The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-01
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Robert P. Triton has sold his farm Of fifty
three acres, adjoining the farm of John Dudley,
between Georgetown and Recklesstown, to Sena-
tor william II. Carter. of Fieldsboro', for ga, 500.
Long Branch is to have a new Lutheran
church,
Charles 3. Van Wrinkle, a lawyer, captured q
wolf in Plalnfield Tuesday. 1t is supposed to
have escaped frorl a menagerle last summer.
Senator Blodgett has removed from the
National Hotel, Washington, and taken private
lodgings at No. 1919 Corcoran street. He says
the hotel was rather too noisy for him and that
he desired more seclusion.
The Congressional Committee on the Election
of President and Vice President has heard an
argument by Representative McAdoo, on his
resolution providing for the holding of Presiden-
tial and Congressional elections on the third
Tuesday of October, SO as not TO conflict with
any election for State and municipal officers.
The pumps are being drawn from the well
known Ford iron mine. on the line Of the Ogden
Mine Railroad, near Dover, and it win soon be
abandoned. 1t was operated by Ario Pardee,
and in the past has been a very prolific mine,
having reached q depth of 1886 feet. Recently,
however, the vain pitched out" in the bottom,
and experiments failed to discover that there
was a probability of any more ore. Its closing
will be a severe loss to that neighborhood.
The Government is protecting the lighthouse
at Sea Isle City with q massive wall, which is
now being constructed Of wood and iron Of suh-
cient strength to resist the most powerful seas.
Twelve more Indian skeletons were found at
Pleassntyille Thursday by the workmen grading
on Edgewater avenue. isi d
An organized effort will be made by the sports
men of Middlesex county to protect the fish in
the ponds. Pike and black bass. owing to the
recent warm weather, have begun to swim near
the surface, and several gill nets have made
their appearance. These nets have done meal
culable injury to game fishing in this part of the
State, and have ali but destroyed the sport.
Percy Goetschius, OF Paterson, lately a pro
fessor at the Conservatory of Music at Stuttgart
Germany, will take the place Of head of the
musical department of Syracuse University,
which has been largely endowed Mr.. Goet-
schius went from Paterson 70 Stuttgart in 1873
to study music; two years later he was made an
instrrctorin the conservatory, and in 1888 was
chosen professor.
DIR. w. r Martin, q son of the Rev. DR.. Martin,
now at the head 'of the Imperial College at
Pekin, China. has been appointed assistant pro
fessor of modern languages at Trinity College.
Prof. Martin is a Princeton graduate and q Pin.
D. OF Tubingen, Germany.
The water works OF piainfeld, which corpora
ton was recently granted a franchise to erect
works in That city, has begun to drill wells along
the line of Green Brook, beginning on the land
owned by John Taylor Johnston, tho ex-presi-
dent of the Central Railroad. Within a few
days the source Of Piainaeid's future water sup
ply win have been definitely settled upon by the
company's representatives, who have opened an
Office on North avenue.
The promenade concert of tho junior class a,
Rutgers win take place in the assembly rooms
Of Masonic Hall, in New Brunswick, on Febru-
AIRY :.
The oldest G. A. r man in New Jersey is
John souders, Of Riegelsville. He was born at
Palmyra, Hunterdonc county, on August 1, 1900,