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

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Salem county has some versatile teachers. On
Arbor Day, Principal Love, of Washington
School in Alloway, delighted a large audience
with his flute; and at the recent entertainment
Miss Achsah Grier, OF Compromise scnool, Man
nington, filed her pupils with joy with her per-
Torrance on the banjo. Music hath charms to
soothe the savage breast, y and the flute and
banjo beat a switch or a strap in gaining atten-
ton.
Captain BREASTED, commander Of the steamer
Chancellor, which plies between Elizabethport
and New York, will on June / take charge of the
steamer st. John, of the Sandy Hook route.
Plainfield is happy in the possession Of a gar
den fence made of barrel slaves. 1t is fully 500
feet long; it looks clean, odd, and not at all
homely.
The term of Office Of thirty-three commission
ers of deeds in the county of Warren expired
April /, and by the failure of the legislature to
hold a joint meeting the office will be vacant for
a year.
The annual midsummer convention of the New
Jersey Sunday School Association will be held in
Educational Han, Asbury Park, n. j., Wednes-
day and Thursday, June 10 and 10.
A party travelling with a four-in-hand and
wagonette, headed by DR.. Frederick S. Dennis,
honored Belvidere with their presence Saturday,
Sunday and Monday, stopping at the Hotel Bel
videre. The party left Jersey City during the
early part of last week and reached Belvidere
via Port Jervis, and on down the north side of
the Blue Mountains through the Water Gap,
thence 70 this town. The party was composed
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Mrs. Frederick S. Dennis, Mr.. Andrew Carnegie,
Mr.. Frank King, Mrs. w. L. Cushing, Miss Ray
King and Miss Hartley. They left Belvidere
Tuesday morning impressed with the pictur-
sequences and natural beauty of our location on
the banks of the Delaware, aud we're bound for
Tuxedo Park.
Ex-City Attorney Frank Bergen, of Elizabeth,
will be rendered O public dinner MAY l2 by the
Board of Trade and leading citizens, as a recog-
milton of his services for nine years as attorney
for the city during its financial troubles
Counsel on both sides have filed with the Su-
preme Court their briefs in the suit of James
Dempsey, relator. VS.. the Common Council of
Newark, an application for a writ of mandamus
to compel the Common Council to re-district the
city into wards to conform to the Assembly
districts.
slider the question of a special election, on q pro-
position to authorize the bonding of Neptune
township for $4,000, to macadamize the road
from Deal Lake to Shark River.
A new Catholic Church, to cost SIS, 600, is to be
built at Lakewood.
Hotel Dorincourt, at Schooley's Mountain, has
been leased for a term of three years to j. O..
Jordan, proprietor of the Hotel Hamilton, New
York.
The New Jersey State Medical Society will
hold its annual meeting in Schooiey's Mountain,
at the Heath House, June 10. The session will
continue two days.
Postmaster General wanamaker has replied to
Senator Mcpherson that Postmaster Laning, of
biiNg0bODs vas ICDlON6u IOT NlDldGlOu OL TrtSl-
dent Cleveland's order prohibiting political ac-
tivity.
The ~Knapp-Campbell Gas Company has re-
corded a certificate of Incorporation in the
Essex County Clerks office. The places of bust
ness are East Orange, New York and Albany.
The business is manufacturing gas for heating
and illuminating purposes. The capital is
$4,000, 600. and the company begin business with
$4,000. The incorporators are Gustave Blnmen-
thai and +. B. Spooner, of New York; H. d.
Campbell, Brooklyn; Reed Campbell and David
H. Knapp, of Norwich, N. Y, and Joseph l..
Berg, of East Orange.
The gun-cotton house of the Unitcd States
Dynamite Company, near Toms River, was
struck by lightning early Sunday morning. The
building and contents were almost instantly de-
stroyed. Loss, $4,000. The Tuckertown Railroad
station at Barnegat was struck by @ bolt at
about the same time and burned to the ground.
Loss, $4,000.
During Sunday nights heavy storm at Bridge
ton q carriage containing T. Smith, his wife and
child, was lifted bodily and dashed to the
ground. Mrs. Smith and the child were slightly
hurt.
Miss Laura Plume, daughter of General Joseph
W. Plume, is seriously i'll at her home on Second
avenue, Newark. She has been suffering from
typhoid fever since Saturday, and is now said to
be In a very critical condition.
Each deed Of the recent Sheriff sale of the Col
I, 1000 words. 1t will require the penning of $780,
COO words to record the whole number.
The Union. County Jail at Elizabeth is crowded
are severely taxed. The inmates yesterday
numbered flfty-nine males and eleven females.
This is nearly as many as have ever been in the
jail at one time.