The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-20
CITY AND STATE.
Notable Sayings and Doings Of
Noted Men.

Of- lsahc newton AguniiDey ana Infnlly are AT
Little Silver for the summer.
Miss Euretta HaIsey and Miss Flora Barr are
visiting their aunt. Mrs. Peter King, at
Allegheny City. Pa.
Ex-Director Pairson, holding in his hand last
night a copy of The JERSEY Cry NEWS, said
Yes l am glad that am not in the Board of
Freeholders this year. One hundred and ten
thousand dollars increase is a pretty steep job.
County Superintendent James f. Cannon and
family are summerng at Belrar
The Berkeley Club seems lonely these summer
days The members are scattered with their
families, and the house is nearly deserted.
Eddie Van Houten and his wife and daughter
are resting beside the waters Of beautiful Lake
George. siegfifed Hammerschlag and family
are inhaling the sea breezes at Far Rockaway.
Vice President c. D. c. Cotter and wife are inves-
tigating matters in Europe. Prof. a. b. Guilford
is with a party Of friends at the Yellowstone
Park Surrogate O'Neil and his deputy, James
I. Lillis John Noonan, Joseph Vincent and their
families will spend their vacation at Far Rocka-
way, and Perry 7. ANDERSON and wife viii pa
tronze the ''Tack-A Pom Sha'' Hotel at the same
| place.
Mrs. Judge Winfield s. Wood, accompanied by
her sisters in-law, Misses Rebecca and Grace
Bidden, left Friday for q stay until October at
the Woodland Cottage, the Foresters' Home in
Cairo, among the Katskills.
Contractor Joe cutley would not deny yester-
/ day that his firm would make $4,000 out Of the
new station house and police headquarters
building.
| Charley Milton, an eminently pious young
man, wei known by all the collectors for
churches in the city. will be missed by them to-
| day Charley has gone fishing. Pity the fish.
Judge Paxton, it is said knows more horse
pedigrees than any other Hudson county man.
and the Judge delights to talk of them.
Both Census Supervisor John Bumsted and
his faithful assistant, Judge We're, are signing
for vacation. And TIE JERSEY CRY NEWS re-
porter can attest the fact that both are entitled
to such. All day long the monotonous hum
/ drum OF 80 81 5e, ETC., excuse me. haven't
time to talk, SO, CO. etc, is heard from the
supervisor. Apparently Mr.. Bumsted is inter
ested only in performing his duties as census
upervisor in manner that win reflect credit
upon his ability to perform such herculean
task.
At Asbury Park one evening recently. says
the Journal, during heavy rain storm, lady
dressad IN white, in running to get into one Of
the stores. made a Inisstep and fell full length
i'll the street in water to the depth Of about seven
inches. She scrambled to her feet and disap-
peared.
On Wednesday OF last week. Arthur W Var
row had some men gathering hay IN field down
the Fogg's Landing road, in Salem county, when
one of the men set fire to a humble bees nest,
and the fire got away from them and burned
/ obo ofe frox-f nfr
three or four tons of hay for Yarrow and about
thirty panels of fence and some timber belong
ing to Edwin Stretch
W. Scott Snyder has assumed editorial charge
of the Long Branch Neirs.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Andrews, Of Keyport
were visiting at Deal few days ago. Their son
/ Willie, aged two years. was with them. While
playing about the yard Willie suddenly disap-
peared. subsequently he was discovered at the
bottom of well thirty five feet deep. clinging
/ to a board. The little fellow was hurriedly
| taken from the wells he was unconscious. cut
/ and bruised and nearly dead. A physician sue
eeeded in saving his life. 1t appears that the
child had crawled through open space in the
| curb of the well and had fallen down.
Charles Brown, of Elizabeth, is about to
establish shipyard at Elizabethport for the
building Of scows and barges.
A summer home for children Of the poor has
been established by the women Of Gina minson
and Rlyerton, Burlington county. large
deserted mansion of brick. surrounded by
handsome lawns, has been purchased and trans
formed
Henry Young has begun the erection of an
opera house in Camden The structure will be
Of brick, and the first floor is to be fitted up for
stores.
c. D. Wells. manufacturer of patent monkey
wrenches at Gloucester, while monkeying with
some new machinery that he had just received
got his little finger caught in cogwheel and
I before he could pull it out it was taken off
spotted adder five feet nine and half inches
long Is on view in the show window Of a New
ark store. The snake was killed at Lakewood.
n j.. by George L. Stephens last Saturday.
Mr. Stephens lost both legs at the Morris and
| Essex depot by being struck by Delaware,
/ I.ackawanna and Western Railroad locomotive.
He now wears two artificial limbs While he
was In the woods the reptile jumped bush and
fastened us faugs in one OF the artificial legs.
Mr.. stephens then killed the snake with his
cane.
The Rev William r. A. Palmer, A. NJ, .. D.,
a young eolored man, pastor or 81 Jona 5
| Methodist Episcopal Church. Of Newark, has
/ been offered the professorship of Hebrew in the
theological department Of Howard University
| at Washington.
very curious Incident happened to John
Brodhead. of Glen Gardner, the other day. He
was pitching hay off the wagon when the fork
| handle broke between his two hands. The
weight Of the hay on the fork twisted his wrist
and broke one Of the bones in his arm.
A correspondent OF the Monmouth Democrat
writes:-sAbout three years ago the horse now
own. in the effort to scratch his hind ankle with
his teerh, slipbe the slender part Of the ankle
into his month and, in his struggle to extricate
it. pulled his bot shoe and all, into his mouth
The groom, wbo was fortunately present, heard
him fall and quickly notified me, and our united
efforts were required TO release the poor creature
from what fnI n have been en- exceedingly pain
/ full situation. d have talked with many horse
men about thb incident, and they have all de-
ciared that It YES unprecedented in theirexperi-
ence, and nevtry except in the paragraph ro-
fesred to, haqel heard 81 a similar instance
Arthur N Rba, Of Branchyille Sussex county,
& last winter butt a large incubator and brooder,
wisli which he ised this sea son abent 500 Pekii.
q sse neen marketing bis ducks lar
n ssxes'ri aselif W Work and s>siyed