The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-06
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

Mayor Haynes and the members of the Com
mon Council, of Newark, together with various
city officers and others to the number of 1875
persons, went to Scranton, Monday. upon invita-
ton of the Rapid Transit Company to inspect
the system in use there of propelling street
cars by overhead electric wires.
The bell furnished by the residents of Newark
for the new cruiser Newark has been completed
and is all ready to be placed in position. The
citizens who subscribed for the bell have been
invited to attend the luncheon, which will take
place at an early day, the date of which due no.
tice will be given.
At Burlington three prominent grocers have
been arrested for selling adulterated coffee,
about forty per cent. of the stuff being COM
posed of foreign matter, chiefly cracker dust.
A banana shaking contest was held by the
A. NJ. Z. Zion Church at Pine Brook, near Red
Bank, a few nights ago to raise money for the
benefit of the church. Two small cedar trees
were put in the church and bowed over in the
shape of au arch. These were loaded with ba-
nGnas, and a small wire ran from the centre of
the arch and was used to dislodge the fruit. A
person who paid ten cents was entitled to three
shakes and all the bananas that fell. The prize
was a gold dollar, and was taken by the first
shaker, who dislodged ten bananas. The enter
tainment netted a handsome amount of money
for the church.
The Boudinot Fellowship in History at Prince
ton College, founded upon a bequest OF DR..
Boudinot. of New Jersey. has been increased
from the sum of $2o0 to $500. This amount will
be paid quarterly to that member OF the senior
class who shall write the best essay on the de
~velopnient of the secession policy from 1856 to
1861, and pass the best examination in June next
on the practice and theory of government in
American territories for the year 1891. Subse-
gu emily $500 viii be given yearly to the holder
Of the fellowship, who shall be appointed by the
Faculty, upon the nomination OF the Presi dent
and Professors of History, for any period not
exceeding three years, on condition that he re-
side In Princeton, and devote his whole atten-
ton to historical re search.
Christian zehner, a farmer living three miles
from Elmer, has met with q series of misfor-
tunes within the past four months. His best
COW was poisoned, a valued English pug dog
shot, the window lights of his residence shot
through, and a few days ago a pet sheep was
found badly mangled and dead. A boy named
Atwood Beener, whom Mr.. zohner got from the
house of refuge one year ago, was suspected
Nh0 AN AAt@1 VhANoFG 1l bAV aOCAo
except killing the COW.
Old residents of Corona who do not like the
change of its name to Hasbrouck Heights, buy
railroad tickets and mail letters at Hackensack,
and say that they will do nothing to improve
tho place.
Pleasantville has not yet given up the county
seat struggle. but with the $4,000 raised toward
the removal Of the buildings from Mays Land.
ing, its residents think they still have some
chance of securing the coveted prize.
The Hope Chapel's Boys Brigade is an organ.
ization recently formed in New Brunswick for
the instruction Of street Arabs 10 religion and
military tactics. The officers of the brigade are:
Honorary colonel, Henry c. Squires; colonel
Lewis Morgan; captain, John Bowden; lieu,
tenant, Amos Andrews.
The congregation Of st. Peters Church, New
Brunswick, have protested TO the Common Coin.
Gil against tho granting of any privilege to the
Pennsylvania Railroad to build an elevated
structure on which to run its tracks through the
city. A large number of property owners also
protest against the project.
The ghost of the German carpenter who, while
on a birthday spree, fell down stairs at the resi-
den ce of Peter Ofthwein and broke his neck, is
now accured Of haunting the premises. The
other night Policeman Lockwood was sum
moned in hot haste to suppress the spirit which
young Willie Orthwein declared had been rap
ping on the doors, dancing the tables around the
room, and cutting up shines for an hour. Police
men have no power over ghosts, and while the
officer consented to visit the premises he felt
sure that he could afford no relief. He searched
al, the dark rooms, and explored the cellar and
wcodshed without finding anything. But he pu,