The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-13
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Misfortune in the shape of hog cholera has be.
fallen the farmers of Atlantic county. Scores OF
fine porkers are succumbing TO the dreadful
malady.
Atlantic City has been packed this week.
Thirty-five thousand went Town there or
Saturday. 1t is estimated that on Sunday 100,-
600 persons visited the payilions at the Inlet.
The Blair Presbyterian Academy, at Blairs
town, is to be lighted by electricity, and the wires
are now being put in.
The Fourth District Republican Congressional
Convention viii be held at Somerville, on Thurs,
day, September 10. The representation is based
upon the Gubernatorlai vote as usual
Over 1900 acres of timber land in the vicinity
of EGG Harbor have been purchased by P. W
Davis, of Cedar Brook, who will Immediately
put a large force of men at manufacturing
hoops. with headquarters at Egg Harbor.
Brother Richardson, of the Bridgeton Meas,
has just returned from a pleasant journey to
California, and Brother Hyer, of the Railway
Democrat, has started for a trip to Yellowstone
Park and the far West. How they managed to
secure passes for those extended trips beats us.
Tho Cumberland County Republican Conven-
ton will be held August IL, at Bridgeton.
An exciting school election was held at Belvi-
dere Wednesday evening to decide the question
of a new school house. The leading taxpayers
were opposed to the improvement, but it carried
by seventeen majority. It is now proposed to
put up a brick structure, the cost not to exceed
$4,000. Several women voted at the election.
The sale of the big tract of land at Elberon,
belonging to the John Hull heirs. was declared
off Thursday afternoon. The failure to get a
bid is said to be due to the report that the prop
erty had been disposed of some few days at
a private sale to Messrs. Childs and Drexel, of
Philadelphia, and that the attempted sale on
Thursday was to get at the real value OF the
land. The Auctioneer denied that a private sale
had ever been made.
By the will of the late P. Vanderbilt Spader,
whose death was announced last week, Rutgers
College secures a legacy of $4,000.
The Ocean Hotel property ct Long Branch,
long owned in the Leland family, was sold Sat
urday by Joseph McDermott. of Freehold, the
assignee. 1t embraces about twelve acres, and
includes the hotel, its pavilions, the Ocean Club
house and the Opera House. John Siocun, OF
the firm of .Mapes & Slocunl, of Long Branch.
was the purchaser, paying 81, 600 over claims
amounting TO q total of about S92, O00. The sale
hotel and club house running until 1892. The
other leases expire with the present season.
The Third Regiment is said to DO composed of
the champion clam eaters of the National
Guard. The command disposed of 10000 clans
at the recent encampment
James T. Harris, a summer resident at Long
Branch, while in the surf a few days ago, picked
up a smooth pebble. 1t was such a pretty stone
that he took it to q diamond cutter In ew York
to have it cut for a souvenir. Judge of his sur
prise when he was informed that the pebble was
a gem and was worth $1,000.
A few weeks ago DR.. Sarah Taylor took two
children afflicted with the whooping cough to
Salem and Kept them in the sulphur and car
homie acid fumes over a lime kiln as a remedy.
The little ones are now well.
Editor Maxcy Apologize, of the Freehold
Inquirer, has just returned from a trip to
Montana.
The Asbury rark Joatrnal says that Long
Branch is the head centre for Sunday drunken
ness.