The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-27
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

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AT a meeting Of the congregation OF the Cald.
well. N. j., Presbyterian Church on Thursday
night it was voted that the church should con-
tribute S., 500 toward building the proposed rail
road between Caldwell and Montclair.
The Rev. Father Frank is doing good work
among the Poles, Slavs and Hugarians of Pas
sale. He talks all three languages fiuently and
uses them in turn every Sunday morning at halt
past seven in st. Nicholas Church. He spends
his spare time going from house to house com
piling a census. This task is still incomplete,
but he thinks the total of these people will
amount up nearly to one thousand souls. Faith
err Sheppard is much pleased with Father
Franks work. In addition to the regular Sun
day service he has arranged to give these for
eigners brief religious instructions every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday evening during
Lent in the church.
The newly organized gun club in Mount Holly
is using clay pigeons for practice. Some OF the
members are trying hard to become good marks
men. but at present the official score would be
devoid of interest.
The Rev. J.. H. Whitehead of the North Re
formed Church, Passaic, has concluded to do all
the printing of his church announcements NM
self. He has secured a quantity OF type ana
printers material and stands at the case in a
way that seems natural. He has his office in a
little room adjoining his study, ana begins his
career at the bottom of the ladder as all printers
do.
Colonel Sawyer, of Cape May, has been invited
by Robert H.. Tyler, late of the Confederate
Service and now of the Virginia Legislature, to
pay a visit to Richmond and give his personal
n. ux.a,+e aarnaOfod with his war
record.
Cole & Kuett made an assignment yesterday.
They have mills in Paterson and at Stirring,
Morris county. The firm bought most OF the
| latter village some time ago. comprising a hotel,
| about forty houses, factory, water works and an
electric light plant. The Stirling property Is
fully covered by two mortgages of S42,OOO, neid
by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York, and one Of 1000 by Julius c. Schlachter.
The other liabilities are about S70,O 900 ON notes
and $751; 900 on open accounts. The partners are
William 7. Cole and Charles F. Kuett.
one of our South Jersey contemporaries says
that ssWoodbury has a weather prophet, Il. e.
Cattell, who said the thermometer would get
nearer zero on February 9 than at any time since
winter set in, and it did. This shows very fairly
/ how prophets usually get their regulations. The
fact is that February 6 was not the coolest day
of winter at all. The minimum temperature on
that day was 2S degrees. 1t has been colder than
that on several days in March-as low as 9 de-
grses or-the eth.
Alively fight is expected in the Sixth ward OF
Paterson for Freebooter. Assemblyman Nc
Gran has expressed a desire to again occupy his
seat in the County Board, but Captain Christian
Stock declares that he will defeat the young
legislator if both are successful in being nomin-
ated. The admirers Of both men are already
pushing their claims with great energy.
Councilman Thompson has entered into an ar
rangement with United States Fish Commits
sioner John Gay, by which he gives to the
government for a term of five years, without
charge, the use of a building at Gloucester
Point, for the propagation Of shad and other
food fishes. The hatchery will be s5x50 feet
and contain a sufficient number of tables to per-
NIT the Matching of 20, 10000 eggs. shad hatch
from Ave to six days. and the work will be en-
tered upon this season