The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-27
NEWS IN NOTES.
ALL OVER THE STATE.

The New Brunswick Times is now controlled
by ex-senator John Carpenter.
The State Tax Commissioners have FOUND 1t
regular tax valuations in Camden.
DR.. T. I. Kempson, editor OF the insurance
Times, is dead at his home in Metuchen.
An ordinance has been introduced. in the At
iantic City Council raising the license Zee Tor
saloons to $500.
The examination Of the accounts Of the Fl
deity Surety, Trust anc Safe Deposit company
at Atlantic City show that there is little hope
of the depositors getting their money.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union OF
Trenton has adopted resolutions denounclng the
Interstate fair for allowing horse racing and
drinking on the grounds.
An odd vegetable growth-an eggplant with
a decided likeness TO a human head-is on ex-
hibition at the City Pharmacy at Plainheld. The
nose is very pronounced, and is Of an elongated
and pointed Hebraic order. The ears are cute,
the ladies say. The eyes and mouth we're DARK
blotches. and have been beautlhed by a Pam
field artist touch.
The Newark police report that Sheriff Stoll,
of Sussex county, while on his way to Trenton
10 deliver two prisoners at the State Prison, got
drunk with his prisoners at Newark, ana but
for the intervention of a Newark policeman the
convicts would have escaped. They had been
handcuffed together, but one of them had slip
ped the handouts and was on his way to liberty
when the policeman coIlared him. The police
nun kept the Sheriff and prisoners in sight an
Ill they boarded a Trenton train.
The damaged boardwalk at Asbury Park
awaits its restoration until the return of Founder
Bradley from Europe.
The sharper who a few years ago visited many
places IN New Jersey and victimized the people
by selling them cheap watches, has been heard
from at Stauhope, Sussex county. On Thursday
evening, after throwing in a crowd a number or
cheap rings, he sold a number of watches and
chains and returned the money to the purcnas-
ers. Then he sold a great many watches for
from So to $40 each. and when he had taken in
about 500, he produced two large revolvers,
which he pointed at the crowd and bade his as
sistant drive off. The watches are worth about
twenty-five cents each.
Captain Sloan, of Greenwich. while fishing on
Shell Rock, near Ship John Light, in the Della
ware Bay, on Thursday, caught a drum fish
weighing thirty-two pounds.
While workmen were engaged in cutting down
a tree a day or two ago at Plainfeld they dis
covered a large. piece Of flint resembling an
Indian axe head buried in the heart.
The old thread works at Mount Holly, which
have been idle for a long Time, have been leased
To a worsted manufacturing firm which Will give
employment to a large number of hands.
Miss Anua Morton, late teacher in the Asbury
Park public school, started last week for San
Francisco, whence she will embark for China.
She goes as O missio nary under the direction OF
the Presbyterian Church and expects to be alb
sent seven years.
Amanda smith, the noted colored evangelist,
after an absence of eight years in Africa, sud
denly returned to Ocean Grove q few days ago.
Last week she addressed large throngs of people
to their great delight and spiritual profit. she
will conduct revival meetings in Brooklyn dur
ing the winter.
abraham Weller, of Prospect Hill, claims the
championship for corncutting, having put up
seventeen shocks in half an hour. That would
be at the rate OF $40 shocks a day.
A fin back whale was seen off Sea Girt one
day last week.
saltwater farmer has sold his apple crop
for $1.40 a bushel.
a slight frost was seen on low placer at
Bridgeton on Thursday morning.