The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

The annual trip of the New Jersey editors will
start from New York on June 49,. The party is
limited to 200, and the tickets cost $40.
Job Male, Plainfeld's octogenarian Mayor, has
carried one umbrella thirty-five years, or Il dis
tance of IS, 900 miles. He never has lost or mis-
laid it. 1t has been recovered four times.
The steam yacht Alva G.. Harvey, As feet over
all. built by Joshua Lamson at Bordentown for
Il. g. Harvey and Joseph L. Graver, Of Philadet
phia, was launched on Monday.
Pitman Grove Directors want the ensign Of the
nation alongside the symbol Of their faith, and
oyer the camp grounds this simmer.
Amos Sharp and Walter Bond, two masons,
were overcome by gas while working in an oven
in one of the glass-nouses in Bridgeton Monday,
and taken home in an unconscious condition.
An opossum with thirteen young nestled con-
tentediy together yesterday in a board pile in
the rear of O row of buildings in course of con-
struction at Broadway and Stevens street, Cam
den.
Dr.: Patton's efforts TO broaden the Princeton
curriculum have resulted in the opening to the
students and public Of a new department in a
set Of six free university lectures on the aesthet-
les OF music and psychological subjects, by Dr..
b. J. Gilman. These will De delivered May IA,
~, 81, 10, 70 and 30.
The widow Of ex-State Senator and Mayor
Henry A.. Williams, of Paterson, who was
stricken with apoplexy about two years ago
while at a prayer meeting of the Church of the
Redeemer l(Presbyterian), has placed in the
Broadway front of the church an elegant and
costly WINDOW representing the Ascension, as a
memorial Of her husband.
Mr.. J.. Palmer, of the Palmer House at Spring
Lake. and its namesake at Lakewood, IS re-
ported by the Hotel Gazette as one of the les
sees Of the Laurel House in the Catskills.
The faculty Of the Peddie Institute has an
nounced the honors Of the class of 1890. The
First Honor Group is composed Of B. II. Everitt,
of Jamesburg; M. Moore Fogg. Jr., of Cape
May and c. Sumner Ravens, of Toms River.
This years class is the largest ever graduated
from the institution.
A strike Of a peculiar order has occurred
among the glass0lowers of Tillyer Bros. works
at Vineland. Some of the men refused to work
unless the firm furnished ice-water.
A worm that eats and kills new clover has APP
peared up around Papakating, Sussex county. It
is q quarter OF an incn long and looks something
like the common grub worm. George Armstrong,
who has a ten-acre plot of clover, discovered the
worms a week ago. They had eaten away all the
young and tender stalks, and there were three or
four at work on most of the larger ones. He got
o shovelful of the worms and took them home.
All the old residents Of the town came to see
them. and none of them had ever seen anything
like them before. Mr.. Armstrong sent a box of
the worms TO the State Entomologist.
The Pine Forest Land and Improvement
Company. with 81, 100000 capital, has filed ar
ticles of Incorporation at Trenton. The com
pany will, it is said, make big improvements at
Lakewood.
A heavy bar-shot, presumably from some
Revolutionary vessel, was Brought up in O
rumble on reaching the air.
Alden Doughtery, of Bordentown, took from
the waters OF the Delaware on May 8. a shad
weighing eight and q half pounds. Mr..
Dougherty stated that this is the largest shad
he has taken for the last twenty five years.