has neuralgia and finds it evel
worse than politics.
Through the fundamentally of Senator Blod
gett the Long Branch City Bank, of which he i
president, has been converted into a nationa
bank. 1t has a capital stock of $4,000, ant
issued its first bank notes Monday.
Mr.. P. Minturn Smith aud family, who havt
been spending the past season at Maplehurst
their SUMMED home in Sullivan county, N. Y.
have returned to P~lainfield for the winter. II
addition to his duties as president of the UnioI
Iron Works, Mr.. Smith has recently assumed
the presidency of the Easton Electric Company
in which he has acquired a controlling interest
The Agricultural Experiment Station ha,
issued Bulletins Nos. SO, 60 and 81, giving
analyses and valuations of complete fertilizers
ground bones and miscellaneous samples, an:
experiments with different breeds of dairy cows
The articles Of incorporation of the Standard
Investment Company of Newark have beer
filed in the Essex County Clerks office. The in
corporators are Cornelius Doremus, of Ridge
wood, N. j.; Samuel Dennis, of Ridgewood, and
James H.. Beatty, of Hackensack. Business will
be carried on in Newark and New York, and ie
that of buying and selling stock, bonds, promis
sorry notes, ETC., and a general financial agency.
The capital is placed at $780, 900.
While patrolling his lonely beat along the
shore Sunday night, William vansant, of the
Cape May Life-saving Station crew, was sud.
denly attacked by a man. Over and over in the
sand the men rolled, the unknown fighting like
mad 70 srf n ~.;n - 4In hrn-a 1kF1.a 90 tt.rsc
throat. vansant realized his danger, and with a
mighty effort threw the fellow off and made his
escape to the station. His assailant got away.
Vansant shows the marks of his thrilling expert
ence. He can give no cause for the assault, nor
a description of his assailant, as it was too dark
to see him.
Governor Green, it is said, has become so much
attached to the National Guard Of New Jersey
that he may be made an aide-de-camp on Cover
nor Abbett's staff, so as to keep up his associa-
tons and his rifle practice.
The Newark Common Council Committee on
Public Grounds and the Mayor supervised the re-
interment of the remains of the old settlers
taken from the Old Burying Ground in the vault
built upon the new plot procured in Fairlnont
Cemetery. The Rev. D.. R. Frazer, of the First
Church, made a short address. As soon as the
monument is ready for dedication a formal pro-
gramme is to be arranged and appropriate cere-
monies observed. It is intended that Chauncey
Depew shall deliver the Grafton if he can be Sc
cured. A committee is at present urging him to
accept such an invitation.
Assemblymah John Ulrich and wife, of Plain
field, are home again from a trip to Washington
and the Gettysburg battlefields.
It cost Middlesex county something like SO, 900
to convict John G. Raymond of arson at Iselin.
The trial lasted eighteen days. About fifty wit
nesses and the fees of seven constables had to
be paid in addition to the detectives, of whom
there were at least six. 1t is thought Raymond
will get a new trial.
At Ringwood the sons of ex-Congressman
Abram S.. Hewitt are busily engaged with prop
agating trout, salmon trout and other species
of the salmon family. At present trout are get
ting ready to spawn; as they go to a place made
inviting for that purpose they are captured, and
the eggs and milt removed; the Matching is done
artifieially, thus preventing eels and other trout
from eating up the eggs before they are Matched.
The result is that the streams in the neighbor-
hood are being stocked abundantly with trout,
and the times are pregnant Will promise for
anglers who are on sufficiently good terms with
the Hewitt family to be allowed to fish in the
stocked waters.