The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-08

$1,000 80 49,
the town turn out, wild with excite
ment, win recall the latter days of
our own volunteer fire service.
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.
The treasury of the city of Burlington is empty
because the tax rate was fixed too low for 1889,
and taxpayers have failed to pay up promptly.
The City Treasurer has been authorized to bor-
row funds to meet the current expenses.
The Indian skeleton and relic hunters about
Pleasantyille were yesterday rewarded by find
ing nine more skeletons which are fine speci-
mems of the Delaware nation. The upper part Of
a papoose was also exhumed, but it fell to pieces
as soon as it was lifted. Many arrows we're I'M
earthed, and a hammer made of stone which re-
sembled a cobble-stone about six inches long.
The stone had been worn very near In half by
constant use. 1t is supposed to have been used
for cracking corn. The curiosities were shipped
in the afternoon to the University of Pennsyl-
vania.
The water works of New Brunswick are now
more than self-supporting, and the annual re-
port just presented to the Common Council
shows that despite a considerable reduction in
water rates last year, the surplus remaining
above expenses to be turned over to the city is
over S39, 800.
There.was cancelled yesterday In the County
Clerks office in Paterson a mortgage for $500,
| given to Evangeline L. Mann by Mrs. Georgiana
| Scott and her husband. The mortgage was on
the house occupied by the mortgage and Robert
Ray Hamilton during their residence in Passaic.
The release of the mortgage was signed Evan
geline L. Mann, now Mrs. R. R. Hamilton"
The farmers of South Jersey now all grow
tomatoes for the canning factories, and for their
last years crop in the entire state received one
million dollars for their fifteen thousand acres.
There are seventy-three canneries in the State.
Salem county is the largest grower, closely fol
lowed by Cumberland, where in each large vii
lage is at least one cannery. These tomatoes
are all packed during August and September,
when are employed thousands Of women, VIII
earn one to two dollars a day. During the other
ten months these canning factories are almost
entirely idle.
Hundreds of acres of marsh were burned over
recently at Port Norris, and many tons of hay
destroyed.
A Hackensack boy stole eggs from a chicken
coop, went around to the front door of the house
and sold them to the owner.
The latest fad among the Atlantic City girls is
to collect souvenir hairs from the moustaches of
their gentlemen friends.
Tommy Waldron, one Of the pages in the
House appointed through the influence of As
semblyman Kerr, of Paterson, lisa prodigy as a
club swinger, although only ten years old. He
began to learn the art two years ago under the
tutelage of Mr.. P.J. Boyle, and hes also received
lessons from Mr.. E. Morgan. Tommy is the pos
SCISSOR of eight medals altogether. Five were
won at competitive contests and three were pre-
sented to him by athletic associations. In Pat
erson a short time ago he competed against
twenty-one rivals, the youngest of whom was
sixteen. Tommy walked off with the prize.
Gus Hill, the club swinger, of New York, has
Tommy entered in a contest for the amateur
championship of America in New York next
March. Mr.. Hill says Tommy is the smartest
boy at the business he has ever met, and believes
his equal is not In America. He will receive S4C0
for his services as page, which sum he will lay
by to help educate himself. He is a native Of
Trenton, but lives in Paterson with his aunt.
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison gave a large and bril-
liant afternoon tea at her residence, Glenmont,
on the side of the Orange mountain, in Llewellyn
Park, Thursday afternoon. There were about
$50 guests present, and the whole affair was con-
Quoted on a scale of almost regal magnihcence.
Mrs. Edison was dressed in yellow silk, trimmed
with pink tulle, and with a heavily embroidered
front to her dress. She was assisted in receiving
by Mrs. Francis R. Upton, Mrs. Sim Edison and
Miss Studdebacker, of Indiana. The house was
most deliberately decorated with flowers.
Notwithstanding the lateness of the season,
mossbunkers are running in large schools in the
North Shrewsbury River. Alex. Kingsbary and
Stewart Patterson, night Waterman on the Sea
Bird and Albertina, set o shad net recently in
front OF the Sea Birds wharf. The following
morning they pulled in forty-three mossbunk-
ers. They set the net in tho same place the
next night and they caught twenty-five moss
bunkers. Old river men say they never saw
these fish run so late in the season and declare
the winter will be an open one.
The first government prisoner ever sent to
Camden's county Jail to serve a sentence is
Joseph G. Molloy, ex-postmaster at Payonia,
Camden. He was sentenced by Judge Green in
the United States District Court at Trenton to
one years Imprisonment for ritiing letters.
A daring thief entered II yard in New Bruins
wick Tuesday night and stole a hive of bees.
Secretary Window has appointed John Curtis,
of Paterson, Special Inspector of Customs at
Panama.
4AN d Athit03N 'cSAo W $50 AAS AaoSOA-
tinued the night schools for women and will
soon discontinue also the night schools for men,
The attendance has been small. .t Z
a COMMITTEES consisting of l. 4. Nichols, OF
Bridgeton, ]. A., vansane and Virgil wiIlitt, Of
Camden, Charles Schlaefer, of Paterson, ant
Walter A. Barrows, Of Mt Holly, met yesterday
at Mt. Holly to canvass the votes of the lodges
Of the Ancient Order Of United Workmen in
New Jersey on the question as TO whether they
wished to be set apart from Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia as a separate beneficiary jurisdic
zion. The vote stood thirty-two in favor of the
) scheme'to twelve against, sSs. : q
: John s. Rogers, of Moorestown,2 has secnret
the contract for u large hotel to BE- built at Biz
mingham. The building is to be l2S feet front
: three stories high, with seventy-two bed room.
and other rooms in proportion. The contrac
price is $4,000, AMI the building is to be com
pleted ready for opening June /.
Christ Hospitals Weekly Report.
The chaplain of Christ Hospital thank
fully acknowledges the following sum
t received during the past week toward tn