The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-12-19
NEWS IN NOTES.


The new bridge across the Nullica
river, connecting Burlington and At
lansic counties, will cost s3s, 800. The
contract has just been given out, and
work will be began next April and
the work completed BY August.
Horses have been furnished to each
cftile twenty or more life-saving sta
tons along the Now Jersey coast, 10
nssist in hauling the apparatus to
wrecks. Que additional surfman has
also been added 10 each station.
Deputy County Clerk Henry rroth,
OF Camden, is seriously i'll again.
Under a new contract Moorestown
will get electric street lights for Sfs
per annum
"A notable blast was made in George
pagers lime quarries. near Amman
2, Hunterdon county. a few days
by Patrick Hines, Bernard Col
and Thomas McGinnis. The blast
b q hole in the rock 27J feet long, 20
e wide and 20 feet deep. They have
Rlready filled four kiins and have
stone enough left to fill four more, all
the result Of this one explosion.
The Samuel l.. Moore & Sons Com
pony, OF Elizabeth, on Tuesday laid
the keel for a double-decked steel
ierryboat for the Pennsylvania Rail-
road.
johnson g. yoswinkIe, carpenters,
of Paterson. yesterday filed a deed of
assignment TO K. r. Weiss, for the
benefit of their creditors. The liabil-
titles are S., 644, mainly due TO local
merchants, and the assets are IS, S04,
consisting largely OF real estate.
The growth of mendicancy in Pat
erson has induced several clergymen
and other citizens 70 start a move
ment for organizing a Bureau of AS
sociated Charities similar to thai ex-
listing in Newark, having an Office to
which all applicants for relief are re-
ferred.
The strike of the employees Of the
Rittenhouse Company, at Passaic,
which failed a few days ago, was
ended yesterday, the men having
agreed to work under the ten per
cent. reduction scale for three months.
at the end of that time, il the mills
are still running. the wages to be in
creased to the old rate.
Geology, which has always been a
pleasurable study for seniors, has
been dropped from the schedule of
Rutgers College for the present, and
German substituted for the classical
section. Students of the scientific de-
partment will utilize the time previ-
ously given to mineralogy in the
courses which they have chosen
mathematical, chemical or electrical.
Henry b. Alderman, OF the First
ward, Paterson, has sent in his resig-
! nation us a member OF the Passaic
| County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Mr.. Alderman, who is a Republican,
4 holds also the place of Superintend-
emit of the City Aims House and
Keeper OF the County Lunatic Asy-
lurn, and said that he did not think it
right to hold SO many offices.
The jury in the Bergen county case
of the heirs of the James S.. Watson
estate against the heirs of the George
G. Brinkerhoff estate awarded the
Watson heirs a verdict of 81. The suit
was brought for $50, 900. George G.
Brinkerhoff eleven years ago went
upon the bond of Frederick A. Watson
as administrator OF the estate OF
james s. Watson in the sum of $780,
600. II. A. Watson d~efaulted, and the
heirs of his bondsmen were sued after
eleven years.
In the Middlesex County Circuit
Court, before Judge Beasiey, Mrs.
Lizzie Griggs has obtained a verdict
of 81. 900 damages against the county
iOf Tic 0cttin VI lie AuSDdilb, WLlCtl
was caused, the jury found, by his
falling from an unprotected bridge in
the village of Jamesburg on January
8, 1888. Griggs died of neuralgia of
the heart on December IA, 1888. The
case will be appealed by the county
on the ground that the verdict is not
in accordance with the testimony.
Mrs. Griggs brought suit for $40. 900.
Dean McNulty, the opponent of
Sunday liquor selling, has made a
complaint before Recorder Greaves,
at Paterson, against Wigsted, Welch,
Loew and the Fifth Ward house for
disposing of intoxicating liquors on
Sunday. Except Wigsted, it is said
they all kept open house. At his
place the door of the saloon, it. is
charged, was locked, but a hole was
cut in the panel, enabling those in
side to discriminate between an enemy
and a friend. In this instance this
precantion proved useless. The Dean
says the house was open about ten
o'clock last Sunday morning.