The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-09-14

delegates to the annual convention OF the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge Of American ODD Fellow
shin, to be held in Topeka, kan.
Nineteen large bales of fine cloth and nfteen
boxes OF silk hendkerchiefs were found Or
Thursday afty feet from the Bergen County
Shortcut on the Erie Railroad, near Carlsbad
The goods were covered with hay, and evidently
had been placed there by thieves. The goods,
which are in the possession Of Justice Kefns, Of
Carlsbad, are valued at 1880
The second district Democrats win hold their
convention September a.
Mrs J. W. Lugenbeel, of Washington, D. G.,
is in Cape May preparing to set up her claim to
all that portion Of Cape May county lying south
of Dennis Greek, including two townships four
boroughs and the festive Cape May city She
is said to bas SO her claim upon deed by Pank-
toe. an Indian chief. who. IN l641, conveyed the
land to John Dennis her ancestor. The old
deed is said to have been duly recorded in the
office of the Secretary of State, at Trenton, and
while not as complete legal document as
some of the lengthy Instruments of the pr eseat
day, it modestiy recites that for sarting
sarting tract Of land and meadow, suppose d
10 De tue Adlucu UlStIiCt HOH Ii ii1Sti0n.
The Monmouth Park Association have decided
to build hotel on property own ed by them
near the new race track 1t is intended to
make a muchneeded home for owners and
trad ers and their families in close proximity to
the stables where the horses are chartered and
the tracks where they are exercised. The
plans for this new hotel are not yet perfected,
but the scheme in a general way is to build a
house sufIicis ntly large 10 accommodate the
people for whose use il is Intended and to have
| run in first class shape by some good hotel
man ager who knows just what the class OF
people ne viii cater for desire. and will be able
10 furnish them with home comfortsaf reason
able price. The association viii own the house
and have general supervision Of its conduct.
The tax rate for Bridgeton has been fixed by
city Council at $40 on the 500
Or. A. T. Sellers, of Camden, has performed
the difficult operation known as 'nerving on
his trotting horse by the aid Of cocaine.
Scarlet fever has attacked several OF Bridge
toms children. Elk County School Superinten-
dent W. D. Garrison has two children III with
the dread disease
The steamer ousatonic. of McMaster's freight
line, began Thursday plying on the ferry be-
tween Elizabethport and New York, solely for
the carrying Of freight,
The Atlantic county Prohibitionists on Thurs
day made the following nominations: For AS
sembly, Loammi Mumfort, Ha1nmonton; Sheriff,
John A. Ireland County Clerk, s. E. Brown,
Hammonton; Coroner. John NJ. Meredith, Ell
wood. Resolutions cendemning the ballot re-
form law were passed.
The ninth reunion of the Fifteenth New Jer.
sey Volunteers will be held at Hamburg. Sussex
county, probably on October %. Three com
panies of the regiment we're recruited in Sussex.
county, two in Hunterdon, two in Warren, Two
in Morris and one in Somerset. The regiment
was IN thirty-six engagements
The dinners of the Camden Freeholders will
be discontinued, owing to the hot discussions
which usually accompany these affairs.
The Salem County Shad Fishermen's Protec-
tive Association have decided to make the
organization secret affair
Many farmers in southern Sussex and through
out different localities IN Warren county are ex-
tensixely engaged in. raising large fiocks OF.
sheep. 1t is now no uncommon sight to see
hocks of IS or 100 sheep upon a single farm.
Farmers say that the dairying business is SO
poor that they must needs adopt some different
mode of farming, hence the introduction OF
such large numbers of sheep. The move is in
the right direction, and, if adopted with pru-
dence, win prove very beneficial But every
farmer should not raise sheep simply because
his neighbor does 1t is also said that this new
departure is adopted from the fact that the hog
cholera has infected the localities above named
during the past three or four years to such an
extent that the raising of swine was SO uncer-
tain that farmers did not care to embark in II
any longer, as for several continuous years they
had lost their pork by the prevailing epidemic.
Mrs A. L. Cook of Saltwater, Sussex county.
has a dahlia bush over ten feet high
The house and furniture of Saul Chersby near
Rosenhayn, was burned to the ground on Mon
day last.
The brick masons of Bridseton have organized
local branch Of the Bricklayers and Masons
international Union.
Niagara grape vine in the garden of the
Rev. C. H. Sherwood, of Newton, made a
growth Of sixty-six feet during the season.
The Atlantic County Agricultural and Horti.
cultural Society has issued an attractive
pfchituiu SSutdufc AoI lne twenty -ulntD annual
fair, TO be held at Egg Harbor City on septem-
Der 20, 81 and %.
The Democratic majority in the Beverly Com
mon Council failed in their attempt to have
Mayor Fish removed from Office because he re.
fused TO sign liquor licenses.
It is reported at Cape May that the Robbs and
other Philadelphia capitalists have formed q
company for the purchase of the New Columbia
property.
The experiments made in tobacco raising in
Sussex county this year have been very success
full. When dried the tobacco will be valued at
% cents per pound net, which is a return Of s4oc
to the acre.
Henry s. White received his commission as
United States District Attorney last week, anc
the oath of office was administered by United
States District Clerk Lindsay Rowe.
Some time ago the Rev. Messrs Brodhead
Beadle ana Belden were the pastors Of the three
Presbyterian churches in Bridgeton. At thu
death of Dr. Brodheed the Rev Mr. Beach cam,
to the pastorate OF the First Church, and nov
the West Church has kept up the long continue,
combination Of BIS by extending call to th'
Rev Mr.. Bridges who has accepted
Mr.. John McCue, Of Freehold, planted on
peach basket of Egyptian Queen potatoes las
spring and realized thirty-fve baskets of good
sized pot atoes from the planting this fall.
Take Good Care OF the Nails.