The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-16
NEWS IN NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

STATE NOTES.
Chancellor McGill has confirmed the
sale of the large building and machinery
of the Mount Holly Mills Company to
James Dunlap, of Philadelphia. for $46,-
900. Mr.. Dunlap Will take possession
next Monday, and will at once break
ground for the erection OF additional
buildings, costing $40, 900. The entire
Slant will be devoted to the manufacture
of Brussels carpets and rugs, and when
in full operation the payroll Will be
about $4,000 per annum Mr.. Dunlap
will remove the Bromley Brussels carpet
4 plant, which he recently purchased, 10
Mount Holly.
Mrs. Joseph Koutack, residing near the
Dover car shops, gave birth to q child las|t
week. which was put in the scales within
an hour afterward and found to weigh
twenty-one pounds.
The Camden police are still at Work on
the census recount, and only half of them
have made returns. One precinct of the
Fourth ward shows a falling oil from
the official census count.
For stretching barbed wire across a
bridge for the purpose of tripping persons
whom he might rob, Henry Frazier has
been sentenced to seven months in State
Prison by the burlington County Court.
The residents of Bass River township,
Burlington county, have petitioned for
an election under the Werts bill to make
The license fee $1,000. Since Tuckerton
voted in favor of high license the move
ment has been spreading rapidly.
Thomas Franklin Hoxsey, the civil en-
gineer, died Tuesday night at his home
in Paterson, He was born in Paterson in
1871, and was q son of the late General
Thomas d. Hoxsey, once q leading mem
Der of the Passaic county bar, II an ac-
tive Republican leader, who Joined the
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candidate for Governor of New Jersey in
1880. His son studied civil engineering,
and in 1866 he achieved his first impor-
tant work in constructing a reservoir for
the PasSaic Water Company, which sup
plies Paterson with water. In 1S70-'72
he was engineer of that part of the New
Jersey Midland Railroad (now the New
York, Susquehanna and Westerly from
Hawthorne to Hackensack. He invested
in the stock of the railroad, and its bank
ruptcy swept away his possessions. In
1886 he was appointed engineer of the
work of building immense dams and
storage reservoirs in he mountains of
Passaic and Morris counties for the syn
dictate which has the contract for supply
ing the city of Newark with water.
The Celiuloid Manufacturing Company,
ef Newark. has effected a consolidation
with the Zylonite and Litholoid Manu-
featuring Companies, and the new COM
pany will be known as the Ceiluloid Com
pany, with a capital stock of $1,000, 900,
divided into &C, 900 shares. The Celluloid
Manufacturing Company's shareholders
will receive five and a quarter shares in
the new company for one share OF their
present holdings, and will purchase the
property, patents and good will of the
other companies for $025, 900 in full paid
shares of the new capital stock, and the
property patents OF the Celluloid Novelty
and Brush companies for 81, 900, 900 in full
paid shares. There will be 81, 900, 900 of
working capital.
Mrs. Charles L. Smith, of Swedesboro,
Gloucester county, has in her possession
a chair which is known to be over two
hundred n fifty years old, and may be
over three hundred. 1t belonged to her
grandfather's grandfather. Joseph He'd
den, of Newark. Mrs. Smith is the only
surviving heir of the late Peter A. Brounn.
who at n time conducted an extensive
brass finishing and silver plating business
at Newark. Her mother belonged to the
Hedden family, which is well known in
Newark and throughout the State.
Mrs. Dorothy Mcguire died at Camden
on Tuesday, at the age of ninety nine.
She had not had a days serious Illness
since 1857. She leaves four sons and two
daughters, and has twenty-five grand
children, eleven great-grandchildren and
two great great-grandchildren living.
In one day last week there were born
on the farm Of Joseph Circuit, at Chester,
Morris county, a litter of pigs, a little
colony Of kittens, g calf and colt, and,
to make the day more interesting, Mrs.
Crout presented her husband with an
heir.
The Long Branch Commissions have
by an unanimous vote adopted the pro-
ject progressed by r. Percy Dobbins, for
The preservation of the Ocean avenue
bluff from North Long Branch to West
End, and the Board ordered a contract
made with Mr.. Dobbins. The work
will now go forward without unneces
Sary DELAY.