The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-10
Personal AND NOTABLE.

Princeton's Mayor personally appears on the
scene, and stops the boys on the streets from the
dangerous sport of throwing snowballs, and is
also breaking up and quickly subduing the loud
singing at late hours in the evening on the
thoroughfares.
Ex-Prosecutor jenkins has gone to Atlantic
City for rest. He is gradually improving from
his attack of heart failure.
Wild turkeys are to be protected in this State
for three years il a law which has been intro
duced goes through. 1t was generally supposed
that the wild turkey in this State were domestic
birds run wild, but it seems a number of them
brought from Michigan are travelling around
Sussex county and q chance to let them breed il
wanted.
One would think that money was plentiful
when men hand out ten-dollar gold pieces for
quarters. This happened last Saturday night as
Silva Cooley, who drives the late stage on the
Annandale line, took his pay from a passenger.
He took what he thought was a quarter, and
gave back the change Give cent?. Later in the
evening he discovered his mistake, and like an
honest young man, hunted up his passenger and
returned him his money.
The Supreme Court has set aside the verdict
Of the jury in the case Of John S. Cook, editor Of
the Red Bank Register, against the Rev. B. Fay
Mills for printing the magazine known as Words
and Weapons, of which Mr.. Mills was associate
editor. The case was originally tried in Mon
mouth county, the jury giving a verdict in favor
Of Cook. 1t was taken to the Supreme Court on
q writ Of error, and on Thursday an opinion was
rendered setting aside the verdict of the jury
as contrary to the evidence. The Supreme
Court held that Mr.. Mills was in no way respon-
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was merely the editor and not the publisher.
The Spring Lake Gazette and Manasquan Sea-
side have been combined, and the new paper
will be known as the Seaside Gazette, with the
publication Office at Spring Lake. E. S. V. and
]. Suits are the managers. The first issue of
the new paper is a good number.
Attorney-at-Law John B. Huffman has been
elected o Sunday school superintendent for the
twenty-sixth consecutive time at Cape May
Court House.
The liabilities Of the Century Rubber Works,
Of Elizabeth, which closed its doors this week, it
is sad, viii not fall short OF 500, 600. The Eliza
beth manager, Henry Blum, is in hopes a COM
promise may be effected with the creditors
which will enable the company to resume opera
tons.
AT New Brunswick a horse owned by Nelson
B. Smock, and attached to a sleigh, ran away
and at the George street crossing of the Penn
sylyania Railroad the horse turned up the track
and dashed along the ties. Smock had been
thrown out and the negro driver jumped. A
freight train appeared, and the horse ran di-
rectly toward it until within a few feet of the
headlight, when the animal turned aside. The
locomotive carried away the rear of the sleigh,
and the horse ran on with the rest of it. The
Chicago express nearly overlook the horse. At
Milestone Junction, three miles away, the horse
stumbled aud fell, and the rest or the sleigh was
torn off by the locomotive.
Contractor Asbury Taber is erecting for John
Hoey, president of the Adams Express Com
pany, q big bathing pool at Hollywood. The
tank is 900 feet long, 20 feet wide and 4 feet
deep. 1t will be constantly supplied with sea
water forced from the ocean by a large pumping
engine.