The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-03
NEWS IN NOTES.
All. y THE STATE.

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e. c. Stokes a been nominated fol-
Assembly by the Cumberland county Re
The carpet mills located at Mount Holly
were sold to James Dunlap yesterday To-
General W. S. Stryker will deliver an
address at the reunion of the Fourteenth
Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, which
will be held at Hamburg, y. j., on Wed
nesdsy, October %. DIR. q. X. Pangborn,
the great corn specialist, Will also speak
Some miscreant attempted to wreck the
news train on the Pennsylvania Railroad
at Washington avenue, Elizabeth, We'd
nesday. by placing a big timber across
the track. Patrick O'Donnell, who was
driving over the crossing, saw the object,
Jumped out of his wag n dragged the
timber away just before the train Went
by at a high rate OF speed.
The Board of Managers of the Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, of New Jer-
sey, IN a special meeting at New Bruins
wick, accepted the resignation OF Dr. NJ;
L. Gates as acting director, and elected
james Nelson, treasurer OF the city, 70
I'LL the vacancy.
Cohansey Glass Company, OF Bridge
ton, are about to introduce gas of their
own manufacture as fuei for melting
glass. 1t will be the only process OF the
kind in operation in the State.
The Pe~nnsylvania Steel Company at
its annual meeting Of stockholders yes
terday increased it's capital stock from
S S ,00o, 600 to s., 900, 900.
Hightstown is to have another news-
paper, which will make the third.
The election expenses of Atlancic
county under the Ballot Reform law will
be $4,000.
The first reunion of the Thirty-ffth
Regiment, n. J. Volunteers, since tne
close of the war, will be hold at the city
OF Newark on Wednesday October ~,
with headquarters at $40 Broad street.
All surviving members of the old regl-
inent are earnestly requested to be
present. :,
The golden wedding of Charles n
Rebecca GarYood was celebrated on
Wednesday at Beverly. The couple were
married at Haddingfield, October ], 1e40.
by Squire John Clements, who is SILL
living there. A few days after his marri-
age Mr.. Garwood split his knee cap with
u Ratchet while cutting wood, and has
been a cripple ever since, being obliged
to use a crutch and cane. They have
seven children, thirty grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren, a majority OF
whom were present, also Mrs. Hapnah
Weigand, aged ninety-four years, OF
Ed2ewater Park, the mother OF Mrs. Gar
wood, who moved around as spry as the
folks. aud assisted in the cere-
monies.
The Bergen county Republicans at
Hackensack on Wednesday made the fol
lowing nominations:-For County Clerk,
John r. Ramsey, of Franklin townships:
Coroner, Thomas II. Cumming, OF New
Barbados; Assemblyman, First district.
Delos Bliss, of Englewood; Second dis
trict, Luther Shafer, of Rutherford
borough.
the following New jersey postmasters
were confirmed by the United States
Senate on Wednesday:-William n. Hew-
EFT, Bridgeton; Thomas Palmer, French
town: Christopher Ehni, Raritan; Will
lam p. Phelps, Merchantville.
A large quantity of wreckage came
ashore at Avalon on Monday, including
the quarter deck of q steamship, ten bar
rels of fish and spars of a small vessel.
A Burlington woman, who recently
parted from her husband, gives as the
principal reason that since her marriage
she had only received twenty-five cents.
The Star Hotel ut Tuckahoe, one of the
best known hostelries in South Jersey,
has been sold to Sea Isle City parties by
Thomas Buzby, who has kept it since
1890.
The Asbury Park Commissioners con-
template laying out a public park.
L. U. Maltby. the proprietor of the
Monmouth House, Spring Lake, will
erect ten cottages on his hotel plot. A
Casino is to be built at Spring Lake.