The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-10
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

ASSeInDlyman-elec EqWard IL. snyder, OF
Orange. has taken rooms at the Windsor Hotel,
Trenton, for the season of the Legislature.
Atlantic county will probably have a special
election TO decide the question of removing the
Court House and other county buildings.
Congressman Geissenheimsr loses 49, 900 by the
defalcation of Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms Sill
colt. Mr.. McAdoo also loses a small sum.
The Julien Electric Traction Company has
placed on file in the Essex county Registers
office a mortgage for $500, 900 given to the Mer-
camille Trust Company of New York, in trust
for the holders of the former company's bonds.
This mortgage is a supplemental mortgage to
one given on June 20, 1887.
According to the National Bureau of Labor re
port just issued, there has been one divorce to
every forty-nine marriages i'll New Jersey since
1879. The greatest number was granted in this
State in 1886, when 26 couples were divorced.
In 1880 it was estimated that there were IS, s97
married couples in Essex county, and in that
same year thirty-six divorces were granted in
this county, averaging o97 marriages to one
divorce.
Bishop Scarborough has appointed Dean Rod
man, OF Plainfeld, as vice-president. and the
Rev, Mr.. Miller, of Perth Amboy, Secretary of
the Episcopal Sunday School Teachers Institute,
which met at Trinity Church, Elizabeth, on
Thursday.
Senator Mcpherson has taken a house on X
street, Washington, as his own house is leased to
Senator Hale, of Maine. Mrs. Mcpherson has
spent the past two years abroad, and her return
is welcomed by a large circle of friends at
Washington.
Ilact1anfg Ae Go,,f1 10 p,dan ara axkatta1 -, %la
marriage notice which was recorded in the City
Clerks Office Saturday, which stated that War
rem Andrews, colored, was married to Miss Alice
Marie, of Philadelphia, aged "A, white. The mar
riage ceremony was performed by the Rev.
George N. Written, presiding elder of the A. Nj,
E. Church, Camden.
The Inter State Fair Association have de-
clared another five per cent. dividend. About
eo,0Go tickets were sold. The expenses were
about 10000. The surplus is small.
fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin, on
Friday, destroyed the honse and out buildings of
Charles Jehl, at Elberon, near the station. This
is the second time that Mr.. Jehls house has
been destroyed by fire within a year.
The Rev. Melancthon M. Williams, aged
ninety-two years, who has for some time en-
ioyed the distinction of being the oldest gradu-
ate of Princeton, died last Friday in Cambridge,
N. Y.
Every day during the past four years a big
Newfoundland dog has gone from Herman
Brandenberg's house, on Terrace avenue, Hack
ensack, to get q copy of a New York paper that
was thrown off the noon train on the Lodi Rail
road. Hundreds of people have watched the
dog perform his daily task. Bruce, the faithful
animal, died the other day.
The following bear story, vouched for by Con
ductor Robinson, of the Delaware River Rail
road, was reported in Woodbury. q few days ago,
AS the early train from Pennsgrove was coming
up one morning the conductor noticed a small
black bear climbing a willow tree in the meadow
between Centre Square and Bridgeport. He
called the attention Of several passengers, who
also saw bruin before the train had passed out
of sight Of the spot. When the train arrived al
Bridgeport station word, was sent to Squire
Philip Schlag, who is quite a noted Nimrod
About an hour later word came on the wire
from Bridgeport that Schiag had found the beal
and killed it. How such an animal came to b,
at large in that locality is not yet explained.
A Lower Alloway Creek farmer recently founc
his cat and a large opossum eating contentedly
side by side, from the cats dish.
Awell-known Young business man who live
in the Fourteenth ward, Newark, with hi
mother and sister, had reproyed them on severa
occasions for their carelessness in not keeping
the doors securely fastened. The young maj
week and discovered the front door unlocked