The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-12
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

President Cherry, of the Camden Board of
Excise, is quite elated over a present given to
hin by Louis Dsrousse, the Comptroller OF the
city The valuable present is an old cannon
ball, which is supposed to have been fired in
1776, during the time of the Revolution, from
the British frigate Augusta, at a masked bat
terry located on the Delaware River, between
Woodbury. and Billingsport.
Alarge whale was captured by a party of fish
ermen at Brigantine Beach on Monday. 1t will
be taken to Atlantic City and placed on ex-
hibition.
Henrietta Martin. a girl at Point Pleasant,
Hunterdon county, recently fell and broke an
arm. On Monday she fell from the garden
fence and broke the other arm.
A new steamboat. the Pleasure Bay, will. be-
gin running between Long Branch and New
York today, stopping at Pleasure Bay and Sea-
bright.
1t is said that a number of wealthy summer
residents of Elberon propose to extend Ocean
avenue from that place to Asbury Park.
Disaster befell q beach party Of prominent
people who left Mays Landing on Friday and
went ashore at Somers Point from their yacht,
the Helen and Lillian. During the thunder
storm lightning struck the mast of the yacht
and shivered it to pieces. Shortly afterward the
yacht sunk. All the parties arrived home by
train next morning.
The directors of the Moorestown Agricultural
and Industrial Society will soon hold a meeting
to decide whether to hold another fair. Many of
the stockholders favor winding up its affairs.
Mrs. Mile Wallace, of Dover, will be one hum
dred years old on September 13 next Her
health and vigor of mind are truly wonderful.
Until within a year she has done all the work of
her household and has ehurned the butter from
her dairy.
Mrs. Eleanor Tintle, of Butler. Morris county,
observed her one hundredth birthday on Feb
ruary 6 last. Her descendants and those who
married into the family number about one hun
hundred and fifty. She is in excellent health, is
q good conversationaiist and has a very re-
markable memory.
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nation of George S. Duryee, United States At
torney for the district of New Jersey.
There is a house standing near Paramount, in
Hunterdon county. which was built in 1880. The
barn was built the next year and the same
shingles that were put on the barn at that time
are to be seen there today.
Prof. Charles Jacobus, Superintendent of the
New Brunswick public school, has received a
cali from the School Board of Springfield, Mass,
at a salary of SO. 900 q year. He has been re-
ceiving 81, 500. The Springfield Board gave him
the call on the same evening that an attempt
was made III the New Brunswick Board to have
him censured because he said that teachers
could not conscientiously sign diplamas for
pupils who had not completed the course.
Belvidere 1polIo.-Fred. S. Widenor, the hard
ware dealer, a few days ago caught in the Della
ware, at Belvidere, about a dozen shad with a
fly. They averaged from half a pound to a
pound in weight. He of course threw them back
into the river. 1t is said that this is the first in
stance known among the fishermen here in
which shad have been caught in this way. Shad,
by the way, seem to be more numerous in the
Delaware than they have for years past. Some
bite so poorly this season is that they have SO
many Young Shad to feed on.